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https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/5084

Follow this GitHub rabbit hole, long story short it is no longer possible.

Community Rule 7 & 8.

Take that survey, express yourself

my intention was for this to be the short version of Plutonium-239 so it matches better with the logo. I kind of hope for this to be colloquially refered to as just Plutonium

My first thought when I saw your domain was not plutonium-239, it was P U 239, your website doesn’t reference plutonium until 8-9 paragraphs in.

US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and ⁠statements given to Reuters.

Someone should let those officials know that disabling and or refusing trackers is yet another way of tracking.

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Flight staff are obviously a very fringe example that you have chosen while trying to make a point

While I respect the sentiment you’re trying to convey, the point I was trying to make is most folks aren’t willing to upend their careers and livelihood for their personal beliefs.

Fathers/Mothers who are required to travel for work aren’t going to drop everything and starve their families all for a protest.

And if you’re a flight attendant or pilot? Or any other profession that involves international travel?

Truthfully, documentation is your friend, read it and interpret it as best as you can.

and I want to be able to download “app” “installers” like you do with PC or MacOS

Linux systems use Repositories to install “packages”, these packages are pieces of software that are either small or relatively large, for example the Linux kernel itself is a pre-installed package on every Linux distro.

Packages can sometimes depend on other packages to function properly, this is what we call “dependencies”, if you’re missing a dependency that a package requires it will likely fail to execute.

Lately we’ve been seeing packages like Flatpak and Snap enter the Linux ecosystem, their goal is to make Linux easy for newcomers such as yourself where you don’t have to worry about dependencies and you just click the “install” button for a package and be done with it however, in the background Flatpaks and Snaps put that package in a “virtualized container” with the already required dependencies installed, which works great for newcomers but most Linux veterans will prefer native packages as they’re easier to troubleshoot and requires less overhead (resources) from the computer.

Circling back, it is important to note the top 3 distributions available. Debian, Fedora and Arch the majority of distros out there base themselves off of one of these 3, Ubuntu is based off of Debian, SteamOS is based off of Arch and Nobara is based of off Fedora, you get the idea, personally I’m a Debian user and suggest it only if you want the ”raw” Linux experience otherwise I would suggest Linux Mint and or Kubuntu for beginners who’re just learning.

charmbracelet/vhs a cli tool installs Chrome in the background without permission - is this still Open Source?

If I’m not mistaken, Invidious Companion, spawns a X11 session and starts a Chrome instance to circumvent YouTube blocking so that folks using Invidious has a usable experience.

a VPN server has its own firewall.

Be an adult, either ask her yourself or a staff member that you don’t appreciate being recorded in a private setting. If nothing changes and she continues to record you take your business elsewhere.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Host your own if you’re feeling ballsy enough to test Twitter’s patience, source is still available.

Faster for thee but not for me, it was unbearably slower than X11 when I attempted to switch over.

Then again, good luck enforcing China to comply

I mean, can’t they force DNS providers and ISP’s to block the domain in their region until they come into compliance?

Could you have a residential static VPN as one of the wireguard profiles and have it be somewhat local to you so you could use banking apps etc on specific devices? Trying to get this to pass the wife test but if streaming or banking is affected I will have to roll back to no vpn.

Absolutely, my setup I have a catchall rule that captures the entire 10.6.0.0/24 range however I can specify the IP’s individually so if I want to put a remote device behind my WAN and not through another WireGuard tunnel I can do that.

You can kind of see that in my second screenshot in my previous comment, I have a couple devices individually behind WGC4 and my catchall rule sitting on WCG5, the router will prioritize WCG4 over WGC5.

Edit: the Asus router also comes with a built in DDNS feature, you can either use Asus’s free domains and associate your dynamic IP with them or setup your own domain, it’ll keep your A records up to date whenever your IP changes.

For example I use this script to update my Cloudflare record for my domain - https://github.com/clayauld/asus-merlin-cloudflare-ddns

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Picked myself up an Asus WRT router (AX86U) flashed it with Merlin firmware - the custom firmware includes a feature called “VPN Director” which lets me connect up to 5 different WireGuard clients and route my devices through whichever one I choose, given that the Asus WRT router is also capable of hosting its own WireGuard server I created a VPN director rule that routes that server through one of these clients.

The VPN director has a priority ruleset, so if for example WireGuard client 5 dies it will either kill all outbound connections and wait until it’s back online or fallback to WireGuard client 4, WireGuard client 1 being the highest priority right before WAN.

I like this setup because it’s my router doing the routing, not a secondary server hosting WireGuard like Tailscale.

Edit; It also works with oVPN if you prefer that protocol over WireGuard.

Oh I know, whenever he sends out an email for an update to the web-app I react with a “😢” in outlook every time because he’ll just push updates without having anyone test them.

This is not a software company at all, lately he decided to write his own PDF editor and switch out the one he found on GitHub for it, well the folks in the shop certainly weren’t happy to find out they couldn’t print drawings anymore or that mobile devices had poor compatibility with it.

CyberGhost currently has alway an excellent review in IT publications and independent benchmarks

In that very same article…

It’s Not Just Mid VPNs

Kape doesn’t just own multiple VPN companies, they also own several media outlets and other ‘cybersecurity’ software. Let’s start by looking at one of their most egregiously misleading ‘cybersecurity’ software offerings: ReImage.

ReImage is/(was?) marketed as a PC scan and repair tool. It’s actually something called scareware and it’s specifically designed to ping you with alarming messages about your computer containing multiple vulnerabilities, and prompting you to purchase a license to have their software perform the critical fixes necessary. I say ‘was’ marketed because when you go to their website, it doesn’t work. I was only able to look at their website through the web archive tool. Their crunchbase page gives the appearance that they’re still in operation, and you can still download their software off third-party websites. I wouldn’t though.

Kape Owns VPN Review Sites Too

You know what’s better than gobbling up market share of the VPN space? Gobbling up the websites that review them too, and creating your own vertical integration.

So not only does Kape own some of the biggest VPNs in terms of market share, but they also have complete control over the affiliate ecosystem that shills their subpar products onto unwitting consumers. Oh and that’s not all, they also own a middle-man company that specializes “in monetizing high-quality traffic by connecting them with the brands they need.” In other words, they own the VPNs, the VPN affiliate marketing platforms, and the VPN review websites. They’ve created an entire ecosystem that they control, all explicitly designed to go after your data and your wallet.

Here are some of the Kape Controlled entities that you may or may not have heard of before:

• Webselence
  • Affiliate monetization platform.
• VPN Mentor
  • VPN “review” site peppered with affiliate links from Kape VPNs and other owned software like Intego antivirus.
• Safety Detectives
  • Another VPN “review” website, loaded up with affiliate links from Kape-owned businesses.

Whether or not you trust a company with the initial intention of distributing malware is on you, and by using their Proxy you’re still pushing your traffic to their servers albeit in a less-secure manner, and to believe they don’t retain your data is merely laughable as they’re obliged by the Five Eyes Alliance due to their headquarters being in London and are required to retain personal information you provide them.

I don’t use Windscribe myself because they’re a Canadian company and obliged by FVEY, but at least they’re independent from Kape Technologies.