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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/115966748145817371
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
@cstross Reason number "a zillion and some" why privacy, etc. is better served using something decentralized like Tor, rather than VPNs companies that can be forced to ID-check UK users.
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Well the "home lan" is effectively the "corporate use case" I described, just for advanced IT folk.. (I used to do the same).
The geoblocking use case is "fair" in the sense that it "just works", but almost certainly contravenes the streaming service providers T&Cs. It does nothing for privacy, since you clearly log into these services.
(Psst: I also use TOR to get around geoblocking.. not quite as convenient, but free)
@oschonrock @PeterSommerlad @cstross This gets at a particularly dumb part of “banning VPNs”: the VPN is just the transport mechanism the proxy service uses.
No, we’re not a VPN, we’re a SOCKS proxy.
No, SOCKS is banned now, so we shut that down. We do offer a QUIC proxy, though.
And so on.
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@oschonrock @Fonant @PeterSommerlad Labour has a nasty paternalist/nanny state tradition going back over a century. It's baked in at this point: Labour knows what's best for you, peasant. (So do the Tories, but they approach it differently.)
@cstross @oschonrock @Fonant @PeterSommerlad Perhaps try putting a labour MP in charge of the labour party instead of a fucking tory.... It failed with Blair and it is failing with Starmer.
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@cstross @oschonrock @Fonant @PeterSommerlad Perhaps try putting a labour MP in charge of the labour party instead of a fucking tory.... It failed with Blair and it is failing with Starmer.
@Ulrich_the_elder @cstross @Fonant @PeterSommerlad TBF... Blair was better..
He communicated better. So he managed to achieve more things that a labour govt should..
Notably in education for him..
But yeah he fucked it up by being a religious nutcase going on crusades in the middle east...(Very Tory) Among other things
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RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@LonM/115966748145817371
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
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@virtuous_sloth I don't have an easy answer for that!
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They keep turning their backs on fish to chase large mammals. I guess the winner last season successfully hunting a moose made everybody believe that's the way do go. They're catching 10+ pound fish, and yet, dropping everything to worry over a moose in the distance or musk ox sign.
Amos understands the assignment, though. He's got ten+ pounds of smoked fish stockpiled.
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10th day of #grayscaluary
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@filobus @las_lallero è un'identificazione politicamente molto carica (vedi la campagna russa per specificare “Repubblica Sovietica” ogni volta che si parla dei Paesi che dall'URSS se ne sono scappati appena hanno potuto).
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@danielcuello Eeh, le cose belle sono effimere…
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@ddmgmgh wow, what atmospheric situation creates this effect?
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Among my 2026 work goals I've got:
"Promote and adopt AI to improve workflows"
Of course. I will improve workflows. My AI of choice will be hand-coded scripts with a bunch of ifthenelses in them.
Malicious compliance is what you get when the goal you want me to reach is just a bullet in your half-assed todo list.
#AI #maliciouscompliance
