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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 06, 2023
> The cat command in Linux is a simple yet powerful tool that is used to view and manipulate text files. It is short for "concatenate," which means to combine or link together.
> The sleep command is a simple command-line utility that pauses the execution of a script or process for a specified amount of time. This can be useful in a variety of scenarios, such as waiting for a process to complete, or automating tasks that need to be performed at regular intervals.
> The traditional way to do a VPN is that your VPN endpoint ('server') is the single point of entry for all traffic from VPN clients. When a VPN client talks to anything on your secured networks, it goes through the endpoint. In what I'm calling a mesh-capable VPN, you can have multiple VPN endpoints, each of them providing access to a different network area or service. Because it's one VPN, you still have a single unified client identity and authentication and a single on/off button for the VPN connection on clients.
> That’s a problem if you really want to be anonymous. If you defiantly refuse to say who you are, it can make people angry that you’re upsetting social reciprocity. You know who they are, but they don’t know who you are. It feels rude. An obsessive personality might make it their damn mission to figure out who you are! You don’t want that.
> So for real anonymity, don’t create a mystery. Create a believable persona. Then nobody will wonder.
> Universities are not one of those places. In universities, quite often you'll find that people actively need to use your VPN server for all of their traffic, or otherwise things will break in subtle ways. One culprit is the world of academic publishing, or more exactly online electronic access to academic publications. These days, many of these online publications are provided to you directly by the publisher's website. This website decides if you are allowed to access things by seeing if your institution has purchased access, and it often figures out your institution by looking at your IP address. As a result, if a researcher is working from home but wants to read things, their traffic had better be coming from your IP address space.
> WineHQ is a compatibility layer that allows users to run Windows applications on Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux, macOS, and BSD.
> Its purpose is to provide a way for users to continue using their favorite Windows applications on a non-Windows platform without the need for a virtual machine or dual-booting. WineHQ translates Windows system calls into their equivalent POSIX calls on the host system, allowing Windows applications to run seamlessly on the host operating system.
> It is an open-source project and free software, actively developed and maintained by a community of developers and users.
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