Reminds me when in school I had to do a presentation about ways to defend against malware. I showed a few software examples (among other things) and ended with "the most powerful anti-malware ever, compatible with every other anti-malware, adds a strong security layer to them, protects your passwords, prevents you from opening spam, from clicking unknown links, from replying to phishing, almost impossible to uninstall by a hacker, and lots of other powerful features: Common Sense™".
One of the other students came to me after class and said "hey, that last software seems really promising, but I never heard about it. What was it again?"
As the sort of absent-minded human who (no matter how much I learn) will always have a deep-seated irrational fear of being "that student", I must say: sick burn
They run their own DNS infra so that when you set the SOA for your zone to their servers they can decide what to resolve to. If you have protection set on a specific record then it resolves to a fleet of nginx servers with a bunch of special sauce that does the reverse proxying that allows for WAF, caching, anti-DDoS, etc. It's entirely feasible for them to exempt specific requests like this one since they aren't "protect[ing] the whole DNS" so much as using it to facilitate control
of the entire HTTP request/response.
If you want to use Visual Studio Code the 'DevKit' extension which provides essential features (language server) is proprietary and requires a Visual Studio licence regardless of platform.
Also I find since C# is an 'enterprise' language developers take the p--s in what they want to charge for, as enterprise will pay as a 'cost of doing business'. Recently FluentAssertions, a freakin test assertion library decided they wanted to charge for newer versions. You don't get that in other languages like Python/Ruby etc.
The language server is part of the SDK itself. The language server integration, debugger and all the features that make VS Code a good tool to write C# in are a part of base C# extension which is MIT-licensed and has no commercial restrictions whatsoever.
The only "wart" is that "vsdbg" - debugger it ships with is closed-source because it is essentially the same debugger as in Visual Studio but extracted into a standalone cross-platform component. There is an open alternative "NetCoreDbg" used by the extension fork for VSCodium (and various DAP bridges to Neovim, Emacs, etc.).
Same here, mine got pickpocketed. My mates laughed at me because they thought I was an idiot not be able to login to my accounts.
Was easily solved though, got a new SIM card from my network from the local store when I got back and recovered my Authy account via SMS which I can then generate 2FAs for my password app through. Was always a backup method I had up my sleeve. My browser keeps logged in as well so was able to get into most stuff through my PC once I got back.
Hearing 'blinkenlights' reminds me of the still very much up 'towel.blinkenlights.nl' telnet server which plays an ASCII art rendition of Star Wars if you dial into it.
There's a joke if you have IPV6 connectivity where if you use IPV4 it says it has full colour support but if you do... well, it doesn't!
Don't forget the 3PM Saturday blackout in the UK where you can't watch any football matches on TV, even if you pay for Sky Sports/TNT/Amazon Prime...
... unless you have an IPTV subscription where you can stream all the games from a foreign TV channel with English commentary.
The idea with the blackout being that it encourages you go to physical games but Premiership games good luck getting tickets for those (even if you do they're extortionate) or go to local games which you might not be as interested in.
Considering The Guardian have discontinued their X account recently it's evident they've got a chip on their shoulder about Musk and the recent election. I'd expect anything to come out of them to be a hit piece.
Trying to avoid a controlling, manipulative human with a robust, documented history of lying and distorting the truth is having a chip on your shoulder?
Musk uses X to control the discussion and narrative, so you avoid X. It is very simple. It is the Grey Rock Method applied at scale.
