Pretty much dead on. They’ll only change that line if they see that you’re coming from one of their VPN servers. Anything else and “You are not protected.”

And the irony is that I connect to my ISP via VPN :)

I think reading large books and large code bases are similar. A one time reading through both will yield a bit of understanding. For literature you’ll know that there are some characters and they followed some particular arc, but probably wont remember exactly how they crossed it. Similarly, with code, a first reading will give a glimpse of what it does but perhaps not exactly how. Both require re-reading whereby a deeper understanding is gained due to having more pre-existing context.

For instance, when re-reading a novel one might come across a passage and suddenly realize it was setting up an event that wont occur for a dozen chapters. With code it might be that you skimmed the implementation details of some utility function, but on re-reading know that it’s going to be used in a bunch of critical places.

My hypothesis is that, as a species, we have been telling stories for millennia thus our brains are wired to the structure common to story telling. Perhaps in a few more millennia our brains will be better able to process code as well. Or maybe we’ll simply find ways of writing it that better fit how we think.