VPN Archive

Recommended Links #8

I know it’s been a while since my last recommendations, but here’s a new batch: Learn Redis the hard way (in production); The arrival of AI; VPN’s are a solution to a privacy concern; PHP 7.2 deprecations; Stop using device breakpoints!; 12 useful hacks for Javascript; Malware infection rate is soaring on smartphones; Preload, prefetch

Recommended Links #7

I know it’s nearly weekend, but here’s another batch of my recommended reads: An introduction to WordPress shortcodes for developers; VPN’s are not the solution to a policy problem; Marketing a NSFW website on the mainstream, the Pornhub solution; Adding Let’s Encrypt to a WordPress hosted on RaspberryPi; Personal information of jobseekers stolen during hack;

VPN sales just got more profitable

Today the UK MP’s have passed a controversial law called the IP Act. The IP Act includes big provisions, the most discussed of which is that service providers will have to keep a record of their customers’ web browsing history and phone calls for 12 months. From December 31 (the date the current Data Retention

IP blocks have become useless

I keep seeing posts on forums and also getting support requests that reference adding manual IP blocks although doing so is obsolete and useless. Ever since the botnets started to be a thing and the IP allocation space increased just to be nearly maxed out today it was pretty clear that blocking IP’s by hand