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Use curl with a local SOCKS5 proxy (e.g. Tor)
Routes curl input through a local SOCKS5 proxy; in this case, anonymizes curl activity via The Onion Router (Tor) proxy running locally. Note that the traffic will be anonymized, but it will NOT be encrypted, so your traffic will be very vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks.

Find the package that installed a command

Get your external IP address
Request all information about my IP address in json format

Advanced python tracing
Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

How many Linux and Windows devices are on your network?
Shows how many Windows and Linux devices are on your network. May add support for others, but that's all that are on my network right now.

Find usb device in realtime
Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)
#4345 also works under windows

GZip all files in a directory separately

View all images
So you are in directory with loads of pictures laying around and you need to quickly scan through them all

Alert visually until any key is pressed


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