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Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

Every so often I have to restore my gpg keys and I'm never sure how best to do it. So, I've spent some time playing around with the various ways to export/import (backup/restore) keys.

Method 1

Backup the public and secret keyrings and trust database

cp ~/.gnupg/pubring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/secring.gpg /path/to/backups/
cp ~/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg /path/to/backups/

or, instead of backing up trustdb...

	#!/bin/bash

	#no PATH, no way to accidently run any programs
	PATH=''

	#useful variables
	term_height=0
	term_width=0
	term_scroll_height=0
	status_line_row=0

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#-- coding:utf-8 --

	import tornado.web
	import tornado.httpserver
	import tornado.ioloop
	from tornado.options import define, options
	import handlers
	import os

	#!/usr/bin/python
	# face_replace.py
	# Usage: python face_replace.py <image_file> [face index]

	import sys
	from opencv.cv import *
	from opencv.highgui import *
	from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance
	import random

	// Unity C# Cheat Sheet
	// I made these examples for students with prior exerience working with C# and Unity.
	// Too much? Try Unity's very good tutorials to get up to speed: https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/topics/scripting