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How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...
As already noted in another answer, the answer is compression. But it is actually much more than you might think. A typical video has a huge amount static from frame to frame. Even an "action" vide...
Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...
Well, it really depends on what you mean by a "web" server. If you mean a piece of software that implements the protocols typically used for (the server aspects of) web browsing, such as HTTP, TLS...
According to this support answer to "Home page is black", Enter about:config in the address bar. Edit the value of "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" to 0 to use a dark b...
How can I get a list of all file types for which a certain application is the default program? I know that I can get a list of all file types an application is capable of opening from the info.pli...
The correct way to do this is to run an IMAP syncing program automatically, to keep a mirror of all your email on your local machine. Then you point Claws at the local machine, not at the remote IM...
I have a Pixel 5A running Android 12 (I assume stock Android because it's a Pixel, but I don't know how to tell). The phone app that came with it reports probable spam or scam calls by labeling th...
Have mkdir -p d1/d1_sd1/ d2/d2_sd1/ touch d1/d1_sd1/f1.txt d2/d2_sd1/f1.txt . ├── d1 │ └── d1_sd1 │ └── f1.txt └── d2 └── d2_sd1 └── f1.txt 4 directories, 2 files ...
The URL of the site shows "powerusers", matching the drop down list of sites at the top right of the page, and the list of sites in the page footer, which both say "Power Users" (plural). However, ...
I'm using firefox to access duolingo. The website offers settings to disable motivational messages and animations. However the settings frequently turn themselves back on automatically. Is there...
The problem is that these two settings are only stored in the local storage of the browser and not transmitted to duolingo. This means that when the local storage is cleared for some reason (for me...
Not a logo professional or active member of this community, so take all these with a grain of salt, but some ideas I see are: Get rid of the "button" icons, they aren't very easy to see and add ...
TL;DR Turns out the correct name is #pageAction-urlbar-metrication_deltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at ht...
Sorry if the title is weird, please feel free to suggest a rephrase. I have a personal server in my closet. I host various software on this for my family's use. The vast majority of the time I con...
I use email frequently, for many things, some of them important (banks, work). From what I've seen, all the offline mail clients (like Thunderbird, Evolution, Kmail) suck for a power user - mail fi...
Determining the encoding of binary data representing text is a notoriously difficult problem, which basically comes down to probabilities. UTF-8 is one of the few exceptions that I know of, becaus...
I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.tx...
Essentially (it is actually a bit more complicated), the information on a hard drive (or solid state drive - a computer will normally treat them basically the same, and actually floppy disks, flash...
A typical DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service; which is a subtype of the broader class of Denial of Service attacks) will simply flood a host, or its network connection, with data. It's not uncommo...
I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if th...
You have already given the answer, and I have just found that it is documented under the Search Syntax section: Use \ to go to directly to the first search result. For example, \futurama.
You should be able to use a PAT like a password as you've been trying to. I think what's blocking you is your Git version: see this SO question, which suggests that error comes from the Git client ...
He sees just 2 3.5mm audio jacks — see my green arrows. Correct? No, clearly not. Since both holes are different sizes, at most one of them can be 3.5 mm. It's hard to tell absolute sizes in you...
Your phone appears to be telling the truth in stating that there are no updates available for it. Mapping that fact to a statement that "your phone is up to date" in the message title is perhaps u...
