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I built TunnelBuddy (tunnnelbuddy.net) just for this. I am the same: citizen of one country and resident of another. I have multiple friends and family where I am from. I get them …

Here is a demo of TunnelBuddy: an Electron app which lets one trusted friend share their internet connection with you over a P2P HTTPS proxy built on WebRTC. It’s in the same spiri…

Hosting your VPN is a fair bit of work. Plus, you need residential IP too which you don't really have if you host on any Cloud Provider. I had the same issue and decided to build T…

Fair point! - With a TURN/relay, you’re introducing a single, purpose-built box that: - sees all the tunnel metadata for many users (IP pairs, timing, volume), - is easy to log at …

I ended up building something in this space recently (TunnelBuddy – https://www.tunnelbuddy.net I’m the author) that lets you use a friend’s machine as an exit node over WebRTC. On…

I’m definitely open to open-sourcing it, just not immediately. I’d like to stabilise it, run a beta, and fix the most obvious flaws first.

Hi HN, I'm Oli, a solo dev. I’ve been working on TunnelBuddy, a small desktop app that lets you expose your home internet as an HTTPS proxy to a trusted buddy over a WebRTC peer-to…

It's striking how much of the AI conversation focuses on new use cases, while overlooking one of the most serious non-financial costs: privacy. I try to be mindful of what I share …

I find it problematic that this article recommends disabling DoH, which leaves users with unencrypted DNS — still centralized (e.g. to Google’s 8.8.8.8 or an ISP) and now vulnerabl…

Thanks for taking a look! Don't hesitate to ask should you have any questions or recommendations!

The new release of ChatGPT last week was all over the News and Social Medias. I wondered if I could bring that power to Slack with minimal effort, and sure enough was able to get s…

We recently had to move away from Amplify unfortunately. Here are some examples of problems we faced: * Building Issues we consistently have release problems that ends up taking a …

Energy & emissions are complex to account for. I don’t know too much about the US but in France we had quite good results in term of reductions. But where do they come from? From t…

Is your hostname added to /etc/hosts?

More than a decade ago, the EU forced Microsoft to let people choose their browser on a Windows machine with a fresh install. Not only that but the list of choices was randomly sor…

This reminded me of Sheldon hacking a GPS (The Big Bang Theory) https://youtu.be/WreaEJDyk7M?t=50s

Learning Meditation is related to this, not because it brings new Schemas or modify existing ones but rather, because it trains to be more detached from them. After all, the very g…

I don't see many people criticising here quite frankly. As per your comment, you are right: if there is a kernel bug and you'd rather restart your computer to quickly get back to w…