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New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:41:47 +0000

That's true. You can write software that duplicates the functionality of existing software and by doing that you can evade the copyright of that software.

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:40:33 +0000

In what way is scraping Amazon prices "abuse" of anything?

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:40:06 +0000

What are they usually used for?

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:39:45 +0000

Try Opus 4.8? It's just a language translation task. LLMs should be good at it.

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:06 +0000

What's dirty about it?

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:56:49 +0000

What will it do?

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Pondering routing more of my traffic via nodes outside the UK"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:56:19 +0000

If LLM output isn't copyrightable then it's already public domain, even if you say it isn't - if this is true you can just ignore the wishes of the person who thinks they're the copyright holder.

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:51:38 +0000

xcancel (or any other nitter) is useful here

New comment by farnsworthfusor in "Crawling BitTorrent DHTs for Fun and Profit [pdf]"

farnsworthfusor — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:46:27 +0000

I heard the more money you're paying them the more lenient they are.

For cheap hosts look for ones that allow tor exit nodes if you're looking for ones that allow funny stuff. There are some that allow it for ideological reasons. Look through the hundreds on lowendtalk. On that forum you can even ask the providers directly if they allow it.