joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

gbaman

Raspberry Pi Zero OTG Mode

Simple guide for setting up OTG modes on the Raspberry Pi Zero - By Andrew Mulholland (gbaman).

The Raspberry Pi Zero (and model A and A+) support USB On The Go, given the processor is connected directly to the USB port, unlike on the B, B+ or Pi 2 B, which goes via a USB hub.
Because of this, if setup to, the Pi can act as a USB slave instead, providing virtual serial (a terminal), virtual ethernet, virtual mass storage device (pendrive) or even other virtual devices like HID, MIDI, or act as a virtual webcam!
It is important to note that, although the model A and A+ can support being a USB slave, they are missing the ID pin (is tied to ground internally) so are unable to dynamically switch between USB master/slave mode. As such, they default to USB master mode. There is no easy way to change this right now.
It is also important to note, that a USB to UART serial adapter is not needed for any of these guides, as may be documented elsewhere across the int

Wack0

Torrents Time bundles certificates and private keys

So, with all the news about how Torrents Time is insecure.. I figured I might as well reverse it.

It seems to have three components, one (on windows) is a native service (TTService.exe) that runs as SYSTEM, another (TTPlayer.exe) runs under a lower privileged user. There's also a nodejs application, server.js.

The native service seems to set up a localhost HTTPd, on either port 12400, 11400, 10400 or 9400, using whichever is open.

So, I browsed to it, and was astonished to discover it was running with TLS, and gave the browser a valid certificate, signed by Thawte! (the cert was issued to localhost.ttconfig.xyz, obviously to work around new CA rules. For the record, it currently resolves to 127.0.0.1 as you'd probably expect.)

rauchg

require-from-twitter

Since Twitter doesn't have an edit button, it's a suitable host for JavaScript modules.

How to use

Source tweet: https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/712799807073419264

const leftPad = await requireFromTwitter('712799807073419264');

codeinthehole

#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# Show an OSX alert 
#
# This is useful when used in conjunction with a long-running script. Use this script to 
# get a notification when te long-running script finishes.
# 
# Eg:
#
#   $ ./someprocess ; boo

yefim

{
  "AWSEBDockerrunVersion": "1",
  "Image": {
    "Name": "<AWS_ACCOUNT_ID>.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/<NAME>:<TAG>",
    "Update": "true"
  },
  "Ports": [
    {
      "ContainerPort": "443"
    }

gbaman

Setting up Pi Zero OTG - The quick way (No USB keyboard, mouse, HDMI monitor needed)

More details - http://blog.gbaman.info/?p=791

For this method, alongside your Pi Zero, MicroUSB cable and MicroSD card, only an additional computer is required, which can be running Windows (with Bonjour, iTunes or Quicktime installed), Mac OS or Linux (with Avahi Daemon installed, for example Ubuntu has it built in).
1. Flash Raspbian Jessie full or Raspbian Jessie Lite onto the SD card.
2. Once Raspbian is flashed, open up the boot partition (in Windows Explorer, Finder etc) and add to the bottom of the config.txt file dtoverlay=dwc2 on a new line, then save the file.
3. If using a recent release of Jessie (Dec 2016 onwards), then create a new file simply called ssh in the SD card as well. By default SSH i

simonw

How to recover lost Python source code if it's still resident in-memory

I screwed up using git ("git checkout --" on the wrong file) and managed to delete the code I had just written... but it was still running in a process in a docker container. Here's how I got it back, using https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyrasite/ and https://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncompyle6

Attach a shell to the docker container

Install GDB (needed by pyrasite)

apt-get update && apt-get install gdb

levelsio

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	//
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	// by @levelsio
	//
	// 2017-08-23
	//
	// 1) buy $40/day BTC
	// 2) buy $10/day ETH
	//

levelsio

<!-- Maker Link by @levelsio -->
<!-- MIT License -->

<style>
	body {
		background:#333;
	}
	.levelsio-by {
		font-family:"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif;
		right:0;