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Post by jmatt »

eru wrote: post #76
trotsky wrote: post #16

At work? Yup, and that means I have a pretty restrictive firewall. Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to ec2-50-18-7-165.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com: 8081 <----

Get yourself a proxy.

One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost::

http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne...

This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality.

A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out worse because they won't understand. A good IT employee will come see what the heck is up with your ssh throughput to a weird vps or home box - befriend this person if you haven't already. Average code-monkeys will be impressed, especially if you don't do web development. Finally, it's almost certainly a violation of that 20 page agreement you signed on the first day of work.

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Post by eru »

jmatt wrote: post #81
eru wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get yourself a proxy.

One way to proxy is through ssh. Create an ssh tunnel to a trusted machine and setup your browser to use localhost: : http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/azul/firefox-ssh-tunne... This is a decent example. I've seen others that have more options and presumably more functionality. A few notes from past experiences. Your IT department will completely freak out. Hopefully they'll also be impressed. HR will freak out w…

Yes, ssh works fine. For your browser: I use tsocks, so I don't have to muck around with browser settings.

I have such a setup for accessing Pandora at work. We are in the UK, so we have to trick Pandora into thinking I'm from the US. Nobody at work cares.

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Post by dekz »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #22
bricestacey wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8607628/hn.PNG

Also blocked at work.

You must work at the same company I do! Imgur isn't blocked for some reason.

Speaking of which, what is the legality of your corporation injecting fake SSL certificates for sites served over HTTPS?

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Post by daeken »

ilconsigliere wrote: post #59
Smirnoff wrote: post #57

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Thanks a lot. Do you know the IRC channel for hn by any chance? I saw somebody mentioning it but never got to write it down.

Used to be some discussion in #startups @ irc.freenode.net, not sure if it's still active

More active than it ever has been before. Currently 335 people in the channel, and there's been effectively constant conversation for months (a year?) now.

Re: At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by Node [SFW]

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Post by trotsky »

dekz wrote: post #84
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also blocked at work.

You must work at the same company I do! Imgur isn't blocked for some reason. Speaking of which, what is the legality of your corporation injecting fake SSL certificates for sites served over HTTPS?

It's 100% legal and quite common. It's their network, (usually) their computers, their time. Mostly organizations doing that are looking for threats to the business and not employee behavior though, of course YMMV.
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