Thanks, that is indeed dystopian

Can someone summerize the article, for some reason it thinks I’m using AdBlock despite not and won’t let me actually read it

Was he worried about the kid or his network lol?

Yeah, he did that…and then kept going for some reason. A separate subnet in a separate firewall zone that doesn’t forward anywhere but the internet should be sufficiently safe

Look, I love FOSS and open platforms, to the point that I will only run proprietary software if it is sufficiently sandboxed AND there is no alternative. Unfortunately, hardware just isn’t there right now. You basically cannot have a modern computing experience on fully open hardware. At some point you have to make a compromise with it, it’s unfortunate but it’s the world we live in. Typically that compromise is either all open software with closed hardware and firmware, or all open software and firmware, with incredibly old or restricted hardware (which is still closed). I have yet to see any solution that involves truly, fully open hardware and so you basically have to just draw an arbitrary line and say “this is good enough.”

The IP suite is not nearly as neatly layered as OSI was and the OSI model doesn’t neatly fit the IP suite since it wasn’t actually designed for IP at all. In the IP suite layers 5 and 6 basically don’t exist in the OSI sense, TCP handles things that are part of both layers 4 and 5 in the model despite being a single protocol, etc. The OSI model is often considered obselete as it just doesn’t actually fit the IP world all that well but it’s been around so long and does have uses in certain situations that it tends to stick around.

That makes more sense and is…even worse tbh because that’s actually enforceable and so obvious I don’t know how I missed it. That would also probably impact Tor since those IPs are already heavily reputation damaged. The stuff governments have been pulling recently is just insane

You good sir underestimate the stupidity of courts

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So what do you propose? Just not using a VPN? If you’re that worried you can run a second public VPN on top of your private one. The point of the private one is to avoid ISPs outright blocking known major providers.

C++, ew, no thanks, also where is C??

If a company I have a paid account with asked me to verify my age they’d lose my subscription so fast their head would spin. Ultimately I’m just one person but if enough people feel the same way it could be a deterrent but in the grand scheme of things there probably aren’t enough of us

As apex32 pointed out, it isn’t about logging, it’s about your ISP either ratting you out or outright blocking the domains and IP blocks of major providers and that’s why I said you can setup your own. Ofc even hosting one yourself your ISP can probably still determine you’re using a VPN through traffic analysis even if you’re using TCP 443 to blend in but it makes it harder.

I do wonder how they’re going to even try to enforce this. VPNs aren’t exactly blockable without a great firewall type apparatus. If they block major providers then you can just setup your own, and if they block VPN protocols outright then it ranges from ineffective to outright destroying the internet. I just don’t really get how this is going to work practically. Which is good… hopefully it doesn’t pass though.

Graphene scoped contacts would probably fix this

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Hmmm, now is this actually doing any good for anyone…or is big tech using children and governments as an excuse to collect more of our data? Hard to tell /s

What am I missing? This seems to be for VFS for git which as far as I can tell is different from git LFS.

This has always been a huge problem I have with signal. It’s open source but it’s not open infrastructure

Too bad google stopped shipping pixel specific code in the AOSP tree. Maybe they wouldn’t be contemplating dropping the pixel 11 if that was still the case.