My org disables Siri on the work laptop, I’m new to having a mac at work, so not sure if it’s the norm

My work does the same thing. Logging into iCloud is not allowed and last I checked, it was actually disabled. So that means no Siri, Facetime, etc.

Grandma smiling from heaven

There's an excellent youtube video that discusses this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEvBpjCOBu0

This video makes the point that the technology was also developed by Corning (allegedly independently, though I am skeptical that it independently came up with the concept, given that the video claims that the Superfest process was patented), which was likewise unsuccessful in finding a market for it until Apple came looking for a tough screen for its iPhone.

Thanks for these rules, as a budding engineer, this is very insightful. Will look forward to your video.

The size of business with GCP is very less compared to Azure.

Source?

There is a lot of malpractice in developing countries like China & India wrt black market kidney trade. I wish this becomes mainstream.

So VPN?

To me the best access way is the Telegram bot. Fast, keeps your files easily accessible and is shared with other devices.

I think just changing your DNS resolver to google/cloudflare still works?

It doesn't currently work when accessing The Pirate Bay (at least using Virgin Media). I have my DNS resolver set to Cloudflare and I get sent to https://assets.virginmedia.com/site-blocked.html. Manually setting the records in my home DNS server does not work either.

I found that Vodafone broadband was intercepting my DNS requests to Cloudflare. Using cloudflared[0] to enable DoH on my pi-hole resolved this.

[0] https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

Thanks! Will look into that.

Even more insidious sometimes is that Virgin Media seem to silently block some VPN websites.

They may have given up by now but think of those children they saved!

Actually that Virgin is keeping on with this unethical practices. There are posts popping up almost weekly in various VPNs' forum and it always about their speed are so low (dial up/DSL speed) or they reached the timeout. And Virgin don't support IPv6 (it look like they are starting to support IPv6 but they plan to impose 20Mbps cap on IPv6 connection) and IPv6-in-IPv4 tunnel will 99% to fail to connect or stuck in the loop until timeout.

Double check that your DNS settings is correct. I'm on BT and it's working fine for me. I've previously used it on VM fine too.

Ah, talktalk may just be being lazy (or the sci-hub change hasn't hit me yet)

DNS-over-HTTPS generally works

Also, tor does a good job too.

To avoid congestion on the Tor network, you'd likely want to use Tor for the DNS resolution, but fallback to IPFS and HTTPS directly to IP addresses when fetching the content.

There is no congestion on the Tor network, Capacity is 2x demand.

or dnscrypt-proxy https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

Is sci-hub actually on IPFS now or is it still an idea floating in some heads?

Sci-hub is not yet on IPFS, libgen content already is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub#Delivery_to_users

Btw if you want to help mirror some of libgen's files here is how you can do it: https://freeread.org/ipfs/

Are they only blocking it at the DNS level? If so running your own resolver should do the job too.

Yeah, just tap "DNS over HTTPS" Firefox and watch the world open up.

I love Gaurav Sen's approach towards teaching system design. Have been thinking about taking his paid course. Any experience HNers?

I really liked pastebin.mozilla.org and used it a lot back in the day.

It collected a lot of garbage data and was quite the headache to manage. https://paste.mozilla.org/ is fairly similar but there is no longer an option to persist data for more than 21 days.

Is 2024 enough time to achieve this? I'd love to see this happen.