https://web.archive.org/web/20070817224229/http://whyfirefox...

https://github.com/grompe/kbdasm (kbdusru_undead.asm)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)

    html { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; }

    #TableOfContents { backdrop-filter: blur(3px); }

Just now I learned of "font-family: monospace, monospace" hack. Indeed, browsers will render the font smaller with just one "monospace".

I've never run into it before because setting explicit font-size in pt or px avoids that weirdness.

Watermarking tries to resist image data manipulation. Smuggling data is concerned with preservation of bytes.

Though if we're executing arbitrary code on the target anyway, ways of embedding data in an image are vast, including watermarking/steganography.

It would be more interesting to devise a method that survives all extra data stripping and re-encoding, perhaps taking advantage of deterministic encoders, assuming they don't randomize pixel data on purpose.

In other words: turning the image data stream itself into a polyglot.

The only places that still forced CRLF were batch files and clipboard.

Some developers seem proud doing that, somehow feeling that extra 5-10 lines of code for backwards compatibility is too much.

Well designed video games that rely on fast and precise mouse input capture the cursor during the gameplay until menu is shown.

The only times I have to go fullscreen is for the games that fail to capture the cursor and where accidentally clicking outside of the game window leads to a loss.

Can't imagine a non-game program other than a video player that I would want fullscreen.

Thankfully, the dotnet package installed by package manager on Arch Linux disables telemetry by default. I left the env set just in case.

But my trust towards "modern" software has lowered. I default to run CLI tools, especially those built in JavaScript or .NET with network disabled:

    firejail --net=none

    alias ilspycmd='ilspycmd --disable-updatecheck'

Most things just worked after being extracted like that. Some things needed a few registry entries, or regsvr32 some dll files.

I've done it before on Windows 7. Resized system clock, resized start menu button, removed "Terminate batch job (Y/N)?" warning in cmd, etc.

Most annoying is that VirtualBox stops working with the patched uxtheme.dll.

...

Life on Linux is great. My modifications stick for as long as I want. Permanently if I get my patches upstream.

Also, I remember 8x16 VGA font that came with KeyRus had some slight differences between Cyrillic and Latin lookalikes, that brought some strange sense of comfort when reading, and especially typing the letter c, because its Cyrillic lookalike is located on the same key.

Let this be a warning: running oxfmt without any arguments recursively scans directory tree from the current directory for all *.js and *.ts files and silently reformats them.

Thanks to that, I got a few of my Allman-formatted JavaScript files I care about messed up with no option to format them back from K&R style.