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I have made a keyboard layout for Windows that abuses dead keys and AltGr as a substitute for compose key, the difference being that such compose key needs to be held while typing …

Linux: Compose key, period, period = ellipsis … Compose key, period, equals = bullet • Compose key, period, minus = interpunct · Compose key, !, ? = interrobang ‽

And some USB drives pretended to also be a CD-ROM to circumvent the limitation of autorun.inf not executing on removable media. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3_(software)

For comfortable reading, I just had to figure out what on this webpage causes Chromium to drop subpixel rendering, and it's not this: html { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; } …

What the hell. 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 befor…

Maybe if you look at it from far away enough. Watermarking tries to resist image data manipulation. Smuggling data is concerned with preservation of bytes. Though if we're executin…

It isn't necessary to use Exif to embed arbitrary data inside an image. Could as well use PNG extra chunk, JFIF app marker, or simply append data to the end of the file. It would b…

On Windows, I've mostly avoided CRLF by configuring text editors and git to use LF, and writing text files in binary mode. The only places that still forced CRLF were batch files a…

At least they aren't intentionally breaking Win7 support by using some random later version API function unconditionally. Some developers seem proud doing that, somehow feeling tha…

Since those people don't care about privacy and anonymity, perhaps they are also willing to trade by verifying for someone who does care?

I generally never want programs to go fullscreen because I like to keep taskbar shown, so I can keep track of time, notifications and whatnot. Well designed video games that rely o…

I was worried about .NET sending telemetry once I found about the existence of the DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT env. Thankfully, the dotnet package installed by package manager on A…

Just bring back opposable thumbs on feet.

In my 25 years of using Windows I've grown so much disdain towards annoying, broken, slow installers that I started to instead extract them like zip archives, using various tools: …

PPMd (of 7-Zip) would beat BZip2 for compressing plain text data.

Modding Windows is akin to building a sand castle. It might be fun, beautiful, but very much impermanent. You can expect it to be washed off with the next Windows update. I've done…

0 and O, and l and I that look the same in a single font is a crime of modern typography. Also, I remember 8x16 VGA font that came with KeyRus had some slight differences between C…

I thought oxfmt would just be a faster drop-in replacement for "biome format"... It wasn't. Let this be a warning: running oxfmt without any arguments recursively scans directory t…

I feel that blocking, substituting, and even inserting user-defined resources for a website must be a native browser feature.

As Flash files are often compressed, a patch wouldn't be any smaller than having an original and a fixed copy. You'd have to invent a new patch format that operates on an uncompres…

I never liked the idea of running Flash inside the web browser, but a single file .swf game format is almost as good as any ROM game dump. Some games didn't mind running locally fr…

It seems crazy to me that the offered way to install an extension on Chrome is to click a button on a privileged website, and then the installed extension autoupdates without an op…

Deluxe Paint 2 for DOS was my favorite drawing program, so had to check this out, pretty nice! The only thing that stops me from recommending it is non-integer zoom levels, which i…

It doesn't work when uBlock Origin blocks uncrossy.com/js/cookieManager.js?v=7

I've found Xfce with Wallis theme to be quite comfortable after I ditched Windows 7. Been using it for 3 years now. Also I enjoyed how easily I could modify it: - xfwm4: zoom only …