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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Since my airvpn test month expired, I’ve just bought a Njalla subscription. Here are my experiences:

    Pro:

    • Payment via PayPal or cryptocurrency
    • Same price as Mullvad (5€/month)
    • Static IPv4 and v6, allows you to forward any port
    • Torrenting just worked (including port forwarding)
    • No VPN application, just use vanilla OpenVPN or Wireguard
    • Does not throttle my internet speed (I only have 50MBit/s, so I cannot really test VPN performance. Definitely better than AirVPN though)

    Contra:

    • Requires E-Mail address/XMPP to create an account
    • Only one client. If you need to access your VPN from multiple devices at the same time, you need to buy multiple subscriptions
    • Only Swedish servers

    Conclusion: for my usecase (Raspberry-Pi-based torrent box) Njalla looks great. If you want to use it on multiple devices or need to circumvent geoblocks, you should look for a different service.






  • You can access ZFS snapshots from the hidden .zfs folder at the root dir of your volume. From there you can restore individual files.

    There is also a command line tool (httm) that lists all snapshotted versions of a files and allows you to restore them.

    If the snapshot you want to restore from is on a remote machine, you can either send it over or scp/rsync the files from the .zfs directory.







  • If the reason for the ban is massive server load due to content scraping for AI models, that could become an issue for the fediverse as well. Our infrastructure is funded by donations and has much less performance and resiliency than big tech companies.

    We might reach a point where the negative impacts on the environment caused by AI outweigh the benefits, just like it already happened with blockchains.



  • Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):

    Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

    Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.