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Free Software Privacy Policy

Neil E. Pearson

My commitment to privacy

1. This Privacy Policy has been created because I value your right to keep your personal information private, and to comply with the National Privacy Principles. This policy sets out how I gather and disseminate your personal information.
2. In this Privacy Policy, "user" refers to any users of software that I have personally released in my own name.

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I'm constantly forgetting how to write and install these. Here's my crib sheet.

Make a new service

$ sudo vim /lib/systemd/system/name_of_service.service

[Unit]

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// I use this with the Shortkeys Chrome plugin to navigate meetings with a single button.

(() => {
  const find       = cond => () => document.querySelector(cond)
  const findButton = text => () => [...document.querySelectorAll('button,[role=button]')].find(b => b.textContent === text)
  
  const steps = [
    // Unmute first
    find('[aria-label*="Turn on mic"]'),

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am hx on github.
• I am hx84 (https://keybase.io/hx84) on keybase.
• I have a public key ASCGiDi2x0TpodONgBNlkk6O1kNzG441gZZW0Pud_VlRaQo

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# coding: utf-8

abort "This script needs Ruby 2 or later. You have #{RUBY_VERSION}." if RUBY_VERSION < '2.0.0'

require 'io/console'
require 'pathname'
require 'shellwords'

# Imitating ActiveSupport a bit here:

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require 'drb'
require 'pathname'
require 'shellwords'
require 'timeout'

module DRb
  class Daemon

    PATH_KEY = 'DRB_DAEMON_PATH'
    PROTOCOL = 'drbunix:'

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module OS
  class << self
    def windows?
      (/cygwin|mswin|mingw|bccwin|wince|emx/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM) != nil
    end

    def mac?
      (/darwin/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM) != nil
    end

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Today, a poorly-timed tick of the "enable FileVault" box on El Capitan (OS X 10.11.1) resulted in a very dead hard drive that Disk Utility was unable to repair. Here's the basic command-line solution:

Show your CoreStorage volumes:

diskutil cs list

Delete CoreStorage logical volumes:

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Run a bunch of processes (e.g. Python-based web services), and bind an additional server to port 80 that encapsulates a list of "bookmark" urls.

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function fixPathCase($path) {
    if(!file_exists($path)) {
        return false;
    }
    if(file_exists(strtoupper($path)) && file_exists(strtolower($path))) {
        $parts = explode('/', $path);
        foreach($parts as $k => $i) {
            if($i) {
                foreach(scandir(dirname(implode('/', array_slice($parts, 0, $k + 1)))) as $file) {