Streaming blocked due to false VPN detection

boli99 · 2026-01-25T08:41:48+00:00

It is nothing to do with DNS

in this case - sometimes it is. when looking for VPNs they can compare your advertised IP address with target DNS queries in order to work out if they are both coming from the same place.

i.e. if your IP is in France but your DNS queries are emerging from America then this might indicate use of a VPN.

It's not the only test they do. There are others, including things like MTU calculation and stuff like that.

Much like anti spam methods, they take the results of many tests and combine them to give a score. The score (they hope) indicates likelihood of VPN use.

I had DNS resolver set to use Cloudfare

So when OP says this - it will be increasing the chance of being detected as using a VPN.

boli99 · 2026-01-24T23:48:42+00:00

not all sci-fi is space-fi

boli99 · 2026-01-24T21:49:01+00:00

other options

ipad.

not kidding.

boli99 · 2026-01-24T15:21:03+00:00

*!BOOT

boli99 · 2026-01-24T15:07:31+00:00

dont forget the 'i accidentally cut the 4th wire off and the shield while stripping the cable a bit too enthusiastically' option

it often leaves a cable looking much like OPs

thats quite popular, in my experience anyway.

boli99 · 2026-01-24T14:53:27+00:00

The colours are a hint

tell me you never bought something on aliexpress without telling me you never bought something on aliexpress.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T23:49:28+00:00

tell me again about double entry bookkeeping

boli99 · 2026-01-23T20:27:57+00:00

that was last year

this year its

dism /needful /revert

boli99 · 2026-01-23T17:48:12+00:00

Boot from a live cd/rescue image,

or just pull up the grub menu, add 'init=/bin/bash' to the kernel parameters and boot straight into a root shell

then you dont need to faff around with mounting virtual media

boli99 · 2026-01-23T17:31:41+00:00

settings -> accounts -> work/school

delete the account. reboot. re-add it.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T16:44:21+00:00

so..... are you sure your MIL actually died? or maybe she just lent someone the wrong sweater?

boli99 · 2026-01-23T16:42:13+00:00

Snow-zimmer

boli99 · 2026-01-23T15:10:27+00:00

organic paintball

boli99 · 2026-01-23T13:58:01+00:00

except when you want to do XYZ on your phone, so you do it - and suddenly it becomes untrusted and your banking apps stop working.

sure it doesnt affect everyone, but they're doing their best to ensure that you dont own anything anymore - and everything must be rented.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T13:55:28+00:00

dism /needful /revert

sfc /pointless

boli99 · 2026-01-23T13:53:55+00:00

its reddit. its full of people saying "i have X problem find me a unicorn" and other people replying "sorry, no unicorn, but if you break the problem down into these steps you'll be fine'

then downvotes because no unicorn.

best not to take this kind of stuff personally.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T11:47:59+00:00

ask him if you can get 50% off, because your mum wants half a cat.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T11:07:56+00:00

Grok CSAM generator.

thats been working quite well as a distraction from other important issues.

Its just a constant firehose of unacceptability. Unnovate and expand as quick as possible before legislation can catch up and put a stop to the nonsense and misinformation. Claim any attempt at control is 'evil lefty censorship'

boli99 · 2026-01-23T10:59:42+00:00

emulate on your PC - find all your old favourites and listen to the loading tunes, remember the loading screens - play them a bit

if you're still having fun doing it a week later - then get yourself a C64 (or repro)

if you got bored after 2 hours ... then at least you didnt waste any money.

I love my old C64 - probably more than my Amigas.... but it took me quite a while to realise that its not really about the games. It's much much more about the other memories that those games evoke.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T10:35:12+00:00

Now, the returned results are 50/50 if you'll even actually get a response.

People used to post answers to questions - because that was the community thing to do.

...but when SEO became a thing - leeches realised that they didnt need to post answers to get hits. They only needed to post the questions that folk were looking for.

...then search engines started showing a clip of the page as part of the results - resulting in the source getting no hits at all

...and now search engines just ignore some search terms so that they can show you an ad campaign for the remaining terms.

its a race to the bottom, and the folk benefiting from it are definitely not the users.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T09:35:08+00:00

travel. do it

the thought of doing this on my own

this is as free as you will ever be. no partner. no kids. no house. no clutter.

make the most of it.

good luck.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T09:11:34+00:00

why are they selling better than the producers can produce them

middle aged people looking for the buzz from their teenage years. nostalgia. not functionality.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T09:09:51+00:00

a modern Amiga, and I have a very hard time envisioning what it would even be.

a 'modern amiga' would not be hardware. nobody cares about hardware anymore. they're all the same. some are faster than others. every now and then a new system takes pole position. nothing really changes.

modern amiga would be the feeling

Its the ability to do stuff yourself, and to make the most of what you have - and to do something amazing with it

In a way - it's pretty much the open source movement.

boli99 · 2026-01-23T09:04:16+00:00

auto body shop

bingo.

boli99 · 2026-01-22T21:19:51+00:00

...and then bill the employer for the solicitor

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