joshbuchea

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

Example

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.

ageis

security and hardening options for systemd service units

A common and reliable pattern in service unit files is thus:

NoNewPrivileges=yes
PrivateTmp=yes
PrivateDevices=yes
DevicePolicy=closed
ProtectSystem=strict

thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

DavidKuennen

(function (context, trackingId, options) {
    const history = context.history;
    const doc = document;
    const nav = navigator || {};
    const storage = localStorage;
    const encode = encodeURIComponent;
    const pushState = history.pushState;
    const typeException = 'exception';
    const generateId = () => Math.random().toString(36);
    const getId = () => {

egmontkob

Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

[ Update 2020-05-31: I won't be maintaining this page or responding to comments anymore (except for perhaps a few exceptional occasions). ]

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

vancluever

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

Directories

rgo

# By default the behavior is:
#   Primary monitor work as always and second monitor only have one and fixed workspace 
#   I.e. you change to next workspace, primary monitor change to this workspace and second monitor remain as is.
# The desired behaviour is:
#   Primary monitor and secondary monitor are linked workspace.
#   I.e. you change to next workspace, primary monitor change to this workspace and second monitor too.

$ gconf-editor 
# Look for /desktop/gnome/shell/windows/workspaces_only_on_primary and set to false

wisq

Situation: Some commit (on master, but not necessarily head of master) has broken things, but it's a big commit and it's not clear what part broke things.

% git checkout master
% git checkout -b bisect-branch
% git revert <offending commit>

(test here to make sure reverting fixed your problem)

% git bisect start

luetkemj

// This gist is now maintained on github at https://github.com/luetkemj/wp-query-ref

<?php
/**
* WordPress Query Comprehensive Reference
* Compiled by luetkemj - luetkemj.github.io
*
* CODEX: http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Parameters
* Source: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/4.9.4/src/wp-includes/query.php
*/