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Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
; Use this if you're blocking off network access in a way which causes timeouts
; and it's causing some games to wait 25 seconds on every game start as DirectX tries 
; to check the root certs for updates as part of video driver signature checking

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot\AutoUpdate]
"DisableWebRetrieval"=dword:00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\SystemCertificates\AuthRoot]
"DisableRootAutoUpdate"=dword:00000001

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Helper to block Esc key presses from reaching Thunderbird

(Works by using XGrabKey to claim Esc on all Thunderbird "3pane" windows,
either at startup or when the window first receives focus.)

Requires:
- Python
- python-xlib

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# prep_scummvm_games.py
# Copyright 2025 Stephan Sokolow
#
# Helper for batch-adding ScummVM games to ES-DE.
#
# License: MIT (https://opensource.org/license/mit)
#

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#!/bin/bash
# Toggle the KVM switch programmatically by toggling the Scroll Lock LED
# Source: https://askubuntu.com/a/546989/23552

SLEEP=0.5
LEDNAME="Scroll Lock"

echo "Switching..."
xset led named "$LEDNAME"
sleep $SLEEP

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""A demonstration of implementing (most of) org.kde.StatusNotifierItem using
QtDBus to serve as as an example of how more advanced QtDBus features map to
PyQt5, absent robust documentation for how the schema annotations translate.
"""

import os
import signal
import sys

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""Proof of concept code for generating and opening an OpenRaster image in the
user's preferred OpenRaster editor.
"""

__author__ = "Stephan Sokolow (deitarion/SSokolow)"
__appname__ = "OpenRaster Proof of Concept"
__version__ = "0.1"
__license__ = "MIT"

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"""A QPlainTextEdit subclass with completion and some extras

Adapted from
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-tools-customcompleter-example.html
with the intent to be a minimally complicated way to get as-you-type
autocomplete in a QTextEdit.

As such, a lot of needless complexity has been removed, and odd design choices
which make the code needlessly difficult to maintain have been corrected.

ssokolow

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""A quick helper for splitting manga pages in a CBZ containing two-page
spreads and then bundling them into base64 URLs in an HTML file so the mobile
Safari preview inside the iOS Files app can act as a quick-and-dirty manga
reader.

Takes .cbz files and produces large .html files.

Currently assumes first image will be a cover and doesn't split it.

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""A quick helper for splitting manga pages so Calibre doesn't split them for
you and present them in the wrong order.

Takes and produces .cbz files.

Currently assumes first image will be a cover and doesn't split it.
"""

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#!/usr/bin/python
"""Quit and dirty port of the old PyGTK dragtargets.py to PyGObject"""

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
gi.require_version('Gdk', '3.0')

from gi.repository import Gdk, Gtk