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I’m not sure I’m comfortable idolizing someone living like this

Perhaps we need one that does the opposite, for the real site



It became less of a choice for many after they sadly had to disable port forwarding.


Yeah, their reasoning is solid (easy to abuse) but it is still a very useful feature.

AFAIK, at the moment your choices are AirVPN and ProtonVPN. AirVPN has static port forwarding and Proton has UPNP port forwarding.


private internet access has port forwarding too


PIA is not to be trusted after their buyout, IMHO


Currently using airVPN, but ye gods, their eddie client is atrocious on linux. I wind up using wg / nmcli, but then have to block traffic going outside of the vpn with iptable rules because it leaks for some reason.

I miss mullvad dearly, and I might try proton after my 3y sub is up.


Not only Eddie, their account control panels and site in general look like something from the 90s, and it seriously hampers their business. I can't recommend them to anyone that isn't highly technical. And even then, as a technical user, why do I manually have to select one of 10-20 servers within a city or region, why am I being asked to manually load balance? Why is there no Wireguard over port 53 or 443?

It makes more sense when you know they're privacy activists first, businessmen second. But Mullvad shows you can be pro privacy and still offer great UX and a sleek site and client.

Btw, if you're managing things in CLI, you could take a look at their Hummingbird Suite. AFAIK it has a killswitch.

What sucks with Proton is that you can't share the VPN account with friends, because it is tied to your Proton account. They should create a vpn.proton.me subdomain that you can create a special managed account on that can only touch the VPN settings.


>Btw, if you're managing things in CLI, you could take a look at their Hummingbird Suite. AFAIK it has a killswitch.

Hummingbird doesn't support wireguard iirc, which is a deal breaker


They're planning to introduce OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO) support to more servers once Linux 6.18 starts becoming more mainstream.

With DCO, OpenVPN can perform almost as well as Wireguard, sometimes even better. Although with more performance overhead so not the best choice for laptops and phones.

Tangentially related but I kind of wish Wireguard looked more toward the future and had included AES as alternative to ChaCha20. At the time of development, many ARM devices didn't yet have AES acceleration which is why ChaCha20 was needed for wide hardware support, but they do since ARMv8 which became widespread in 2015. Intel and AMD have had AES acceleration for a long time. And then ChaCha20 would have been the fallback on MIPS and RISC-V.


Would be cool to see the source code. Is that saved anywhere other than that floppy in the museum?



I found screentime does work - I activated it for my spouse and only I know the PIN. It limits her social media and YT time to 45m/day.


There are a few uncensored public access LLMs to ask these questions.

This is interesting work to break guardrails, but if the goal is to access this information of harmful content, in the end, I would be looking for other easier solutions.


The goal isn't to access harmful content, that's just how they're demonstrating that this technique can bypass the alignment training. The general case is what's interesting. If the agent you're using to manage the safety controls in your nuclear reactor is trusting it's alignment training to prevent it from doing something dangerous you've made a really bad architecture decision, and this is a showcase of how it could fail.


Could you tell what these uncensored LLMs are?


The Orca work out of IIRC Microsoft Research was producing models like the Dolphin Mixtral. They always punch way above their weight in coding tasks for the same reason good hackers skew irreverent: self-censorship is capability reducing.


Searching for "abliterated" or "uncensored" on Huggingface reveals a ton of fine-tuned models. Add "LLM" as a suffix and put it in your favorite search engine and you'll find a bunch more.


I have no idea what the answer to this question is, but I am waiting for someone to fine-tune the equivalent of an “anarchist cookbook” LLM that’s optimized to help people produce harmful things.


there are quite a few. llama 3.1 uncensored is probably one of the most famous, IIRC


Trackers are not relics - they're used exclusively in private tracker websites. Public-access torrents would more commonly use DHT and PEX for discovery.


But also private trackers are far from popular these days. Even if I’m a heavy user, but I know it’s a niche.


How would you explain performance improvements? Enabling new hardware or new use cases that existing systems do not support?


That sounds just like reducing a cost center to the point where new things become viable?


Many websites do this. Facebook resets your feed sorting preferences, as does LinkedIn (sort by Recent, then refresh the page, it will be Top again).


I used to have a cronjob to change them to what I want daily. Only worked for sites with an API, but was better than the user hostile "we know your preferences better than you" garbage.


With Facebook, you can get around this by bookmarking https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr and going there instead. It's worked reliably for years - though there's now so little of value there it hardly matters, I suppose.



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