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Cheat sheet for using composer init to create your composer.json.

https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#init

Composer can have packages installed system-wide, such as the infinitely useful and should be included in core already, Prestissimo which greatly speeds up install and updates of other packages.

NB: This appears not to work. Can symlink a user's ~/.composer to the directory to share things, but it doesn't work entirely brilliantly.

Download "signed" installer for PHP Composer.

Signature is in quotes because this really doesn't prove or provide any kind of signature or authentication - it's just a SHA384 hash of the installer executable. The only possible security is that the installer and signature are available via different web servers, but this isn't enforced. A real signature would be better. Every commit is signed which makes the situation even more confusing.

Torchat is an anonymous instant messenger client running atop the Tor network. It niftily uses hidden services to build connections over the network which are end to end encrypted, and where both parties are hidden from each other.

By default, it comes packaged ready to go with its own Tor client. This is fine if you're travelling around with your encrypted USB stick or the like, but not very useful if you're already running a Tor client.

I have a separate username and password for every single site I visit. I do this because I own numerous domains from which I allocate a site specific email address which in turn allows me to track which website leaked or sold my email when I get a spam. Even if I didn't do this, I would still need some kind of system to keep track of the million different usernames that I've had to come up with because of my normal name being taken, or some length restriction.