Assorted computer tips

This is a list of tips and links for computer-related things that don't warrant their own pages.

macOS

• Burning an ISO to a CD/DVD from the Terminal: hdiutil burn IMAGE_NAME.iso

Windows

None yet.

Linux

• ShredOS is a ~30MB Linux LiveCD/USB distribution to facilitate securely wiping drives.

Any

• Nearest-neighbor scaling with ffmpeg: ffmpeg -i infile -s WIDTHxHEIGHT -sws_flags neighbor outfile
• Stripping EXIF data with imagemagick: mogrify -strip img.jpg
• Identifying nested node packages: tree -P "package.json" -I "node_modules" --prune