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Hosting
Nowadays the clouds are very popular as an easy & fast way to make money for big companies. Customers don't need to play with Linux shell from the start, because good cloud provides heavy lifting - want a database, load balancer or monitoring? No problem, go get all of it in few clicks.
This post is about opportunity: invest small amount of time and get new skills with real application instance that can do some useful tasks for you or your friends: blog, photo gallery, game server etc.
Once I found out that my Viber app can't sent any message, all messages were frozen with clock icons, which probably means "something in progress". Waiting a day, two days, a week and a bit more didn't bring any news...
You might want to use a VPN, so that you can browse the Internet from another location, but your ISP provides an IPv6 network which could route traffic differently than an ISP with only IPv4 connectivity.
This guide will show you how to set up a manual kill switch for OpenVPN in GNU/Linux, with all details, explained. A VPN firewall (or kill switch) kills network connections that are active when there is no active connection on a given system through the use of IPTables, UFW or Firewalld.
Rust
This article was written for beginners and not by a Rust professional, so do not judge it too harshly. All the code is available here. Running is fun and important for your health, so run and don't stop! Why not make your daily run more interesting with Rust,
“Need ammunition, not a ride.” ― Volodymyr Zelensky The Russian invasion left many dead and wounded. The war continues not only on the real battlefield, but also on the digital one. The mobile phone is the weapon: one piece of information can save lives or kill enemies. Especially in occupied territories:
IPv6 was created by The Internet Engineering Task Force 'cause began to worry about IPv4 address exhaustion as a result of startling growth in use.
Opensource
In context of fresh Chinese smartphones' telemetry leaks - OnePlus, Xiaomi, Oppo and Realme, the **data privacy concerns are rising again**.
Microsoft
When a general user enables his laptop or desktop, there's often happens a question - is the current OS secure? Or maybe some core files were replaced by hackers and after load your device will open a backdoor to bad people or even _be transformed in part of botnet_?
Sometimes we need to test something on another machine. It can be an application, script, service, whatever. Of course, for a professional a QA testing case it is better to buy hardware or cloud resources. Small tasks aren't always worth a developer's time to register and
Procrastination is a serious problem for most internet users since Internet has become cheap and available to all. Addictive page ranking algorithms make procrastination more dangerous 'cause services like Facebook, TikTok, YouTube want you to spend more and more free time 'cause more ads means more revenue. It