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Comfortably Glitched

(Verse 1: The Corporate Fixer) Hello? Is the neural link alive in there? Just nod if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home? Come on, guy, you’re missing the drop. I need you to breach the firewall. I can see you’re dying to log in. Come on, guy, don’t let the system win. I need your access code to get us through. Relax, I’ll just flash a firmware update. You’ll be fine before the sunrise hits the smog. Just a little patch to kill the lag.

(Chorus: The Burned-Out Hacker) I have become comfortably glitched. My optics fogged with static rain. The neon signs are just a blur of pain. When I was young, I ran on pure code. Before the ice took hold, before the node corroded. Now the data stream is cold and old. And I have become comfortably glitched.

(Verse 2: The Corporate Fixer) Okay, the diagnostic shows a critical crash. Your synapses are frying, but we need that cash. I’m going to override your safety locks. Ignore the screaming in your cortex box. There is no pain, you are receding. A distant ship’s smoke on the hologram horizon. You are only coming through in waves. Your lips move but I can’t hear what you’re saying. When I was a child, I caught a fleeting glitch. Sometimes I think I’ll pull the plug and switch. But the Corp owns my soul, so I have to twitch. Okay, just ride the surge. It’s time to go.

(Guitar Solo: A screaming, distorted synthesizer solo that sounds like a modem screaming while falling down an elevator shaft, accompanied by the sound of shattering glass and police sirens.)

(Chorus: The Burned-Out Hacker) I have become comfortably glitched. My optics fogged with static rain. The neon signs are just a blur of pain. When I was young, I ran on pure code. Before the ice took hold, before the node corroded. Now the data stream is cold and old. And I have become comfortably glitched.

(Outro) There is no pain... Only error 404. You are receding... A distant avatar on the mesh. You are only coming through in packets. Your lips move but I can’t read the script. When I was a child... I caught a fleeting glitch... Sometimes I think I’ll pull the plug... And switch... System Shutdown.

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I feel like someone digging in my packets, anyway in FreeCiv21 I have conquered the whole globe including the poles and Australia and America's as Chinese and the rest. I have like 30k gold and 1120 per turn income more to come, all techs unlocked, all buildings but some new ones to build to coinage, 34 settlements and over 130 units to micro-manage kills me at each turn. I even have a carrier battlegroup with stealth fighters and bombers and 2 missiles on it with an escort of cruiser and battleship and sub-marine escorting it along with the AEGIS cruiser. I'm tired of this game. As communism I need not to pay my army nor anyone else as land troops I have a mix de[ending the region.
Tax rate at 80% and no rebellion. And submarines on each corner of this damned world.
Micro manage all engineer units is a nightmare. era is 1900's so rebels come with medieval boats or simple horses.
Building irrigation all around my settlements as much as possible and they are all linked with railroad and I airlift my cargo to establish trade routes. It gets annoying in the end. But I don't want to leave this world I have built. At this point is rush buying buildings in settlements turn by turn and get all idle workers a work.. Auto work is broken in this flatpak version.. Also there are many features I don't understand at all.
How? Rush buy Chinese wall once you get pottery, then ruch buy all other wonders and rush buy buildings.
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

No, that is not a fortune, I specifically generated it. I have two scripts. One uses fortune the other prints what I type in.
motd

#!/usr/bin/env bash

date "+Gregorian Date: %x, Julian Date: %g-%j, Time: %R" | lolcat -b
echo

figlet "Hello $(whoami | perl -e 'print ucfirst(<>);')" | lolcat -b
fortune -a | cowsay -f dragon | lolcat -b

nemosay
#!/usr/bin/env bash

[ "$DATE" = "YES" ] && {
date "+Gregorian Date: %x, Julian Date: %g-%j, Time: %R" | lolcat -b
echo
}
figlet "Nemo Dragon" | lolcat -b 
printf "$*" | cowsay -f dragon | lolcat -b

because I did not want to write a command line parser to sort out arguments to decide whether to print the date line or not I used the construct:

[ "$DATE" = "YES" ] && {
date "+Gregorian Date: %x, Julian Date: %g-%j, Time: %R" | lolcat -b
echo
}

Then if I want the date instead of passing a command line argument I just set the environmental variable DATE. On bash (or zsh) you can do this by preceding the line you are invoking with the environmental variable eg.
$ DATE="YES" nemosay 'How are you today'
which sets the variable just for the program you are invoking on that command line. It is a hack true, but better than writing a page of parsing code for such a simple script.

You will note the the motd prints Hello Nemo (Nemo being my user name with a capital first letter) where nemosay prints out Nemo Dragon.

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I love Open Source. It frees you to fix issues and not just file bug reports and hope someone fixes the problem that is keeping you from being productive. I recently installed Eloquent proofreader from flathub to help with some tasks. Well it turns out that one of Eloquent's baked in dependencies fastText was an older version and was crashing on launch from the flatpak version of the app. But that did not stop me.

