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How to avoid punycode attacks on firefox

What is punycode? Punycode is a representation of Unicode with the limited ASCII character subset used for Internet hostnames. Using punycode host names containing Unicode characters are transcode...

Swap two keys in GNU/Linux

I recently had to change my old worn pc105 keyboard. One of the disadvantages of my new 60% keyboard is that I have to use its “mac layer” to have working the F keys. And, in mac keyboards, the win...

Install the same selection of packages several times on Debian

It can be useful to systematically install the same list of packages on several computers. Or keep a list of the installed packages in some computers, to expedite reinstallations. In Debian this c...

Firefox DNS over HTTPS

DoH When you type a web address or domain name into your address bar (example: www.mozilla.org), your browser sends a request over the Internet to look up the IP address for that website. Traditio...

Delete and disable bash history

Bash history is a log of the commands we have executed in bash. By default it stores the last 1000 commands in the ~/.bash_history file. There is situations on which we don’t want to keep a record...

Complete shutdown on windows 10

Sometimes I feel like the last person in the world to find out things. This is one of this times… Windows 10 it was released on 2015, and I still discovered these days that windows doesn’t shut do...

Fixing awesome logout-menu-widget

I like to have installed the logout-menu-widget from Pavel Makhov (@streetturtle)in awesome. I like to can shut down my machine with a pair of clicks. But, it turns out that the logout-menu-widget...

Problemas con portátil antiguo

Today I was mentioned on an article in Blog de Kaian El desafortunado: Problemas con portátil antiguo. Kaian, a great friend of mine IRL, explains how he was able to give a new life to an 16 years...

Force HDMI hotplug in a Raspberry Pi

The HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi is only activated if a screen is connected and powered up before the Raspberry Pi is started up. This means that if you have a Raspberry Pi connected to your tv,...

Overthewire krypton levels 4 and 5 Vigenere cipher

In my free time I like to play around in CTF (Capture The Flag or Wargames) platforms, learning a bit and, whith a bit of luck, solving some level or challenge. One of the platforms in which I pla...