wzyboy

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by wzyboy 2y ago
It's a genius idea to run the process in a isolated network namespace! I'm more interested in the HTTPS part. I see that it sets some common environment variables [1] to instruct the program to use the CA bundle in the temporary d
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by wzyboy 2y ago
Chinese law maker allow only Chinese characters if you want to register a company in China. So internal companies must transliterate their brand names into Chinese if they want to do business in China. One funny example is 7-Eleven. Its leg
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by wzyboy 2y ago
I've always been doing "two-pass" backups to achieve "3-2-1" goal: first pass is to run BorgBackup to backup devices to my home server. The second pass is to use rclone to transfer the repos on home server to an obj
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by wzyboy 2y ago
I have a similar setup but with SHA256 hash of the file as the object key.
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by wzyboy 2y ago
On Pixel phone, there is a Digital Wellbeing setting that can turn your screen into Greyscale mode during bedtime. It is said to discourage the use of social networks and helps you sleep better.
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by wzyboy 2y ago
> I lived in China for 9 years and always found the internet, even for going just to Chinese sites, to be really slow. Did you have your VPN / proxy on? That might be one of the reason as Chinese internet is only fast for traffic wi
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by wzyboy 2y ago
I immigrated from China to Canada and I'm not sure if monopoly is the root cause. In China, ISP is state-controlled and 100% monopoly, yet the plans are dirt cheap compared to those in Canada. I just looked up the price in my hometown
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by wzyboy 3y ago
I agree. Crypto currency private keys are something that is better stored offline instead of online. I'm comfortable storing my online banking password in an online password manager as I know even if these credentials are leaked, there
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by wzyboy 11y ago
Some Chinese guy gets a weird pop-up with English text when visiting Chinese websites. A deeper investigation reveals that China's national firewall (GFW) is hijacking some popular JavaScripts to DDoS GitHub.
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China's national firewall hijacks JavaScript to DDoS GitHub(slashdot.org)
8 points by wzyboy 11y ago|2 comments