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No one is coming to save you. Nostrich since 768952.

C’était inevitable que cela arrive. Et cela s’intègre avec le plan de l’UE (encore en débat) de faire un asset registry pour toutes les possessions de chacun (pour pouvoir mieux contrôler et taxer).

First snow of the year

The world etalon for tres leches can be bought at Galletería de Laura R en Santiago de Chile. Nirvanesque.

This might be the last straw for me in order to decide to leave the EU.

I think we're swimming against the tide and it won't be long before most jurisdictions adopt these anti-privacy tools, but I won't give up without a fight.

Just this PM I was gathering documents to request an alternative residence out of the EU.

After many decades taking photos, I think the best camera is the camera you have with you. I take many more interesting photos with my iPhone than when I had reflex cameras even though the quality is not as good.

Replying to Avatar Cyph3rp9nk

It is a shame that people do not understand Christianity with the importance it deserves.

It is not about believing or not believing, nor is it about the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is a private institution; the Catholic Church is not Christianity.

It's about the fact that your street is probably named after a Christian saint, that your holidays honor Christian saints and virgins, that your monuments honor Christianity, that your values and culture come from Christianity.

Do you want to renounce your entire past? Do you want to renounce the meaning of everything around you? That's fine with me, but don't force me to do the same.

I am not a believer in the usual sense; I do not believe that Jesus was the son of God, but I do believe that Jesus was a revolutionary for his time and has much in common with Bitcoiners.

My god is a more transcendental figure that arises from the metaphysical doubt that someone must have created this perfect mathematical order in which we exist.

But despite this, I understand and respect Christianity because it is my culture and because it has more good than bad. The word of Jesus is love, forgiveness, compassion, generosity, peace, and harmony. Tell me, what's wrong with that?

And yes, of course, religions have been there to dominate man because man without beliefs and rules is a savage who destroys and kills. Man needs order, moral laws to prevent his decline, and discipline so as not to fall into the temptation of disorder.

Drilling somewhere between Ortega y Gasset and Donoso Cortés 😉 🧨

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I finally got it right using sonic toothbrush and waterpik. That duo changed it all.

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After seriously using VPNs for several weeks now, I have realised they are an illusion.

Sites like ChatGPT get stuck in an infinite Cloudflare loop verifying your humanity while using a VPN, the second you turn off your VPN, the test completes. I have noticed this on several sites served by Cloudflare.

Other sites like Audible redirect you to your physical country of origin even when using a VPN and on a desktop machine without the aid of GPS.

This means any site is capable of detecting which country you are physically in and whether you’re using a VPN or not, the only question is whether they are incentivised to do so.

For sites like YouTube or X, they don’t currently care so will reflect the country your VPN reports to them in terms of country logo and content language.

For sites like Porn, who actually want your business, they will happily accept your VPN status.

But for sites like ChatGPT or Audible, who generate a better service by knowing where you are, they easily detect your physical location despite a VPN.

Lastly VPNs used by default degrade your general online experience.

Search results are returned in your VPNs exit node location and language, so if your VPN is set to Finland and you’re asking for coffee shops, you’ll get results shown in Finnish for coffee shops in Helsinki.

YouTube will bias recommendations based on your VPNs local language and location

Shopping sites will show products priced in your VPN exits country.

And many sites know you’re using a VPN and will simply refuse to show you anything while you continue to do so.

As an experiment, I set my VPN exit node to the UK, where I’m actually based, and suddenly many UK sites, like the BBC, stopped working because they knew I was using a VPN.

Peer to peer VPNs, like MysteriumDark mitigate this by exiting through users home broadband connections, but this is still easily detected by any service such as Audible who know where you are physically located. N.B. this knowledge is not based on GPS data, as this happens on desktop computers with no GPS.

In conclusion, VPNs only work to bypass restrictions because the service providers are either ambivalent or incentivised to ignore them.

Thank you for this depressing but true review of VPN usage as an escape to Online Safety Act. Note I do watch every year the Crucible Snooker Championship on BBC from continental Europe through a VPN and it works fine.

Still no plan to ship to Europeans from Europe in order to avoid duties?

That's all I'm waiting for in order to press Buy 😉