August Garcia

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August Garcia is some guy who LARPs as a sysadmin and also runs 256 Kilobytes:
https://www.256kilobytes.com
Websitehttps://www.256kilobytes.com/
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/256Kilobytes
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/august-r-garcia/
Old Mastodon Accounthttps://linuxrocks.online/@256Kilobytes
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Build a 10 USD Raspberry Pi Tunnel Gateway

In this tutorial I'll show you how to build an Internet Gateway for your home network using a Raspberry Pi and a HTTPS tunnel for just 10 USD.

https://blog.alexellis.io/raspberry-pi-zero-tunnel-gateway/

Build a 10 USD Raspberry Pi Tunnel Gateway

In this tutorial I'll show you how to build an Internet Gateway for your home network using a Raspberry Pi and a HTTPS tunnel for just 10 USD.

Interesting and sort-of-obvious-now-that-you-mention-it method for detecting #adblockers:

https://davidwalsh.name/detect-ad-blocker #javascript

How to Detect an Ad Blocker

One of the unspoken rules of the internet is that most content is “free”… at the cost of webpage being littered with advertisements and trackers. This was’t a big problem in the early internet days but trackers and advertisements have become so intrusive and unapologetically aggressive that you almost need to use an ad blocker …

David Walsh Blog
How to Make a Simple, Automatically-Updating Dashboard for Python Scripts Using HTML, JavaScript, and JSONP

Debugging with print("asdf1") messages is adequate, but has limitations. Conveniently, it's fairly straightforward to put together a basic, auto-updating HTML dashboard with minimal code and basically no dependencies.

Scriptable Headless Browsers 101: PhantomJS vs. Headless Chrome/Chromium vs. Headless Firefox

Like cURL, but for executing JavaScript, handling external resources, and interacting with webpages programmatically.

@r000t The same could be said of right click --> inspect element-ing news articles to create fake headlines. There is legitimate potential to cause harmful confusion, but also, people are aware that the technology exists.

Ex: See Reddit/social media threads with fake headlines where the entire comments section is filled with people pointing out that a headline has been modified.

[cURL, BASH] How to Crawl and Scrape DuckDuckGo Search Results

You can use these same concepts to build more complicated scrapers, such as to build a DuckDuckGo crawler (and rank tracker).

@cadey Even better. That's a high quality link you have there
@cadey - Apparently one of your articles was linked in the Dutch version of VICE: "antwoord op geven, maar ik heb wel een blogpost van webdeveloper Christine Dodrill uit 2015 gevonden, waarin ze probeert “De oorsprong van ‘H’” uit te"
https://www.vice.com/nl/article/7xeynd/niemand-begrijpt-waarom-deze-tweet-viral-ging
Niemand begrijpt waarom deze tweet met de letter 'H' viral gaat

Een forensisch onderzoek naar de raarste meme in jaren.