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[+] 186 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)
  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Good luck. Even China isn't able to fully crack down on VPNs or Tor.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.

    China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.

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  • [–] 118 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Parental controls: exist

    Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?

    Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago

    The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn't figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Is there a joke I'm missing?

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  • [–] 116 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think the UK recently enacted a law requiring photo ID for accessing porn sites. A VPN can get around this.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Sick skateboard footage taken with a $100 camcorder and a wide angle lens.

    Stackin footy refers to the action of going out and filming yourself and friends skateboard for video parts.

    Via https://skatenm.weebly.com/terminology.html

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Saw a comment saying the ID process accepts any ol' ID sample pic you find from a quick image search online.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Oh yeah I should try that. Wanted to try an AI image for the selfie and discord failed to load the service to verify age. Lost interest at that point.

    More interested in things that blocked the UK than things that demand ID tbh.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    To save costs on VPN services, Rsync the wank bank for all your mates to share. This month it's Daves turn so expect lots of scat but I did put in a request for incest too.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What's the difference between Alabama style and West Virginia style incest?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Pretty much just the side dishes: Alabama dunks it in sweet‑tea BBQ sauce while hollering "Roll Tide," West Virginia soaks it in moonshine, hands you a pepperoni roll, and cranks "Country Roads" on repeat. Same brochure; just different tailgate menus.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    West Virginia has it right; I don't know what a pepperoni roll is but what's incest without moonshine? That's like a thorn without a rose.

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    But VPN to the UK is one of the best ways to watch football.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (19 children)

    I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Thanks for replying. What do you use instead?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    FYI it's not like he's pro-MAGA or anything. He's a known liberal supporter in fact. All he did was tweet that Gail Slater was a good nomination. Personally, I think it's a good thing to praise one's political enemies on the rare occasion they do something good. Here's an article with a deeper look.

    @lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Well, thanks for the context. I still hate the tweet. The tweet itself didn't promote a specific nom – it promoted Republicans

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    To steelman him for a sec -- just as it's good to call out your own team when they do something wrong, it's also a virtue in many people's minds to acknowledge when the other side does something good. You can say the rules are different if the other side are fascists and we just have to punch them, but (a) I don't think that it was clear to everybody in the first weeks of Trump's presidency exactly how fascist things were going to be (this was when he'd gotten ceasefires don't forget) and (b) I still wouldn't consider it a cancellable offence either way, even if it's misguided liberal behaviour.

    Anyway, such behaviour tracks with being a liberal, and I'm not at the point yet where I'm wanting to cancel people for being liberals.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Really? It's been widely reported. But Proton has spent a lot of time and money to get seen by users who wouldn't have heard about the negative stuff. Even here on Lemmy the amount of pro-proton posts has gone up a lot since the bad stuff came out, it's pretty blatant.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Here's what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin's anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.

    What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn't intend for that to use the official Proton account?

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    What about all the footy fetishists? 😌

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Insert meme of calendar guy turning 2020 page to 1984.

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