Podcast doesn’t fetch I have multiple devices that are using different URL based filter methods. Some are at the router level and some are at the system level, e.g., Hosts file, DNS and VPN built-in. Recently, I found out there is a broken one in my podcast subscriptions. It’s been a long time not listening to the podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, since I started following Rob Walling’s new show called MicroConf....

0x00 Before Start Recently, I just gave my iPhone 4S away. This phone runs smoothly with jailbreak iOS 6.1.3. It was siting in my nostalgia box for years and has never been my daily driver. Back in time, I was a big fun of Motorola Milestone/Droid series and my main phone was the last of these QWERTY phones, Photon Q (XT897). Its keyboard was fantastic and CyanogenMod 11 (Android 4.4 KitKat) with XPosed framework was perfect in both productivity and aesthetics....

Kali Linux & FreshTomato Parrot OS was on my old ThinkPad for many years. I recently upgraded it and had some issue with my multi-bootloader. Although it’s not Parrot OS’s fault, I switched to Kali Linux as a workaround. I’ve been using this pentesting system since early BackTrack era but never felt it ought to be installed on a hard drive. The graphic installer is much simpler than Parrot OS that may not be an issue for most people....

Back to the Command-line For some reason, MS Edge for Linux does not have the Read Aloud feature which is the only reason I would like to use Edge. The TTS engine made by Microsoft sounds incomparable to those poorly made chrome extensions. Therefore, I found a work around with edge-tts. This is a CLI tool uses Edge TTS service. The instruction on its Github repo is very good. After installation, use edge-tts --list-voices | grep US to show English speaking characters and now I can locate a text file in the terminal to be read....

Acceleration During my teenage years, I was really into FPS and RTS games. That’s why I’m kind of picky on computer mouses and being paranoid of acceleration in the OS. Permanently disabling acceleration for Windows is simple. Besides unchecking the “Enhance pointer precision” in the main.cpl, some registry hacks such as the good old classic “CPL Mouse Fix” or the later “MarkC” would do it easily by a REG/batch file. It is also possible doing manually if you want....