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Are you looking for a good padlock or lock cylinder? If you are looking for a lock that is difficult to pick, you should look for locks that are difficult for amateur lock pickers to pick 😁. When lockpicking, different colored belts can be achieved, ranging from white (easiest) to black (hardest). Each belt has certain requirements, i.e. a list of locks that must be successfully picked to earn points and the belt. ...

The daily backup of my personal data includes my Firefox profile. However, this profile is quite big (mine is 1.4 GB) and changes daily, which increases the size of my backup significantly. When looking at the contents of the profile, the directory storage/default (in ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default on linux) was by far the largest one with about 700 MB. Inside, you will find Configuration data of extensions in directories named moz-extension*, General configuration data in about+newtab and moz-save-about+home, and Cached website data in directories starting with http (e.g. https+++stackoverflow.com). In my opinion, there is no need to backup cached website data. So I configured my backup software to exclude this data and all temporary data: ...

Last week the psychological horror adventure game Sanitarium was available for free on GOG.com. It is a Windows game from 1998 and the download consists of a small setup.exe and a 1.3 GB binary file. As I want to play the game on Linux, I was happy to learn that ScummVM supports Sanitarium! According to the release notes, it will be part of the upcoming version 2.6.0. However, it seems to work just fine with the latest ScummVM 2.5.1. ...

Whoever wants to know, the font in the closing credits of the movie Maleficent is called Raleigh. I think it’s beautiful!

When thinking about buying a new prime or zoom lens for your DSLR, it is good to know some statistics of the photos you have taken in the past. In this article, we will create a histogram of the focal lengths of all pictures. The method was tested on Linux. It might work on Mac OS X and Windows (maybe using Cygwin) as well. First, let’s create a CSV file containing information about the camera model, lens and focal length of each picture. You can add arbitrary EXIF information in this step (see man page of exiftool). ...