Which VPN Services Keep You Anonymous in 2019?
When we first started this VPN anonymity series, almost a decade ago, the market was relatively small and easy to oversee. Today, the VPN industry is booming with hundreds of companies offering a wide variety of services, some more anonymous than others. The VPN review business is also booming. Just do a random search for “best VPN” or “VPN review” and you’ll see dozens of sites filled with...
ISPs: We’re Definitely Not the Internet Police, Until We Decide We Should Be
On several occasions over the years, TorrentFreak has reported on file-sharing platforms being blocked by ISPs, apparently for no reason at all. On later examination, however, we’ve discovered that organizations such as the UK’s Internet Watch Foundation charity have sometimes collaborated with ISPs to implement blocks, after child exploitation material was found on online platforms. Blocking whole platforms is...
Reducing sysadmin toil with Kubernetes controllers
Kubernetes is a platform for reducing toil cunningly disguised as a platform for running containers. The element that allows for both running containers and reducing toil is the Kubernetes concept of a Controller. read...
Ansible performance: Revving up the engine and maintaining stability
Ansible is an automation tool centered around configuration and orchestration management. One important thing that many systems administrators and engineers need to be aware of when using Ansible is how to optimize it to improve its speed and performance. Here are some tips and tricks to keep in mind. read...
Getting started with Vim: The basics
I remember the very first time I encountered Vim. I was a university student, and the computers in the computer science department’s lab were installed with Ubuntu Linux. While I had been exposed to different Linux variations (like RHEL) even before my college years (Red Hat sold its CDs at Best Buy!), this was the first time I needed to use the Linux operating system regularly, because my classes required me to do so. Once I...
