Adnan Ahmed Idnan

Don't use VPN services.

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.

Instructions

CloudFlare is an awesome reverse cache proxy and CDN that provides DNS, free HTTPS (TLS) support, best-in-class performance settings (gzip, SDCH, HTTP/2, sane Cache-Control and E-Tag headers, etc.), minification, etc.

Make sure you have registered a domain name.
Sign up for CloudFlare and create an account for your domain.
In your domain registrar's admin panel, point the nameservers to CloudFlare's (refer to this awesome list of links for instructions for various registrars).
From the CloudFlare settings for that domain, enable HTTPS/SSL and set up a Page Rule to force HTTPS redirects. (If you want to get fancy, you can also enable automatic minification for text-based assets [HTML/CSS/JS/SVG/etc.], which is a pretty cool feature if you don't want already have a build step for minification.)
If you

Install software-properties-common

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common

Add Repo

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:olipo186/git-auto-deploy

FFmpeg cheat sheet

A list of useful commands for the FFmpeg command line tool.

Download FFmpeg: https://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html

Full documentation: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html

	/*
	UPDATED for 2023 - Now much simpler. The old tricks are no longer needed.

	The following code makes an 800×600 canvas that is always as sharp as possible for the device.

	You still draw on it as if it's the logical size (800×600 in this case), but everything just
	looks sharper on high-DPI screens. Regular non-sharp screens are not affected.
	*/

	const width = 800

	# === Optimized my.cnf configuration for MySQL/MariaDB (on Ubuntu, CentOS, Almalinux etc. servers) ===
	#
	# by Fotis Evangelou, developer of Engintron (engintron.com)
	#
	# ~ Updated September 2024 ~
	#
	#
	# The settings provided below are a starting point for a 8-16 GB RAM server with 4-8 CPU cores.
	# If you have different resources available you should adjust accordingly to save CPU, RAM & disk I/O usage.
	#

	#! /bin/sh

	# Installation
	# - Move this to /etc/init.d/myservice
	# - chmod +x this
	#
	# Starting and stopping
	# - Start: `service myservice start` or `/etc/init.d/myservice start`
	# - Stop: `service myservice stop` or `/etc/init.d/myservice stop`

	/* MIT License
	*
	* Copyright (c) 2017 Roland Singer [[email protected]]
	*
	* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	* of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

	To use in react-native, choose from font below, and then add to style element:
	<Text style={{ fontFamily: 'Arial' }}>Arial Font</Text>
	Alternatively, add your own custom font face


	Android:
	========

	normal

	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# #############################################################################
	# Create new SSH user (Ubuntu)
	# 1) Download the "raw" with - wget -O createNewSSHUser.sh
	# 2) Make it executable with - chmod a+x createNewSSHUser.sh
	# 5) Immediately set a new password by logging in once with -
	# su newUsrName
	# #############################################################################
	#

Adnan Ahmed Idnan

Don't use VPN services.

Instructions

FFmpeg cheat sheet

Basic conversion