While I’m not convinced that the second amendment is essentially futile, as it seems is the argument here, the ideas about other restrictions that are in the same spirit, including at least some of the ones you’ve suggested, are really interesting, and I’d love to see them explored more fully.

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I needed to use a SOCKS proxy to make an SFTP connection. The connection needed to be from a static IP address, and the connection is coming from a Heroku dyno, which doesn’t give us a static IP, so we needed to use Proximo to make it happen.

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The web has a parasite inhibiting its growth. The LAMP Stack won the market for one reason: it’s simple. But that’s not enough to make it good. The web needs something better.