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Tinker Tuesday for January 7, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

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I rented a VPS and set up my own VPN. Actually, they had a VPN server template that I used.

The only websites that aren't happy with it are imgur and redgifs and even they, I think, are triggered by something in my VPN setup and not its IP. I should try curling them from the host.

I see. Something that I too had once upon a time, at the beginning of the crackdown those years ago. But now I'd need to gather strength to look into the eyes of the easiest conduit of transborder payments for me after having let him down, though.

This VPN protocol is also both an assurance of access to information for the technically knowledgeable, and an anxiety about the way that access can be decisively closed. Make every SSL/TLS connection mandatorily registered with RKN at one of the two ends, and it's game over. Banking, commerce, WFH, they go on, unsanctioned activities not so much.