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Posts by Michael
Passwords are annoying. That's why there are so many "The End of Passwords" articles. I'm looking forward to that day, but in the meantime it's the most common way to do authentication anywhere wit...
This sounds to me like someone had a problem once and they've decided upon a somewhat silly way to keep that from ever happening again. The big repository hosts have a different way of addressing ...
Each of them has an analog to another Git command. But instead of objects in the repository, these take text file(s) created either by you or someone else. git apply Think of this as Applying a g...
GitHub has a setting wherein they offer to "anonymize" your user email from, say, somebody@example.com to somebody@users.noreply.github.com. I presume this is to prevent you from getting spam from ...
Sylvester's answer is great, but I wanted to point out that interpolation only happens in double-quoted strings ("), not in single-quoted ones ('). If you have lines that don't need any variable o...
It doesn't change commit data when you push. You have to set your local email address to the noreply one. About commit email addresses […] If you'd like to keep your personal email address pri...
Matthew's list is pretty good, although I don't think one has to do all the things on it as a "minimum." I offer one minimum and a couple nice-to-haves. Some of these I have learned as a contributo...
Specification You understand correctly. Matrix is an interface for federated encrypted communication. From the first page of the spec: Matrix defines a set of open APIs for decentralised commun...
Does GnuTLS support CA Name Constraints (RFC 5280, 4.2.1.10), so you can limit the valid domains directly in the root CA? I'm not aware of any CAs that self-limit this way,[1] except for when the ...
In SQL Server 2022+, there's a dedicated binning function called DATE_BUCKET. Each of these statements increments DATE_BUCKET with a bucket width of 1 from the origin time: DECLARE @date DATETI...
The documentation for git stash list says list [<log-options>] List the stash entries that you currently have. Each stash entry is listed with its name (e.g. stash@{0} is the latest entry...
I don't understand your "Venn Diagram" explanation. Are you wanting the image behind the text? If you mean wrapping around the image, you can do this: Instead of cells of a big table, put the imag...
With bcrypt, the salt is stored in the same string as the hash. This is done so that you have everything you need to get that hash identifier if you know the password.[1] Wikipedia breaks down the ...
