Last updated: 07 August 2024
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Document history
- 18 Aug 2024
- Add article about circumventing some paywalls (NOT
subscriptions) and forcing creation of accounts in some
websites.
- 16 August 2024
- Update to one of the 2024 Olympics controversies.
- 07 August 2024
- Add essay about a number of 2024 Olympics controversies.
- 14 Apr 2020
- Add source to the unexplainable data file (not GNU make itself).
- 11 Apr 2020
- Add new document GNU Make 'Easter egg' (unexplainable data
file).
- 01 Apr 2020
- Add an article to the documents index (cool things I
discovered about the GNU date(1) command and related last
October).
- 12 Sep 2019
- Updated technical document (C function prototypes and
Makefile dependencies) supplementary file (the bonus Makefile)
with some fixes and notes.
- 6 Jun 2019
- Added D-Day 75 years later essay (linking on the 11th,
backdated to when I wrote it - the 6th).
- 2017/10/18
- Added update note to the one line commands; specifically a
disclaimer (and warning) to one command; something that should
have been done long before.
- 2017/10/15
- New document added to documents index (how to make 'Legacy' Firefox addons work in Firefox < 57).
- 2017/10/05
- New document added to documents index.
- Add last updates to main menu.