Th3Whit3Wolf

What's Cool

• Encrypted root partition
  • AES-256 bit cipher
  • Argon2id variant for PBKDF
  • Sha3-512 bit hash
• rEFInd bootloader
  • With dreary theme
  • Optimal Settings (optimized for aesthetics, and boot time)
• Boot into backups thanks to refind-btrfs

Brainiarc7

Tuning Intel Skylake and beyond for optimal performance and feature level support on Linux:

Note that on Skylake, Kabylake (and the now cancelled "Broxton") SKUs, functionality such as power saving, GPU scheduling and HDMI audio have been moved onto binary-only firmware, and as such, the GuC and the HuC blobs must be loaded at run-time to access this functionality.

Enabling GuC and HuC on Skylake and above requires a few extra parameters be passed to the kernel before boot.

Instructions provided for both Fedora and Ubuntu (including Debian):

Note that the firmware for these GPUs is often packaged by your distributor, and as such, you can confirm the firmware blob's availability by running:

njvack

Simple canvas-based color converter

To answer this StackOverflow question I wrote this — a small solution based on a never-rendered <canvas> element. It fills a 1-pixel canvas with the provided fill-style, and then reads the RGBA values of that pixel. It will work with any CSS color -- name, rgba(), hex, or even something more exotic like a gradient or pattern. Invalid colors are always returned as transparent black. Transparent colors are treated as painted on a newly-cleared canvas.

It's been tested in modern-ish versions of IE, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. The API is:

color_convert.to_hex(color)   # Converts color to a hex-based RGB triple; to_hex('red') returns '#ff0000'
color_convert.to_rgba(color)  # Converts color to an rgba() string; to_rgba('red') returns 'rgba(255,0,0,1)'