I did some searches and forked Eloquent on GitHub. I then also retrieved its two main dependencies, fastText and languagetool. I did not have to have a local languagetool, but I like working completely local when possible. So I built the three projects, put them together and installed them on my system. Which is a lot more solid than the flatpak version. I also now have a local languagetool to use with LibreOffice to boot 😉.

You do not get to have all this fun fixing your issues on proprietary systems. You just wait to see if anyone else will fix it for you. Which often just does not happen.

#languagetool #fastText #Eloquent #FOSS

#foss #languagetool #fastText #Eloquent
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Of course as usual my build will be with older tech as there is no way I could afford to do a build on this scale using modern tech. As it is it will likely exceed $5,000.00 USD by the time I am finished. With modern tech it would be more like $50,000.00 USD so that is out of my league budget wise.

Of course seeing those or only 5 gen CPUs you probably already figured that much out 😉.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Just to give you an idea, the PSU (Power Supply) alone will be around $700.00 USD , 256 GB DDR4 ECC memory around $1300.00 USD and about $200.00 USD for the Mother Board. I am not even going to look at potential AI GPU until late in the build. As their prices fluctuate significantly. Though I am going to get 2 and they will mostly likely be around $1,800.00 USD a piece.

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OK, knowers of arcane and esoteric stuffs, here's your challenge: I have a presentation framework data grid, and I'm trying to make an ancient ADO recordset it's datasource. I'm trying now, because after months of working, it magically stopped working after somebody fiddled with the code, but I can't for the life of me figure out what they set wrong.

I've checked the structure and contents of the recordset 6 ways from Sunday, and I'm absolutely certain it contains a large amount of data, but when I set it as the datasource for the grid, the grid updates column names, but doesn't show any data!

I've rewritten the code three different ways now, and it's always the same failure.

Got any thoughts, "The Internet"?

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3 F'35 Lightning and 1 falcon rest is all F-16 they did not used at all for the military defile but drones.
Better not do a military parade then if you are weak.
Not even 1 rocket. but much and hardened infantry is all I saw before civilian structure.
And if it is for having this and fucking under water drone sweeper alone I ask myself why get many people out of welfare?
Most aggravation to me is there was an Ukrainian detachment parading.
Such a shame and new vision revealed.
Talking bout Belgium..
Was a great show off with a scenario of attack by drones.
Thing that derange me is that a National parade has not to be present with some Ukrainian peasants. I stand not up for Ukraine but for my own homeland

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Got hammered in chess today I rage quit!
But had a few good dayz before so it makes up.
I deleted cookies of that site at all!
I swear, it's like they conspired against me all .
This is not possible and unacceptable! Such a shameful streak of losses in rapid, but the one in classic well above me offered a draw.
2 wins 9 fucking losses in rapid the one in classic was a draw.
Whole 2 -3 day progress wiped out in 1 day.
Tomorrow is another day.
7 losses, I need hard drugs.
Worse of it is it was my own fault.
One needs a beating full force no pity by having lost advantage with stupid moves so one learns from it.

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The "Revenge List"

The list was released alongside a statement by Mojtaba Khamenei, the new Supreme Leader of Iran, vowing vengeance for the killing of his father, Ali Khamenei, in February 2026. Mojtaba stated: "These criminals, whose names appear on a list, will take to their graves the wish of a peaceful death in their beds."

Targeted Leaders The infographic, described as a "rogues' gallery," depicts 13 world leaders in orange prison uniforms with sniper targets on their foreheads
it appeared on hamshahrionline.ir/
While Hamshahri is a semi-official publication, there is no confirmation that this specific list represents an official operational directive from the Iranian government or the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). However, the timing coincides with US intelligence reports indicating Iran had planned specific assassination plots against President Trump, prompting heightened security measures during his recent travel.

همشهری آنلاین، سایت خبری روزنامه همشهری | hamshahrionline

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@Unus Nemo It would call 911 even thinking it saves your life! A friend has one of those with AI, it hears everything and acts on its likings if it come to health as not every person is the same simply set it kinda enforces it and can be annoying I imagine.
But it's helpful for some things apart from the fact it knows all about your life.
With digital signature apps it knows it all.
You go to a medic, there will pop up a notification doctor wrote etc so your health as well.
You log in for your taxes it knows your economic situation etc etc
That annoying pop up I can confirm now it is Gemini as I usually just close it immediately. So you are correct it came with the updates.
Problem is really mine is not root-able or I went for Graphene or another OS
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Yeah, I do not use AI for such things, it is still to early for that in my opinion. I basically use well trained (ones I train) LLMs to give expert advice. I cannot remember everything. But I can train my LLMs on my man pages, info pages and system documentation of what I use to get quick results. It is like a search that retrieves useful information without all the extra BS humans tend to include in their answers online.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

For instance when I needed to learn how to use g++ to compile code using modules for C++23 I just asked the AI and it gave me the details. Without me having to poor through the man and info pages myself. That saved a lot of time. You ask that question on line you will get dozens of answers and if one of them is right you will be lucky. But it will be buried in 20,000 lines of their opinions.

