Interesting. I'm currently looking to migrate from Hugo to Zola. Personally I feel like I grok the configuration and templating options for Zola better than I do for Hugo.
I got a good chuckle out of some of the titles. In Jeff Geerling's defence (the title on the site reads "Rich developer spends $15k to run a model slightly faster"), he was loaned the Mac Studios from Apple and so he didn't spend a dime.
Also his accompanying YouTube video mentions the kit retails for $40,000+, a far cry from $15k.
I'm glad I came back to this on desktop, I initially tried visiting the site on mobile and of course nothing loaded, so I dismissed it and moved on. Seeing now what the site is actually about, holy shit it's impressive.
FYI I saw some references to Goldeneye in the GitHub repo, so we might see it up on the site (hopefully) soon.
That may be your use case, but it by no means it's reflective of anyone else's. I live in a country that actively blocks and limits your connectivity to (ordinarily) public websites. Choosing an exit point that's in a different country is very relevant and important.
You are in the minority. Most folks that subscribe to VPNs are folks in the US, Canada, EU, and other "First World" countries. (I had a source a while back for something completely unrelated, however I didn't save it)
I'm not discounting you at ALL, I'm simply stating that the majority of traffic originate from these countries. Most of these folks just want to hide their IP address for various reasons. Privacy, Piracy, etc. Most don't care if it's in the next largest city, they just don't want it to appear to come from them.
Folks in countries like yours will likely pick endpoints to bypass the government. Folks up to nefarious stuff like cracking web sites, social media influencing, etc. will likely pick the target country more carefully. Anyone else? Whatever is the default.
I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why. They were pitched an idea as a way to solve privacy issues, block ads, etc. and they signed up for it. The software suggested a low latency link, and they went with the default.
The ads for a lot of VPN providers literally use scare tactics to sell the masses on the idea.
Last time I checked the UK was considered a first world country.
Edit: I commented earlier that I never considered myself part of the market that VPN companies hawk their services to. I've been living in the UK for 5 years now and the number of sites that have become unavailable to me are material and concerning for what their abolishment means for free speech. I'm as square as they come, if I feel this strongly you bet others do too.
> I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why.
Really this is the answer to half of the comments on this thread.
> I recognize this is a hard concept to understand for folks on this site, but the average joe signing up for a VPN doesn't even remotely understand what they are doing and why.
So what? This article isn’t for them and this isn’t a major news site for the general public, it’s a site for people who want or need to know how things work.
I get advertisements for VPN providers almost everywhere. I've never been interested, but I do subscribe to Mullvad via Tailscale. So, I'm thankful and appreciative that they did their due diligence and partnered with a reputable provider. I've been very happy with the service.
Edit: Welp. How could this possibly be my most downvoted comment. Am I not entitled to an opinion? I ain't no AI.
I work for IPinfo. We provide IP geolocation and VPN detection services. We identify which IP addresses are associated with a VPN and the actual location of the IP address.
We have not collaborated with any VPN companies for the report and have not even requested permission or pre-draft approvals. We had the data of what we were seeing and published a report based on that. We have published a ton of resources around the nature of VPN location in the past. Our focus is on data accuracy and transparency.
After the article was published, we received feedback from only a single VPN provider - Windscribe (https://x.com/ipinfo/status/1998440767170212025). I do not think anyone from Mullvad, iVPN, or any other VPN company has reached out to our team or our founder yet.
We are happy to take feedback and comments and are even open to a follow-up!
I couldn't tell you the exact details (I'm only passingly familiar with how it works myself), but you'd almost certainly want to start by looking into web assembly.
I found a-Shell's documentation[1] quite interesting, it describes their use of web assembly and offers some practical tips for compiling stuff so it can work in a sandboxed environment.
[1] https://github.com/quoid/userscripts
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