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Brief comparison of Google Drive and Dropbox

Price per 2TB

GDrive $137.75 / year
Dropbox $120 / year

Privacy

When I shared a file with someone, and then want to: unshare and share with someone else.

Can the sharing link be reset for a particular file / folder?

GDrive: copy file, then link will change. No way to reset the link. community answer from 2021
Dropbox: you can reset, set expiration date, etc dropbox docs

NOTE on Dropbox:

You can only delete shared links that you create. If you invite someone to a file or folder with editing access, they can create their own link to share with someone else. You can’t manage those shared links

Software development is not a rocket science, or is it?

ref: https://toot.cat/@plexus/112403882840794498

VPN considered insecure

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

general practice for VPN, is to prioritize itself via defining more specific routing rules, which take priority over the default gateway. the attacker, however, can spin up another DHCP server, and use rule 121 to push some new routes to the client. Importantly, if the routes are more specific than the ones defined by the VPN, they will take over, and unencrypted traffic directed to the VPN interface will end up on the attacker’s machine.

the golden standard to avoid this vulnerability is using network namespaces: https://www.wireguard.com/netns/#the-new-namespace-solution

discussion: HN1 , HN2

Embouchures

The word embouchure originates from the French bouche - mouth. One of its meanings describes the mouth-work musicians do to extract sounds from brass musical instruments. More popularly, embouchures are those soft parts of the headphones that usually wear out too quickly :)

You are welcome, now you can’t unsee the link between headphones and lips wrapping a musical instrument!