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wiredpancake commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?    · Posted by u/rickybule
teaga · a day ago
Launch an EC2 instance in the US region (Ubuntu, open ports 22 and 1194), then connect via SSH and run the OpenVPN install script. Generate the .ovpn profile with the script and download it to your local machine. Finally, import the file into the OpenVPN client and connect to route traffic through the US server.
wiredpancake · a day ago
Doesn't work in China, this is a method for last decades censorship.
wiredpancake commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?    · Posted by u/rickybule
seany · a day ago
Shadowsocks used to be the thing that _really_ worked in CN. Not sure what's current there.

AWS ap-southeast-3 should still be up, and isn't in a different partition like CN, govcloud, iso etc. So a VM there and a vpc peer in the US should get you around a lot of stuff.

wiredpancake · a day ago
Shadowsocks isn't a viable method in 2025 it seems. Not by itself apparently. Shadowsocks generates high-entropy noise via packet analysis, which typically is easy to spot out as it looks irregular.
wiredpancake commented on Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?    · Posted by u/rickybule
doix · a day ago
I think you really overestimate the capability of the UK to enforce laws. Yes, they can write them and yes they can fine large corporations, that's basically it.

They cannot enforce laws against such "petty" crimes, the reason society mostly functions in the UK is because most people don't try to break the law.

Pretty sure the local punters would kick the cops out if they came for one of their own, especially if he got them their porn back.

wiredpancake · a day ago
What do you mean? They already arrest thousands of people a year for posting (or even retweeting) things online in the UK.

What makes you think, if the Gov was to implement some sophisticated DPI firewall that blocks a million different things, they won't come after the people who circumvent it? They already enforce petty crimes. I could report you for causing me anxiety and you would have a copper show up at your door.

wiredpancake commented on Nvidia DGX Spark   nvidia.com/en-us/products... · Posted by u/janandonly
rightisleft · 2 days ago
I think I interviewed you the other day and you didn’t get the job…
wiredpancake · 2 days ago
What?
wiredpancake commented on Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line   thedrive.com/news/toyota-... · Posted by u/computerliker
stanmancan · 2 days ago
Turns out they're lasting much longer than expected: https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/12/existing-ev-batter...
wiredpancake · 2 days ago
Nope. Why would Toyota even have an abundance of "old" EV batteries to begin with if they "lasted much longer than expected".

I have a Toyota Landcruiser from 1990.

wiredpancake commented on GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?   gmplib.org/gmp-zen5... · Posted by u/sequin
wiredpancake · 2 days ago
The only real problem with GN is Steve is a bit of an egotist when it comes to content creators who do less technical analysis, like LTT or Jayz.

He never really got over the stuff with Linus and doubled down on stupid things. I think they both have a great place in the tech scene and LTT's videos of recent have been a lot better quality and researched then yesteryear.

Dead Comment

wiredpancake commented on Toyota is recycling old EV batteries to help power Mazda's production line   thedrive.com/news/toyota-... · Posted by u/computerliker
robofunk · 2 days ago
What's interesting is that if the batteries are being sourced from JDM cars the batteries are probably relatively young due to the average age of Japanese cars being relatively low (8.7 years) and the amount of yearly mileage is also half for JDM cars when compared to the US. So if you tried the same in the US it may not be as viable.
wiredpancake · 2 days ago
It's almost like EV batteries don't last long...
wiredpancake commented on Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?    · Posted by u/stephenheron
altairprime · 4 days ago
M1’s efficiency/thermals performance comes from having hardware-accelerated core system libraries.

Imagine that you made an FPGA do x86 work, and then you wanted to optimize libopenssl, or libgl, or libc. Would you restrict yourself to only modifying the source code of the libraries but not the FPGA, or would you modify the processor to take advantage of new capabilities?

For made-up example, when the iPhone 27 comes out, it won’t support booting on iOS 26 or earlier, because the drivers necessary to light it up aren’t yet published; and, similarly, it can have 3% less battery weight because they optimized the display controller to DMA more efficiently through changes to its M6 processor and the XNU/Darwin 26 DisplayController dylib.

Neither Linux, Windows, nor Intel have shown any capability to plan and execute such a strategy outside of video codecs and network I/O cards. GPU hardware acceleration is tightly controlled and defended by AMD and Nvidia who want nothing to do with any shared strategy, and neither Microsoft nor Linux generally have shown any interest whatsoever in hardware-accelerating the core system to date — though one could theorize that the Xbox is exempt from that, especially given the Proton chip.

I imagine Valve will eventually do this, most likely working with AMD to get custom silicon that implements custom hardware accelerations inside the Linux kernel that are both open source for anyone to use, and utterly useless since their correct operation hinges on custom silicon. I suspect Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony already do this with their gaming consoles, but I can’t offer any certainty on this paragraph of speculation.

x86 isn’t able to keep up because x86 isn’t updated annually across software and hardware alike. M1 is what x86 could have been if it was versioned and updated without backwards compatibility as often as Arm was. it would be like saying “Intel’s 2026 processors all ship with AVX-1024 and hardware-accelerated DMA, and the OS kernel (and apps that want the full performance gains) must be compiled for its new ABI to boot on it”. The wreckage across the x86 ecosystem would be immense, and Microsoft would boycott them outright to try and protect itself from having to work harder to keep up — just like Adobe did with Apple M1, at least until their userbase starting canceling subscriptions en masse.

That’s why there are so many Arm Linux architectures: for Arm, this is just a fact of everyday life, and that’s what gave the M1 such a leg up in x86: not having to support anything older than your release date means you can focus on the sort of boring incremental optimizations that wouldn’t be permissible in a “must run assembly code written twenty years ago” environment assumed by Lin/Win today.

wiredpancake · 4 days ago
iOS 26 comes out this year.
wiredpancake commented on Exploring the tragedy of the Counter-Strike 2 server browser   bphilip.uk/blog/2025-08-2... · Posted by u/shaokind
diath · 4 days ago
Has anything changed in CS2? You could always just `connect host:port` in the console in Counter-Strike.
wiredpancake · 4 days ago
Console isn't even enabled by default. The average player would need to:

1. Enable Developer Console in Settings 2. Find a server via a third party website 3. Use said IP + Port to connect. * This results in low dedicated server player counts due to effort and the issues mentioned in the blog above.

Valve has expressed intentions directly and indirectly to remove the console from CS2 and operate almost exclusively out of the in-game Settings menu.

Over the years, this setting menu has increased in options. Although to cover the vast amount of commands is simply impossible.

Yet known the debug or cheat-protected commands.

u/wiredpancake

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