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Posts by matthewsnyder
One of the Wifi networks I connect to has a DNS server on it, which is better than public ones. This DNS server is not available when connected to other networks. When I'm on this network, I want ...
Firefox is apparently able to automatically import all that: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/switching-chrome-firefox I personally don't use these auto-imports. I find that browser migration ...
My hard drive is making a screeching/scraping/scratching sound. Is this bad? Will it explode? What I do? How do I figure out which hard drive is doing it, if I have multiple?
Not a real answer, but may be interesting: Silly Tavern includes a memory book Of course, Silly Tavern is a frontend for talking to AIs. So passages from the memory book will be shown to the AI, n...
LLMs (AI) have limited context windows which makes it challenging to include all necessary context in the prompt. A common solution is a memory book. The memory book stores arbitrarily large amoun...
Does the Mac Mini have a GPU? This sounds like something that could happen due to a graphics driver issue. AFAIK Youtube relies on the HTML5 video element. If it freezes in all browsers, it's prob...
It's hard to comment definitively on this because both attack vectors and countermeasures evolve rapidly. My guess would be that Firefox would not allow tab X to see that you copied something on t...
My keyboard is getting old and occasionally I notice the key presses don't quite register. This keyboard uses membrane switches so I can see how they would wear out after a while and not be as resp...
Your only real option here is redundancy. Besides what manassehkatz explained already, you can also open a second office in a different location. It seems unlikely that internet would fail in two ...
I believe the recommended solution by Apple would be to buy a more expensive phone with more storage. This is usually not a very good deal financially. For example, currently the iPhone 15 has a 1...
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...
After posting this, I realized that I could simply replace ~/Pictures/Webcam with a symlink. Perhaps this is what the devs intended, in some Zen/Koan way... I would still like to know if there is ...
I think the way to interpret the site name is not "this site is for power users only", but rather "this site is for any aspiring power user". It doesn't really matter if you're not an expert, and ...
While I was writing the answer, I realized that actually Selenium can be used to do this without any need for Dokuwiki plugins that support your specific use case. Selenium is an automated Chrome, ...
The obvious risk is probably developing myopia due to prolonged focusing on a near object. This is similar to the idea that being on the computer too much exacerbates myopia (and perhaps also the i...
I use Cheese to take photos with my webcam. The photos get saved under ~/Pictures/Webcam which I don't like. I want them somewhere else. In typical, presumptuous Gnome fashion, there is no UI in C...
Are there US stock brokers that allow programmatic access for retail investing? I would like to be able to connect to my broker's API to check my stock portfolio and place trades. I'm not looking ...
When I receive a call with Google Voice open in a browser on my desktop, it only rings briefly in the browser (about 2 seconds). After that, my phone starts ringing. When I'm at my computer, I wan...
The URL https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=abc123 is not the right format for the From URL field. https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/1?cid=abc123 goes to a website showing the calend...
I have created a Google calendar in Google account A. In the calendar's settings, under Access permissions for events, I have left Make available to public unchecked. When I click Get shareable lin...
When I use my Firefox-family browser to connect to Google Meet: Update your browser to use visual effects You're using an older browser version that doesn't work with Meet's visual effects I...
What is the easiest way to set up a mailing list? The goal is to send an email to one address, and it gets automatically re-sent to everyone who is currently subscribed to that list. Ideally, the ...
I use offlineimap to synchronize my mail, and I have the directory set up as a local folder in KMail. Currently, I open KMail and also run offlineimap to synchronize my mail. Is there a way to mak...
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_...
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...
