Pocket to Wallabag, Hardcore Edition

I’ve been using Pocket since 2009, back when it was still called “Read it Later”. I use it a whole freakin’ lot. Yes, I usually self-host my things, yes I know about wallabag and a couple other similar things. Pocket never gave me any trouble, for a while I even paid for it. It worked and got out of my way. It was, essentially, exactly what I needed.

Pocket is being shut down in a couple of weeks.

And I have 32.000 entries in there that I would like to keep.

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Mass-Importing Unity-Projects into Unity Hub

I recently taught a course that focused on Unity. Now I have dozens of repositories that I need to take a look at. I don’t particularly like the Unity Hub, but as far as I know, I still need to use it anyway.

So, how do I get all these projects in there?

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TouchDesigner on Linux using Bottles and Wine

I will be using TouchDesigner for an upcoming course, but it’s only officially supported on Windows and MacOS. Can we run this on Linux? Let’s try it!

Screenshot of a Linux Desktop with two windows side by side. The left window shows bottles. The right window shows TouchDesigner with the default example.
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SONOS sans App

Coarse Fabric, black, this is the front grill of the speaker

SONOS speakers seem to be decent hardware. So when a friend mentioned the IKEA branded, SONOS produced Symfonisk speakers, I had to take a look. At 130€ for a single speaker, they are not exactly cheap, but they are certainly a lot cheaper than anything SONOS would usually offer. The build quality is good, audio quality is supposedly good. But the important question for me is: can I use them at a decent level of privacy? Is it possible to make these speakers useful without the SONOS app and a SONOS account and without sending usage information over to SONOS every couple of minutes? Let’s find out!

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Removing Git Credentials (Windows)

I found myself in an environment where I need to be able to log out users automatically.

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