FishFace

Jesus.

As far as I can tell, you are arguing that it won’t become impossible to use a VPN. But no-one has said that it will be, and what I and others are trying to point out, is that VPN usage will become more difficult and rare. The vast majority of people will be restricted from viewing the content that the government objects to, whatever that is.

If you have anything to say about that rather than repeating the point that, yes, for the knowledgeable, for the tech-literate, for the people with the will and the spare time and the energy, VPN usage will still be available, feel free to. Maybe you think that actually everyone will use a VPN - why? why won’t a massive reduction in marketed options not reduce usage massively? Maybe you think that actually it doesn’t matter - why? why does it not matter that the average person will be unable to get information censored by the government?

You don’t seem to be accounting for the strategic value of the car industry, which is what the person above was talking about.

Lemmy doesn’t have that many users… How are you going to reach the people who aren’t arch users ;)

Seriously though, tech enthusiasts live a technological solution but a ban is a societal thing and it doesn’t have to be perfect. Look at China.

It’s weird that you read the article then contradicted something in it implicitly, without acknowledging it.

They don’t say it’s impossible though, as you imply. Only that it’s very unlikely. So yes, it’s completely possible they have a buyer.

Ok, and how are you going to tell people that it exists? Not through YouTube sponsor slots, because you’ll get deleted quicker than you put it up.

So only a tiny number of people will know that your VPN exists. That’s “good enough” for the censorious.

Mmm. Given that you didn’t bother reading the article in order to have the context to respond to, I’m not inclined to take your word for it over the source.

The article even takes theft of a Picasso as an example. In that case you know it’s not being stolen to melt down. That’s not the case here.

“Stolen to order is something from the Hollywood movies,” he said. “Nobody would touch this. It’s all around the world and in all the newspapers. If you buy this, if you get caught, you end up in prison. You cannot show it to your friends, you cannot leave it to your children.”

I agree with flesh man

If you can block access to commercial VPNs and render anyone else using VPNs liable to prosecution you achieve what they want.

I mean literally noone is born lactose intolerant. You’d just starve.

Genetic lactose intolerance develops some time later through a variation in gene expression. But the effects of lactose intolerance also vary more than that, because if you continue to consume milk your gut biome changes to reflect the abundance of nutrients.

Someone doesn’t know what OCD is

The administrative overhead and the overhead of engineering everything to with multiple vendors is what is massive

Dividing between providers is not what people would be doing if the resilience of cloud services were as is being memed about.

Doing so is phenomenally expensive.

Yeah that is important context.

Looking at UK government stats the difference is starker here - over 100 deaths per billion passenger miles for motorcyclists, only 3 for car occupants, and 27 for pedestrians.

The note of panic in my mum’s voice when talking about the possibility of my getting a motorbike is still out of proportion though.

I checked the stats in my country, where 55% of contributing factors are assigned to motorcyclists in collisions involving them. Due to how this data is produced, that doesn’t mean 55% of accidents involving them were found to be the fault of motorcyclists, but it means that a significant number of motorbike accidents are the fault of the rider, whichever way you slice it.

Rates of serious injury/death are about 2000 per billion passenger miles for motorbikes, of which 100 are deaths. Haven’t been able to find the same stats for GA though.

There are arguments that comparing passenger-miles isn’t reasonable for activities like GA and motorbiking which are done for pleasure as well as for transport, in which case flying looks worse.

And while we’re at it, why do languages have the audacity to use ANY words different from other languages!

See how this sounds?

It has nothing to do with this though.

If American ranchers are struggling to produce competitive beef, why is that a problem? It’s not a critical good; just import it and let the industry shrink.

If as you say it’s domestic producers maintaining the price high by restricting supply, imports will encourage them to increase supply.

Ooh, mad plot twist in the thin blue line lore! Never expected a betrayal like this!