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| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: Scopes are explicitly a part of OAuth2 |
— | 17 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: Better threat section |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: More footnote content demonstrating attacks. |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: GMail |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 |
Post edited: Threat model |
— | 20 days ago |
| Edit | Post #291319 | Initial revision | — | 20 days ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Understanding OAuth(2) security: what's a realistic threat model? 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 You asked some great questions on this. There are several ways^lookalike (not comprehensive) that pe... (more) |
— | 20 days ago |
| Comment | Post #291188 |
> or better alternatives on the new browser.
Indeed. Welcome to a browser that supports uMatrix! (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #291203 |
Just WireGuard to the good one and use it all the time. (Haha. I know: latency, etc.) (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Comment | Post #288810 |
I have a family member who meticulously maintains their [giant trackball](https://forum.trackballs.eu/viewtopic.php?t=6) that Logitech doesn't make anymore. If you know a good substitute, I'd be interested. (more) |
— | about 1 month ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #291098 |
Suggested edit: Natural language link (more) |
declined | about 2 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290915 | Initial revision | — | 3 months ago |
| Question | — |
Vim horizontal scrollbind skips first scroll if it's the very first interaction I have a custom spreadsheet viewer in Vim that splits the headers into a top pane and the rest into a bottom pane. I bind horizontal scrolling so that scrolling right keeps the headers above the content. The problem is that if the very first thing I do is scroll to the right, the header in the top... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290886 |
With a membrane keyboard, wouldn't you just replace the whole thing? The question makes sense to me for a mechanical keyboard with individually-extractable keys, but I'm not sure how a diagnostic program helps you in your circumstances. The question is fine and interesting, but I'm curious what you'd... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290686 |
Post edited: Label is offscreen. Add a hint. =) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #290686 |
Suggested edit: Label is offscreen. Add a hint. =) (more) |
helpful | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290664 |
You may be right that there isn't enough data in the form of formal studies yet. I thought that maybe there would be by now, since I have a 5-year-old headset and there were VR devices a few years earlier than that. I suppose it'd be hard to get unbiased study funding for a hypothetical problem when ... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290664 |
You definitely sent me down a rabbit hole with the first paragraph. It's a little weird to hear that we don't have a lock on what causes myopia even though it's demonstrably more common in developed economies. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288523 |
[Inconsistent tagged question counts](https://meta.codidact.com/posts/290623) (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290624 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Question | — |
Are there consequences for going VR for primary computer display? 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 from your face? If so, how much worse? (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 |
Post edited: Mention more triggers requested by original Asker |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Move the relevant version number up to the first line. |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 |
Post edited: Crib the features list |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290524 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Practical wireguard VPN on Android There's a new WireGuard app on F-Droid called [WG Tunnel][], probably owing to dissatisfaction with the official app. It claims to sport a quick toggle in the drawer, and you can split-tunnel by application. It's not clear to me whether you can set time-of-day triggers to use the tunnel(s), but th... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Stress the version in the footnote, too. |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: All the links! |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290105 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Automated Git bisect 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. - (Manually) find a release where it wasn't present. - `git bisect` and flag the identified startin... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #281836 |
Post edited: Fix typo in tag |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 |
Post edited: Commentary |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290098 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Tag hierarchies What is the tag hierarchy vision for Power User? I see nested OS versions under a main tag, but I was curious whether any of these made sense to nest as well: - `web-browsers` + `firefox`, `microsoft-edge`, etc. - Some new tag for MS Office + `microsoft-word`, `microsoft-excel`, etc. ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #281836 |
Suggested edit: Fix typo in tag (more) |
helpful | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 |
Post edited: Link David's answer |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290069 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Determine encoding of text If your goal is to fix your files like David Cary's `iconv`ing 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 found in PyPI to undo the mess. > ## Some quick examples > Here are some examples (found in the ... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290035 |
I have 055a. I added the version to the main post, but the edit was after I replied to your comment. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: UI steps as list |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Link Pi-hole |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Footnote "VPN" behavior |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Add version |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290035 |
I don't have images, but I've written out the place to get to the right UI. I think for "VPN," they mean OpenVPN. (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 |
Post edited: Added some UI commentary |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290035 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Practical wireguard VPN on Android [RethinkDNS][] includes a WireGuard option since [v0.5.5][]. The development team was sponsored in 2020 by Mozilla's now-defunct "Builders Program." Rethink was originally an on-device "VPN"[^1] with a DNS filter and app firewall, basically a [Pi-Hole][] analogue for your Android device, but the s... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |