The Smithy – Page 17 – Personal dump site for web development and other stuff

Book – Exercises in programming style

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 TheSmithy

Exercises in Programming Style

Famous cryptographers tombstone cryptogram decrypted – Naked Security

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 TheSmithy

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/01/22/famous-cryptographers-tombstone-cryptogram-decrypted/

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

February 28, 2018February 28, 2018 TheSmithy

Find the shortest paths from one wiki page to another

https://www.sixdegreesofwikipedia.com/

hn thread

What is happening in the Arctic is now beyond words, so here are the pictures

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 TheSmithy

http://www.climatecodered.org/2018/02/what-is-happening-in-arctic-is-now.html

In the depths of the northern winter, and with 24-hour darkness at the North Pole, an extraordinary climate warming event is happening. And for many scientists it is now beyond words. So here from Zack Labe (@ZLabe) are some images which tell the story of the recording-smashing warming and sea-ice melting occurring right now high in the Arctic.

DrawDown: 100 Solutions to Reverse Global Warming

February 26, 2018February 26, 2018 TheSmithy

http://www.drawdown.org/

This table provides the detailed results of the Plausible Scenario, which models the growth solutions on the Drawdown list based on a reasonable, but vigorous rate from 2020-2050. Results depicted represent a comparison to a reference case that assumes 2014 levels of adoption continue in proportion to the growth in global markets.

http://www.drawdown.org/solutions-summary-by-rank

India Is Not ‘Self-Destructing’, It’s Being Destroyed Systematically

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 TheSmithy

Good article with a lot of good links. How India, and the world as a whole, is running full speed towards a disaster.

https://thewire.in/217773/india-systematic-destruction/

HN thread

Human Population Through Time

January 29, 2018January 29, 2018 TheSmithy

Firefox profiles

November 24, 2017November 24, 2017 TheSmithy

Start the Profile manager
- Firefox.exe -P
- about:profiles (but less configuration available when opening in browser)
Open external links in profile that is active. If no profile is active, open the profile manager
- Edit the profiles.ini (find in Users/%User%/AppDate/Roaming/Mozilla/Firefox)
- 1) The parameter -no-remote should be actually in your default profile target, so add the -no-remote to the target of the shortcut you’re actually using to launch your default Firefox. Remove the -no-remote parameter from the non default profile.
- Check your profiles.ini file as mentioned above. It should contain following lines at the very beginning of the file:
```
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=0

[Profile0]
... file continues...
```
  If it does not contain the first two lines, backup the profiles.ini and add the lines. Or change the StartWithLastProfile value from 1 to 0.