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- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 weeks ago:
The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:
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Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec. -
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
How they enforce that, I dunno.
Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage -
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 weeks ago:
Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.
independent.co.uk/…/vpns-online-safety-bill-labou…
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
“If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
The likely conclusion of that report is that “VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned”
- Comment on Steam Deck sales still going strong over three years later 2 months ago:
Proper decorum demands also removing your pants
- Comment on Microsoft Allows Bethesda To Continue To Be Cool Regarding Fan-Made Remake Projects 3 months ago:
Now they need to stop interfering with windows
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 10 months ago:
Yeh, axis was the wrong term. I was thinking degrees of freedom.
However, I misunderstood the concept.The extra dimensions are basically optical manipulation, like the other comment says with the red and blue lenses.
I thought it was more about the crystals attitude. So in addition to x, y and z, you also have alpha, beta, gamma.
Which would be 3 dimensions/axis with 6 degrees of freedom - Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 10 months ago:
Seems more like 5 axis than 5 dimensions.
Sounds like a slice through the crystal that can be moved up and down and rotated through 2 angles (eg roll and pitch) - Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Yeh, I’ve looked at a bunch over the years. None have that DVR ability that windows Media Center Edition had.
I feel like I should build up an arr stack, go down that rabbit hole, spend my streaming subscription money on a VPN and a private tracker (or whatever is required).
I just haven’t yet. - Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Windows MCE, that was it! Not HTPC.
I knew a guy that built a career using xbmc in a professional environment, scripted out the wazoo to make it not look like xbmc.
I think I even tried running it on an actual Xbox, and being impressed with it. But MCE on a spare laptop was better. I eventually built an HTPC to run MCE. - Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 1 year ago:
Way back when netflix was new, windows had a Home Theatre edition of windows.
Beautiful 10ft UI, worked with tuners, could record from them, had no issues dealing with auto-ripped DVDs and had a native netflix integration.
Then netflix pulled out, but windows HTPC was still pretty decent.
Nowadays, it’s basically “you have to pay for everything” with a smart TV or a set top android box, maybe lucky enough to have a tuner in it.
Or it’s high seas.
I don’t think there is really a middle ground. - Comment on Why install other Linux ISOs on Steam Deck? 1 year ago:
As someone that runs servers, having an immutable os (oe one that “wipes” on updates) is awesome.
The issue is that you are not in control of the config.Learning to script over it might be worthwhile. Update, apply customisation script, back to normal.
It’s good to learn declarative configuration - Comment on UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices 1 year ago:
UK gov can seriously cut back on their IT budget since mandating manufacturers make devices secure-by-default.
Joking aside, this seems a sensible law
- Comment on UK becomes first country to ban default bad passwords on IoT devices 1 year ago:
Most devices have a “restore factory default” button in their UI, or a physical “reset” button that you hold down for 5s or hold down while power cycling.
- Comment on Microsoft: Copilot ‘app’ on Windows Server mistakenly added by Edge 1 year ago:
I have FF set as default browser. Teams opens any link in edge.
Microsoft has fully gone off the deep end of batshit crazy
- Comment on Microsoft is testing user-controlled RAM limits for Microsoft Edge browser 1 year ago:
Like… Old edge from 2015? Or, like
chromiumnew edge from 2020?
Or did microsoft shoehorn in some crazy IE compatibility to new edge? - Comment on Amazon will have to publish an ads library in EU after all 1 year ago:
I feel like the title/summary is a truncated title followed by the title again.
Read from the 2nd Amazon, and it makes more sense - Comment on Valve Goes Hard: Steam Deck OLED Review & Benchmarks vs. ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme, Deck LCD 1 year ago:
The testing was primarily focussed around OLED vs LCD models of the steam deck.
The Asus was only included to give some context of the competition.It also talks about improved thermals between oled and lcd, the improved redesign
The AI summary completely misses this, and assumes its all a direct comparison between 2 competitors, and lists only the sections relevant to this