Linux, Gadgets and Multimedia. In ye olde days a Cyprianus was the Wizard's common spellbook. As a rule a Cyprianus manuscript started with these words: "Even though Moses knew all the secrets of our Art he did not abuse his knowledge. Do Thou likewise."
An easy way to avoid form-spam in the WordPress plugin Contact Form 7 is to add a quizz. Ask a question in order to sort out robots.
But don't ask questions like "what is five times five". The spambots are perfectly able to hack this sort of input. As an alternative - just ask something else.
You could add a picture to the web page and ask a question about it.
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PS: I posted this four days ago, since then I had no spam mails via the mailform. So the quizz seems to do the trick.
These days I try whether ads from Google is a good idea - or not. The revenue for one month is 20 cents per month for this blogger site plus another website. As of now I'll let the experiment run for a month or two, and see what happens.
It's very noisy this fan. Running like a mad whining chicken.
OBS and Zoom use a lot of the available CPU power. Probably the MacBook is not the mose usefull tool for a conference call. My 5-year old stationary Linux PC performs far better than this.
However, here and now I have to use the MacBook.
But you can ignore the bitch. Above you see my settings. Just turn off whatever you see: show on menubar and set "Ask Siri" to off.
On the touchbar Siri is placed on a really annoying position. At least for me - Siri started every time my fingers touched the bar by accident.
Siri is not a service. It's a pestilence.
Now I hope that Siri is silenced at last - but I would prefer if Apple asked permission before installing this crap-ware.
These files are soooo annoying ... and what a waste of time it is to delete them all.
In .gitignore add this:
**/.DS_Store
I tried and tried to insert a hyperlink in MS PowerPoint. Such a thing ought to be a no-brainer. But no. As usual either Mac or Microsoft or both in a sinister conspiration decided that this simple task shoul seem impossible.
But there is a stupid wordaround:
Whaaat ... after a restart all shortcuts are gone. Access to the Desktop, Documents etc are all gone. How can we get them back again?
Solution
Here's a solution:
Based on: this post
On a Mac you need to know the hidden secrets of the art. Here are some of the practical keys you'll miss from other OS's keyboards:
"I want a fast way to open a browser in a specific URL from a folder."
Here is a solution in Bash. Create a file like this:
#!/bin/bash
# open url in chrome
xdg-open https://whateverURL.whot
Now save the file, as myURL.sh or similar. Remember to make the file executable:
# chmod a+x myURL.sh
Now you can run the file from your favorite terminal:
# ./myURL.sh
Works on: Linux / Ubuntu.
Idiotic UI error in Gitkraken
This is an idiotic UX error in Gikraken's UI. The program starts in full screen, and there is no button or anything that will tell you how to get out of the mess. The solution is:
shift + control + F
For a WordPress plugin I need a program, that will remove any new lines in html. Then you can use the code in a PHP variable. In practise this is what a minifier does. There are many online tools, but I'd prefer to do it myself.
In Bash - that is Linux or Mac terminals - you can do this with just one line of code. First save your markup in a file test.html via your most trusted editor.
Then do this:
# tr -d '\n' < test.html > test.min.html
Understand this code:
Done.
I had some issues with Mac and onedrive. I used Outlook via a browser, mostly Chrome. That was no good idea. There were no error messages from the Onedrive app. I had a hunch and installed Outlook on Mac.
Et voila: that did the trick.
In this article Jed Van Wyngaardt explains what you should put where.
In front of the amp:
Just so that I'll know what to install if WordPress or my web host should fail.
Here is the onepager trick for WordPress in Elementor. Just add a custom HTML block. And yes you can do likewise in Gutenberg.
The code will try to jump to a HTML element with the id goTOAbout, e.g.
<aside id="goTOAbout"> Lorem </aside>
That's it. If you want smooth scroll, do this in your stylesheet:
html {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
That's a strange problem.
I cannot log in.
I cannot read gmail.
In Chrome ... !
Wyrd problemz in Discworld.
A new install of Chrome solved the problem.
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