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Posts by Michael
Google has announced that Starting next year, Android will require all apps to be registered by verified developers in order to be installed by users on certified Android devices. They claim ...
Akin to this question, but specifically for Android, what is a browser I can trust to load sites correctly and also work in my best interest?[1] I'm currently using Fennec, a sympathetic fork of F...
You're not printing it; you're trying to invoke the Base64. And since there isn't a PATH command that matches, your system is trying to look for a script file with that nonsense name to run. Try t...
I sent an email to a friend's work address. The email had an attachment, not a lot of text, and was signed (not encrypted) with my PGP signature. They briefly received the email before it ...
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...
It's an AI model, reportedly Gemini Nano. I haven't tried this (having moved away from Chrome before the AI-in-everything craze), but users have suggested that it can be deleted if you are willing...
Depending on how much work you want to do, you could Create (or have) a Matrix homeserver where you are an admin. Bridge to Discord with mautrix-discord. Then use a browser-compatible client l...
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...
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...
F-Droid has a blog post on the announced changes. It contains the excerpt below, emphasis mine: If it were to be put into effect, the developer registration decree will end the F-Droid project a...
I've resurrected my Linux phone hardware, set to try it again as a defense against the further subversion of Android as a platform you own in any way. I figured I'd install Plasma Mobile, as I use...
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...
If the local part isn't obvious,[1] I'd say the likelihood is high that the service shared or sold its list or possibly even was hacked. If you use the name of the service in the local part (micro...
Include diffs in the log I would like to easily review commits in that date range […] I know that from the command line I can use git log with --since and --until options, but that just gets me...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
There's always ASCII Cinema where you can replay the session, including the timings, and you can just pause and copy the output of any particular part.
Art's answer is correct: a PAT just replaces a password in your existing HTTPS credential use. I'm going to write a bit more about why they did this, hopefully addressing some of your "SSH Confusio...
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...
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
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...
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...
