The other day, I wondered how to enable dark mode on any of those bright shiny websites. Before long, I found darkmode-js. Here’s how to use it with Tampermonkey.
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Author: Marcel
My name is Marcel and this is where I write about stuff that piqued my curiosity.
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Mass converting and image processing of scanned 35mm slides
I have scanned all my slides into TIFF images. Now, I want to improve the color curves a bit and convert them into shareable JPEG files. Marking the files As a first measure, I wanted …
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Digitizing my 35mm slides, finally
Finally, I took the time for digitizing all those slides I had packed up in boxes and magazines some time ago. It’s more than 3200 slides and I wanted to avoid the costs of a …
Continue readingUsing the exiftool on a Synology NAS
How to use the exiftool on a Synology NAS
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Managing WhatsApp photos using the exiftool
I tried to leverage the exiftool to help me manage my photo library, especially my received WhatsApp image files. These image files are quite heavily, lossy, compressed when sent and stripped of nearly all useful …
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A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, publishing to an MQTT topic
This is mainly an iteration of a previous post A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress (see there for details on the sensor) but this time publishing to an MQTT topic. Setting up the …
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Running Spotify on a Kid’s phone, without the age restriction
How to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.
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Remote access to a Microsoft Windows 10 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) with TeamViewer
Since I have set up my first Azure Windows VM, I wondered how to best access it. There are many options, with their own limitations: RDP (requires an internet-facing open port) Bastion (requires quite involved …
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Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W
Note: This post is mostly a revisit of my older post Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi, using the Zero W model and the current NxFilter version. NxFilter is the best free solution for a …
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Reading 14bit from an SI7021 temperature and humidity sensor
The Si7021-A20 is capable of providing up to 14bit resolution for temperature and up to 12bit for relative humidity, over an I2C connection. However, many examples on the internet only use 8bit. I tried to …
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