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Seems like it was just a few days ago I post an internet story about an over engineered toaster….

Yeah this. This is totally what I was totally thinking

There are a lot of assumptions here but is 100 the drinking age for elves because that number seemed pulled from someone’s ass.

In all seriousness I’ve wondered if living that long would actually make you mature slower or at the same rate. It’s like Grogu in the Mandalorian is around 50 but still acts like a toddler.

What they don’t tell you about 5 hour energy is that 4 of them will be on the toilet.

See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

That fact that there is a term for it is just as depressing.

This war was always offensive. Just in a different sense of the word.

So aggregate data is fine but personally identifiable data is not. Cool… TIL.

How is that not a HIPPA violation?

You know if this was a real product somebody would have bought it.

God I hope not. Our society is fucked if it is.

I mean what does a gamer look like? 35 year old neck beard? I mean I’m a 55 year old dude that’s been playing games since I was 6 years old. Do I look like a gamer?

Find somebody playing a game. Look at them. That’s what a gamer looks like. FFS it ain’t that hard.

Sorta the same but using headscale. So yeah wireguard with extra steps.

Shhh! Don’t give them freakin’ ideas!!! :)

I hate how true this is….

You’re right they could. But I’m a systems architect who deals with university wide networks so I know what a cluster fuck that would be. It would be absolutely unmanageable. I’d wager there is no way in hell they are gonna do that.

I’m hopeful that an adult in the room is going to show how unworkable this is gonna be but who knows.

At this point I feel like I have more in common with the Iranian people than I do my own government.

Yeah this was exactly my point. And this only works if the IPs for the VPN are fairly static. I have no idea if they are. But given that I have heard discussions about doing this I assume that is the case. I mean I have done exactly this (using a VPS) to get around some of the restrictions I see.

Well that’s the problem. If you’re on a VPN, the site doesn’t know where you’re coming from. So either all VPN services ban Utah, or all websites ban VPNs. It’s a very insidious ploy to ban any anonymity on the internet. It’s essentially letting Utah set the rules for the entire network. And it doesn’t really work anyway. I can create a VPS and set up tailscale or something similar and all my traffic goes through that server. No block of knowable VPN IPs that a website can block. So either Utah blocks all services like tailscale, which is not going to happen, or this is just pointless.

If two computers are connected to the same network, there will always be a way around these sort of restrictions.