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Guides
Properly Configure Firefox for Privacy
HDD SMART tests with Smartctl
git - the simple guide
Roll Your Own Network
NSA-proof your e-mail in 2 hours
Linux bind IP that doesn’t exist
Unlock or decrypt your FileVault 2-encrypted boot drive
Designing a Pragmatic RESTful API
The Database Programmer: Minimize Code, Maximize Data
PHP - The Right Way
How to Benchmark a VPS
Awk in 20 Minutes
Linux Basic Network Tools
NetFilter & IPTables Tutorial
DNS & Bind Basics
Advanced Routing: Policy Based Routing
An Introduction to ZFS A Place to Start
ZFS Administration - Complete Guide by Aaron Toponce
ZFS: Mirror vdevs vs RAIDZ
Heavily Commented Linux Kernel Source Code
Algorithms by Jeff Erickson
Running containers and OS images with systemd-nspawn
NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data
NSA on Securing VPNs I
NNSA on Securing VPNs II
The Twelve-Factor App: a methodology for building software
A Team: How to build awesome teams without bullshit
How to build a perfect (IT) team
Online Tools
Mozilla Web Server SSL Configuration Generator
crt.sh - SSL Certificate Search
gtmetrix - Website Performance Reports
IP check for sending Mailservers
Wordpress Post Type Generator
Microsoft SHA1 Hash Archive from my.visualstudio.com
Facebook Ads Specification Guide (and others)
Bootable ISO from macOS installation app file
Useful Free Software
PrivacyTools.io - Protect your privacy against global mass surveillance
HWiNFO: Professional System Information and Diagnostics
Sordum: portable tools to simplify your computer usage
Get Latest DD-WRT Version
Best applications and tools for Windows
Best applications and tools for Mac
Microsoft PowerToys
Snapdrop: Send files to other computers on the local network with just a browser
Others
MacBB Forum (Apple/macOS help and warez)
Academic Papers & Book For Free - SciHub / Libgen Proxy List
List of awesome warez and piracy links
warezz.now.sh
Amazingly awesome PHP libraries
Medium-Hard Data Analyst SQL Interview Questions
Public DNS Servers
IP Geolocation Database
Who discovered what?
Commentary
Developer Rules of Thumb
Modern Software is Bad
The Decline of Usability
How do we tell truths that might hurt?
Linus Torvalds: ARM on the Datacenter I
Linus Torvalds: ARM on the Datacenter II
Linus Torvalds: I hope (Intel) AVX512 dies a painful death
Upgrade ICANN
WD Red SMR vs CMR Tested - WD Scammed Us All
Google’s origin partly lies in CIA and NSA research grants for mass surveillance
NSA ducks questions about 'back doors' in tech products
macOS 10.15: Slow by Design
I wrote Task Manager and I just remembered something...
Serverless: 15% slower and 8x more expensive
The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company
I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page
Advertising is a cancer on society
All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people
How to Build Good Software
Choose Boring Technology
How To Sell
The Mac is moving to Apple Silicon — not ARM
Rebranding higher education as “job training” is an offence to humanism
Security by Obscurity is Underrated
Governments and computer vendors have been inventing to limit the power and utility of our computers
Task Deadlines are Designed to Force Engineers to Work for Free
Technical debt as a lack of understanding
Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple knows what apps you open, and how often
How to Run a Ponzi Scheme for Tech People
Research
Tools for better thinking: solve problems, make decisions and understand systems
Products by Indie Hackers: Learn from the makers behind hundreds of profitable businesses
The Wealthy: A Financial Psychological Profile
(pdf)
Country domain governance: an analysis by data-mining of country domains
Cybercrimes: A Proposed Taxonomy and Challenges
(pdf)
Cybersecurity governance: a prehistory and its implications
(pdf)
Mapping the cybersecurity institutional landscape
(pdf)
Networked Governance and the Regulation of Expression on the Internet: The Blurring of the Role of Public and Private Actors as Content Regulators
(pdf)
The politicization of the Internet’s Domain Name System: Implications for Internet security, universality, and freedom
(pdf)
Where is the governance in Internet governance?
(pdf)
Incorporating Ethics into Artificial Intelligence
(pdf)
The Coming AI Hackers
Mirrored Content
Prettyfedup:
https://prettyfedup.tcb13.com
Survival Docs:
https://survival.tcb13.com
Bad Software Since 1995:
https://tcb13.com/badsoftware1995.txt
FOSDEM'14: Postfix Lessons and recent developments
FOSDEM'14: Dovecots scaling to millions of users
Mirrored Manuals
C/C++ Manual
PHP Manual
jQuery Manual
Bootstrap 4
MySQL 8 Ref. Manual
(pdf)
The Elements of Style
(pdf)