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It's a pain to manually switch sound profiles when watching movies or listening to music. Let's fix that.
A summary of the applications I install on my phone right after imaging GrapheneOS on it.
What should I use, and what are the advantages / disadvantages of each, to sandbox untrustworthy apps in GrapheneOS?
Run many proprietary Android applications in a strong sandbox on your phone. Control when they run — giving you maximum privacy while making minimal sacrifices.
Plone can do this job for you too. Here is a quick guide to understand how it's done.
Qubes shared folders is officially in testing.
The instructions currently available on the Web for enabling Colemak keyboard layouts in DOSBox are unfortunately not current anymore. This article guides you through the process of making that happen on Linux.
Raspberry Pis are notoriously unreliable compared to regular PCs.
How to transfer your already-running planet's master ticket without having to breach or deleting your pier.
These instructions will ensure you get direct network connectivity instead of indirect connections, leading to faster Urbit.
For those times when you want to know "am I fully up to date?"
Direct routes go faster than indirect routes. Indirect routes can also be evidence of problems getting UPnP / NAT working correctly with your ship (when you run your ship behind a NAT firewall).
It will be killed in the name of "safety", but it will be a casualty of the lust for power. A grim prediction for the next 15 years.
Due to the fact that interest rates often compound, and the fact that compounding is non-linear in nature, comparing different rates (e.g. a daily interest rate versus a monthly interest rate) can be tricky.
An uncommon — but not unheard of — use case calls for fast data ingestion, combined with relatively slow yet very big and economical data retrieval. Here is a plan to achieve that.
Apps and Web sites can use your phone's IMU to sneak out far more data than you'd think.
How to bootstrap a modern Fedora system in a chroot.
A very clear-headed description of what information security actually is, and how systems like Genode or Qubes OS contributes to making it better.
Quick one-liner to add up the (apparent) disk space taken up by files.
Use your Jenkins server to build CopperheadOS for your Google Pixel and Nexus devices.
A secure, compartemented, open source solution for password management that leverages the power of Qubes OS.
Add kernel module loading capability to your Ansible roles and playbooks.