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and USBODE (USB Optical Drive Emulator):

"Ever wanted a GoTek for CDs? If you have a Raspberry Pi Zero W or 2 W, USBODE turns it into a virtual optical drive. It allows you to store many disk images on a MicroSD card and mount them through a web interface."

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DiskImageMounter.app silently fails to mount Linux ISOs in macOS and hdiutil attach linux.iso returns "attach failed - Resource temporarily unavailable". However, the built-in tar (bsdtar 3.5.3 in Tahoe) command can list contents:

tar tf /path/to/linux.iso

<...

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Symptom

cat displays text, but grep can't find it:

% cat foo.txt The world is overcome--aye! even here! By such as fix their faith on Unity. % grep fix foo.txt % Cause

The file is UTF-16, not UTF-8/ASCII.

For example, in UTF-16LE, fix is encoded as:

66 00 69 00 78 00

not as the contiguous ASCII bytes, which are also the UTF-8 bytes for fix:

66...

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Issue

Some JPGs in iCloud Photos display with the correct orientation on Macs, iPhones, and iPads, but appear rotated or sideways on Apple TV:

Photos displayed sideways


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kage, recently discussed on HN, "shadow[s] any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out". Set up in a new Ubuntu 26.04 ARM64 VM:

Install Chromium via App Cen...


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