Today, fingerprint scanners are on almost every phone. Having a fingerprint sensor to unlock your device is very handy. By the time you pull a phone from your pocket and raise it to your eyes, it is already unlocked. It also prevents someone from snooping on your password or pattern over your shoulder or through a security camera. But it can fail to hide your sensitive chats and photos from sneaky roommates or nosy family members. They can easily use your finger to unlock your phone while you are asleep or too high. So, How Do You Prevent This?...

Since the mainstream launch of Wayland with GNOME, people have faced problems using xclip, mainly because xclip is designed to work with the X11 clipboard. Fortunately, xclip has an option to overcome this problem. Just use xclip -selection c instead of xclip. This option emulates the Ctrl + Shift + C action. For easier use, you can set up an alias by adding the following line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file. ...

Selenium is a web automation package available for all popular languages. To learn more about Selenium, you can refer to the official Selenium documentation. Here, we will make a simple WhatsApp bot using Python and Selenium that replies to every message with the current time. Installing Selenium First, we need to install Selenium for Python by running the following command in a terminal. pip install selenium Selenium also requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. For Firefox, we need to install geckodriver. Without the proper driver, you will get a WebDriverException. Download the latest geckodriver from Mozilla’s GitHub repository and add it to your path. ...

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code has proven to be the dark horse of code editors. Don’t be put off by the Microsoft name: it is completely free, open source, and MIT-licensed. Despite being late to the party, it has attracted plenty of users. The reason is its excellent balance of speed, features, and hackability. ...

This post is intended for college freshmen who have little or no experience with Linux. If you are an experienced Linux user, you can safely skip it. What is Linux? Linux is commonly used as a collective term for all distributions, or operating systems, based on the Linux kernel. Some notable distributions are Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and your favorite, Kali Linux. Where may you have heard about Kali Linux? I bet it was a friend or someone older who told you that Kali Linux can hack computers. I have seen students become obsessed with this distribution without knowing anything about Linux. Easiest way to become a Hacker Now, “hack” is an often-misused term. Most people think it is a way to access information without proper permission. No, my friend, the term is much broader. A hack is defined as “a tip, trick, or efficient method for doing or managing something,” or what we in India call jugaad. ...