Ryan RSully

Abstract

Sometimes, I feel like a homeless person on the street forecasting an upcoming apocalypse. Unlike homeless people, however, I have a Github account and plan on using it to document my predictions.

10 year predictions

The tablet, phone, and laptop computer will have a retarded love child, call it the lablet.
The lablet will probably run on an ARM processor, unless Intel gets their mobile shit together.
Apple's lablet will run a modified OS which is just as "locked down" as the present iOS.

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.

History

Originally I installed Crashplan 3.7 in an LX zone. The data to be backed up was from my home NAS (a fileserver zone with netatalk and samba running) that was lofs mounted into the crashplan zone. Eventually I moved the data for the NAS into the globalzone and mounted it into both the "fileserver" zone and crashplan zone using lofs. This eliminated problems with boot order of the zones. I recently updated Crashplan from 3.7 to 4.3. I followed the Linux instructions on the Crashplan website---seemingly without issue.

Environment

platform: joyent_20150813T164025Z
lx image UUID: c8d68a9e-4682-11e5-9450-4f4fadd0936d (Ubuntu 14.04)
lofs mount into lx zone using of data to be backup (using the ro option just in case something goes haywire with Crashplan):

Firefox bullshit removal

Updated: Just use qutebrowser (and disable javascript). The web is done for.

	;; If I want to guess an N-bit number and I can guess each bit with
	;; P% accuracy, how many guesses will I have to make before I guess
	;; correctly? This program answers such questions.
	;;
	;; Example usage: lein run 6/10 512 # 6/10 probability for each of 512 bits.

	(ns prob-brute-force.core)

	(defn choose
	[a b]

	<?php
	/**
	* Dirty, dirty Reddit bot: Decronym
	*/

	class Reddit {
	const USERNAME = 'Decronym';
	const PASSWORD = '***';
	const CLIENTID = '***';
	const SECRET = '***';

	[
	{
	"action": {
	"type": "block"
	},
	"trigger": {
	"url-filter": ".*",
	"resource-type": ["script"],
	"load-type": ["third-party"],
	"if-domain": ["imore.com"]

	#!/bin/bash

	if (( UID > 0 )); then
	echo "You must elevate privileges."
	exit 1
	fi

	usbkey_status=$(/opt/smartdc/bin/sdc-usbkey status)
	passwd_file=/mnt/usbkey/private/root.password.$1