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lobito25··on Ask HN: Do you route only certain websites through a VPN?
smokevpn.com solves this problems.
lobito25··on Is SQLite Having a Moment?
Been using it for most of my small DIY projects. It's fast, portable and simple.
lobito25··on Ask HN: What's your biggest regret in life?
None
lobito25··on Show HN: I built a TV like website for Indian nostalgic shows
Awesome :)
lobito25··on [dead]
It seems signal is implementing a new type of login that doesn't require a phone number and some people privacy advocates are celebrating. I'm truly confused by this. Why are they cheering for a new login that needs to be paid using a credit card?!
lobito25··on Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime
For completion, I decided to make device to device connections an opt-in feature that requires 2fa enabled to log into the account. AUP was also rephrased to make a clear distinction between prevention and identification.
lobito25··on Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime
You're right on both counts.

My Mullvad comparison was focused on the credential, not on the LAN model. Brute forcing the account was never the issue, I missed the point about device-to-device was the real threat, fair point. I'm starting implementing LAN connections as opt-in, not default.

Second point, you're also right, because I was mixing prevent and identify, preventions shouldn't need logs, we can't take an IP address and a timestamp and attach a user to it, and the AUP imply something else, I'll rephrase this.

lobito25··on Implementing a Funding Rate Arbitrage Strategy with Minute-Level Backtesting
I couldn't understand the concept of "before the market open" on a crypto currency context.
lobito25··on Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime
yeah the account number is basically the mullvad model, 16 digits, no email no password. its a tradeoff, i know some people hate it. login is rate limited server side so you cant just sit there hammering numbers at it. is it weaker than a long passphrase? probably yeah. the flip side is theres no personal info sitting in a database for someone to leak, or for someone to show up with a subpoena for.

on the local network point, thats only your own devices seeing each other. traffic between different customers is blocked.

logs, our thing is reactive, we're not sitting there watching everything. we act when we get an abuse report. some of it is just blocked structurally anyway, port 25 is closed so no spam is coming out of there. and we keep zero logs. child abuse material, account gets terminated if we get a credible report or a legal notice, but we dont proactively scan, thats not really possible when the traffic is encrypted and theres nothing logged to scan in the first place. the only thing counted is aggregate bytes per account for the quota and the trial. not what, not where.

and honestly, this is a one person project. code needs cleanup, secrets and config need to come out, and it needs a proper security pass before its safe to publish.

lobito25··on Show HN: SmokeVPN – All-in-One WireGuard VPN Hub – Switch Exits in Realtime
I didn't mention on the original post, but the server currently has 84 exit servers in 45 countries.
lobito25··on The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught
I'm not buying the solo guy job hacktivist, not even close, this was gov level hacks, and the consequences of the hacks also point to this.
lobito25··on ICC chief prosecutor removed from post over sexual misconduct allegations
Another chosen people entrapment...
lobito25··on Show HN: Internet Speed Atlas, a browser-measured ranking of 119 countries
Unreliable speed test and data.
lobito25··on Anthropic banned my thirteen 20x accounts, what now?
What's your business?
lobito25··on Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
Wikipedia is biased for many years. Check the donations list, and you'll find the chosen...
lobito25··on World Cup fans frustrated by 'confusing and expensive' tipping culture in US
Employers found another way to make the customers pay for their employees salary.
lobito25··on Polymarket Paid Dozens to Post Videos of Themselves 'Winning' with Fake Bets
Class action lawsuit on the way...
lobito25··on Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators
Bait from polymarket to get new users, They should get sued.
lobito25··on Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund
Destroy and rebuild, that's the whole point of war.
lobito25··on Standardization and price adjustment of our server products effective 15 June
Hetzner exodus.
lobito25··on GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits
Are you sure?
lobito25··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
You're also dying since you were born.
lobito25··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Ironically, your comment seems to perfectly reflect the viewpoint you're criticizing.
lobito25··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Anyone, voluntarily installing a spy browser like Google Chrome on their devices, deserves this and much more.
lobito25··on Urban birds are more scared of women than men – but scientists don't know why
They know...
lobito25··on Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play
Why doesn't DDLC release a webapp bypassing app stores?
lobito25··on [dead]
Stripe is a scamming company, they learned how to steal from their customers with paypal. Never, ever, trust Stripe with your business transactions or funds.
lobito25··on Someone has publicly leaked an exploit kit that can hack iPhones
Apple's trying to sell more devices.
lobito25··on Show HN: Porcfolio, Obsidian-like personal finance
Very poor name choice imo. On 99.99% of the time, search engines will correct you. Not to mention porc, which is, among other bad things, associated with dirty.
lobito25··on Show HN: Optimizing reading for fluency in Japanese through genre-specific media
Trash
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