Agent Ransack and FileLocator Pro review
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How to change the keyboard layout on the MacOS login screen
Update (): Apple has finally fixed the problems that this article was meant to address in MacOS 14 “Sonoma”. In Sonoma, you can click the keyboard layout indicator in the top right of the screen on the login screen and make adjustments there. The keyboard settings made there will persist directly from that sc…
Windows thought 111 years had elapsed in a week
Update (): It’s been eight years since I ran into this problem. Yesterday, Ars Technica published an article that finally answered what happen to me all those years ago. At the time I ran into this issue, Microsoft was testing a then-new-and-still-obscure Windows feature called Secure Time Seeding (STS). STS …
Add Webmention support to your website in ten minutes
Update (): The Webmention.app service has been discontinued. There is currently no other good free alternatives.
Contribute to creators all over the web with the new Flattr
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Third-party extension not enough to address Coil’s transparency issues
Update (): Coil has discontinued its automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription service. I have no doubt its poor transparency regarding where your money went contributed to the service’s demise.
How Coil and Web Monetization works compared to Flattr
Update (): Both Coil and Flattr has discontinued their automatic browser-based monthly micro-payment subscription services.
How to make a vanity Payment Pointer for Web Monetization
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Which file systems support file cloning
Update (): An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated that OpenZFS and ZFS supported reflink internally, but didn’t expose any syscalls for it. These file systems do not support reflinks. Thanks to Richard Yao of the OpenZFS project for the correction.
XDG Base Directory shell scripting tutorial
Update (): Added the new XDG_STATE_HOME directory as introduced in the XDG Base Directory Specification version 0.8.
TeamViewer installs suspicious font only useful for web fingerprinting
Update (): Updated with a statement from TeamViewer. The company has decided to remove the font in a future release.
Fluxfonts 2.0 for Windows 10
Update (): The Font Enumeration API, newly added to Chromium browsers (like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) has reintroduced font fingerprinting. However, the new API requires a per-domain permission prompt, so it’s not as leaky as the old Flash Player based method.