Asked ChatGPT:
- Feedly – free and paid model
- NewsBlur – free and paid model
- Feedbin
- The Old Reader
- Netvibes
Netvibes
Blog
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is there an alternative zu Innologica’s Inoreader as cloud-based newsreader for RSS feeds?
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pdfguru – subscription trap – I got my money back
I used pdfguru a couple of times for getting “image PDFs” OCR-ed. Nice service actually. Cost me € 0.99 per week. Sort of really, really cheap.
But then they charged me € 49.99, and I found out, they thought, I opted for a monthly ongoing subscription. That’s called subscription trap, in German: “Abofalle”. I searched the web.
- https://www.scam-detector.com/validator/pdfguru-com-review/ – go to the bottom of that page!
That’s mean!
I contacted my bank. OMG, what a painful process altogether!
I also contacted pdfguru, and asked them to reimburse me. They replied, that’s impossible. Once charged, they cannot reimburse me.
My bank accepted the “plea” and started the process. Several days later, pdfguru sent me a mail saying, I got reimbursed, A few days later the transfer showed up my cash account. I am happy.
BTW: If you are looking for a similar (but …) service, look for “pdf24” and then for OCR. I keep using their web page for that service.
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my 2026 Windows working environment
- apply for admin privileges on your laptop
- exploration
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- CryptDrive (…)
- my home NAS
- HS
- which areas outside can you reach (and how: https, ssh, irregular ports)?
- Microsoft PowerToys
- … zones … (for splitting huge screens)
- Microsoft Sysinternals
- process explorer
- PuTTY
- ssh (already comes with Windows, but YOU NEED TO SET UP YOUR CONNECTIONS – e.g. for backing up YOUR FILES (diary, tools, git repositories, …))
- GNU Emacs
- Git Bash
- UNIX (AKA Linux) utilities
- perl
- git
- …
- xmlstarlet
- my own tool set
- create_snapshot.sh
- MEGA IMPORTANT: continuous automatic backup of YOUR FILES
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- the “emergency action” must get established (REMEMBER the c*m*l dr*v*r with his fierceful face expression and his kalashnikov!!!)
- backing up must get executed a couple of times each day
- TARring
- syncing
- maybe: “git archive”
- for as long as “automatic” is not yet possible and established
- …
- ??? busybox “w32”, preferredly with Unicode support
- WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux
- …
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find when a phrase was added to a Wikipedia page
- https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/35906/find-when-a-phrase-was-added-to-a-wikipedia-page
- WikIBlame
- https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_That%3F
Which version control systems had that feature before?
- RCS: no – apparently it’s available as an extension
- CVS: “annotate”
- svn: yes
- git: yes
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“Dev Container” – a Linux standard established by Microsoft? devcontainer.json
- https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/standardize-development-environment-with-devcontainers/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GitHub_Codespaces – mentioned there (be aware: Microsoft owns GitHub)
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GitLab: migrating from git_data_dirs
They suggest, you move your storage configuration from git_data_dirs to gitaly[‘configuration’].
You should actually consider, whether you already use an assignment to gitaly[‘configuration’]. Otherwise your second assignment simply overwrites your first assignment, and you won’t see your repositories any more.
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installed Wordfence on my multisite WordPress today
The hint came from a mailing list, run by my web-space provider: operations-discussion.lists.hostsharing.net .
I am rather curious, whether this will help me fighting this warning:
…: [HS] Traffic-WarnungWho has been causing excessive traffic on my WordPress? Just guessing … – bots, that use my blogs for training AI software.
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table of keyboard shortcuts on Wikipedia: “refresh a webpage (ignoring cache)”
On Windows you achieve this using F5 resp. Ctrl-F5 (if you want to ignore the cache on purpose).
On MacOS that’s a little more complicated. Look it up on the page quoted above!
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book: Python for Excel Users
Go beyond basic spreadsheets with Python!