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nivenkos ,

No port forwarding really kills the utility though - I mainly use the VPN to do port forwarding (e.g. for video games, Plex, etc.) as my ISP is shit.

Like I’m not worried about state-level de-anonymisation, I just want to be able to share services remotely and have a minimum level of anonymity.

nivenkos ,

I host a server, I forward the port, my friends can connect to the open port on the VPN side.

My ISP does not offer port forwarding.

nivenkos ,

ProtonVPN has it though, which is what I’m using now.

nivenkos ,

ProtonVPN has it, and Wireguard support.

nivenkos ,

All Cats Are Beautiful

nivenkos ,

To bully those who don’t share their American liberal politics.

nivenkos ,

American culture warriors have decided that their ideology is more important - you see this a lot where their ideology’s goal becomes the “greater cause” worth sacrificing the mission: e.g. in journalism.

nivenkos ,

This is crazy guilt by association.

nivenkos ,

Only CVE-2024-31083 is relevant for non-remote server use-cases.

nivenkos ,

Religion

nivenkos ,

Because now you can just use Linux or BSD. That wasn’t the case when Linux was developed.

So it only really makes sense for special cases - like Huawei’s new OS for phones (they cannot use Android), or Google’s attempt at a new kernel for Android too (they want to escape the GPL).

nivenkos ,

They should really mandate open firmware and bootloaders, and even spec sheets, etc. for deprecated hardware.

nivenkos ,

People created fake photoshop images long before AI…

nivenkos ,

Overall it greatly expands the number of players though, even for niche games.

Like I found out about Shadow Empire after playing Stellaris a lot and then finding Dominions 6 as another 4X game, and eventually Shadow Empire.

Shadow Empire (and Dominions for that matter) have a much smaller budget than Stellaris, but they are excellent games that I only found out about after enjoying the genre.

nivenkos ,

Personally I’d love to see more of a living world like Ultima VII, Oblivion and Dwarf Fortress Adventurer mode.

nivenkos ,

What is the Mastodon Lemmy.world equivalent? Like a big, neutral server with minimal censorship and bullshit, and access to most other servers?

nivenkos ,

He’s winning against the gangs though - every Salvadorean I know supports him.

nivenkos ,

Shadow Empire without a doubt. Practically a one-man team, and yet a better logistics and supply system than any other game out there.

nivenkos ,

It’s more of a tactics game than an RPG really.

Like D&D X-COM.

nivenkos ,

Shadow Empire - best strategy game I’ve ever played.

nivenkos ,

It’s good, but I wish it were even more like X-COM with loads of deaths and managing a roster of heroes rather than just a small party.

Especially since BG3 has done the small party adventure thing so well.

nivenkos ,

The real answer here is to have decent digital ID as 2-factor authentication.

This scam would be practically impossible in Sweden with BankID for example.

nivenkos ,

For BankID it somewhat does, because only registered services can make the request - so they’d need to register a scam service and then use that. Which also makes it an easier job for anti-fraud police.

So it’d be a lot more complicated.

Like obviously at a certain point if someone is willing to do everything they can - then they will be scammed, see this for example: www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755

But the more steps there are, the higher the chance the person realises it is a scam.

nivenkos ,

It kind of is the norm.

Just a few countries like the US are really backward in terms of accessible banking - mainly due to having no federal ID, residence registration, etc. too on top of outdated bureaucracy.

nivenkos ,

Yeah, my ex was scammed this way too - exactly like Cory describes, they happened to ring right as she was going through the whole visa and tax process and pretend to be regarding the IRS, etc. and since she was dealing with a lot of similar calls it was an easy mistake to make.

More services available online and e-mail communication makes this a bit better.

nivenkos ,

Spain and the UK have no real digital ID (Spain has some horrible Java certificate based system, but you can’t use it for much). I think Germany’s digital ID is in a similar position too although it’s been many years since I lived there now.

The UK is in the same position as the US with no national ID or residence registration at all.

Only the Netherlands, Finland and Scandinavia really have it sorted out for banking and government services.

nivenkos ,

More that you’d never need to provide it, but many transactions will also require 2FA, even by the credit card.

nivenkos ,

I think the US you have to use your American one if you have it, no?

