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ohessten% security find-certificate -a /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychainc >osx_system_roots.pem
ohessten% /path/to/homebrew/bin/openssl s_client -CAfile osx_system_roots.pem -verify 5 -connect sketchy.example.org:443 

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about:config settings to harden the Firefox browser. Privacy and performance enhancements.
To change these settings type 'about:config' in the url bar. Then search the setting you would like to change and modify the value. Some settings may break certain websites from functioning and rendering normally. Some settings may also make firefox unstable. I am not liable for any damages/loss of data.

Not all these changes are necessary and will be dependent upon your usage and hardware. Do some research on settings if you don't understand what they do. These settings are best combined with your standard privacy extensions (HTTPS Everywhere No longer required: Enable HTTPS-Only Mode, NoScript/Request Policy, uBlock origin, agent spoofing, Privacy Badger etc), and all plugins set to "Ask To Activate".

damieng

# Run this from Powershell as Administrator with (New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString("https://gist.github.com/damieng/881852e7112be7d97957/raw") | powershell -command -
Write-Output "Making Windows more developer oriented (Revision 26)..."
Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted

if ([System.Environment]::OSVersion.Version.Major -ge 10) {
    Write-Output " * Detected Windows 10"

    Write-Output "    * Removing Windows 10 bloatware"
    $apps = @(
        "Microsoft.3DBuilder"

tfitch

# Our .tmux.conf file

# Setting the prefix from C-b to C-a
# START:prefix
set -g prefix C-a  
# END:prefix
# Free the original Ctrl-b prefix keybinding
# START:unbind
unbind C-b 
# END:unbind

gboudreau

Generating Authy passwords on other authenticators

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*update: TBC, but this new might affect how easy it is to use this technique past August 2024: Authy is shutting down its desktop app | The 2FA app Authy will only be available on Android and iOS starting in August

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This gist, based in part on a gist by Brian Hartvigsen, allows you to export from Authy your TOTP tokens you have stored there.
Those can be "standard" 6-digits / 30 secs tokens, or Authy's own version, the 7-digits / 10 secs tokens.

IanColdwater

Mute these words in your settings here: https://twitter.com/settings/muted_keywords

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prologic

Learn Go in ~5mins

This is inspired by A half-hour to learn Rust and Zig in 30 minutes.

Basics

Your first Go program as a classical "Hello World" is pretty simple:

First we create a workspace for our project:

humandoing

My Stripe Tax Story

I've been debating for weeks whether or not I was going to write any of this down. I'm a dad with two kids and a house to take care of and a business to run. Adding story-telling like this to my plate is exhausting.

Until yesterday, I had decided to forget about the whole thing, until I received the email that broke the camels back, as it were.

The best way I can describe why I'm writing this email is for the same reason why you might spend two hours dealing with an uncooperative mobile phone carrier to get them to remove that $5 charge on your bill that shouldn't be there. Some combination of the feeling of frustration and injustice that really pushes my proverbial buttons.

In this particular case, the "$5 charge on my phone bill" turned out to be literally hundreds of recurring subscription invoices that Stripe disabled collection for because, apparently, those subscriptions required "location inputs".

Generally speaking, I don't blog much anymore, and the last thing I wa