"This is the last call for Jaunt-701," the pleasant female voice echoed through the Blue Concourse of New York's Port Authority Terminal. The PAT had not changed much in the last three hundred years or so - it was still gungy and a little frightening. The automated female voice was probably the most plesant thing about it. "This is Jaunt Service to Whitehead City, Mars," the voice continued. "All ticketed passengers should now be in the Blue Concourse sleep lounge. Make sure your validation papers are in order. Thank you."The upstairs lounge was not at all grungy. It was wall-to-wall carpeted in oyster gray. The walls were an eggshell white and hung with plesant nonrepresentational prints. A steady, soothing progression of colors met and swirled on the ceiling. There were one hundred couches in the large room, neatly spaced in rows of ten. Five Jaunt attendants circulate, speakingin low, cherry voices and offering glasses of milk. At one side of the room was the entranceway, flanked by armed guar
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#!/usr/bin/awk -f | |
# This program is a copy of guff, a plot device. https://github.com/silentbicycle/guff | |
# My copy here is written in awk instead of C, has no compelling benefit. | |
# Public domain. @thingskatedid | |
# Run as awk -v x=xyz ... or env variables for stuff? | |
# Assumptions: the data is evenly spaced along the x-axis | |
# TODO: moving average |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> | |
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info"> | |
<mime-type type="image/aseprite"> | |
<comment>aseprite file</comment> | |
<glob pattern="*.ase"/> | |
</mime-type> | |
</mime-info> |
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.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash | |
# | |
# This is sp, the command-line Spotify controller. It talks to a running | |
# instance of the Spotify Linux client over dbus, providing an interface not | |
# unlike mpc. | |
# | |
# Put differently, it allows you to control Spotify without leaving the comfort | |
# of your command line, and without a custom client or Premium subscription. | |
# |
You could have postgre installed on localhost with password (or without user or password seted after instalation) but if we are developing we really don't need password, so configuring postgre server without password for all your rails project is usefull.
- postgresql
- postgresql-client
- libpq-dev