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FizzyOrange

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  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • Eh you made me read it now. It's not super clearly written but it does sound to me like it is only services that are designed to circumvent the moralising that are prohibited. It's a little ambiguous though.

    The more interesting thing I learned from reading it is that it isn't just about banning porn. It's also about banning the depiction of trans people - even descriptions! Insane. Come on America.

  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • Yeah I've heard it's really annoying to use the web from VPS IPs though because Cloudflare etc. will block you. Dunno how true that is but it sounds plausible.

  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • That's not how they'd implement it. They'd make it illegal to sell it advertise VPNs to the public. Then they'd impose fines on any American VPN companies that did it, and IP block and foreign VPN providers (their websites and apps) that didn't.

    Corporate VPNs wouldn't be targeted. But you're probably not going to watch porn through your work's VPN right?

  • VPN usage at risk in Michigan under new proposed adult content law

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  • Corporate VPNs would be allowed presumably.

  • Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

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  • Yeah but that's mostly network effects and free CI, which must cost them a ton of money. I'd be surprised if they're even profitable just because of that. I mean it's worth it for Microsoft clearly, but if they ever decide it isn't and turn the screws, there are at least two good alternatives - Gitlab and Codeberg.

    I would also jump ship immediately if there was a platform that properly handled stacked PRs. I literally just want to be able to say "this PR includes this other PR - don't show that one". Is that too much to ask?

  • Help Us Raise $200k to Free JavaScript from Oracle | Deno

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  • I support the idea but is it really that important? It's just a name. Call it ECMAScript if you're worried. JavaScript if you aren't.

  • I don't even know if windows is good or not now.

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  • Windows 11 IoT LTSC is very good. I don't know about the normal consumer version.

  • New US Bill Aims to Block Both Online Adult Content and VPNs

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  • Don't be naive and think they can't block this stuff because of encryption. They just go after the business entities. Eventually you'll only be left with super sketchy options that they'll try to block by IP.

    They probably won't totally succeed, but they can make things far shitter than they are.

  • The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

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  • Not exactly. It is pretty similar though, true.

  • The idea of /usr/sbin has failed in practice

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  • Yeah it's obviously an improvement but I guess you can't really sell a distro on "it has a more logical filesystem layout which may cause some issues, and it's super super niche which will definitely cause some issues".

    Probably a lost cause. I imagine Flatpak will actually work properly before the Unix filesystem hierarchy is made sane.

  • Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track ever

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  • I would be fairly surprised if they actually did this for tracking purposes. This sounds like nonsense to me. They already have plenty of information about you and they literally sent the notification.

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Ha-Ha -exactly

  • Briefing: VPNs and the Online Safety Act

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  • The majority of children in the 6–12 age group are highly unlikely to download, configure, or subscribe to VPNs without adult help.

    The naivety! It's like 5 clicks to download and use Proton VPN. You don't even need to register!

    Even if it were more difficult, children have friends. They talk to each other.

    Also grouping 6 and 12 year olds together is an interesting choice. Sure, a 6 year old is unlikely to do this, but why would a 6 year old even try?

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Yeah it was inspired by Powershell. But it also has syntax that isn't completely awful.

  • California age verification bill backed by Google, Meta, OpenAI heads to Newsom

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  • Yeah but often their trick is to push through the idea. It's easier if people are just like "eh fine, I can just lie".

    Then later they say "it turns out lots of people have been lying! Lying is bad, so we need to stop them." - then they don't need to debate the idea of age verification because everyone has "agreed" to it already. They only need to argue that people must be honest, which is way easier.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Opening folder via SSH from VSCode Web

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  • No. Closest is probably Zed but it's still way way off from being a serious VSCode competitor. For example it has no settings GUI at all; just a JSON file. It can't edit large files. Font rendering is still hit and miss.

    Ask again in 5 years...

  • Opening folder via SSH from VSCode Web

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  • How "production" are we talking? Pretty bad idea if it's an important work server. "Sorry boss, nobody could connect today because VSCode's mojam.service hit one of its many many 100% CPU bugs".

    I think in theory there's no reason it isn't technically possible, but I doubt it's set up to allow it because that's a pretty odd thing to want to do.

    Edit: oh you want to access it via Android. That makes vaguely more sense.

  • Is WhatsApp safe? Not according to its ex-security chief | Proton

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  • Well not nothing. Android apps are quite easy to reverse engineer so there would be a high risk of them getting caught which would be quite damaging for WhatsApp's brand.

    I wouldn't say it's a lot, but it isn't nothing.

    There is certainly nothing technical stopping them from doing it, but that's true of Signal too.