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marklawrutgers··on Verizon’s good unlimited data plan is now three bad unlimited plans
That is until the multi-billion dollar lobbyists decide to push for VPN bans in Congress because only terrorists and child pornographers need privacy like that. Basically what's already happening in China, Russia, and the UK.
marklawrutgers··on Introduction to MongoDB
Anyone have good links or articles for DB comparisons to get a better understanding of which DB fits best for what type of projects?

So far I've gathered from here is that I want Postgres if going for a SQL DB, MariaDB as a MySQL drop-in, Redis for a simple NoSQL cache DB, RethinkDB for real-time applications (if project is still ongoing), and then there's CouchDB, CockroachDB, Cassandra, etc. which I still need to look in to.

marklawrutgers··on Apple Events – WWDC Keynote, June 2017 [video]
They're really pushing this Disney partnership in our faces here... Mickey, Toy Story, and that Star Wars VR thing.

Edit: They just did a Pirates of the Caribbean demo on the iPad...

marklawrutgers··on Netflix Leaving Battle for Net Neutrality Shows Why We Need It
I dropped Netflix back when they decided to blacklist VPN IP addresses. Using a VPN address for my own country was pretty much the only way I would be able to access content without it being throttled or manipulated by my ISP.

Then they went ahead and worked with T-Mobile on Binge-On where they would throttle speeds and cap the resolution to 480p on their network which was also a troubling sign.

Unfortunately the outrage and backlash wasn't enough then as the CEO brushed it off as only a very small minority that would actually cancel over net neutrality concerns like these so it didn't make much difference.

And unfortunately, here we are today, where I'm worried it still won't make a difference.

marklawrutgers··on VPNs won't save save you from Congress' internet privacy giveaway
The following links are usually obligatory when discussing VPNs and online privacy:

Detailed, up-to-date comparison chart of hundreds of VPN services: https://thatoneprivacysite.net/vpn-comparison-chart/

Detailed list of mostly open source, private/secure replacements for popular products and services: https://privacytoolsio.github.io/privacytools.io/

marklawrutgers··on Use "App folder" access type instead of "Full Dropbox"
For non-enterprise users, Dropbox's encryption is basically meaningless. If you have sensitive information you want to store in Dropbox, Google Cloud, iCloud, etc., I'd recommend using something like Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/ to encrypt files on the client side before uploading to "the cloud". It's open source for security experts to look through it and free for desktop OSs. I think they just charge something like 5 bucks for the iOS and Android apps.

For alternatives to the popular cloud services for the privacy conscious, there's a good list of open source projects and products on https://www.privacytools.io

marklawrutgers··on Humble Book Bundle: Unix
Does anyone know the legality of putting the DRM free pdf files into a public Dropbox folder? Not sure what copyrights or licenses still apply if I decide to buy these and share this with other people.
marklawrutgers··on Zcash begins
Is this the one that forked off BitCoin due to differences centered around how it didn't make its investors/founders enough money?

From the last thread they pointed out: "Zcash's monetary base will be the same as Bitcoin's — 21 million Zcash currency units (ZEC, or ⓩ) will be mined over time. 10% of that reward will be distributed to the stakeholders in the Zcash Company — founders, investors, employees, and advisors. We call this the “Founders Reward”."

It's nice to have a currency with more security and privacy features in mind but I would be extremely wary of compromises like this for that achievement.

marklawrutgers··on React Is a Terrible Idea
(Mar 11, 2015)
marklawrutgers··on Flexbox Patterns: Build user interfaces with CSS flexbox
I've just been using the meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">

More Info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6771258/whats-the-differ...

Works fine for me in new projects as long as there's no need for those conditionals and specific legacy code.

marklawrutgers··on Stream PirateBay movies directly from CLI
I'm not sure about the original link since it 404'd before I could look at it but if it's like the other fork up on here it seems it uses the node package manager. So a simple method would be to install nodejs: https://nodejs.org/en/

This installs npm (node package manager) for you.

Open up any Command prompt or Terminal depends on the OS you're running and I'm sure there are lots of alternatives these are usually just the default installed on every machine.

Run the install command which looks something like "npm install pirateflix -g"

The -g means it installs globally on the machine so you can access it in any directory instead of just one specific folder or location.

Once that's done you can just start off each command with "pirateflix" or "pirateflix --help" to get details of the function. It's documented on the github under Usage and Options. Should be straight forward from here. Hardest part is probably just knowing what npm is.

marklawrutgers··on Apple March 2016 Keynote – 10am PDT
They use some sort of proprietary streaming .hls that for some reason doesn't support third-party browsers (DRM?) and Microsoft supports it but only wants it to be available in their Edge browser.
marklawrutgers··on VPN Comparison Chart
Here's the link so that the top and left tabs stay while you scroll: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJTvWT5RHFSYuEoFVpAe...

I guess something about htmlview?sle=true breaks that.

marklawrutgers··on Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade
I had this exact same issue with my work machine and my at home workstation. Wifi adapter completely broken, I tried to revert back to Windows 8 on my work machine and it gets stuck on a black screen for over 24 hours. I tried to power down to restart it but no luck. Somehow everything got corrupted. Had to completely reformat the drive and install the operating system all over again, which it then proceeded to upgrade straight to Windows 10 again. I lost months of work but was able to recover from a backup I had a week prior to the incident. Absolutely disgusting business practice by Microsoft. The only times where a Windows 10 installation has worked well for me is when it's a brand new machine with little to no extra content on top of the existing OS. If you've used Windows 7 or 8 for over a year and accumulated a fair amount of apps, files, content, I can almost guarantee you're going to run into something breaking after the update.
marklawrutgers··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
They're not done squeezing money out of you yet.
marklawrutgers··on A Diet and Exercise Plan to Lose Weight and Gain Muscle
I've been following this guide which has a lot of information on better foods and how your body functions: http://ss.fitness/

Most notably:

Cut grains/flour/wheat/sugar/baked goods from your diet completely.

Diet accommodates for about 60% of your body while exercise makes up the rest 40%. Give or take 20% depending on your type and metabolism.

marklawrutgers··on The smallest JavaScript libraries on the internet
I have an issue with the load local copy code:

<script>window.jQuery || document.write('<script src="local_server_path/jquery.min.js"></script>')</script>

In the browser I always end up with a ') at the top of all my pages. I'm assuming this is because the script tag actually closes inside of the document.write instead of the actual end. Am I the only one with this issue? Not sure what went wrong here.

marklawrutgers··on 18F: CSS coding style guide
Is it okay to minify .css files for production or does it not really matter that much?