I recently learned about the arkenfox user.js project, which is an easy way to update Firefox’s settings to improve security and privacy.
It suggests you add your own overrides to the bottom of the file. I added these:
/* re-enable location bar using search ***/
user_pref("keyword.enabled", true);
/* override recipe: enable session restore ***/
user_pref("browser.startup.page", 3); // 0102
user_pref("browser.privatebrowsing.autostart", false); // 0110 required if you had it set as true
user_pref("places.history.enabled", true); // 0862 required if you had it set as false
user_pref("browser.sessionstore.privacy_level", 0); // 1003 optional [to restore cookies/formdata]
user_pref("network.cookie.lifetimePolicy", 0); // 2801 optional [so cookies persist]
user_pref("privacy.clearOnShutdown.history", false); // 2811
user_pref("privacy.cpd.history", false); // 2812 to match when you use Ctrl-Shift-Del
I recently compared two tags on github using the “compare” dropdown, and it displayed unexpectedly few changes between the tags. However, one of the tags was from a different branch and by default GitHub doesn’t show the other differences between the branches. To see other differences besides the tagged commit compared to the main/master branch, you need to change the “…” in the compare url to “..”.
Now, I’m thinking it’s probably a good idea to avoid making tags from non-master/main branches.
The v1.6 update for the Raspberry Pi Imager added a new shortcut (CTRL + Shift + X) that allows enabling SSH, configuring WiFi, setting hostname, and more.
I’ve been manually removing the line from .known_hosts when I saw this message:
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@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
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IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:<key>.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /Users/<user>/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ECDSA key in /Users/<user>/.ssh/known_hosts:85
ECDSA host key for <ip> has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
Today I found out about this command to remove entries from known_hosts: ssh-keygen -R hostname
