HotGarbage

Legally, it's not

A version for modern times: https://specificsuggestions.com/

Big tech is making everyone's life miserable: social media, advertising, surveillance.

By working for them you are enabling this.

For real. This should be an article about circumvention, not compliance.

Wish this was open sourced. Proxying requests to a third-party server is weird and inefficient.

> you simply are contributing to models being unstable and unsafe

Good. Loss in trust of LLM output cannot come soon enough.

Verizon (and their MVNOs) eSIMs are the worst. Registration is tied to IMEI and enforced via the eSIM's EID. You can't use one if those "physical" eSIMs because if you give Verizon a donor IMEI during registration, the EID of the eSIM doesn't match and activation is rejected.

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And? F-Droid is exercising their free speech by not hosting it.

Get out of here with this slop.

If you were serious about limiting who uses your services you'd use an allowlist of ASNs. Even then, what about users using US-based residential proxies?

Apple, for better or worse, has been able to use their size to pressure sites into accepting connections from their Private Relay service.

If VPN usage becomes the norm, sites will have to give in eventually.

While exits matter to avoid countries with a nation-wide firewall, the geoip industry is a scourge.

If an ISP wants to help their users avoid geoblocking via https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8805.html more power to them.

Shoulda knocked it over to make room. Can't wait for the ADA lawsuits.

You can disable it per-site buried under two levels of menus in Safari but it's annoying.

What about in-flight wifi? Can't use a hotspot up in the air

If you're your own ISP you can be wherever you want to be

https://blog.lyc8503.net/en/post/asn-5-worldwide-servers/

I really wish Kagi would focus on search and not waste time and money on slop.

Any relationship to https://protein.monster ?

They're not blocking them, they're actively seeking fines, even after the site takes it upon themselves to block the UK.

Yeah, nah, the internet is pull not push. If a citizen of country A seeks material from country B that's legal in B but illegal in A that's on them.

Amyl nitrate aka poppers

This really should be a live-USB image instead of something you have to install

This is why we have https://4get.ca/

Why wouldn't I want to self-host my own Google/Microsoft alternative?

The system requirements are quite high: https://docs.opendesk.eu/operations/requirements/

Not going to be running this at home any time soon

You do not, under any circumstances, have to hold water for entrepreneurs, high net worth individuals, and businesses.