xhost +SI:localuser:$someoneElse
Old-school new-school: Optical Tape Archives
I had come up with this "cursed technique" a while back at work, when I needed to transfer a ~1GB file onto a quite old Linux machine that, for "security reasons" had USB mass storage access as well as the UDF kernel drivers disabled (and I was unable to access it over the network)…
Quick Fix: remove "Mozilla VPN" ads from Firefox Private Browsing window
/* ~/.mozilla/firefox/…/chrome/userContent.css */
/* Remove advertisements for Mozilla VPN */
@-moz-document url(about:privatebrowsing) {
.promo {
display: none;
}
}[DRAFT] WHOIS: look up ASN from the command-line
Since Marco d'Itri's whois(1) v5.5.0 released in July 2019, most sysadmins no longer need to do trial-and-error or detectivework to guess which of the 5 RIRs controls the IP attacking you and then hunt down the appropriate WHOIS server—the -I flag will now do that annoying accounting on your behalf
Switching to Picom (Compton) on the MATE desktop
You may have read some convoluted (and outdated—Compton was abandoned in 2017) tutorials on the matter like MakeTechEasier's, or perused the excellent Arch Wiki article's page on it to some despair, but if you are just a layperson who installed the MATE desktop for e.g. Ubuntu 20.04 (Fossa) and wants a slightly faster (i.e. GPU-accelerated) environment, there is a workaround that doesn't take too long to set up: …
[DRAFT] U.S. Obscenity Ban: Name & Blame
An 1873 federal bill to ban smut, abortion pamphlets, and sex toys was never found unconstitutional; instead, only the clauses that meaningfully impacted the ability of the American public to be sexually promiscuous were overturned, piecemeal, under the banner of "civil rights". I will attempt to give a breakdown (including partisan affiliation) of the people behind this bill's tortured history.
Transcript: Dr. Ryan Cole on Vitamin D and COVID
Transcribed from 0:52–24:13 of the Week 8 recording at lgo.idaho.gov/capitol-clarity/
[DRAFT] Ghetto Guide to CMS
Interpretive labor on RFC 5652 and RFC 5280
mcrcon: auto-parse password
alias mcrcon='env MCRCON_PASS="${MCRCON_PASS=$(sed -n -e '\''s/^rcon\.password=\(.\+\)/\1/p'\'' < server.properties)}" mcrcon'Javascript: calling asynchronously-initialized libraries from synchronous code
With the power of await, this isn't so difficult: let nacl, scrypt; function main() { /* Synchronous code that calls nacl and scrypt */ } (async () => { [nacl, scrypt] = await Promise.all([new Promise(nacl_factory.instantiate), new Promise(scrypt_module_factory)]); return main(); })();