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Posts by 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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 appli...
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, microsof...
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 co...
The command palette has entries[1] for "Show Next Change" and "Show Previous Change," with hotkeys listed as Alt+F3 and Shift+Alt+F3, respectively. You may also be interested in just paging to the ...
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...
