jamesmacwhite

Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels

The dreaded "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy." error message. Cool story bro.

This gist was essentially created out of my own rant about Netflix being hostile to IPv6 tunnel services since June 2016. You are welcome to read my opinion on the matter, this is the more technical side to the issue and how to combat it within your own network.

Since I wrote this, various GitHub users have contributed their thoughts and ideas which has been incorporated into this gist. Thank you to everyone who have contributed their own methods and implementations.

The problem

Netflix now treats IPv6 tunnel brokers (such as Hurricane Electric) as proxy servers. A while ago it became apparent to users and Netflix that somewhat by accident, IPv6 tunnel users were being served content outside of their geolocation because of the way Netflix was identifyi

hlissner

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Note: these instructions are for pre-Sierra MacOS. Sierra (10.12) and newer users see https://gist.github.com/gravitylow/fb595186ce6068537a6e9da6d8b5b96d by @gravitylow

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If you are getting this in gdb on OSX while trying to run a program:

rjw57

#!/bin/bash
#
# Usage:
#   gen-ssl-cert.sh [common name]
#
# If common name is specified, it is used as the common name (i.e. server name)
# for the certificate. If omitted, a placeholder is used.

# exit on error
set -e

sorbits

#!/usr/bin/env bash

progname=$(basename $0)
version="1.0 (2014-08-17)"
step=2

function create_hash {
	openssl dgst -sha1 -binary <<< "$1" | xxd -p
}

chrisfsmith

function tab_title() {
  local REPO=$(basename `git rev-parse --show-toplevel 2> /dev/null` 2> /dev/null) || return
  if [[ -z $REPO ]]
  then
    echo "%20<…<${PWD/#$HOME/~}%>>"   # 20 char left truncated PWD
  else
    echo "%20>…>$REPO%>>🔹"   # 20 char right truncated
  fi
}

christopher-hopper

Resize a Hard Disk for a Virtual Machine

Our Virtual Machines are provisioned using Vagrant from a Linux base box to run using VirutalBox. If the Hard Disk space runs out and you cannot remove files to free-up space, you can resize the Hard Disk using some VirtualBox and Linux commands.

Some assumptions

The following steps assume you've got a set-up like mine, where:

ejdyksen

patch-edid.rb

A script to fix EDID problems on external monitors in macOS.

Instructions

1. Connect only the problem display.

2. Create this directory structure (if it doesn't already exist):

KartikTalwar

The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

brandonb927

#!/bin/sh

###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

michalbcz

List.metaClass.collectWithIndex = { yield ->
    def collected = []
    delegate.eachWithIndex { listItem, index ->
        collected << yield(listItem, index)
    }
    
    return collected 
}

assert [1, 1, 1, 1, 1].collectWithIndex { it, index -> it + index } == [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]