Michael‭

Inspired by this comment thread, is there a way to automate git bisect with a new test (and a known good state)? The way things usually work for me is… Oh no! Reproducible bug is found. (Manual...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 2mo ago by mcast‭

Depending on some semantics, it is possible to do what you want, for a sufficiently motivated cohort of "we." The tricky part is that you're rewriting history, and everyone has to agree on that new...

posted 2mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Michael‭

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...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Michael‭

I think they're fixing the wrong problem, but it is a reasonable workaround… for now.[1] The real problem is that mail systems do not seem to trust your SMTP. Fix the underlying trust and filterin...

posted 15d ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 15d ago by Michael‭

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 ...

posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Michael‭

Where do I go to change keyboard shortcuts in Firefox? I've been in the settings section and used their setting search, both for "keyb" and for "shortc" and nothing likely-looking comes up. Is the...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by techsavvytinkerer‭

The QR code for Time-based one-time passwords (TOTP) just contains some secret info[1] to seed the TOTP app.[2] You can dump it into another implementation of TOTP. The seed and the current time wi...

posted 9mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Michael‭

The OMEMO encryption ecosystem for XMPP (Jabber) is split into distinct, incompatible versions. Unfortunately there are different versions of OMEMO encryption existing, that are incompatible to ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 28d ago by Michael‭

Is there research into the effects of replacing physical monitors with virtual reality "monitors" for daily use? I imagine that VR is not great for one's eyes, but is it worse than a monitor 50cm f...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by matthewsnyder‭

Generally, anyone who owns a domain at any level can make up whatever rules he or she desires to apply to its subdomains. If you own ponies.example.com, you could for example sell access to subdoma...

posted 9mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Michael‭

You can't edit it in settings, but I do know where those come from. It's in language-configuration.json, under comments: Comment toggling VS Code offers two commands for comment toggling. Toggl...

posted 9mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Michael‭

It's icky, but the generally accepted practice until this bug is fixed seems to be disabling Wayland when launching LibreOffice: WAYLAND_DISPLAY= SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=kf5 /usr/bin/libreoffice

posted 3mo ago by Michael‭

This is mostly covered by the documentation. Orb's primary speed measurements and important for activities like streaming videos, downloading files, video conferencing, and other relevant day-to...

posted 25d ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 22d ago by Michael‭

Why does the default SSH client behavior for MacOS send LANG and LC_* environment variables to the server? If I consult man ssh_config, it says SendEnv […] The default is not to send any enviro...

0 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Michael‭

I have LibreOffice on KDE/Wayland. I have several monitors with different aspect ratios, pixel density, etc. For some reason, Writer only looks right on the highest-DPI screen (with the smallest ph...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by Michael‭