➔ [1] Noise
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Tapping into the noise - building a contact microphone There is a constant humming in the wires above.
We are told that at either end sits a small terminal box that listens carefully and modulates the cosmic pulses to find what is useful.
But in recent years, the wires have stretched out. The terminal has receded to some unattainable point in the distance. We find ourselves in the open: Alone and listening, but unable to separate the signal from the noise.
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➔ [1] Recommended Reading: The Craft of Text Editing
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by Craig Finseth Are you interested in text editing, fellow Lains? I would certainly hope so.
For those wanting to go further in expanding their knowledge, ‘The Craft of Text Editing’ is an excellent read.
The book is based on the author’s bachelor thesis examining the underlying principles of text editors of the time. After 11 years, it was expanded into a book to cover the advances and other changes that had occurred in the meanwhile.
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➔ [1] Structure-based ASCII Art
| 26 minute read
by Xuemiao Xu1, Linling Zhang2, Tien-Tsin Wong3 The Chinese University of Hong Kong https://www.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~ttwong/papers/asciiart/asciiart.pdf
Abstract The wide availability and popularity of text-based communication channels encourage the usage of ASCII art in representing images. Existing tone-based ASCII art generation methods lead to halftone-like results and require high text resolution for display, as higher text resolution offers more tone variety. This paper presents a novel method to generate structure-based ASCII art that is currently mostly created by hand.
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➔ [1] Where Do I Start?
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A primer to offensive security by Hash_Value Every computer forum you find is flooded with questions about hacking. When lainchan makes it big, we are going to get these questions a lot on /cyb/, so point them to this guide when they ask!
Hacking has a lot of definitions depending on who you ask, but let’s go straight to offensive security (which I know is what you all want anyway).
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➔ [1] Word Search
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➔ [1] Youtube Proxy
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The following script1 runs on vanilla Node.js and requires an executable of youtube-dl. If it’s not located in the same directory as the script, change the line
var job = spawn('./youtube-dl', args);
to something like
var job = spawn('~/path/to/youtube-dl', args);
Usage examples Download a video in MP4 from YouTube:
http://example.com:8567/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX
Download a video from YouTube and extract audio in M4A format:
http://example.com:8567/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXXXXXX.m4a
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