The ISP would only see “encrypted video call”-like traffic between you and the people who connect to Tor through your snowflake.

How/why would a VPN be useful for this ?

This lets people use your computer as an entry point into the Tor network and camouflage the traffic as a video call between you and them (if the regular, publicly known, entry nodes are blocked by their ISP or gouvernement). The snowflake extension will then forward people’s traffic through the Tor network, and services they use will only see a tor exit node’s IP, not yours. As long as you trust Tor to be secure and anonymous (I personally have very high trust in its guarantees), you don’t have to worry about legal consequences or being blocked by services.

I used to run a few (public) tor relays (entry or middle nodes, not exit ones), including one from my home network and IP. Never had any issue except for one service which blocked everything that had anything to do with Tor. I reached out for their admin, who claimed Tor users can show up with any node’s IP (which they definetly can’t, only exit nodes will forward traffic to the regular internet)

Blocking or allowing domains should not mess up SSL. Is there anything else filtering or intercepting the trafic ?

This would have been a (if not the only) good point to make in the article considering the title. But I guess this would have taken space away from ads

The headline is vert clickbaity : it does not affect VPN users (the law forbids age-gated websites from promoting VPNs as a circumvention), and the whole article is just an ad for VPNs

I once had a similar issue, caused by the keyboard layout in the os installer (when I defined the password) being different from the keyboard layout used for unlocking the drive. I quickly leaned to type my password in qwerty on my azerty keyboard and all is fine now.

Another similar thing I’m thinking about is trying with caps lock, as you may have had it on when defining the password

I live in Lyon, and I’m soooo happy to hear about this ! 🤩

It seems really nice. Too bad it’s not a real product yet (the kick starter hasn’t even launched)

Because you either need an announce URL or publishing your torrent to the DHT for your friends to be able to peer with you.

Seeding copyrighted material using a public announce URL or the DHT will get you in trouble in most western countries.

“ENS domain”

IPFS is also strongly related to several blockchain stuff (not a blockchain itself though)

ENS domains ?

From a quick search on my instance, I could find 3 posts that are still up, and I could also find specific comments I remembered from a post that got removed since.

That’s at least 4 occurrences on Lemmy alone

I did not criticize people sharing it here, but rather Ente themselves for making vague fear-mongering claims for viral marketing purposes

What’s up with this website popping in my feed for the 6th time in less than a week ?

Edit : nevermind, after digging the website for a grand total of 5 seconds, it appears to be an advertising website for Ente (which has a paid plan besides being self hostable). That’s shitty marketing from them if you ask me

When looking at the CVE itself, it seems like a bug that only gets triggered on a very specific corner case that neither the client or website alone can trigger.

Of course, it’s good that it gets reported and fixed, but I’m pretty sure these kind of bugs can only get caught by people randomly stumbling on them

I’ve read somewhere Mullvad no longer offers port forwarding. Do you still manage to seed without it ?

Are you using it to seed torrents ?

Thank you for the clarification.

I’ve also read that it’s illegal in Switzerland to gather IP addresses because they are considered sensitive PII. Do you know about this, and does it protect me in any way if I use a swiss datacenter IP for seeding my torrents ?

This does not answer the question I asked. I’ve already considered a commercial VPN and I’ve ruled it out (clearly not cheaper, unless you can find a decent VPN with port forwarding that costs less than 2€/month)

I’ve considered it and ruled it out. That’s why I’m specifically asking for a VPS to install my own VPN own.

I’m really not interested in paying 5+€/month when I can build my own for a fraction of that cost