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@johntyree
johntyree / getBlockLists.sh
Last active August 30, 2025 06:36
Make one large blocklist from the bluetack lists on iblocklist.com
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Download lists, unpack and filter, write to stdout
curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php \
| sed -n "s/.*value='\(http:.*=bt_.*\)'.*/\1/p" \
| xargs wget -O - \
| gunzip \
| egrep -v '^#'
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active January 16, 2026 17:16
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
----------------------------------
L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
@cefstat
cefstat / lion-fullscreen.patch
Created November 10, 2011 19:31
Patch for Emacs fullscreen support under Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion)
=== modified file 'lisp/term/ns-win.el'
--- old/lisp/term/ns-win.el 2011-10-01 20:32:01 +0000
+++ new/lisp/term/ns-win.el 2011-11-10 16:22:51 +0000
@@ -928,6 +928,10 @@
(add-to-list 'frame-creation-function-alist '(ns . x-create-frame-with-faces))
(add-to-list 'window-system-initialization-alist '(ns . ns-initialize-window-system))
+(declare-function ns-toggle-fullscreen-internal "nsfns.m" ())
+(defun ns-toggle-fullscreen ()
+ (interactive)
@telamon
telamon / socksproxy.js
Created August 5, 2011 12:42
Socks5 proxy implementation in Node.JS
// http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1928.txt
// Tested with: curl http://www.google.se/ --socks5 1080 --proxy-user foo:bar
var States = {
CONNECTED:0,
VERIFYING:1,
READY:2,
PROXY: 3
};
@cowboyd
cowboyd / gist:1045642
Created June 24, 2011 20:41
Restart racoon on OSX
sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.racoon.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.racoon.plist
@glacjay
glacjay / tun-ping-linux.go
Created September 18, 2010 12:26
Reading/Writing Linux's TUN/TAP device in Go.
package main
import (
"exec"
"log"
"os"
"syscall"
"unsafe"
)