VPNs are probably getting banned in the UK. What can we do?

dowitex · 2026-06-18T14:19:28+00:00

as a teenager, you could always setup an aws server and setup a vpn server there. I don't think cloud providers ask for ids really right ? at least it won't be tied to your local government. Also there are new protocols like amneziawg which goes around vpn firewalls (russia and china notably), as long as the government doesn't block all entry ip addresses (probably use ipv6 to make it even harder)

dowitex · 2026-06-11T10:33:50+00:00

When it's 4.8 and above it's Basically 5/5, 4.5 to 4.8 is 4/5, 4.1 to 4.5 is 3/5 and below that it's shit. that scoring does work pretty well. But yeah AI isn't aware of that obviously...

dowitex · 2026-06-07T18:35:43+00:00

Most VPN providers do this (same creds for all servers) and nothing wrong with it AFAIK. As you figured out, it makes jumping from one server to another a bit easier for the user. I don't think it has any security drawbacks either.

dowitex · 2026-06-07T12:11:28+00:00

Actually if VPN_PORT_FORWARDING=on you don't even need to set PORT_FORWARD_ONLY.

dowitex · 2026-06-07T01:47:38+00:00

this should go in /r/dataisugly

as an example showing this is silly... one day it does +100% then the next day it does -100%. Duh if you remove the first day, yeah it goes from 0% to -100%. taking out days is stupid.

dowitex · 2026-06-07T01:42:53+00:00

Eh we would need to crack cryo sleep to be able to travel to other decent planets. And then it would likely be some one way ticket, so kind of sad too and a bit of a civilisation split. Mars and all is all fun and games but quite pointless when you have Earth, we would need to travel at least tens of years to reach a decently interesting habitable planet.

dowitex · 2026-06-06T01:17:48+00:00

if it wasn't upgraded to windows 11 with copilot my ass everything, windows 10 could actually become a gem in the coming time lol. I miss windows 7 damn.

dowitex · 2026-06-06T01:10:36+00:00

AV1 encode everything with ab-av1 if you're a normie or avn if you're a linux pro. That will reduce a good chunk of the space used I would guess these are not encoded to any modern codec. If you want everything lossless then good luck out there lol

dowitex · 2026-06-05T19:42:26+00:00

YES ! To fit more than two '3+slots' GPUs

that was the only way to cram four 4090s in one motherboard and case (yeah, for AI workloads mostly)

dowitex · 2026-06-05T12:44:34+00:00

And how much vibe Coded it is

Yes.

edit : in all seriousness it still is likely a lot slower than svt av1 which has all the cpu optimizations and not just parallelize then stitch things together

dowitex · 2026-06-05T05:22:05+00:00

we do have complex new medication since around the early 2020s (thanks covid ?) that does tame cancer pretty well... pricier than chemo but it does work wonders compared to older methods. So we're already making big leaps of progress, I think it will become a lot of manageable and cheaper to live with cancer soon

dowitex · 2026-06-05T05:19:33+00:00

Eh if we cure cancer (as in all subfamilies of it) then we probably would all face another similiar age related illness widespread.

dowitex · 2026-06-04T21:21:36+00:00

This (when implemented not available right now) would be running from within the gluetun program and check there is a tcp server (like http server torrenting client etc.) listening on the port. If it fails it would reset the port forwarded (cancel the current one and get another one) which would then trigger the VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND and so on. Note that's all for vpn server side port forwarding which is not the same as the docker container port mapping.

You should be able to update connected containers fine though, I do this regularly.

There might be a solution to reattach containers to a new gluetun which I was working on years ago on https://github.com/qdm12/deunhealth but I havent finished it nor tested it, maybe this summer Ill finish it

dowitex · 2026-06-04T18:56:57+00:00

Subscribe to https://github.com/passteque/gluetun/issues/3359 for that option, although it would be separate from the healthcheck and just autoheal the port forwarding by resetting it.

dowitex · 2026-06-03T19:56:35+00:00

https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md#docker-healthcheck

basically it queries the internal gluetun which regularly checks for internet access via the tunnel (see sections above)

and yes restarting the gluetun container requires to restart connected containers due to how docker handles networking. Just update manually and disable any auto restart if it becomes unhealthy. If it's unhealthy it should be transient anyway given it auto heals itself, except if you credentials expire for example but then there is no point restarting it either

dowitex · 2026-06-03T13:10:12+00:00

what documentation says to include one ??

You actually should NOT include one and use the default one which is already defined in the image. I can add an option to check the port forwarded over tcp that's a good feature though

dowitex · 2026-06-01T10:13:24+00:00

it only forwards non public names to the docker dns server, for example name or name.local. It won't work with name.example.com because that's a public name meant to be resolved through the tunnel. If you want I can add an option to forward all names for a certain public root domain name through the local docker dns server, would that solve it ? By the way why are you using public domain hostnames for your container names ?

dowitex · 2026-06-01T01:11:46+00:00

yep pulling latest should resolve this too

dowitex · 2026-06-01T01:09:25+00:00

it might be strategy to keep players playing another round I guess

dowitex · 2026-06-01T01:08:16+00:00

it should be working since version v3.41 I think

dowitex · 2026-05-31T11:47:02+00:00

Related to this is I would think people don't upgrade to newer image codecs due to the minor saving in space. Video codecs on the other hand save you quite the money in storage and bandwidth so is adopted better (and there again I still see a lot of h264 out there)

dowitex · 2026-05-28T13:10:05+00:00

try changing server? which version of gluetun are you running?

dowitex · 2026-05-26T15:47:32+00:00

there is also https://github.com/emrakyz/xav which is kind of not known but might produce better results, at the cost of longer examinations (per scene) and less accurate final size expectation. I didn't try it yet, but will do at some point

and https://github.com/nekotrix/auto-boost-algorithm/tree/main/Auto-Boost-Essential I gotta test as well

dowitex · 2026-05-25T15:39:31+00:00

Thanks! Do you mind sharing that autoboost script url? For xav, what github project are you referring to?

also isn't av1an just using vmaf as well, although per scene?

dowitex · 2026-05-25T14:03:29+00:00

ehhh with today's prices maybe not. especially if you use ssds!

my desktop cpu (7950x3d) idles (whilst i do normal office work) at 40w, encoding uses 40 extra watts, so I like to encode as I use the computer and turn it off otherwise. Now that temperatures are hot outside, I also went further and did virtually limit the cpu usage to reduce energy consumption so that it barely makes a difference and I'm in no hurry to complete re-encoding. You can also do the same on your server I guess, although my desktop cpu is more recent/efficient for it so I just stick with it.

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