Privacy
Fluxfonts – font fingerprint cloaking
Protect against device fingerprinting using installed fonts by automatically cycling through a set of randomly installed fonts.
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Hardware
Reset an Asus RP-AC52 Wi-Fi range-extender
How to factory-reset an Asus RP-AC52 Wi-Fi repeater. For whatever reason, ASUS doesn’t tell you how to do it in the manual.
Microsoft Windows
Agent Ransack and FileLocator Pro review
Review of the excellent Agent Ransack (a.k.a, FileLocator Lite) and FileLocator Pro for Windows. FileLocator is a the best-in-class desktop search app for Windows.
Privacy
Photos on the gay dating app Grindr are by no means private
Grindr doesn’t use HTTPS-encryption allowing network operators and attacker-in-the-middle (AITM) attackers to intercept private pics in the app.
HTTP Caching
Use a caching proxy with the Debian mirror redirector service
Debian will try to redirect you to the nearest mirror service. However, this can be detrimental to cache-hit ratios when running a local HTTP caching service.
Nikola
Organize your Nikola site with sections
I’ve implemented support for sections/categories in Nikola, the static website generator built on Python. Here’s how use it to better organize your website.
Microsoft Windows
Don’t hide programs inside Start menu subfolders
Windows developers should stop installing program shortcuts in Start menu subfolders. It’s so Windows 98 and reduces their app’s exposure.
How to install and configure Horde 5 webmail on Debian/Ubuntu
Step-by-step instructions for setting up the Horde webmail and application suite on Linux.
Lenovo
Lenovo OneKey Optimizer review
A review of what Lenovo OneKey Optimizer is, how it works, whether it does anything useful, and should you uninstall it?
HTML
Set a ordered list offset with <ol start="2">
How to start an <ol> list element offset from a different starting number than one. No JavaScript or CSS hacks required, just plain HTML.
Gaming
Xbox One won’t tell you when new game episodes are released
More games are being released episodically. However, the Xbox Store won’t keep you up to date on new game episode releases to series you’ve previously purchased.
Hypertext
How to handle relative URLs with multiple forward slashes
Set up redirects from URLs with too many forward-slashes in the path to a normalized address with one slash. Helps fix problems with relative URL resolution.