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by rbritton 9y ago
I operate my own VPN endpoint for a couple reasons: 1. I frequently need to connect via open, untrusted local networks, such as those at hotels. 2. Many commercial VPNs (e.g., PIA) end up having some portion of their endpoint IPs end up on
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What about doing the physical end of IT/development? Prior to actually getting my first job on the software side of things I did the low voltage wiring for networks and related systems in commercial construction. I have installed sever
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Are you in any of the areas of Utah that are prone to a decent amount of winter weather? I'd be interested to know how the range is affected by cold weather. We routinely take 600-2000 mile (round trip) ski trips in the winter, so that
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Blocking virtually all VPNs and VPS IP ranges is not the most pleasant practice. I realize this is likely a Hollywood demand, but absent any kind of other information from them, it sure appears that they are complicit in it. Further, they m
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As far as I know, the closest you can get to that is an encrypted backup via iTunes. There are still things omitted from the backup, though. Developers themselves can prevent certain files from being backed up: https://developer.
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Hotels do it routinely. I've personally been moved to another hotel because we arrived later than enough of the checkins before us.
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To answer you both: I host mine on a DigitalOcean instance. The Streisand installer (bash script + Ansible playbook) has a number of built-in deployment targets (Amazon, DigitalOcean, Google, Linode, and Rackspace at the time I did mine), a
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I have a private Streisand server [0] running for that reason. I got tired of dealing with most of the IPs for big VPN services being blocked on a lot of websites. [0]: https://github.com/jlund/streisand
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Out of curiosity (if you're willing to share), did you actually find a decent source for ski condition data, or did you end up having to scrape and parse?
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This show by Leah Remini has been covering it on gory detail too: http://www.aetv.com/shows/leah-remini-scientology-and-the-af...
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Token Bucket. Very lightweight way to implement rate limiting. PHP implementation: https://github.com/bandwidth-throttle/token-bucket
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I'm a big fan of the icon font released by this project too[0]. It's similar in concept to Font Awesome, but I've sometimes found it fits my needs better. [0]: http://ionicons.com
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We tried a number of voice options last year. The best voice quality we've found that works internationally is TeamSpeak.
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The "500 rule" [0] is useful to know too. Without it, you risk star trails at higher exposure times. Then there's the need to avoid light pollution. This map [1] isn't super recent, but it's good enough for most use
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Not related in any way, Little Flocker[0] is a similar program but for file access. It's a little rough around the edges but has been improving steadily. [0]: https://www.littleflocker.com
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There's even a tag for it: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/ab...
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There's MessagePack[0], which serves basically the same purpose a binary version of JSON would. It came up recently in an engineering article Uber posted. [0]: http://msgpack.org/
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On that topic, the book 1492 is a pretty good read for anyone curious about the history of the few hundred years surrounding that.
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You can, so long as the privacy setting "Who can look you up using the email address you provided?" is set to a value that exposes it.
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That is actually my biggest gripe with the current model Mac Pro ("trash can"). If I'm using a desktop computer, I want everything to be enclosed in a single unit as much as possible. I have and still use the previous model o
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Upgradeability also includes things like the hard drive and card expansion slots. Those both let you extend the useful life of a computer a bit.
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I suspect Amazon may be overloading their capacity to actually fulfill their promised delivery timeframe (the hotel industry does this a lot with overselling rooms) for the simple reason that most people won't complain or can be placat
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Does it require full internet access to work? That's my biggest gripe with my Nest thermostat: it requires a round-trip through their server just to control the temperature, even when I'm on the same network.
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A password manager is also going to be more accurate at protecting from something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack
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I can second this. I recently upgraded my home network to an EdgeRouter PoE + Netgear R7000 (flashed to DD-WRT) and wish I would've gone with Ubiquiti across the board. That side of things was much, much easier to get configured how I
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It could be ported if the potential revenue was high enough, even if it meant rewriting the functionality that used WebKit to use something else. Instead, I think it was more likely the state of the App Stores themselves. The tvOS App Store
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Another: In live commentary, particularly with interviews, watch how many people start sentences with "I mean, ..."
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Trying not to venture too far into a political discussion, I think the majority of the coverage of both was negative. Towards the last couple weeks, the quantity of coverage was very disproportionate depending on the source of the news [0].
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In my opinion, Obamacare tackled the wrong end of the problem. It was less a problem of not having insurance than one of uncontrolled billing. When a hospital can get away with charging $53 for a pair of non-sterile gloves [0], there's
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Bartender is a great help with that: https://www.macbartender.com No affiliation other than being a satisfied user.

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