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macOS 10.15 System Preference Panes

Below are a list of System Preference pane URLs and paths that can be accessed with scripting to assist users with enabling macOS security settings without having to walk them through launching System Preferences, finding panes, and scrolling to settings. Not all panes have an accessible anchor and some are OS specific.

To find the Pane ID of a specific pane, open the System Preferences app and select the desired Preference Pane. With the pane selected, open the ScriptEditor.app and run the following script to copy the current Pane ID to your clipboard and display any available anchors:

tell application "System Preferences"
	set CurrentPane to the id of the current pane
	set the clipboard to CurrentPane

Updating expired GPG keys and their backup 🔑🔐💻

I use a GPG key to sign my git commits.

An error like this one might be a sign of an expired GPG key.

error: gpg failed to sign the data fatal: failed to write commit object

Update: please note that I have since switched to using a set of bash scripts instead of poluting the Git repository with git svn.

Using Git and GitHub with Subversion (SVN) Mirroring for WordPress Plugin Development

Author: Kaspars Dambis
kaspars.net / @konstruktors

	#!/bin/bash

	# prepareSecrets
	#
	# prepare the Secrets.swift file from environment variables
	#

	# Define output file
	OUTPUT_FILE="Sources/Secrets.swift"

	// Based on code by Robert Kent, James Bavington & Tom Foyster

	var dropCookie = true; // false disables the Cookie, allowing you to style the banner
	var cookieDuration = 1; // Number of days before the cookie expires, and the banner reappears
	var cookieName = 'Covid19'; // Name of our cookie
	var cookieValue = 'on'; // Value of cookie
	var cookieDivId = 'xxxx';
	var cookieCloseButtonClass = 'yyyy';

	function displayCovid19Banner() {

	#!/bin/bash
	# copy necessary lib for system command from root to chrooted directory
	#
	# Frédéric Nandrin - NanIT 2019 - [email protected]
	# Tested on Debian 9
	#
	# USAGE : chrootcmd <chrooted dir> <cmd>
	# ex : chrootcmd /home/fred /bin/ls
	#


	instances:
	# The use_mount parameter will instruct the check to collect disk
	# and fs metrics using mount points instead of volumes
	- use_mount: no
	- excluded_filesystems:
	- tmpfs
	- none
	- shm
	- nsfs

	sh install_mysql.sh
	sh install_apache_php7.sh
	sh install_wordpress.sh
	apt install vsftpd fail2ban
	echo "listen_address=127.0.0.1" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf
	echo "listen_address6=::1" >> /etc/vsftpd.conf
	service vsftpd restart

	version: '2'

	volumes:
	db-data:
	vendor:
	var:

	services:
	mysql:
	image: mysql

	<?php
	echo "<H1>".$_SERVER['HOSTNAME']."</H1>";
	phpinfo();