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@ndarville
ndarville / business-models.md
Last active January 13, 2024 17:27
Business models based on the compiled list at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924647. I find the link very hard to browse, so I made a simple version in Markdown instead.

Business Models

Advertising

Models Examples
Display ads Yahoo!
Search ads Google
@hubgit
hubgit / README.md
Last active May 27, 2024 03:48
Remove metadata from a PDF file, using exiftool and qpdf. Note that embedded objects may still contain metadata.

Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

  • the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
  • XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

@jaimergp
jaimergp / config-highlight.cfg
Last active May 27, 2024 12:16
Dark highlighting theme for Python IDLE based on SublimeText's Monokai color scheme
# Place this file inside your ~/.idlerc/ folder
# or paste its contents inside
# /path/to/python/idlelib/config-highlight.def
# Adapted from SublimeText's Monokai
[monokai]
normal-foreground= #F8F8F2
normal-background= #272822
keyword-foreground= #F92672
keyword-background= #272822
@staltz
staltz / introrx.md
Last active May 30, 2024 18:43
The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing
@grugq
grugq / gist:03167bed45e774551155
Last active April 6, 2024 10:12
operational pgp - draft

Operational PGP

This is a guide on how to email securely.

There are many guides on how to install and use PGP to encrypt email. This is not one of them. This is a guide on secure communication using email with PGP encryption. If you are not familiar with PGP, please read another guide first. If you are comfortable using PGP to encrypt and decrypt emails, this guide will raise your security to the next level.

@vrinek
vrinek / gist:bda51f6fc8b22b5df301
Last active February 10, 2024 20:21
Blizzard Software Engineering Reading

Blizzard Software Engineering Reading

by Jay Baxter (circa 2009)

Associate developer

"This list is for people who want to become Associate Software Engineers at Blizzard. An associate should have skills at the level indicated by these books. Note that this is almost completely focused on C++ programming. This list is incomplete. I need a book on how to become a professional. I've listed several books that give examples of professional behavior, but not one on the actual training."

Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++

by Bjarne Stroustrup

@bluehat
bluehat / guide.markdown
Last active February 8, 2023 12:35
Privacy Guide for Activists with Haters

Privacy Guide for Activists with Haters

In light of the gamergate fiasco, we realized that most of the targeted individuals had their private information trivially publicly online. Later, several authors had more immediate experience with online harassment. This guide is meant to help people take basic steps required to protect their online privacy, hopefully reducing the number of crazies who threaten to show up at your house.

We do not believe that leaving your information online means you deserve harassment, we simply wish to arm people who want to speak up with all the defensive tools available.

This guide is not an anti-government-surveillance document, as it only helps you make your information private and does not remove it. Fighting back against surveilance is a very different problem, and there is a separate guide for that.

Hiding Your Whois Data

This one should be easy, but it is the number one privacy failure w
@WonderSwan
WonderSwan / Walter White
Created April 17, 2015 08:28
So, you want to be a darknet drug lord...
So, you want to be a darknet drug lord...
by nachash
nachash@observers.net
[The advice in this article can be adapted to suit the needs of other
hidden services, including ones which are legal in your jurisdiction.
The threat model in mind is that of a drug market. The tone is that of a
grandfather who is always annoyingly right, who can't help but give a
stream-of-consciousness schooling to some whippersnapper about the way
the world works. If this article inspires you to go on a crime spree and
@kennwhite
kennwhite / vpn_psk_bingo.md
Last active February 24, 2024 12:19
Most VPN Services are Terrible

Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

This mini-rant came on the heels of an interesting twitter discussion: https://twitter.com/kennwhite/status/591074055018582016

@PurpleBooth
PurpleBooth / README-Template.md
Last active June 1, 2024 22:23
A template to make good README.md

Project Title

One Paragraph of project description goes here

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Prerequisites