> As of Monday morning, half of the top ten free apps in Apple's app download charts in the UK appeared to be for VPN services.
> Proton VPN, an app offered by Swiss privacy tech firm Proton, told the BBC it had seen a 1800% spike in UK daily sign-ups over the weekend after age check rules took effect on Friday.
Marketing network security products is usually hard. Not any more. The practical effect of these so-called protection laws is to break shit across the entire Internet.
Last I checked, many of the top free VPNs on the App Store were dodgy no-name ones that probably funnel traffic through Russia. Well done UK government you saved the children.
I’ve seen people do this on the router level with a proxy, with imgur being the example - all other traffic just went as normal but imgur traffic was sent through a VPN.
However it was a very complicated setup with many parts and a home server so I would definitely like to see a proper app built around this that just handles everything for you.
You just have to not look at your phone. I don’t mean “rotate your head away”, I mean just don’t look at it with your eyes. If your eyes aren’t looking at the phone it won’t unlock.
I’ve heard stories of people using the Meta smart glasses to help with reduced vision, i.e. asking the LLM assistant what you’re looking at, asking it to read a label, etc. The LLM assistant can see the camera feed so it is capable of doing that.
However things like the urgent warnings you mentioned don’t exist yet.
Hearing about the way people with bad vision use these glasses kind of changed my viewpoint on them to be honest; for the average person it might seem useless to be able to ask an LLM about what you’re looking at, but looking at it from an accessibility standpoint it seems like a really good idea.
This is just different syntax for nesting function calls (i.e. c(b(a(value))) becomes value | a | b | c), right? Definitely would make code more readable if this was just something in JS or a compiler where it’s the same as normally calling functions.
Honestly this is why I like what Cloudflare is building nowadays. They aren’t just a CDN but rather they’re becoming a full on cloud, like AWS and Azure are - except their developer experience is just so incredibly better than any other cloud
One thing I like about Cloudflare is that each product makes sense on its own, not like AWS: go make access policies in one place, ACLs in another, and before you know it you have no idea how anything works without taking an AWS Certified Consultant course.
Cloudflare feels like separate silos, each individually complete and usable. And the “minimum viable path to make-this-work” is usually 1-2 button presses, rather than filling in pages and pages of configs.
I also love that Cloudflare is scoped under each domain, it helps keep my projects separate.
My experience is pretty much the opposite. Bad support for common APIs like S3, terrible support for terraform/opentofu, none/lackluster help in support or github issues.
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