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What I Wish I'd Known About Equity Before Joining A Unicorn

Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.

This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would

Workarounds for Netflix and the blocking of Hurricane Electric IPv6 tunnels

The dreaded "You seem to be using an unblocker or proxy." error message. Cool story bro.

This gist was essentially created out of my own rant about Netflix being hostile to IPv6 tunnel services since June 2016. You are welcome to read my opinion on the matter, this is the more technical side to the issue and how to combat it within your own network.

Since I wrote this, various GitHub users have contributed their thoughts and ideas which has been incorporated into this gist. Thank you to everyone who have contributed their own methods and implementations.

The problem

Netflix now treats IPv6 tunnel brokers (such as Hurricane Electric) as proxy servers. A while ago it became apparent to users and Netflix that somewhat by accident, IPv6 tunnel users were being served content outside of their geolocation because of the way Netflix was identifyi

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	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	# Distributed under the MIT software license
	import binascii, struct, sys, io, argparse
	from PIL import Image

	IMG_WIDTH = 512 # could be made adaptive...
	MIN_HEIGHT = 4 # minimum height of image; twitter won't let us upload anything smaller
	BYTES_PER_PIXEL = 4 # RGBA, 8 bit

	def div_roundup(x,y):

	#include <stdio.h>
	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <stdint.h>
	#ifdef _MSC_VER
	#include <intrin.h> /* for rdtscp and clflush */
	#pragma optimize("gt",on)
	#else
	#include <x86intrin.h> /* for rdtscp and clflush */
	#endif

	#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
	# 802.11 probe requests processor
	# Copyright (C) 2017 Ralon cybersecurity
	# Loran Kloeze - [email protected] - @lorankloeze
	# MIT license: do with it what you want but use it for good
	#
	# Tested on OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 - MacBook Air
	#
	# This script grabs probe requests from the air and outputs them on the screen
	# and/or saves them to a sqlite3-db.

	#!/usr/bin/env python2.7
	# 802.11 probe requests processor
	# Copyright (C) 2017 Ralon cybersecurity
	# Loran Kloeze - [email protected] - @lorankloeze
	# MIT license: do with it what you want but use it for good
	#
	# This script grabs probe requests from the air and puts them in a sqlite3-db.
	# It cleans up the database to prevent old entries from filling up too much disk
	# space. Check the regex before starting this script because it assumes 3
	# antennas on the wireless device.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
	from twilio.rest import TwilioRestClient
	import json
	import os
	import re
	import requests


	url = 'https://postmates.com/los-angeles'

	#!/bin/bash

	# from http://habrahabr.ru/post/108240/
	ncpus=`grep -ciw ^processor /proc/cpuinfo`
	test "$ncpus" -gt 1 \|\| exit 1

	n=0
	for irq in `cat /proc/interrupts \| grep eth \| awk '{print $1}' \| sed s/\://g`
	do
	f="/proc/irq/$irq/smp_affinity"