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ftobin commented on Lets-Plot: An open-source plotting library for statistical data lets-plot.org/... · Posted by u/pkkm

heywhatupboys · 3 years ago

what is the alternative? python doesn't have a pipe operator

do you want to do

plot(density(colorify(labelaxis(logscale .... )))))))

ftobin · 3 years ago

datar effectively recreates a pipe operator and the tidyverse approach.

  df >> mutate(z=f.x)

https://pypi.org/project/datar/

ftobin commented on A lock with many keys: Spoofing DNSSEC-signed domains in 8.8.8.8 sidnlabs.nl/en/news-and-b... · Posted by u/sintax

jzer0cool · 4 years ago

What free or (non-free) DNS services is everyone using?

ftobin · 4 years ago

Cloudflare's malware blocking service is my go-to. 1.1.1.2, supporting DoH and DoT. I prefer them over Quad9 because Google blog post listed several malware domains and Quad9 only caught half, while Cloudflare caught them all. https://www.reddit.com/r/Quad9/comments/t9b9v1/quad9_not_cat...

ftobin commented on ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/hassanahmad

whoknowswhat11 · 4 years ago

Does cloudflare WARP not work?

Or AWS self hosted VPN?

ftobin · 4 years ago

I think WARP is a great value proposition for the use case of avoiding ISP sniffing. I use Firefox Private Network which leverages WARP, and as an added bonus, does not disclose my IP (unlike plain WARP).

ftobin commented on ExpressVPN employees complain about ex-spy's top role at company reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/hassanahmad

elagost · 4 years ago

It's been clear for a long time that every single commercial VPN service is a waste of money. At best, you replace trusting your ISP with trusting a different group of unknown people with similar motivations. At worst, it's a government agency honeypot or someone like Facebook.

If you think you want a VPN for "privacy", use Tor Browser. If you want a VPN for any other reason that "normal people" think they want a VPN, you're probably wrong.

Why do we even give these companies the time of day?

(Small clarification - Most people who want VPNs should use a proxy instead. It fits the use case better. Those still exist and don't route ALL of your device's traffic over the tunnel.)

ftobin · 4 years ago

I believe Mozilla's contract with Cloudflare to provide Firefox Private Network provides great value, and I've been happy with it service for quite some time. Mozilla and Cloudflare are both well known organizations, and Mozilla acting as a buyer's agent is a good position to be in.