How Does VPN Work?

All of the information that you saw from the captures in this section is also visible to my ISP and to any servers between me and the destination. They saw all my DNS queries, they saw my IP address, and in case of HTTP (unencrypted), they saw all my HTTP communications too4. Using this information […]

entr: rerun your build when files change

The summary is in the headline: entr is a command line tool that lets you run a arbitrary command every time you change any of a set of specified files. You pass it the list of files to watch on stdin, like this: Source: entr: rerun your build when files change

日产往事(下篇)

这事儿就是后来日本人口中的“尼克松冲击”,第一波, 当然还有第二波,1971年,美元宣布和黄金脱钩,坑了一堆国家, Source: 日产往事(下篇)

Let’s go through Trump’s terrible internet censorship order, line by line – The Verge

These paragraphs introduce the two sneaky rhetorical tricks that Trump’s executive order is based on. The first is defining the First Amendment simply as the right to “express and debate” ideas, carefully not mentioning that the First Amendment also bars forcing people (or companies) to speak — because, ironically, Trump’s entire goal is forcing social […]

Bret Victor on Engelbart

The least important question you can ask about Engelbart is, “What did he build?” By asking that question, you put yourself in a position to admire him, to stand in awe of his achievements, to worship him as a hero. But worship isn’t useful to anyone. Not you, not him. The most important question you […]