Common Methods Used to Track You There is a multitude of ways that advertisers can track you across the web. Advertisers cast a wide net and use many different techniques at once to gather information about you, even when you’re browsing incognito or using another device like a smartphone or tablet. Your IP address identifies you across the web, like when logging in to your email account or visiting a shopping website....
The simple solution to this problem is to create a new List for the friends you want to hide from, and then set that list to offline in Facebook chat. You can start off by clicking on Friends on the left-hand menu. Then click on the Create a List button, of course… First, you’ll want to give the list a name—I chose “Hidden Chat” since it seemed logical. Next, add your annoying family members and co-workers to the list, as well as anybody that doesn’t eat delicious Reuben sandwiches....
Does Your Application Need to “Scale”? It’s very common for tech startups to be attracted to “scalable” architecture—that is, building your server architecture in such a way that every component of it can scale to meet any amount of demand. This is great and all, but if you’re not experiencing that amount of real-world traffic, it can be overkill (and more expensive) to build scalable architecture with the intent of scaling up to a million users if you’re only managing a few thousand....
If you’re networking to the outside world, Docker behaves as if the request was coming from the host machine. But if you want to access processes that are running on the host, your firewall may need some extra configuration. The Solution: Add a Firewall Rule for 172.18.0.0/16 If you’ve just tried to access a process running on the host machine like an HTTP service, you might have gotten blocked. This is because even though Docker containers run on the host, they use some special networking under the hood to keep them logically separated, and because of that they have different IP addresses....
Download the Pazera Free Video to 3GP Converter (Download link below). It will allow you to convert popular video files (AVI, MPEG, MP4, FLV, MKV, and MOV) to work on your mobile phone. There is no installation to run. You’ll just need to unzip the download folder and double-click the videoto3gp.exe file to run the application. To add video files to the queue, click on the Add files button....
If you just need encryption for internal server connections or non-user facing sites, signing your own SSL certificates is an easy way to avoid dealing with an external certificate authority. Here’s how to set it up in nginx. If you are more interested in getting free SSL certificates, you can always use LetsEncrypt, which is more suitable for public servers with user-facing websites because it will show up as coming from a recognized certificate authority in user’s browsers....
Jest is a framework for running “Unit Tests,” a way for you to test the individual functions and components from your codebase to ensure future commits don’t break something unexpected. We’ll show you how to set it up, and use it with a front-end framework like React. What Is Unit Testing? Testing is very important when working with a team of programmers—any commits pushed to your source control should be automatically built and tested to make sure you don’t accidentally break anything....
Hibernation and Sleep in Linux Hibernating a computer will save the current contents of the computer’s memory (the RAM memory in your computer) to disk, specially to the swap space. After this, power will be dropped automatically by a call to the hardware, and when you restart the computer, the memory contents will be read back from the swap space into main memory and you can continue using the computer exactly at the point where you hibernated it....
Cloud9 is a web-based IDE that allows you to write and run code from anywhere, using just your browser. You can install it on your EC2 instances to edit code and configuration files directly, rather than using a CLI text editor. What Is Cloud9? You’re probably at least a little familiar with its core text editor if you’ve ever done any work with Lambda functions—it powers the integrated editor in the Lambda Console....
Configuring PHP In order for Windows to run PHP code, the PHP binary files need to be copied to your system. No installation is required, however some configuration must be done in order for it to properly run. The first step is to download the PHP Windows Binaries and extract them (i.e. ‘C:PHP’). For IIS 6, the non thread safe binaries should be used. Copy the ‘php.ini-production’ file from the extracted files paste it into the Windows directory....
Lambda functions are a very useful entry to AWS’s compute services. Since they’re basically just a function in the cloud, tracking different versions and rolling out updates is crucial to working with them effectively. $LATEST Tracks The Most Recent Updates Anytime you make a change to a Lambda function, changes are automatically reflected in a version called $LATEST. This tracks the most recent updates, and is the default version for most Lambda functions....
What is Lockdown Mode? Apple describes Lockdown Mode as “specialized additional protection to users who may be at risk of highly targeted cyberattacks from private companies developing state-sponsored mercenary spyware” and admits the mode has been designed to benefit a “very small number of users.” This extreme level of protection is designed to benefit those at risk of being tracked by governments or private companies using tools like the NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware....
In Windows To begin you will need to install Mozilla’s Thunderbird on your Windows machine. Once it is installed you do not need to add an account to import anything. To begin the Import click on Tools > Import… In this case we have only used Outlook for mail so we will choose the Mail option, If you also have other material that you would like to import, it may be faster to import each section separately....
ES6’s finalization in 2015 brought new ways to define JavaScript variables. The let keyword creates a block-scoped variable while const specifies an immutable value. Here’s the lowdown on how these modern variable types differ from the classic var. Var Prior to ES6, var was your only option when defining a variable. You can freely change the values of variables created with var. You may also redeclare the variable itself....
Note: SQL Server experts might want to skip today’s lesson, as it’s aimed at beginners. Before starting, you will need to copy the SQL backup file (typically has a .BAK extension) to a local hard drive on the destination SQL Server machine. Open SQL Server Management Studio and login to the SQL Server you want to restore the database to. It is best to either login as a Windows Administrator or as the SQL ‘sa’ user....
My quick and easy solution to this problem is so simple that it barely deserves a full article, but we’re going to cover it anyway—basically, you just create a shortcut to edit the file in Notepad, and set the properties to always start as Administrator. The final step is to create that shortcut in the Start Menu, so it will be easily accessible with the start menu search engine....
Getting Started The Palm webOS SDK/PDK requires that you have Java installed for the developer tools as well as VirtualBox 3.2.6 or higher. The first step is to install Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You may already have JRE installed and you can verify if it is installed by opening a command prompt and typing in the command java -version. You should get a output just like the one below. If you get this output you already have Java installed and you can skip to installing VirtualBox....
Windows 7’s mirroring – which is only available in Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions – is a software implementation of RAID 1, which means that two or more disks are holding the exact same data. The files are constantly kept in sync, so that if one of the disks fails, you won’t lose any data. Note that mirroring is not technically a backup solution, because if you accidentally delete a file, it’s gone from both hard disks (though you may be able to recover the file)....
The new txt2imghd project is based on the “GOBIG” mode from another off-shoot of Stable Diffusion, which in turn is the model used to create most of the AI art you’ve probably seen lately. Images created with txt2imghd can be larger than the ones created with most other generators — the demo images are 1536×1536, while Stable Diffusion is usually limited to 1024×768, and the default for Midjourney is 512×512 (with optional upscaling to 1664 x 1664)....
With the introduction of Instant Streaming movies from Netflix in your browser, or other media apps like Boxee, and Zinc TV…the service just keeps getting better. While iPad users already had the option, yesterday they launched an official Netflix App that allows you to stream Instant Content from Netflix to your iPhone or iPod Touch. Previously to get streaming to your iPhone you needed to jailbreak it, but now the app is official and you don’t need to worry about voiding your iPhone or iPod Touch warranty....
