It also undermines your leverage if you want to bargain with the company over things like a raise in salary. You also have less protection against malicious actions from your work.

That’s what switching companies is for.

I have the similar feelings as the author when randomly dealing with tasks one by one. These feelings were gone when I grouped the tasks by some criteria firstly before dealing with them.

Currently I use node.js + rsync + duplicity to create two backups, and it works pretty fine. Firstly I create a backup to a local server via node.js and rsync, then upload them to the remote server via duplicity, which supports both encryption and compression. Both tasks run periodically and automatically, and backup files incrementally.

Will see many domain ADs when you browse websites in the following days after search the domain

Guess obfuscation is the goal, and the methods include using random variables, disordering code, inserting verbose code...

have been learning modern javascript and look up documentation from MDN

Though a little bit off-topic, before the service http://freegeoip.net/json/ ceased, I used it a lot in testing. I built one myself with the simplified source code from https://github.com/voyagin/freegeoip since I want to minimize the response time. BTW, the listed repo isn't mine.

I run a hosted version on https://freegeoip.whoisbot.io but it looks like MaxMind changed their database url so it stopped working

“ Necessity is the mother of invention and nowhere else is there the capital, political will and now sheer necessity as there is on the Mainland.”

It’s also the mother of the GFW, which greatly impede the innovation. For example, many latest IT technology cannot be speeded effectively.

Really? GFW definitely helped a lot of newer internet company take off by shifting the market from a US directed tastes to a more domestic. I.e. one would not immediately think Instagram is cooler than douyin. (As a result, Instagram like photos sharing were never main stream)

GFW by itself is no small engineering feat either. It's technology is widely relevant in many technical areas related to traffic control and network management. For example, deep packet inspection was applied in GFW, and had been quite useful in intrusion detection. Of course now with the popularity of encryption, DPI is no longer very relevant. But that's the example of it being advancing technology.

Baidu has worse UX after google search exited the mainland china. The many so called newer internet companies are actually copying and localizing. Blocked by the GFW, the inaccessible instagram can never be the main stream. Instead of the detecting intrusion, DPI plays a huge role in controlling the freedom of speech. And with the help of ML, DPI is even smarter than before. Fewer people of new generation in China know Google, Facebook and Twitter, and they only know the second-class analogue of these service providers.

What does that have to do with anything?

I would better endeavor to digest the content and let it be forgotten than to spend time organize it and remember it repeatedly.