Carl Dong → obscura.net
@carldong.me
Building @obscura.net, former Bitcoin Core contributor
France is... based? (updating priors) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
French Top Court Gets It Right, Strikes Down Social Media Ban For
In a welcome win for free expression, France’s top court has struck down the country’s legislation that banned social media use for people under 15 years old, which had been scheduled to take effect
eff.org
Heard through the grapevines that this VPN is actually good, idk might try it out.
Obscura VPN@obscura.net · 3d agoHUGE ANNOUNCEMENT: Obscura VPN is now on Windows 🥳 To celebrate, we're offering 25% off any Obscura subscription or top-up with code WINDOWS26 THAT'S NOT ALL: Every user now gets 5 simultaneous devices! (up from 3 before) 👇 Links below
What should we change "Traffic is vulnerable" to? Feels a bit too alarmist RN.
Is it legal to send marketing emails like this w/o an option to unsubscribe? I never asked for this, and at minimum it's a dick move.
CAPTCHAs in 2028: Draw an SVG of an Axolotl driving a Honda Civic who just got pulled over.
Quiz time: how many directories does the following command create on the myhost machine (assuming no existing directories): ssh myhost -- mkdir -- "dir" "one more directory"
Yesterday, for the first time since 2008 (17+ years), warrantless spying of Americans using FISA Section 702 ended. This is huge, and definitely cause to celebrate! 🥳
All regular expressions are irregular expressions (Given that you can hardly tell if it’s BRE, ERE, or PCRE)
If you use a YubiKey for ssh (via gpg-agent's ssh suppport), you probably see this error often when your YubiKey is unplugged. /1
Woke up in a cold sweat. Dreamt that they added a new flag to virt-install: virt-install --age-verifier 😖
Back in my day you needed a 9/11 to trick people into giving up civil liberties.
ISPs can't even spy on your TLS traffic without breaking your internet. Obscura VPN users unaffected.
Every Cloudflare outage makes me wonder: Can we develop an open-source, local Cloudflare? Modern tooling/packet bypasses like XDP and BPF surely lower the barrier-to-entry to meaningful DDoS protection significantly.
User data is toxic waste. Companies that don't treat it as such are ngmi.
🎉 BIG NEWS: Obscura is now on iOS! Obscura engineering team remains undefeated, even against the goliath that is App Store Review and In-App Purchases. We'll do a blog post about this someday, so folks can learn from our battle scars!
Obscura VPN@obscura.net · last yr.HUGE RELEASE: Obscura VPN is now on iOS 🥳 📱 Now you can use the VPN that can't log, won't lag, and works anywhere ON THE GO! 🔗 Our website: obscura.net 📱 iOS App Store: apps.apple.com/app/obscura...
Anyone know of folks that have worked with the Android `VpnService` API?
> Apple: Confirming that you've fixed X, only Y needs fixes > Us: We've now fixed Y > Apple: Please fix X > Us: You literally just confirmed that we already fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added) > Us: Here's proof we fixed X > Apple: Please fix X (no details added)
British lawmakers are buying their VPN subs with taxpayer money… and telling the same taxpayers not to use VPNs. You cannot make this shit up.
“We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place.” – A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto An open and private internet is more important than ever. That's what we fight for at @obscura.net
A Remote Access Trojan Malware was found in packages for Librewolf, Firefox, and Zen Browser last week 😰 If you were an Arch Linux users who tried to install these browsers via patched packages in the AUR, please check your system!
NEW in v1.128: Location Switching in the Menu Bar A lot of you have asked for this, and it's finally here! Switch between your pinned locations and Quick Connect right from your menu bar! (See video below) Felix the friendly bot will miss you, but he understands ☺️
