Yeah, I did. No good, unfortunately. Could not get TOR to work at all unless connected to a VPN or using a foreign SIM card.

If you have a foreign SIM card then you can get access to the unfiltered Internet in China. So if you’re planning a trip to China, I recommend doing that. I bought an eSim from SoSim which is a Hong Kong carrier (there is no firewall in Hong Kong—yet) and it was like 20 USD for the 14-day “Greater China region” pass. I think it had like 10 GB of data which was enough for my purposes. Extra data is pretty cheap anyway and they take foreign credit cards. No 5G or even 4G LTE though (you have to pay extra for that which sucks). You only get plain old 4G which is passable but disappointing. China throttles traffic to foreign IPs (even unblocked ones) so I don’t think 5G would be a huge benefit anyway.

While connected to WiFi, I was able to set up my own OpenVPN server and that worked as well. Their blocking seems to be DNS based. If you keep it to yourself and don’t share your server publicly, I think you should be good.

Since China is mostly cashless, all digital transactions are tracked and monitored, and selling access to an illegal VPN server will result in severe consequences. The Government doesn’t actually care about individual people getting around the Great Firewall.

But like I said, the idea is not to be perfect but to make it annoying enough to get around that ordinary people don’t bother.

The only experience I have with countries that have censored Internet access is China, but I can say that all ordinary methods for connecting to Tor will not work and using commercial VPNs is really a game of whack-a-mole with the Chinese government.

The idea is not to be 100% effective, it’s to make evading the censorship hard enough that most people don’t really care to do so. Everyone in China knows how to evade the Great Firewall but most people just don’t care about the fact that their Internet access is censored.

Cannot agree more. I say things all the time here that people hate and downvote me for but the numbers are even more useless here than on Reddit so it’s difficult to care.

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I have no idea how this screenshot illustrates your point but there is an “alt-left”… sort of. This term is not really used though. The term “alt-right” was used to describe far-right elements of the American population whose ideology was regarded to be extreme enough that mainstream centre-right politicians wanted nothing to do with them. “Alt-right” is (was) essentially a polite euphemism for right-wing extremism.

If you want, you could consider the left-wing version of this to be the socialist and communist groups, but they are politically irrelevant in the US, not only because the centre-left absolutely refuses to even acknowledge their existence but because the “alt-left” also hates the centre-left and isn’t willing to co-operate with them to get into power. The “alt-right” holds political sway only because the centre-right realised they were useful in riling up the right-wing voter base and they could be used to get into power. Unfortunately, this really just meant that the centre-right has disappeared in America and been replaced with only alt-right or alt-right-sympathetic politicians. The “alt-left” of America is completely unrepresented in any institution of government. Again, I want to make clear that “alt-left” is not a term that is in widespread use but if you generalise the prefix “alt-”, it’s what it would mean.

Tim Cotton admits that the sky is blue and one plus one is two

Flathub is almost the perfect distribution system for software on Linux. The only thing it’s missing is a billing system. If it had that, it would probably attract more game developers to make their games available as Flatpaks.

The entire point of my comment was to indicate that this had seemingly little to no impact on the company’s success. Even the best employees in the world can’t save a company that is shipping no product and run by idiots.

Unlike what the title would suggest, the “moving to Texas” part was basically immaterial to the company’s failure.

They never had any product to ship to begin with and were basically subsisting on loans and venture capital money to continue bullshitting with a theoretical product. Add in some dodgy regulatory practices resulting in fines from the Government and questionable business practices. When the funding dried up, they withered like a sponge in the California (or Texas) sun.

Someone will upload it to the Internet Archive.

It’s not just for decoration. You can use it as a legitimate pointing device. Nudging it will move the mouse cursor and tapping it with your fingernail is clicking.

It takes some getting used to but you can definitely use it for normal office tasks if you wanted to. That being said, I still personally prefer a mouse. But I have known some people who like using the nipple.

Those who don’t use it are only mildly annoyed by it, but those who use it will raise holy hell now that it’s gone.

Oh well. I must confess though, watching a 1.5 hour video to make sure I didn’t say something they already said didn’t seem like an appealing proposition to me.

I see. That’s not technically the first sentence though. I stopped looking once I got to line 6.

What’s the spelling mistake? I didn’t see it.

Tangent to the original discussion, but Trump is currently suing the Justice Department for raiding Mar-a-lago (back when we actually had hope that this man would be held to account for his crimes). When he takes office, he could ostensibly direct the Justice Department to settle the case and pay him a settlement.

Friday: GoDaddy CEO donates $1,000,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund

Monday: Trump takes office

Tuesday: Senate confirms new FTC chair

Wednesday: FTC announces a settlement with GoDaddy where the FTC will withdraw the case and GoDaddy agrees to a $125,000 penalty paid over the next five years

LegalEagle and Wendover Productions actually beat them to the punch (Nebula) on this. They filed on 29th December 2024, a whole 4 days earlier.

And since the US courts charge money to get these documents, I downloaded a copy of the complaint earlier on my PACER account so anyone who’s interested can read it without incurring the stupid fees. Enjoy

Edit: Devin Stone (the host of LegalEagle) is actually a lawyer on this case. His name and his law firm are listed as a lawyer for the plaintiff on the complaint.

Businesses are bound to Microsoft Office products which only reliably work on Windows and Mac. Windows is the cheaper of the two, by far, and there are way more IT professionals that are able to work comfortably managing Windows systems than Mac ones.

Microsoft has realised they have a captive market and are milking it for every dollar (euro, pound, yen, rupee…) they can get.