Is there any serious website that reviews (rank list) these VPNs? I say this because it is always difficult to find information that is not sponsored on the internet. In fact, I've always heard that Mullvad is one of the best, even supporting P2P
These rankings are going to be meaningless and littered with blog spam. VPNs as a category are mostly snake oil. The only real world use for vpns is circumventing censorship if you live in a place that censors. The only privacy you're gaining is that from your ISP.
But you are giving very little to the ISP to begin with. You can use encrypted DNS and most web content has TLS. The only gap there is SNI, which we should be able to close with TLS ECH. I don't know why ECH has been so slow to roll out.
Encrypted DNS is certainly an improvement, but it's only as anonymous as the IP address you are connecting to.
I am not aware of any firewalls that enforce the rule 'only attempt to connect to massively-shared cloud IPs that can't be easily subject to a reverse DNS lookup'.
I don't think that's the only real world use for VPNs. For instance, you might be working remote from a foreign country and not want your employer to know that. It's not something that I would recommend, but you know it happens.
Yup. I am in awe of what a great job VPN providers have done marketing this stuff to people, just how utter convinced they are they need them.
It's next level marketing and it's amazing. Making an entire market almost overnight out of nothing.
How so? If Mullavad says about their no-loggind policy[0], they couldn't help any authorities that are asking about particular IP and particular timestamp. Obviously doesn't save you from Mossad spies under your bed, but it seems to be a big deal nevertheless. Isn't it so?
I get what you're getting at, but no, in hindsight, I like my privacy and security watchdogs to be transparent. Like Bruce Schneier. And for a counterexample, Satoshi. I lost my trust in anonymous randos, for authenticity, I like someone with a professional face and contact info.
There are many differences, starting with the public image. As far as I know, in the US, the Supreme Court is seen as people with ethics and known legal knowledge. In Brazil, they are political appointees. Furthermore, for many, they go beyond the limits and sometimes legislate.
Interesting. Claude has (at least in my tests) best results than GitHub Copilot. About using in IntelliJ, I read some people talking about changing the Java Boot. Do you know what configuration I need to change?
"Keep in mind you currently may have to change your Java Boot Runtime for the IDE to make it work."
Seems to be interesting. Unfortunately, I can't run anything local with reasonable time response. By the way, I need to search again about this, maybe de Llama local runs better now with recent improvements on the model.
Ah this brings back memories. When I was in college with limited money, I used to pirate movies and most of them didn't have subtitles and I used to daydream of writing a VLC plug-in which would real time generate subtitles. But I had better things to do like play video games...
I agree, and it's strange to see 'Copilot' everywhere. By the way, does anyone know how the development/update of GitHub Copilot is going? I tried to look for a blog from the engineering team or something similar, but I can't find anything.
Some months ago, I had problems with captcha. I tried to write an application to access many drugstores and compare the price, but captcha with login system fail the mission.
Not sure about the currently available tools, given the break-neck speed of AI progress, but a couple of years ago I built a scraper that used a captcha-solving service, they sell something like 1000 solutions for $10, it was super cheap. The process was a bit slow because they were using humans to solve the captchas, but it worked really well
About whisper, anyone knows a project (github) about using the model in real-time? I'm studying a new language, and it appears to be a good chance to use and learning pronunciation vs. word.
I think another big problem is pharmacies. The amount of data shared with health insurance companies must be huge.