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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by Michael‭

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Q&A 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. (Manual...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Caleb‭

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Q&A Determine encoding of text

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 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A 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 f...

1 answer  ·  posted 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 20d ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 17d ago by Michael‭

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Q&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...

posted 7mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&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 appli...

posted 4mo ago by Michael‭  ·  edited 4mo ago by Michael‭

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Meta 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, microsof...

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

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Q&A 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 co...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Michael‭

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