Sandboxie
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Sandboxie
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How do you guys have access the office portal for multiple MSP tenants at the same time?
I used to use sandboxie so I could emulate multiple browser sessions without worrying about cached creds or the different portals screwing up my context. It works decently.
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How are you all protecting your PC from the myriad of unaudited python packages which could be used as attack vectors?
Use Sandboxie on Windows. It's open source these days, and isolates processes from making changes on your system. It's perfect to install and run potentially unsafe programs. Sandboxie exists since 2003, and yet we still have people in business worlds running viruses from mail attachments.
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Must have programs for a fresh Windows 10 install.
Sandboxie
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A few less Googleable questions about local LLMs
You can allow applications inside a Sandboxie to communicate with each other through sockets even when network access by Sandboxie is blocked1. You can enable Sandboxie network access and use Windows firewall outside Sandboxie to block all applications inside the Sandboxie from accessing the network1. It is also possible to specify ports that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2. However, it is not possible to specify IP’s or IP ranges that cannot be accessed by boxed applications2.
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Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful
In addition to just taking all privileges way from the process, like Chrome does, there's also Sandboxie [1] and the official Windows Sandbox [2]
1: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
2: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
2b: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-pr...
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hardware acceleration error
VirtualBox dropped 3D acceleration for old OS like XP a while back, you can see it it running "dxdiag" on your windows XP and running the tests, it will do DirectDraw only since the game is a 32 bit windows game it should run on modern windows like 10 and 11, I saw that the main problem is the DRM, so you will need a "cracked/pached" exe, I can't help with that, but do your own search, if you want to be "safe" you can try running it using something like SandBoxie-plus https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie/releases
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Windows Sandbox
With those pre-reqs, is there anything Windows Sandbox can do that Sandboxie can't?
https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
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Coordinated vulnerability disclosure / contact for pCloud?
Could you pls. test if the vulnerability can be mitigated by using Sandboxie-Classic (that is the free version)?
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Google & Youtube not working (only Firefox PC). Then all the other services I use break too. What god did I piss off?
I also want to recommand this piece of small software but it's very neat, Sandboxie: https://github.com/sandboxie-plus/Sandboxie
- Is there a program that shows what folders were created when you install a program?
PowerToys
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Unlock Web Dev Superpowers with PowerToys
Windows PowerToys GitHub Repo
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We released a new powerful efficiency tool called RunFlow, which is similar to PowerToys and Alfred, welcome to try it
RunFlow is a cross-platform productivity tool which can launch apps and search files and more, that similar to Wox and PowerToys on Windows, and also similar like Alfred and Raycast on macOS. But we have differences with these tools, and we have our own unique new features. Right now, at the below, we will introduce you what features of RunFlow have been implemented in more details. It's an amazing journey, let's start.
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GTK: On fractional scales, fonts and hinting
I'm curious - when you were doing research into the mechanics of hinting options, did you stumble onto any relevant discussion around allowing custom pixel geometries to be defined, to enable hinting on modern OLED / WRBG displays? There's a good thread on the topic here[0], with some people referring to it as 'ClearType 2' on the MS side [1]. On the oss side I know FreeType theoretically supports this[2], but I can't quite figure out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work.
This is great work btw.
[0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595
[2]: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-lcd_render...
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Ask HN: Cleanest way to manage Windows OS?
Thank you all for the informative advices. Here is the summary for those who are in the same situation:
1. Run Windows on Linux by using VM
for the applications you can’t run on Linux
Risks:
* some softwares may attempt to detect VMs and refuse running
* Anything what needs to touch hardware may not work.
2. separate "data" partition on D:
3. back up %APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE%
4. learn chocolatey, scoop or winget
Winget should be good enough
5. Don’t worry about C:\Program Files
6. (Mixed) Use/Don’t use Ansible (or saltstack/salt)
Use:
* Allows you to setup a new machine quickly and consistently when one breaks, get stolen, or lost in an inconvenient time.
* You can get a clean and consistent development environment so that you do not depend on anything accidentally installed on the machine.
* If you define specialised roles, create test playbooks for those individual roles, use these roles to compose more complex playbooks, and offload logic to custom ansible modules that are written in python, you won't wrestle with heavy logic in the template or playbook layer.
* installing software and pulling some configs and scripts down is fine
Don’t use:
* You will spend your days fighting a mix of yaml and Jinja.
* You will end up looking at Python errors because there are no static types.
* errors are cryptic.
7. Use WSL2
You need 32gb of ram, but ram is cheap so choose a good thinkpad
8. Debloat with Recommended Tweaks
Run
irm christitus.com/win | iex
from Administrator Terminal (Powershell)
The link leads to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil/mai...
VirusTotal
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/709834b0e003b6bb546cf16e...
9. Get [PowerToys](https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys)
10. Use Devbox for containered environment
https://www.jetpack.io/devbox
11. Dual-Booting Linux and Windows
If you use physically separated drives, you don’t need partitioning.
12. Dedicated Windows machine for class
Yes it sure would be the cleanest solution but I prefer one device for everything
13. keep a git repository with all dot files in it
Many people suggested me to use virtualization, otherwise just let Windows be Windows.
Also, backing up seems to be a good practice.
I’m planning to write a blog about this, if it worked.
Again, thank you all for the helps!
- Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
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Keypirinha: A fast launcher for keyboard ninjas on Windows
Powertoys Run (https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys) can do this. There are not that many plugins as Alfred but Window Switcher is built-in.
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LAN Mouse is a mouse and keyboard sharing software
For sharing a mouse/keyboard between Windows PCs, there is Mouse Without Borders. It's included in PowerToys nowadays.
https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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Hrvach/Deskhop: Fast Desktop Switching Device
- https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys
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How do I type letters with accent marks?
If you’re on Windows, download PowerToys. It’s an app published by Microsoft officially. Then enable Quick Accent in the settings of PowerToys. Now all you have to do is hold down the key you want accented until the switch shows up, then add an accent with your arrow keys.
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Microsoft's Powertoys Key Manager now can paste text and unicode by shortcuts
microsoft/PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity (github.com)
What are some alternatives?
PersistentWindows - fork of http://www.ninjacrab.com/persistent-windows/ with windows 10 update
Wox - A cross-platform launcher that simply works
Open-Shell-Menu - Classic Shell Reborn.
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
distroless - 🥑 Language focused docker images, minus the operating system.
sharpkeys - SharpKeys is a utility that manages a Registry key that allows Windows to remap one key to any other key.
PCem-ROMs - This is a collection of requiered ROMs files for PCem emulator. RIP PCem 2021
Flow.Launcher - :mag: Quick file search & app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
qBittorrent - qBittorrent BitTorrent client
Fluent-Search - Official repository for Fluent Search, use to report issues or ask for a new feature
stable-diffusion - Optimized Stable Diffusion modified to run on lower GPU VRAM
T-Clock - Highly configurable Windows taskbar clock