Known VPN services have identifiable server addresses that can be blocked. Instead, you can set up a cheap raspberry pi (or other) at your home and use an encrypted SSH connection to that [raspberry pi] from far away. Then turn on your SOCKS proxy (part of WiFi Details on Macintosh) and check to see that your IP address shows to the world you access as that of your raspberry pi. I do this all the time, including right now. It also helps to watch sports events.

Thanks.

This is just not a good solution for any densely populated area.

Did you forget about Sidekick? Microsoft bought a trendy phone and then it died it because some manager thought they didn't need to backup the SAN before upgrading the drive firmware. You can read the story here and here.

Not necessarily. Cellular problems are often a back-haul issue and that is something Starlink does much better at. The flip side, is that I would not want to use a Starlink in even a moderately dense area.

They might have cell service, but it is often a weak signal that is then sent by microwave from tower to tower and those links often don't have enough bandwidth for anything useful.

I have some friends who lived on a property that was only 10 mins from the nearest town of 83 000 people and the reception was so bad there that they had to go by satellite dish which had latency so bad that they could not video conference. They signed on as soon as there was a Starlink beta program in their area and I heard from them that getting StarLink was a life changer even with the early glitches.

Why should Netflix care if you are actually watching it or not? You pay for a subscription and for whatever reason that was the content you played. Netflix will therefore keep playing that content. When it comes to revenue, it just doesn't matter what you do with the content.

At any rate, whatever flaws there are in the stats, they are far more accurate than TV viewership numbers.

I have yet to see any ads on Netflix and the price is still nowhere near cable. Even the 4 services I pay for (Netflix, Youtube, Prime, and Curiosity Stream) combined are still less than I would pay to watch anything decent on cable.

Foundation is Apple, Amazon did take over The Expanse and did a good job with it.

Itâ(TM)s interesting since the creators tend to think thatâ(TM)s enough. The server is able to verify (and require) through user verification that a challenge was presented and answered correctly by the user. I assume that doesnâ(TM)t protect from the theoretical device that always returns yes, I do not know how they deal with the potential for nefarious authentication devices other than advising people not to use them. I am not a fan of the synced keys that are common with cell phones since it weakens the âno direct access to key materialâ(TM) design and makes key theft more of a potential problem.

They are also phishing resistant, unlike TOTP.

Thatâ(TM)s an argument against biometrics as a factor, passkeys already are MFA though.

Phone is one option but not the only one, hardware tokens like Yubikeys can also hold passkeys.

I wish articles like this would stop the focus on biometrics. It is one option to unlock the key storage but not the only one.

I guess Mission Center is mentioned but the point still stands.

Iâ(TM)ve seen this talked about a lot in the past day, but no mention or comparison to other tools that already do this, like System Monitoring Center or Mission Centerâ¦.

Other than rust, what makes this one better?