Absolutely , $100 million is a whole ton of money. It’s not a good excuse, but maybe it is spent in the state’s economy?… don’t make it ok but at least I hope it helped keep some newspapers alive or something.

Wow that’s a banger, thank you for introducing me to it.

It might be an error on my part actually or of their payment system. My attempt to purchase actually didn’t work (connection dropped while attempting to buy) so that might have been why, I was trying to connect while not having an active account. (My guess, no error info was given) FYI the reason I want to try and this vpn looks interesting, is they have an obfuscation layer added to wireguard, which I find think I’ve seen before. I’ll try it again when have time in a couple days, their support got back to me to fix the payment.

When that happens I use the summarize with AI feature from Kagi and it does a good job describing the page.

I’ve tried both their settings and can’t get it to connect, I’ll try from desktop tomorrow.

Never heard of it, I’ll try it and let you know. (I’m always on the hunt for good options as fallbacks and for research for clients)

I use both Mullvad and Astrill in China. A lot of VPNs don’t work here so it’s a feather in the cap for these that do.

That pretty awesome, will try to get it.

Oh ha is that what that is, I always thought it was some bug or quirk.

Can’t wait to visit.

Your logic is valid for a small business - yes a SME doesn’t need to create their own messaging app, but this is the US government, they have the resources and need for their own. Further, commercial products controlled by outsiders can be compromised, and for state level targets it’s an issue to not control the communication through its whole journey.

Great comment, I don’t have anything to add just wanted to say so.

Trump in the worst, stiffing everyone always.

Historically they were a solid paper, based out of Hong Kong. It’s a toss up these days though, not sure.

Yay Dave! Welcome :-)

Man you guys really swing for the fences and get specific with your predictions, love it.

Yeah agreed, I had to do it too for French and German stuff, I wish I could read whatever they’re posting but I can’t so I just block it but mean no offense.

Voyager on iOS is great.

Welcome!

Yeah I think that’s a big factor, we’re just not a big target and relatively obscure.