some notes on installing Gitea

I’ve been running a heavily outdated version of Gitea. Rather than doing an update on it, I just reinstalled it.

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how to prevent your home dir from getting littered

keeping your home dir clean and organized with XDG base directory and other measures

For most Linux distributions, even in a pristine bare minimum installation, the home directory of a user is already littered with a bunch of files and directories, that contain program configurations, colloquially called dot-files. This gets worse over time, as more programs are installed and used.

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editing EXIF data with ExifTool

clearing privacy related data from an image's EXIF data with ExifTool

so what is EXIF?

EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) is a standard format maintained by the Japan Electronic and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) for metadata in digital images. EXIF is used to tag image files with metadata like image width and height, bits per pixel, camera settings like shutter speed and a whole host of other image specific data like the GPS location where the image was taken, and the date and time when the image was taken. EXIF is supported by almost all modern digital cameras. It is also used to tag other types of files, i.e. sound files, PDFs, OpenOffice/LibreOffice or Word docs.

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