Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.
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VSCode config to disable popular extensions' annoyances (telemetry, notifications, welcome pages, etc.)
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| // I'm tired of extensions that automatically: | |
| // - show welcome pages / walkthroughs | |
| // - show release notes | |
| // - send telemetry | |
| // - recommend things | |
| // | |
| // This disables all of that stuff. | |
| // If you have more config, leave a comment so I can add it!! | |
| { |
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Arch Linux Full-Disk Encryption Installation Guide [Encrypted Boot, UEFI, NVMe, Evil Maid]
This guide provides instructions for an Arch Linux installation featuring full-disk encryption via LVM on LUKS and an encrypted boot partition (GRUB) for UEFI systems.
Following the main installation are further instructions to harden against Evil Maid attacks via UEFI Secure Boot custom key enrollment and self-signed kernel and bootloader.
You will find most of this information pulled from the Arch Wiki and other resources linked thereof.
Note: The system was installed on an NVMe SSD, substitute /dev/nvme0nX with /dev/sdX or your device as needed.
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/ how-software-companies-die
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| ========================== | |
| How Software Companies Die | |
| ========================== | |
| - Orson Scott Card | |
| The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and | |
| marketing types - and vice versa. | |
| Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When | |
| you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into |
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.