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  • Good idea. I get a number of CORS errors - but I also get them without the VPN, so I don’t think that’s it.

    The idea that CR doesn’t block me, their content hipster does though - that might have merit. Hm. I have noticed that some sites require me to solve the Cloudflare Captcha. So maybe that happens when requesting the page/stream, and then since I don’t (can’t) solve it, nothing happens?

    Do you have an idea how I could verify this? 😅



  • Alright, this is weird. I ran tcpdump on the server, and checked both physical and wg0 interface. For things like youtube, it’s a constant stream of packets coming in on the physical interface, then immediately being relayed through wg0 - just as it should be.

    But for Crunchyroll, there’s… Nothing. I get an initial burst of packets when opening the site containing the video I want to stream, and then packets just stop coming in once the page itself has fully loaded.













    • Windows (family PC)
    • a BUNCH of Ubuntu-based distros (Ubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu Studio (which was awesome btw), Mint,… ) on my first own PC
    • Arch for years and years and years
    • NixOS

    I wouldn’t count the last switch as distro hopping though. It was a calculated decision after months of deliberation and trying things out. And now that everything is set up, I am very certain that I’ll never switch to another distro again, Nix is just too good.


  • (Not the person you responded to)

    I’m curious, what exactly are your issues with the AI implementations the poster above you mentioned?

    Because to me, they seem like very specific usecases where they actually offer benefits. It doesn’t seem like someone just went “everyone is doing ai… Let’s slap ai on Firefox so we stay one of the cool kids!”.

    Example: I live in a country where I don’t speak the language. Instead of using a plugin for Firefox which translates e.g. government sites by sending them to Google translate, FF has been handling this locally for a couple of months now. Seems like a win to me.

    Similarly, I imagine that vision impaired folks will receive a real benefit by not having to deal with the way-too-large number of websites not providing alt tags for images.

    If (yes, I know, big IF) the models FF ships are indeed ethically trained and run fully locally… Then I kinda don’t get the issue