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The "just wifi" is about getting your true geolocation so regulated gaming platforms can operate legally. Ironically, I bet whatever API they use can be intercepted by a kernel level process.

They also have VM checks. I "accidentally" logged into MGM from a virtual machine. They put my account on hold and requested I write a "liability statement" stating I would delete all "location altering software" and not use it again. (Really!)


Mullvad uses both OpenVPN and Wireguard


And the site seems to tend to detect mullvad's wireguard as 'openvpn' while mullvad's openvpn is undetected by it. Perhaps that's what the parent is referring to.


That would make sense because it didn't detect Mullvad's openvpn for me.


At the bottom of Settings > Camera, there is a setting called “Macro Control”.

If enabled, it displays an icon when the lenses are auto swapped and pressing it swaps them back.



The full name of the company seems to be “Rust for Javascript Developers Ltd”

Disclaimer: I hate Oracle


RustScript LLC sounds better


Anecdotally, I’ve shown VR to 15 or 20 people and nobody has gotten motion sick or felt nauseous.

One person got dizzy, but only when guardian became visible.


> What about uploading every binary you run to their server to check if its “approved”?

My understanding was macOS only checked the signature of third party executables before first run.

Windows may let you run it first, but any unknown executable (not just a hash, the file itself) gets sent to Microsoft by default. [0]

[0] https://medium.com/sensorfu/how-my-application-ran-away-and-...


Yet those types of organizations are already scraping this data behind the scenes. Twitter’s API restrictions hurt well intentioned actors.


I wonder how open and shut those DUI cases really are. In Michigan, they’ve recently discovered their THC test would return positive with the presence of CBD.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2022/08/michigan-polic...


I was thinking the same thing, but wouldn’t these be okay if his workload is mainly WORM?


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