Actually, having just read the article they are not banning vpn at all. (Bad title)

They are mandating that sites that subjectively provide sexual content ban traffic that comes from a vpn.

Both corpo and private networks are fine.

I am not sure how enforceable this is. It might be limited to a “known list of vpn providers ip addresses” but how they ever know if you have a personal server running overseas?

The further we go in time the more complex life in society becomes.

A feudal lord making logistical decisions about how iron in its economy was still capable to grasp how iron is used/reused to make tools, weapons and contraptions.

With modern technology our tools have become a black box (almost literally) we use them but we do not understand the components and systems it relies on.

Many times a bad law can still be followed, proven by the many dumb rules people today still follow regardless of the existence of new facts.

But when you blanketban vpn? It becomes to nonsensical to even consider following it.

Vpn is more then just a tool to avoid local internet rules. They are an essential technology for secure connections between devices. Standard in almost any professional corporation.

(Anti corpo as i am, this time i actually believe there lobbying will stop this. Enemy of my enemy is a useful tool )

This is the equivalent of the feudal lord looking at the iron logistics and ruling that smithing and metallurgy are now banned practices.

Leaving people without proper tools to work the land, the soldiers without weapons to enforce any law.

Greedy neighbour lords ready to exploit your mistake to invade then.

I saw a gif about some cool hyprland dotfiles and i fell in love.

Instructions said it was designed for arch.

There are many more other reasons i stayed. Its great to actually feel in charge of my system.

Debian/ubuntu has its uses in server reliability but its missing snap for daily use.

Fedora is to close to corporate for my personal interest.

Just general command key for shortcuts?

It is probably my most pressed button because of this, also i changed the keycap to eye of horus.

There is some nuance to what exactly is banned.

I self host a vpn at my home that i use to connect to my home network on the go. This is a super common use-case and also cant be used to circumvent regional blocks.

Work also uses a vpn to securely tunnel company hardware to our servers.

A blanket ban on vpn software and technology would be ridiculously dumb. Almost as bad as blanket ban on encryption.

If they make exceptions and only ban vpn with intention to hide and circumvent the law, then you only need some legal excuse if someone comes asking and its more a morality guideline then a criminal law.

If they blanket ban “vpn technology” i would simply suggest ignoring it. Laws that stupid are too incompetent to take seriously. I recon its completely unenforceable.

Either way you’re unlikely to be investigated unless the government already has a reason to investigate you. In which case you’re probably fucked no matter how secure your internet.

Solve world hunger for a start.

Musks pay packages is enough to do that and still have leftover.

Use any and all publicly to talk about taxing the super rich. Reminding that tesla is only giving the end world hunger amount of money in projection of making 800 times as much.

I am well aware, the first sentence of the person you replied to is a direct responds to the article, the context was not far off.

But sorry if my reply bothered you, my reply was just as much intended for the random scroller/reader and nothing personal.

Um… You are aware you made your comment about ai being much more then just llm within context of a discussion on wether the ai bubble will burst or not?

Cause that’s what this post/thread is about.

The ai bubble will burst nonetheless. I was also playing on the “sir, this is a Wendy’s” meme. In a way joking that your comment is actually not relevant to the discussion.

Once the ai bubble breaks for llms it will drag general machine learning down with it once panic sets in. People wil dump any stock that even faintly smells like ai.

Some actually valuable business may disappear, on the other hand those that survive and are undervalued may actually be a good investment opportunities.

This is not financial advice, to gamble your money is dumb.

Sir, this is the stock market.

People order with their feelings, not facts.

I got 2:

That there does not exist an argument one could reliably win on account of there always being someone people stupid enough to insist they are right even when confronted with absolute proof and perfect knowledge.

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Any argument as long as i am willing to stop caring about facts.

Thats a super weird question but yes there is someone named Ariana i encountered online this year who I would not be surprised to be a Linux user.

Depends what you consider the baseline to call something “coding”

Plenty of kids dabble with Redstone in Minecraft, there is also stuff like this:

Honestly not having a static public ip address would be a dealbreaker for me, reason to change isp.

But thats not always an option.

My old isp got a new ip every full modem reboot and a way i used to circumvent this is with duckdns. It’s a free dns service i used before i had money to pay for my own domain.

If i recall correctly they have a desktop tool that connects to your account that scans for your current dynamic public ip and then updates it for your freesubdomainname.duckdns.org which is what you use to connect.

Well said.

Did they ever give any reason why they even consider it an acceptable thing to do?

Imagine making an art piece to be displayed in a museum only to find they allowed an interim with next to zero experience to paint over it.

Because people are not taught the basics of Lan network vs Wan network and corporations love to exploit this.

During the aws outage i heard multiple people be upset with their isp because “the wifi is broken”

I never heard if twingate but i see no reason why not to selfhost Wireguard.

Its a proven open source vpn.

As far as a little research went. Twingate is proprietary software and caters to enterprises, it has some open source alternatives that have a similar functionality. Most if them using Wireguard under the hood. Look for tailscale/headscale or netbird.

Supposedly Australian aboriginal groups have lived in the same region for 40k+ years.

They have regional consistency, genetic continuity over which culture gradually evolved each generation.

Does that count?

I don’t know the type of flashes causes by this glitch but the post specifically warns for epilepsy.

That part of the post might be wrong, that’s completely fair and i trust you have less to gain from lying versus a post craving clicks.

Though my point is, if it is dangerous. What are they supposed to look out for? The “recommendation” should be google stop doing this shit that puts people at random risk.

If it’s just annoying, then its just a glitch, the same for other photosensitive but not suffering epilepsy people.

If you have epilepsy, watch out so you don’t randomly see something that could potentially kill you.

Great job google.