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AT&T Customer Representative's steps for stopping annoying phone calls and messages

Google number to see what info there is
Add a note about the phone number on the https://www.donotcall.gov/
Forward phone number on to 7726 http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB115812&cv=820
Report to AT&T via abuse site http://att.com/acb
Final step: Report number to Federal Trade Commission (888) 382-1222

KC60 Keyboard end-user tips, tricks, programming notes, etc.

Leimi's note: removed lots of stuff from the original gist of scottjl, (thanks to him by the way!), as in the end some wasn't useful for me. If you are intestered, go check the gist revisions.

The KC60 is kinda like a premade GH60 that was first sold on Massdrop during summer 2015.
It runs on TMK firmware, or something based on it at least (not sure this is the real source for the keyboard but it seems it is), which means it's heavily programmable.
There is a GUI tool (the source of this tool seems to be here) and a command-line tool to ease up the process of programming the board.
**Go check this great article on Key

What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Short link to this page: http://caseywatts.com/ptt

Other gists & tricks: http://caseywatts.com/gists-and-tricks

Unrelated update: my book is out! Debugging Your Brain is an applied psychology / self-help book

Push To Talk in a Google Hangout (Meet)

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Name: PTT (push to talk) or whatever you'd like (maybe short so it stays on your bookmarks toolbar)

Tired of spamming Yubikey one-time password (OTP) codes into Slack? Here are two options to help prevent that. You can do either or both. Both require ykman, the Yubikey CLI configuration manager. Get it with Homebrew:

brew install ykman

If you…

…don't have Homebrew? Install it, then run the command above
…don't feel comfortable running terminal commands? Skip to the bottom
…aren't sure what the big deal is? See "What's the big deal with Yubikey codes?" below

	#!/bin/bash --login

	# Cf. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/33041109
	#
	# Xcode 7 (incl. 7.0.1) seems to have a dependency on the system ruby.
	# xcodebuild is screwed up by using rvm to map to another non-system
	# ruby†. This script is a fix that allows you call xcodebuild in a
	# "safe" rvm environment, but will not (AFAIK) affect the "external"
	# rvm setting.
	#

	# Defaults / Configuration options for homebridge
	# The following settings tells homebridge where to find the config.json file and where to persist the data (i.e. pairing and others)
	HOMEBRIDGE_OPTS=-U /var/lib/homebridge

	# If you uncomment the following line, homebridge will log more
	# You can display this via systemd's journalctl: journalctl -f -u homebridge
	# DEBUG=*