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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) |
— | about 1 month ago |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |