Which ones don’t support it? It’s a very old format at this point. Every Android device in existence can work with it for example.

You can self host xray or sing-box server (which implement many of the protocols) on a cheap vps. A lot of documentation is not great and is either in Chinese or Russian but it’s doable. There are also paid services offering vless with various degrees of reliability and sketchiness.

Of course the real challenge when living in an authoritarian country is how to pay for it. I.e.you need to buy a vps abroad. I guess it will be easier in USA then in countries under sanctions or with internal restrictions where people generally can’t use Visa or PayPal.

Protocols that mimic regular https traffic in a way that survives DPI. There are many variants like vless+reality+vision, naiveproxy, etc. It’s still cat-and-mouse game since government’s DPI systems are constantly improving.

Not if they start using DPI and block VPN protocols. VPNs that use OpenVPN, Wireguard and other non-censorship-resistant protocols (including Mullvad) don’t work in China, Iran or Russia.

Mullvad and other mainstream VPN providers only work in free countries where VPN is allowed.

They are all going to be horny, that’s the entire point.

Some patched it to change the default in config.

There is zero chance it will be released (even if it’s true)

It will still run necessary calculations much slower than a gpu, so you will need to run it much longer for the same result, which is not only inconvenient but will likely use more power in the end anyway.

This will just waste even more energy since cpus are less efficient at this kind of task.

LLMs require insane amounts of compute, period. The hardware to do that needs energy and emits heat, there is no way around.

That’s still just moving the impact from data centers to end users’ machines.

Gamers (especially those that own 5090) are a tiny minority compared to llm users.

It’s really easy to not use ai. It’s not a necessity and not even a part of any “lifestyle” that some people would miss.

They are not magic. You are still using electricity, and for the same amount of work that cloud providers do you will consume the same amount. If every one of the billions of people using chatgpt or whatever buys rtx 5090 and makes it churn 24/7 for their “local” ai then nothing will change for the environment.

So you don’t care about environment, huh?

Firefox tries but this is very hard to fight against. Most of the obvious holes were closed long ago. Now these fuckers use normal browser functionality that can’t be disabled and record how it subtly differs (in various ways like execution time of functions) between different combinations of browsers, OSes, hardware, etc. This information alone is enough to create a more or less unique fingerprint.

The only reliable solution is to completely get rid of client-side code execution like JavaScript and WebAssembly and return to static web pages. Which of course won’t happen.

My guess is that if they get there (a very big if) then they will just copy a microtransactions model that every online game has.

They can still sell ships after releasing the game. Sure there will be a bit of a shitstorm they promised not to do that but their cult will survive it.

Happens all the time with GitHub Actions when they update runner images. According to Microsoft, it’s “fundamentally unfixable”.