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I'm getting adverts in my TV's UI, help!

Samsung's otherwise excellent 2016 range of UHD TVs received an update that added advertisements to the UI. This has been complained about at great length on Samsung's forums and repeatedly, Samsung have refused to add an option to remove them.

The ads interrupt the clean UI of the TV and are invasive. Here's an example of how they look:

This guide was originally posted on Samsung's TV forums but unfortunately, that site is a super-slow and barely accessible unusable mess.

📂 Persistent "pipes" in Linux

In a project I'm working on I ran into the requirement of having some sort of persistent FIFO buffer or pipe in Linux, i.e. something file-like that could accept writes from a process and persist it to disk until a second process reads (and acknowledges) it. The persistence should be both across process restarts as well as OS restarts.

AFAICT unfortunately in the Linux world such a primitive does not exist (named pipes/FIFOs do not persist

I have spent quite a bit of time figuring out automounts of NFS shares in OS X...

Somewhere along the line, Apple decided allowing mounts directly into /Volumes should not be possible:

/etc/auto_master (see last line):

#
# Automounter master map
#

+auto_master # Use directory service

PHP Endpoint for Github Webhook URLs

If you love deploying websites using Github, but for some reason want to use your own server, this script might be exactly what you need.

Put github.php somewhere on your PHP-enabled web server, and make it accessible for the outside world. Let's say for now the script lives on http://example.com/github.php

	import zipfile
	from lxml import etree
	from email.mime.text import MIMEText
	from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
	import pandas as pd
	import datetime


	def load_attachment(zip, name):
	fh = zip.open(name)

	# from https://forum.omz-software.com/topic/1919/stash-shell-like-an-expert-in-pythonista

	# this script will get pip working on iOS!

	import requests as r
	exec(r.get('http://bit.ly/get-stash').text)

	curl --include \
	--no-buffer \
	--header "Connection: Upgrade" \
	--header "Upgrade: websocket" \
	--header "Host: example.com:80" \
	--header "Origin: http://example.com:80" \
	--header "Sec-WebSocket-Key: SGVsbG8sIHdvcmxkIQ==" \
	--header "Sec-WebSocket-Version: 13" \
	http://example.com:80/

	package lanternaexample;

	import com.googlecode.lanterna.TextColor;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.BasicWindow;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.DefaultWindowTextGUI;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.EmptySpace;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.Label;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.StackedModalWindowManager;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.TextGUI;
	import com.googlecode.lanterna.gui2.Window;

	<?php

	/**
	* GitHub webhook handler template.
	*
	* @see https://docs.github.com/webhooks/
	* @author Miloslav Hůla (https://github.com/milo)
	*/

	$hookSecret = 's.e.c.r.e.t'; # set NULL to disable check

	{
	{I have\|I've} been {surfing\|browsing} online more than {three\|3\|2\|4} hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. {It's\|It
	is} pretty worth enough for me. {In my opinion\|Personally\|In my view}, if all {webmasters\|site owners\|website owners\|web owners} and bloggers made good content as
	you did, the {internet\|net\|web} will be {much more\|a lot more}
	useful than ever before.\|
	I {couldn't\|could not} {resist\|refrain from} commenting. {Very well\|Perfectly\|Well\|Exceptionally well} written!\|
	{I will\|I'll} {right away\|immediately} {take hold of\|grab\|clutch\|grasp\|seize\|snatch}
	your {rss\|rss feed} as I {can not\|can't} {in finding\|find\|to find} your {email\|e-mail} subscription {link\|hyperlink} or {newsletter\|e-newsletter} service. Do {you have\|you've} any?
	{Please\|Kindly} {allow\|permit\|let} me {realize\|recognize\|understand\|recognise\|know} {so that\|in order that} I {may just\|may\|could} subscribe.
	Thanks.\|