There's a decent chance that this is also just an issue within a JSON parsing library that someone at R* decided to throw in and use. The parsing library was probably never intended to handle such large blobs, and R* didn't want to mess with the the OSS code.
I wonder if it might even be an incompatible OSS license?
While it's probably not 10%, the transaction cost will come out of the transaction when processed by Epic. Normally that comes out of the 30% that Apple takes. Either way, the purchaser is saving $2 and the developer gets a larger share; this doesn't seem like a bad thing, especially when the developer is going to be spending a decent amount of cash fighting the App Store monopoly.
I'm a little unclear why I would trust that there is no logging. With root access to the VPS, I'd be able to determine that the OpenVPN service on the VPS is not logging the connection between my device and the VPS, but I obviously don't have any access to the infrastructure beyond the VPS. My ISP might not be able to see my traffic, but the ISP of the VPS would, and I'd be just as identifiable if there are logs matching my dedicated IP to my account.
I don't have control what goes on outside the VPS, but root access is my proof to my customers that I am not logging. Certainly no VPS is the magic pill to internet security or anonymity.
This is what makes this no better than any other VPN service. I still need to completely trust that the provider is not watching me. Even with full hardware access, there could be an invisible sandbox or hardware DMA to some chip I can't see. There is no easy scalable solution to avoid this in a technical level. But you can be one anonymous user in a sea of many others and hope for the best, which is why I'd advise to go to a trusted mainstream VPN provider.
Yep. I have heard stories of people that setup a Streisand VPN on a digital ocean droplet, and then got sent DMCA letters for torrenting. Digital Ocean turned over their identity and banned their account.
If you're just doing it for privacy, then cool. If you're doing it to mask potentially illegal activity, don't. Use PIA or something like that.
I think it depends on threat model. If you’re looking to do anything illegal, probably no VPN is a good idea.
But if you care about privacy in general, a VPN is always a clear win. No VPN will ever be perfect. But for a VPN, this is pretty good with regards to security.
All depends on what you're doing and threat model.
Some may just be avoiding local isp surveillance. Some are just getting a vpn to access a site blocked on their country.
For what you said,it really matters what country it's in and who is hosting it. For example, switzerland and finland means no dmca cooperation (not easily at least). If the owner is publicly known and had a lot to lose outside of the vpn business in the event of a reputaional loss, that would be even more preferable (for me it's freedome or protonvpn due to the risk they take by associating it with f-secure and protonmail respectively)
The only times I've used a bike share, it was because I was walking somewhere and happened to pass a dockless bike that seemed like a really good idea to just rent and use right away. These were invariable in places that would not have had a docking station.
I get that. But he mentioned that dockless made it feasible for replacing the commute. Those seem like the kinds of trips that dock based systems excel at because they are known routes.
The closest city bike docking stations are a ~10 minute walk from my apartment, and a ~5 minute walk from my office. There is always a dockless bike within a ~5 minute walk from my apartment, even during morning and evening rush hours, and I can leave it directly in front of my office door. The time spent on the bike is the same in both cases, about 10 or 12 minutes. So a docked bike commute is 25 minutes door-to-door, with a lot of time kind of "wasted", whereas a dockless bike commute is between 10 and 15, and all of the time spent feels like I'm making progress toward my goal.
It's worth noting that taking public transit (Muni bus) between these same two points takes at least 30 minutes (good day, light traffic, no mentally disturbed people interrupting the driver) and has taken as long as 55 minutes. A Lyft is also reliably slower, especially in the evening rush hour.
To be honest, the time taken is not such a huge deal. The bigger draw, by far, is that riding the electric bike is completely effortless, and usually quite fun. And it's also important that they are extremely handsome, I don't feel like a goober when I'm on them. Riding the city bikes, in comparison, is a completely different experience. You feel how big and heavy they are, you can easily work up a sweat, and they're not handsome machines, everyone looks a little bit like a doofus on them.
I wonder if it might even be an incompatible OSS license?