i don't really get the point of this? Its a ITX motherboard with a moible chip. I could buy a itx board and a desktop chip for less. Or get a miniPC with the same chip for even less.
They are trying to disrupt building a PC, which was already modular and easy to upgrade, with a 1000+$ motherboard with soldered RAM?
realistically blocking low cost personal VPNs / proxies is pretty easy. Any new servers they stand up are gonna get picked up by commercial threat intel services with an hour and then just blocked. Especially if the CDNs are working with the government.
You could roll your own but wireguard/openvpn going to random hosting provider is gonna achieve the same thing if they are playing hardball.
ya it does seem that way. But, there is a pretty big cohort of people that are like this and they click on stuff to. So i'd guess it's more marketing to sad grind-set loners than deliberate propaganda.
i always think about e911 calling for enterprise VoIP software phones. In order to make sure the calls go the right 911 local call center it is required to have the user enter the address they are using the computer at. It's the law and the fines for routing to the 911 center of last resort aren't cheap. And thats just the tip of iceberg if required employer surveillance just to follow the damn law.
ya it does seem like a good opportunity for US and Asian companies to get public sector research without even having to pay taxes for it. Europe really needs to build out the theory > applied science > product development > actually adding some value pipeline to make this have some impact longer term.
This makes alot of business sense, most orgs know better than to homebrew their mail env on (lets be honest here) "basement hosting LLC". So that leaves the people that are spamming/phishing as the core SMTP customer here.
We lost the personal self hosting fight long ago. I used to do it, but now i pay protonmail to do it for me and even that is losing its luster since proton technology IP blocks are pretty radioactive at this point. Some day will have join the outlook or gmail gang which makes me sad; but setting here in my chair staring at my orgs email firewalls and seeing 80+% inbound volume being auto-blocked as spam, bulk or phishing it make me wonder if anything of value was lost.
go to the IRL hardware / grocery store? I still get out of my chair to go the Costco, Ace hardware, Microcenter and REI's of the world. But short of that target, walmart, home depot have really stepped up their (fast/free) shipping game in the past few years.
They are trying to disrupt building a PC, which was already modular and easy to upgrade, with a 1000+$ motherboard with soldered RAM?