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Hyperlinks (a.k.a. HTML-like anchors) in terminal emulators

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Most of the terminal emulators auto-detect when a URL appears onscreen and allow to conveniently open them (e.g. via Ctrl+click or Cmd+click, or the right click menu).

It was, however, not possible until now for arbitrary text to point to URLs, just as on webpages.

Initialising Empty Structs in Rust

In C/C++, you can initialise a struct without giving values for any of the fields:

struct Point {
  float x;
  float y;
  float z;
};

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.

General OpenSSL Commands

These commands allow you to generate CSRs, Certificates, Private Keys and do other miscellaneous tasks.

Generate a new private key and Certificate Signing Request

openssl req -out CSR.csr -new -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout privateKey.key

	//----------------------------- MISC -------------------------------\\
	//------------------------------------------------------------------\\
	sv_cheats "1"
	sv_showimpacts "0"
	sv_showimpacts_time "2.5"

	//---------------------------- BINDS -------------------------------\\
	//------------------------------------------------------------------\\
	bind "SPACE" "demo_togglepause" // pause/play demo
	bind "c" "r_cleardecals" // get rid of bulletholes and black residue from grenade explosions

	// Playbook - http://play.golang.org/p/3wFl4lacjX

	package main

	import (
	"bytes"
	"crypto/aes"
	"crypto/cipher"
	"crypto/rand"
	"encoding/base64"