Good point. The first repo, anon-vpn, has single commit made 3 weeks ago.

Security sensitive software require time, review or audit. Let’s give this time, it may take a few months to 2 years until there’s either enough scrutiny to either confirm it’s safe, or reveal problems.

Until them, keep using well-known open-source software.

Yes, insane and wrong.

Thanks for double checking, I didn’t intend to spread LLM slop, my bad. I deleted the comment, and added the website to my blocklist.

The article from op does lacks appropriate sources. I hope a reliable outlet is working on fact-checking this.

Is ICE Spending $55 Billion on a Crematorium Network?

Debian trixie has a fix https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Low to average reliability is fine if the service is cheap, and if that avoid the need for backup diesel generators in datacenters.

I doubt this applied to Github:

Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers

The article focuses on techniques that help bots spoof browsers, to make them impersonate a typical human visitor.

It’s not obvious how this helps people protect themselves against surveillance while being online. Using python scripting is not a practical way to browse. But it’s handy to write scrappers.

It’s certainly useful to misbehaving bots that try to evade anti-bots protection.

That’s true. The reason is there’s lots of bot traffic spoofing real users, sometimes even going through residential proxies.

When bots spoof users well, the last option for projects is use these PoW captcha that annoy everyone. Enshitification continues.

By spoofing the fingerprint, developers can make their automated tools impersonate real users more convincingly, thereby bypassing bot detections.

Many OSS projects and personal web servers have bot detection because they would otherwise drown under (AI) scrappers and other bots traffic. Hosting or bandwidth cost is often unsustainable without bot protection.

If you don’t want to kill these projects, honor robots.txt by default, use throttling, don’t try to circumvent bot blocks. Look if there’s a purpose built API available to bots. If they don’t want to offert such API, go find something else to do.

Vendor support. Some hardware and software vendors still only care about Windows.

Source: Kenya coins replace leaders with animals

YAGNI

I hope it overflows to zero. Or better yet, overflows to -1000000000000.

Trump loves dictators and is trying to emulate them.