Hello,

I want to create an AI model to learn about AI/ML. so I have scraped some data from Threads and Instagram.now I am wondering how can I use this dataset to make an AI model or do something useful with it? (BTW I don't know anything about AI/ML. I have done internship as Data Analyst so I know a little bit about Linear regression etc. but don't know anything advance.)

I am really curious to explore this space :)

Hello,

I have made Python scripts to scrape Instagram and Threads. I would like some suggestion or criticism :D

I want to scrape a website using python selenium however every time it gives different id to same html element. I don't know how to circumvent it.

maybe XPATH is my saviour? but I don't know how reliable it is.

I have scraped a lot of links from instagram and threads using selenium python. It was a good learning experience. I will be running that script for few days more and will see how many more media links I can scrape from instagram and threads.

However, the problem is that the media isn't tagged so we don't know what type of media it is. I wonder if there is an AI or something that can categorize this random media links to an organized list.

if you want to download all the media from the links you can run the following command:

# This command will download file with all the links
wget -O links.txt https://gist.githubusercontent.com/Ghodawalaaman/f331d95550f64afac67a6b2a68903bf7/raw/7cc4cc57cdf5ab8aef6471c9407585315ca9d628/gistfile1.txt
# This command will actually download the media from the links file we got from the above command 
wget -i links1.txt

I was thinking about storing all of these. there is two ways of storing these. the first one is to just store the links.txt file and download the content when needed or we can download the content from the links save it to a hard drive. the second method will consume more space, so the first method is good imo.

I hope it was something you like :)

Hello,

I made a simple script to scraper threads.net using python and selenium. the script is just few lines long and it's easy to understand.

So what this script does?

first it will open edge browser(which you can change it to firefox or chrome). now you have to enter credentials to log into it. your browsing data and credentials will be stored in user_data which you can move around.

It scroll through threads's feed/hashtag/explore and It will store the src of every image it encounters so at the end we will have a links.txt file containing all the links to the images we have encountered.

now we have links.txt and we can use the following command to download all the images from the links.txt

wget -i links.txt

the script:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.edge.options import Options
import time

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--user-data-dir=user_data")

driver = webdriver.Edge(options=options)

driver.get('https://threads.net')

s = set()

input("Press any key to continue...")
for i in range(30):
    try:
        elements = driver.find_elements(By.XPATH, "//img")
        for e in elements:
            s.add(e.get_attribute("src"))
        driver.execute_script("window.scrollBy(0, 1000);")
        time.sleep(0.2)
    except:
        print("oopsie")

with open("links.txt", 'w') as f:
    links = list(s)
    for l in links:
        f.write(l+"\n")

driver.quit()

I hope it was usefull :D

Edit: here is a link to links.txt https://0x0.st/HGjx.txt

Hello, I wanted to use hyprland on fedora silverblue but I couldn't find any image. I found this image however when I rebase to that image it drops me into rescue mode after reboot. :(

do you have your own hyprland silverblue images? I would love to try it out :D

this is going to be my personal experience of making custom ublue image. hopefully you will learn something from it.

so first of all you have to decide which Desktop Environment you want to use. I have chosen KDE but you can choose whichever DE you want. to see available DE you can go here. now copy the url of the image you want to modify. for my case it will be ghcr.io/ublue-os/kinoite-main:39.

create a file and name it Dockerfile. and add the following line to the Dockerfile

FROM ghcr.io/ublue-os/kinoite-main:39
# Install your favoutie program using rpm-ostree
RUN rpm-ostree install zsh fish neovim vim emacs kitty alacritty distrobox -y
# finally cleanup and commit the changes
RUN rpm-ostree cleanup -m && \
ostree container commit

save the file and run the following command in the current directory to build the image. (make sure you have docker installed on your system)

sudo docker build -t custom_image:latest .

you can now upload it to ghcr.io or rebase on it using rpm-ostree rebase command.

I hope this was useful. :)

Today, I made switch to fedora silverblue and then rebased to ublue image because it has flatpak included in the image. I am also thinking about making my own image based on silverblue. there is a video made by bigpod a youtuber about how to make your own custom ublue image and I learned a lot from that video. I am using toolbox to install various software and I am linking it however I am thinking if toolbox consumes more RAM and CPU. I guess I will find out ones I install silverblue on my laptop with old HDD.

I downloaded my favourite browser from flathub. the flathub repo isn't enabled by default in kinoite image of ublue. I have also find a way to export toolbox container to move it to different machine.

So yeah, I am liking it so far :D

Hi,

I want to reverse engineer api of an Android app to make a custom client that works on linux. I have good understanding of Linux, Networking and coding.

Where should I start? Is it too hard?

Hi, I am 19M. I always feel horny around beautiful girl. However I don't like it because it makes me uncomfortable around them.

How do you control yourself in that situation?

Hii, I am trying to get into reading books but don't know what to read. I like programming, tech, DIY stuff and science and would love to read about it.

Which book should I read that is not overwhelming for a begginer like me?

Edit: Thank you all for the wonderful suggestions :)

Books

• 1984
• The Disappearing Spoon
• The Tetris Effect
• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!
• Immune
• The Murderbot Diaries
• Children of Time
• Neuromancer
• Bobyverse Series
• Project Hail Mary

Authors

• Mary Roach
• Marthe Wells