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Create your own custom git.io links

curl https://git.io/ -i -F "url=$url" -F "code=$code"
$url is the url you want to shorten.
$code is the custom link ending e.g. mylink for git.io/mylink.

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Correctly wrapping lines

mailnews.wraplength 0
mail.compose.wrap_to_window_width true
plain_text.wrap_long_lines true
view_source.wrap_long_lines true


Setting the User Agent

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windowsupdate.microsoft.com
update.microsoft.com
windowsupdate.com
download.windowsupdate.com
download.microsoft.com
test.stats.update.microsoft.com
ntservicepack.microsoft.com

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Delete existing sessions:

rm -rf ~/.cache/sessions/

Make directory read-only:

chmod -w ~/.cache/sessions/

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Always start zathura in fullscreen mode:
Add this to your zathura configuration file (~/.config/zathura/zathurarc). The value must be of the size of the screen or higher.

set window-height 3000
set window-width 3000

Start zathura in presentation mode:

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What is the issue?

Even if you completely disable avatars on your wordpress website, it will still load avatars from https://secure.gravatar.com when members of your team log into the website. In order to fix this privacy issue we can use a plugin to use a locally stored avatar for scenarios where avatars can't be disabled completely.

Installation

Let's assume your wordpress website is: https://example.com

1. Log into your worpress website:

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Fix Openstreetmap

Returning Error code 429

This happens if you use an empty useragent. In firefox you can use the regular useragent by removing the key "general.useragent.override" from "about:config". After that, your map should return the tiles.

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How to install pwndbg and gdb on arch linux

sudo pacman -S gdb
sudo pacman -S pwndbg
echo 'source /usr/share/pwndbg/gdbinit.py' >> ~/.gdbinit

If you are getting the following error "Cannot find Pwndbg virtualenv directory: /usr/share/pwndbg/.venv: please re-run setup.sh", do the following steps, otherwise ignore:

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Encrypted backup

Credits to https://lobotuerto.com/blog/how-to-setup-full-disk-encryption-on-a-secondary-hdd-in-linux/ .

Setup

1. Identify your device name. This is usually easy by comparing the sizes of the drives. Usually, the system device name is sda. So, external devices names start with sdb.

lsblk

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# to start xpdf always in fullscreen mode
# use this alias xpdf='xpdf -fullscreen'

# set zoom to page

initialZoom page
defaultFitZoom 600

# display mode to single page