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Since there seem to be no userscripts for this, I wrote one myself. It should work with all major userscript managers and browsers. The script prevents the dragstart event and thus drag and drop f...
There are many vector search libraries and engines for use in machine learning, apis, databases, and programs. https://github.com/currentslab/awesome-vector-search has a list of some of them. For ...
Of course you can. The script should probably be external to the repository (either stored outside it or in the working tree but not committed and not conflicting with anything in history), otherwi...
Occasionally someone* occasionally modifies one of the files I'm responsible for with an archaic tool that decides to convert the updated file to UTF-16 (probably lossless) or an even more archaic...
Since the update to macOS 14.0 Sonoma, I every now and then get the following pop-up while typing. At first it is just the blue circle with "US": When I click on it, the white part with "DE" app...
SVG apparently has an <animate> tag which can do this. The thing you would animate is the offset of the points/dashes on the line. This is called <stroke-dashoffset>. It sounds like y...
If your goal is to fix your files like David Cary's iconving does, but you can't tell the mis-encodings that transpired to create your text, you can use a little Python and the ftfy library[1] as f...
I have a moderately large ISO image (>5 GB)[1] to which I want to add a single file[2], and I want to do that on Linux (preferably using only software which is available in Debian's main and con...
qutebrowser Qutebrowser is a small, independent project that is not a fork of any major browser. It is notable in being designed for keyboard-only navigation, inspired by the Vimium extension, whi...
Due to the GDPR (Article 20), services (like Apple or Google) had to offer EU citizens[1] the option to download their personal data. Many also offer this option to non-EU citizens to a greater or ...
I have a home network, including a server (not on public internet) that runs various services. For example, a Nextcloud instance with family photos. Currently, the server is connected to my router...
Generally speaking the best thing is two different internet providers. Different means not just who you send the bill to but different physical networks. In most areas, your options are: One cab...
Threats In my head, there are three main threats, though the OAuth 2 RFC has a whole chapter on the topic. Your questions deal mostly with one of them and slightly with another. Fake login page ...
I ran which gs convert pdfinfo pdftotext and noticed that the output was /usr/bin/gs, etc. The Ubuntu defaults for PdfHandler have the path set as gs, not /usr/bin/gs. I changed the paths for gs, p...
I would handle this with git bisect. Assuming you have a known good old commit C_GOOD (this would be your "since") and a known bad new commit C_BAD (this would be your "until"), git bisect start C_...
Suppose I want to use some functionality on foo.com which requires associating my activity with me specifically - for example, posting on a forum, or playing some games and having the site keep tra...
For context, I use Firefox to browse the Web. Some time ago, I followed some security- and privacy-oriented advice for configuring Firefox, which recommended (among many other things) disabling the...
Over time, the Windows folder keeps gathering crap and grow. Therefore, a fresh installation of Windows is bliss - it is the only 100% working way to get rid of all waste files that it picks up ove...
This solution works for me on Ventura 13.4.1. Taken from an article by Tom Nelson on the MacSales.com site, How to Create and Use a RAM Disk with Your Mac (Warnings Included!). In a terminal app, ...
My partner and are are sometimes in the position of trying to find each other in a large or crowded space (like a convention center, or if one of us is driving to pick up the other somewhere). We ...
PiKVM is an open source project which offers an internet KVM (keyboard-video-mouse) via a Raspberry Pi. It comprises an HDMI capture capability (also usable with VGA via adapters) which can be vie...
if someone else has been able to answer to the asker's satisfaction, it is patently false that the question is unclear. That is actually a flawed premise. The question "what is the price of b...
[Update: I just noticed that you are on Android but your partner is on iPhone. I tweaked the wording here to focus more on that scenario] To share a live, realtime location from Android Google Map...
quick fix I agree with Canina that you need to do two translations to fix this problem. Fortunately, it appears that you can recover the original text without loss. Try this: # first convert f...
This is a broad topic, and I can't address all the details fully in one post. Instead, I will post an overview with enough keywords in each area, and leave it to the reader (and other questions) to...
