Hari Rana TheEvilSkeleton

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.

Once upon a time there was a user that wanted to install firefox.

The user tried to do pacman -S firefox but it didn't work. The all mighty pacman reported that firefox-3.2.4-1.i686.pkg.tar.gz could not be found on his mirror. So the user tried pacman -Sy firefox. It worked and the user rejoiced since he could once again go and troll /h/.

But all was not good. The user had made a grave error!

See, when the user told the almighty pacman to -Sy firefox, pacman did

	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Dark Horse Downloader
	// @namespace http://schiff.io/
	// @version 0.1
	// @description Download a DRM-free copy of your Dark Horse digital comics.
	// @author Hayden Schiff (oxguy3)
	// @match https://digital.darkhorse.com/read/*
	// @match https://digital.darkhorse.com/bookshelf*
	// @include https://.cloudfront.net/
	// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest

	#Resizes an image and keeps aspect ratio. Set mywidth to the desired with in pixels.

	import PIL
	from PIL import Image

	mywidth = 300

	img = Image.open('someimage.jpg')
	wpercent = (mywidth/float(img.size[0]))
	hsize = int((float(img.size[1])*float(wpercent)))