A lot of countries have that rule.

nivenkos ,

Why are you repeating retracted fake news? theguardian.com/…/elon-musk-biographer-admits-sug…

nivenkos ,

What is the actual technical reasoning? These all have active tracking, I can’t imagine it ever being an issue for missions (compared to defunct Soviet satellites with no tracking, like Kosmos 2221 and Kosmos 1408).

It’d be cool if Starlink could also be used to replace some base stations, although I guess the huge power requirements are an issue there.

It’s a shame to see technology held back due to political interference like this though. Hopefully China will achieve it instead. Imagine how much this can help the developing world - like high-speed internet for Cuba (if the USA doesn’t block it) and rural Nicaragua, etc.

nivenkos ,

What about rural farmers’ children who want a good education? What about Cubans who are denied deep-sea cables service by the USA?

This is incredible technology that can help tens of millions of people.

“Just be a rich urban American” isn’t a good answer for the rest of the world’s population.

nivenkos ,

I like that you can follow scientists and authors directly at the source though.

nivenkos ,

To make it competitive with local Internet, so all services work well. On high latency connections lots of stuff like websockets, etc. will struggle too.

nivenkos ,

The government and corporations are the same class of people. The government could have prevented that with more conditions and involvement in the grants - but they didn’t because they’ll get kick-backs from their friends later on.

nivenkos ,

The BlueAnon cultists don’t care about the truth.

It’s crazy how polarised these sorts of debates have become. I wish we could have sensible politicians with views like Andrew Yang, Lee Kuan Yew, Robert Zubrin, Nayib Bukele, Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, etc. - focus on developing technology and building up infrastructure and institutions for everyone.

nivenkos ,

The free exchange of ideas.

nivenkos ,

At least it’s easier.

I think Mastodon kinda has the same setup too, but they had all the issues with server-level cascading blocklists and stuff that put me off.

I don’t want to be blocked from seeing the posts of someone I’m interested in on another server just because the admin of my server refuses to block another server which refuses to block posts from servers where some users have posted “offensive” content, etc. - like it’s so many levels of separation it’s ridiculous.

nivenkos ,

It’ll be fine, I’d argue Arch is actually more “stable” in the ordinary sense since it is simpler - in that partial upgrades are not allowed. So you never end up in a complicated mess like aptitude can be.

I’ve used Arch for over a decade now, and have only had issues 3 or 4 times (usually from the nvidia driver).

nivenkos ,

This has already happened. Just the niche communities haven’t migrated away yet.

Free ProtonVPN now doesn't allow selection of specific servers and split-tunneling in its client (+ workaround for Android) (i.imgur.com)

First of all a disclaimer: I am not upset about the removal of manual server selection as this is a free service. They don’t need to provide such services at all, so something is better than nothing....

nivenkos ,

On Linux you can do this with full control via network namespaces. I use vopono to automate it - github.com/jamesmcm/vopono

But if you can afford it I’d recommend paying for Proton’s services as they offer a lot together, or a low-end VPS (where you could do it yourself, although be careful to find ones that don’t ban hosting Wireguard, etc. for example). Both are really useful if you want to test making something local available on the Internet e.g. ports for multiplayer games or a webserver prototype.

nivenkos ,

Yeah, for both OpenVPN and Wireguard.

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users’) through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

nivenkos ,

IIRC it’s because it comes from before when Apple was sued over charging 25-30% of all eBooks sales while pushing iBooks.

See: arstechnica.com/…/eu-investigating-whether-publis…

It was a while ago though so hard to find good sources now.

nivenkos ,

The 2000s for sure - from early online games and MMORPGs to a lot of forums, when Slashdot and Reddit were good, the start of Wikipedia, etc.

There was more optimism around everyone communicating with eachother internationally, and fostering communities. Nowadays it feels everything is dominated by a few big monopolies, and there’s a lot more censorship.

nivenkos OP ,

So that makes it okay for massively popular LLM models to spread defamatory lies about him?

nivenkos OP ,

It’s definitely newsworthy when the results are being incorporated into search engines like Bing.

nivenkos ,

On Linux you can use network namespaces for the same effect (and then a firewall) - this way it doesn’t affect other applications running.

I do it with vopono.

nivenkos ,

Another benefit of using network namespaces is that I can just disable IPv6 in the network namespace itself.

nivenkos ,

This stops them releasing a more powerful home version though. As SteamOS/Linux will not be able to support modern HDMI2.1 features.

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