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spritpreisrechner.at is a project from e-control and Austrian government to gather fuel prices all over the country. There is a Swagger 2 specification of the API by e-control to use the data. But the host used in that spec doesn’t exist anymore nor should you use swagger 2 for a project in 2023. I updated […]

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Simply delete the folder <user>/Library/Application Support/REAPER.

After quite some weeks where I had to use my old Logitech headset again instead of my fancy Audient audio interface plus the Shure mic I finally tried to find the reason why my mic isn’t recognised in teams. The interface is listed normally in the dropdown and all other apps also work absolutely perfect

log4j-core until version 2.15.0 has a major security leak that can be exploited by sending prepared strings that are logged with log4j. Potential candidates would be headers or often also simple form fields that are sent to java backends. The CVE can be found here. With a score of 10/10 this should be addressed as

As an admin I have to work with http and https sites quite often. Firefox started to put https in front of everything automatically and clearing the cache all the time is not what I wanted to continue. I found a quick workaround that avoids this issue. Open a new tab and enter about:config in

In the newer versions of chromium browser the flashplugin-installer that works for firefox is not supported anymore. To get flash installed use: apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree  

See https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff for a two click like/tweet/+1 button implementation to share less data with the data crawlers.

See and install SOGo plugin as file. Download from http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html. After installation there is a point to add a new remote address book.