Organizing photos by geolocation from the command line
Want to organize your photos by gps/geolocation, but don't feel like dealing with a slow GUI app?
That's ok, you can do it from the command line!
precision=2
for file in *.jp*g
do
coord=$(exiftool -c "%.${precision}f" "$file" |grep GPS.Position |sed 's/^[^:]*:[[:space:]]*//')
dir="gps …
A first foray into miniblogging: `blogme`
I've often enjoyed using my tootme script to easily toot from the command-line.
The reason I wrote this script is that the excellent toot utility which I had been using to toot from the command-line would just fail ungracefully if it encountered an error (like crossing the benighted 500-character post …
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Gesture navigation is lame
In late 2017, Apple introduced what was to be a very revolutionary iPhone (by iPhone standards, heh): The iPhone X.
Gone were the archaic huge forehead (how much room do you really need for a speaker, camera, and proximity sensor?) and chin (with physical home button*). In its place was …
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Nearly a Quarter Century of Mobile Phones
A fedifriend, Joel recently shared an older blog post detailing the smartphones he's owned over the years. It's an enjoyable read, so definitely check that out.
Since a lot of my blogging plans the past month got waylaid by various difficulties that I won't get into right now, I thought …
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Amiga: My Alternate History
Just a few days before Christmas Day, 1989, I excitedly carried home one of the greatest Christmas gifts I have ever received. I vaguely remember going with my stepdad to the university computer store (The "MicroCentre," it was called; no relation to the large, currently-extant computer store chain) to pick …
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Use what works for good
Exactly a month ago, I wrote an article challenging the prevalent pragmatist-argument for choice in the digital world.
I'd like to refine that thought a bit further, based on recent experiences.
A little over a week ago, I started crafting an article covering FOSS keyboards for Android. This is one …
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So, I Guess I'm a Vampire, Now
As anyone who knows me on the Fediverse can tell you, I've been a bit of a light-theme snob. (If you're not sure what I'm referring to, I'm talking about whether text on a screen (computer or otherwise) is chiefly light colors on dark colors (dark theme) or dark colors …
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The KGB, the Computer, and Me
Last night, I re-watched The KGB, the Computer, and Me, a 1990 episode of NOVΛ chronicling Cliff Stoll's efforts to catch a West German hacker who was using the Lawrence Berkeley Labs' computer systems to hack into military computers in the late 1980s.
I say re-watched, because I …
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FOSS Games, Part II
I got a lot of wonderful feedback on my original FOSS Games are actually pretty good! article, and I wanted to share with you all the information that was so kindly shared with me.
Here are some FOSS games highly recommended by the community, although I have not personally played …
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FOSS Games are actually pretty good!
There's a lot of talk about gaming in Linux these days, and that's exciting, because it's drawing attention to Linux's capabilities. While the games being spoken of are mostly proprietary (and pretty awful, from a software-freedom perspective), it's good to see people getting interested in Linux, even when for only …
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