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SOCKS proxy over SSH?


Android doesn't come with system wide socks proxy support, and i couldn't find an open source app for it either. Is anyone aware of one?

Nonetheless this is a surprisingly simple and bullet proof solution: SSH, that's not vpn boss, i need it for work.


Outline is an open source shadowsocks client, and you provision your own server to act as the proxy. You can use it against any Shadowsocks server you want, and the protocol makes it look like regular https traffic.

https://github.com/Jigsaw-Code/outline-apps

Android & iOS & Linux & Mac & Windows

their server installer will help set up a proxy for users that aren't familiar with shadowsocks, too


For web browsing, Firefox lets you configure socks on android.


amen to that! I started using a Logitech MX Vertical mouse a few years back to deal with wrist pain. It helped with the pain immensely, but the switches in the mouse failed after ~6 months of use.

I replaced the Logitech mouse with an inexpensive vertical mouse from ProtoArc and haven't looked back.


Thanks for providing these instructions. My usual way to get to some setting in Firefox is to use the search box but it seems that Mozilla is actively hiding this one by excluding it from search, ie if you type "advertising" into the settings search box then there are no results.


That is because "Allow web sites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" doesn't have the word "advertising" in it. Granted the current phrasing a bit awkward and may have a certain degree of deliberateness behind it.


Yes, but the section name "Web Site Advertising Preferences" has the word Advertising in it.


IMO, almost all of the Firefox preferences are phrased awkwardly.


It seems the search matches on the text of the option, not the section text. The text of the option is "Allow websites to perform privacy-preserving ad measurement" and the search for me brings up the option (and of course anything else that matches) when I search for any of that.


Ah, thanks for pointing that out. I'd expected a match on the section heading :\


Is everything typed into the search box sent to Google by default.


Love the logo, the reverse checkmark as a "step" is a great concept.


Amazing. I never noticed this.

I wasn't aware the checkmark was backwards until a beta user complained about it. I'm left handed and occasionally make my marks that way and had never considered there is a 'right' way.

The real reason it's reversed is because earlier logo iteration used it as the "L" in "StepList". I did away with that full logo, but kept the mark.

But from now on, I'm stealing your take!


Currently self-employed with a web hosting company started with some former colleagues when the company we used to work for was bought out and shut down. We were fortunate to be included in a list of alternate providers that the old company gave to their customers and had an early influx of a couple thousand customers. As a result we've got a ton of customers who we've been working with for 16+ years.

I handle the customer-facing stuff, ie service and support. That sort of work has the downside of dealing with occasional negativity, but for the most part our customers are happy and capable of producing complex problems that are fun to solve :)


Yo!

Opalstacker here as well, is it 16 years now? Wow, time flies!

Sending my greetings to Sean, best support I've ever had :D.


Greetings from another web hosting junkie! 25 years in the business this year.


Happy customer here!


> And yet after like 50 emails to parents with yahoo email addresses they are giving me errors because of "unusual volume of emails from your domain"

Scandalous, it's almost as if the established major providers have a financial interest in making it difficult for smaller providers and individuals to send mail using their own domains!


It is - this would be the better antitrust angle to pursue


T-mobile: (data breach noises)

Also T-mobile: Give us your bank account info.

Yeah, no.


It looks like status updates on https://status.stripe.com are tweets.

The most recent updates are available on that page, but for anything older than that you'll need a Twitter account to read stripestatus on Twitter. Even their Atom feed is a useless river of "A status update was posted" titles with truncated tweet content and t.co links.

It's such a shame, Twitter used to be so useful for stuff like this.


> Oatmeal: tastes like chicken.

Surely you mean tuna.


+1 for Acorn, my image editing need are pretty light and Acorn does everything I need.


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