I don’t think it’s a honeypot, it seems much more like a way to take money from people who believe there will be a vpn ban enforced by preventing Americans from either connecting to known foreign vpn services inside the nations borders or outside.

That would be a reasonable use case, in the case of a crackdown or ban this service would act as a completely law abiding relay out to mullvad. Great firewall style service.

I commented that it was stupid in the previous thread. Someone asked “how so?” But the post got deleted. So here goes.

None of what the op says is information you need to know to understand that it’s stupid. They self describe as a layer between you and mullvad. Your computer first makes a connection to them then to mullvad before going on about its business.

That’s stupid.

If you trust mullvad (and all evidence suggests you should) then what do you need obscura for? It’s another layer of complexity and another series of points of failure to accomplish what, protection from mullvad? If you need to be protected from mullvad (and all evidence suggests you don’t) then you should just not use mullvad at all.

What likely happened is after a bunch of easily spooked people who havent carefully thought about their decisions jumped ship to other providers, this company approached mullvad to use their backend at wholesale rates to provide the service to the company’s customers for retail rates.

Just use mullvad instead of this shell game.

The dns requests and communication to the search provider are encrypted separate from the vpn provider, so they would see traffic shaped like an https data stream.

Air is a piracy vpn that literally can’t let people from the nation its based in use its service because the government would intervene.

Fucking hot stove ass service.

Air is also extremely complex to set up and use and has, not the most buggy app, but a strong contender for it. Users have to be careful to avoid creating an account or using a payment method with pii.

I use airvpn daily. I would never recommend it as an alternative to mullvad.

Old technology that is no longer securable should be taken behind a security boundary like a gateway device or recycled.

Hey, use namei with some flags to find out if the directory lets the socket be created by that user and if there’s a directory in the tree that keeps that user from traversing it.

That’s stupid.

Sounds like you should buy another mac.

You want build quality and performance and code, game and use llms. That’s a mac use case. If the games you want run on it.

https://github.com/rltvty2/ulli

Never used that program before because I have usbs.

You could also use wsl

Do you think c/opensource might be a better place to post all these little applications? Perhaps with a url instead of an embedded link?

Use the Firefox containers plugin, ubo, privacybadger and mullvad and airvpn for normal and piracy data respectively.

It’s because over the last decade the understanding and tools to take advantage of a bunch of small seemingly insignificant exploits in order to gain privileged access have become widespread.

It’s the flip side of not trusting things written in rust to be effectively more secure just because it prevents someone from sticking their thumb between their fore and middle fingers and declaring they “got your stack”.

Someone else said you should try the most recent version. They’re right. You just copy the file into some place like ~/.local/bin/, set it executable with chmod +x and add its location to your $PATH. You will need to apt remove yt-dlp from your system to get rid of the old apt version. From that point forward using the -U flag when you invoke yt-dlp will first check for and install an update if needed before doing the thing you asked for.

Someone else said Reddit is closing off their api. This is so.

You’re getting 429 so try changing your vpn endpoint and see if that helps you out.

It hasnt been small since 98.

Everything already works, Linux support is ootb for almost every new piece of equipment that comes out nowadays. Literally what is missing?

Your pretext seems flawed too since the kernel llm decision is in keeping with the way it’s been for years and there wasn’t really an alternative to llm use with the number of patches flying in from llm sources.

Just generally what do you think is happening in the world regarding Linux? Are you referring to c/linux on .ml?

Hold on, I’m over here routing my traffic through more computers owned by other people using a protocol developed and deployed by the intelligence community.

Huh, why? Duh… privacy.

That’s very fun but I seriously believe you’re not thinking about what you’re saying.

Low dynamic range

No you shouldn’t worry about it. You can’t do anything about it and can only contain what you can.

Why not fork xmmp or qmmp or any of the other Winamp clones?

I’m not complaining, I genuinely want to know what differentiates this software.

My “not a criminal” post seems to be raising a bunch of questions answered by my “not a criminal” post.

Just enable nvidias apt repository and get whatever drivers you need directly from the source.