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ThinkPad T480 fingerprint reader on Fedora Linux

Background

The Synaptics fingerprint sensor (06cb:009a) present on my T480 is not supported by libfprint and fprintd as it requires a non-free binary blob. uunicorn created open-fprintd, a replacement for fprintd, that allows for loading of binary blobs. In conjunction with their python-validity driver we are able to make use of the inbuilt fingerprint reader. The following instructions were tested against Fedora Linux 35.

Installing open-fprintd and python-validity

sudo dnf copr enable tigro/python-validity
sudo dnf install open-fprintd fprintd-clients fprintd-clients-pam python3-validity

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// Based on Glacier's example: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/guide/examples.html#Amazon_Glacier__Multi-part_Upload
var fs = require('fs');
var AWS = require('aws-sdk');
AWS.config.loadFromPath('./aws-config.json');
var s3 = new AWS.S3();

// File
var fileName = '5.pdf';
var filePath = './' + fileName;
var fileKey = fileName;

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    import {action1, action2} from "myActions";
    import {bindActionCreators} from "redux";

    const mapDispatchToProps(dispatch) => {
        return {
            manuallyBoundAction : (...args) => dispatch(action1(...args)),
            autoBoundAction : bindActionCreators(action2, dispatch),
            multipleActionsTogether : bindActionCreators({action1, action2}, dispatch)
        }
    };

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// the main app file
import express from "express";
import loadDb from "./loadDb"; // dummy middleware to load db (sets request.db)
import authenticate from "./authentication"; // middleware for doing authentication
import permit from "./permission"; // middleware for checking if user's role is permitted to make request

const app = express(),
      api = express.Router();

// first middleware will setup db connection

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// 🔥 Node 7.6 has async/await! Here is a quick run down on how async/await works

const axios = require('axios'); // promised based requests - like fetch()

function getCoffee() {
  return new Promise(resolve => {
    setTimeout(() => resolve('☕'), 2000); // it takes 2 seconds to make coffee
  });
}

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Setting up a SSL Cert from Comodo

I use Namecheap.com as a registrar, and they resale SSL Certs from a number of other companies, including Comodo.

These are the steps I went through to set up an SSL cert.

Purchase the cert

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vs Questions

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1. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/804115 (rebase vs merge).
2. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/merging-vs-rebasing (rebase vs merge)
3. https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/undoing-changes/ (reset vs checkout vs revert)
4. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2221658 (HEAD^ vs HEAD~) (See git rev-parse)
5. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/292357 (pull vs fetch)
6. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39651 (stash vs branch)
7. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8358035 (reset vs checkout vs revert)