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Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
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Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s another good example of internet sentiment being far different to popular sentiment. Polling shows around 70% supported it, though far fewer thought it would be effective. Pretty much matches my views on it.
This little "solution" might be fine for .. imgur .. but it shows your nation is well into the authoritarian descent. And there's no where left in the western world to move to either ... It's not a slippery slope, it's a landslide.
We legally have to keep porn on the top shelf in opaque packaging too in any shop where under 18s are allowed.
I mean, it's basically a police state.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#123This is the correct way to make exceptions for hostnames, not policy based routing on a router that merely translates hostnames to IPs, IPs which could be shared by 1000s of services and thus a much wider whitelist than you wanted. Nice
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#124> Second, even if I installed a VPN on my main machine, what about my phone? My laptop? My desktop? Every device would need the VPN running, and I’d have to remember to connect it before browsing. It’s messy. This is what routers are for. My router (a cheap fanless box with several network ports running linux) is the only thing on my network that knows there's a VPN. I can selectively route whatever I want through it…
This is it. For years, I had a stable IPSec connection from Germany to the US, where packets would be routed selectively for the convenience of web browsing without geo-blocks. It was a bit excessive for what it did, but the technical challenge of trying it was worth it. [1]
[1]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2021-11-19_pfsense_opnsense_ipsec_c...
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling s…
And in the end, 90% of people will throw it in the trash with everything else. I'm actually in the other 10%, but I live in the middle of a big city where I have electronic waste container like 300m away. Btw, that's an awful website. I like simple minimalistic websites, but some people confuse "simple" with "give literally 0 fucks about the reader" and then I have 50-word long lines to read on my 32" monitor. Just p…
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
That'd be "split tunnel/VPN" by domain name, and usually it's limited to HTTP/S requests (because the hostname comes with the petition header), but some vendors (like ZScaler) do tricks to apply it to different protocols. For example, the equivalent in Tailscale would be an "App Connector": https://tailscale.com/kb/1342/app-connectors-setup#add-a-cus...
This is all new to me, but seems odd (startup idea?) why there isn't a SaaS letting me accomplish this on iPhone in a few minutes. (a few youtube searches for 'how to split VPN' are hopelessly theoretical as opposed to practical) E.g. I'd definitely pay $10/month for an app that lets me input domains and which country to re-route traffic through. E.g. a handful of social media apps via US (my country has age verifica…
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Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#128This can be done on UniFi using policy based routing too trivially if anyone wants to repeat this. Instructions using the unifi mobile app as it’s what I have to hand: 1) download wireguard conf file from vpn provider. On mobile app settings -> vpn client -> add new -> wireguard. Upload the file and save it 2) settings -> policy engine -> policy based routes. New. Select what to route -> specific traffic. Source = al…
The only downside is this doesn’t work if you have IPv6 enabled as UniFi Network still allows those to bypass the VPN. I ended up making a long list of firewall rules to block specific sites IPv6 ranges, which worked until I hit cloudflare backed sites. I’m really hoping UniFi start supporting IPv6 WireGuard soon.
Wow, this is unbelievable. I thought UniFi was a premier networking product. Certainly its price would suggest so. Not supporting IPv6 in 2025 is unacceptable.
Re: Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a heads up that PC Engines is winding down. The chip they use in the APU2 is EOL, and they've decided to shut down altogether. https://pcengines.ch/eol.htm
Wildly ironic that an EU company doesn't ship to the EU. Regulatory compliance shouldn't be hard. The idea is to quell negative externalities, not to shut off innovation itself. > Because of unbelievably bureaucratic recycling regulations, PC Engines will NOT sell directly to end users within the EU. https://pcengines.ch/order.htm > EU - a single market ? > Far from it, there are separate registration and recycling s…
Well maybe if they cared a bit more about customers they wouldn't be needing to wind down
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's been eye-opening how far-reaching Imgur really is - for example, some of the images on the Core Devices (the new Pebble folks) website are actually on Imgur. This simple block is relatively trivial to bypass - but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break.
> but if they disappear tomorrow, a lot of things break. Tale as old as time, long-running forums are graveyards of dead Photobucket, Tinypic and Imageshack embeds. Imgur has lasted longer than most but the cycle will probably repeat eventually, especially since they were acquired by faceless corpos a few years ago.
> Imgur has lasted longer than most
They did a big data purge years ago, and were already enshittified almost a decade before that.