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@Unus Nemo Or say in my case Internet goes down.. I still can trouble shoot that one out. It works with router off-grid.
And spares indeed many time and even learn me tricks.
And yes, traditional web scraper search function AI kinds or API using LLM gives bullshit as answers even dangerous to use.
Because answers come mainly from reddit or one of those sites a Khan academy etc, not the official pages.
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@Unus Nemo I know you basicly told me the options to do just that and I have that one with a RAG system on localhost as you said. You dislike the bot method to scrape the manpages and official docs but mine does a single HTTP request to eg man7.org 1 manual per request.
I don't want this on my phone, so I keep refusing it.
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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

I use the man pages on my system as well as the info pages on my system. The advantage to that is that man and info pages get altered from distro to distro to reflect their setup which can be significantly different from say Debian v Fedora. Web base man pages tend to be the generic pages that release with the software and will not have the nuances added by your distro. So it makes sense to me to use my local man and info and docs.

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Yes, everyone knows that OS X was based on NextStep due to Apple acquiring Next OS. What a lot of people do not realize is that was the GUI influence. Since Darwin and forward with OS X BSD is the basis of the core system.

The graphical user interface (GUI) and the underlying Darwin operating system meshed together through a layered, object-oriented architecture where Cocoa served as the primary bridge, translating Objective-C user interface elements into instructions that the low-level Mach kernel and BSD subsystems could execute.

+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| User Interface (Aqua / Application Windows / Finder)  |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Application Frameworks (Cocoa / Carbon / Java)           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Graphics Engine (Quartz / Core Graphics / OpenGL)    |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Darwin Core (Mach Kernel, BSD System, I/O Kit)           |
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Because their is a significant difference in many BSD base tools and Gnu/Linux base tools even though they achieve the same results. They often use different flags, arguments and conventions. So you would not want your AI to not be able to distinguish between your OS X man pages v Fedora man pages etc.

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The Theater of War: Unwrapping History from the Lies We’re Sold

We are living in an era where reality is not just reported; it is manufactured. When we scroll through our feeds, we aren’t seeing the world as it is; we are seeing a curated reflection of what powerful entities want us to believe. The greatest tragedy of our time isn’t just the conflicts themselves, but the collective amnesia regarding history and the selective outrage that defines our modern geopolitical discourse.

The Architecture of Illusion
What that is, is history is often described as a cycle, but today, it feels more like a script being rewritten in real-time. We are told that certain nations are existential threats while others are benevolent defenders of freedom. Yet, if you peel back the layers of state-sponsored narratives and corporate media consolidation, you find a consistent pattern: the "foe" is rarely a natural enemy. The foe is made by media. It is a construct designed to unify a domestic population against an external caricature, distracting from internal decay, economic inequality, and the erosion of civil liberties.

~/~ Propaganda in the 21st century doesn’t look like the crude posters of the past. It looks like breaking news banners, algorithmic suppression, and the subtle omission of context. It convinces us that complexity is dangerous and that binary choices are the only moral path.

The Paradox of Selective Solidarity

Perhaps the most glaring contradiction in today’s discourse is the selective alignment of public sentiment. We see individuals passionately choose a side in a specific war theater, citing sovereignty and the right to self-defense. Yet, these same voices often harbor deep-seated hatred toward nations or peoples who are, by all strategic and historical metrics, friends rather than foes.
How can one champion the sovereignty of one nation while demanding the subjugation or destruction of another? How can we decry the expansion of military alliances when they do it, but celebrate it as "stability" when we do it? This cognitive dissonance is the fuel that keeps the war machine running. We are tricked into hating those who share our struggles against hegemony, while embracing those who profit from our division is my question next.

The Reality Behind the Curtain

Yeps the reality mainstream herd typos.
The reality is that no modern conflicts are not about democracy or human rights; they are about resources, strategic positioning, and the maintenance of a unipolar world order that is rapidly fracturing. The "axis of evil" changes names every decade, but the function remains the same: to justify endless military spending and the surveillance of the populace.
When we allow media conglomerates to define our enemies, we lose the ability to see the common humanity that binds us across borders. The worker in a sanctioned nation is not our enemy; they are suffering under the same weight of elite manipulation as we are. The soldier on the other side of the front line is often just as trapped by propaganda and conscription as the one we are told to support..
To see the truth, we must be willing to uncomfortable questions: Who benefits from this conflict? Why was this history erased from our textbooks? Why do we hate a nation that has never attacked us, while ignoring the atrocities of our allies?

We must stop accepting the narrative that the world is simply divided into "good guys" and "bad guys." Geopolitics is a chessboard of interests, not morals. Until we recognize that the true foe is the machinery of war and the propaganda that sustains it, we will remain pawns in a game we didn’t agree to play.

It is time to unwrap history from the lies. It is time to recognize friends where we’ve been taught to see foes. And most importantly, it is time to demand a reality based on truth, not convenience.

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Many as I witnessed yesterday can not understand/comprehend this text, it is as well an alarming notice that each and all I see post stupid things that are unreal will be deleted in connection with me. You can express an opinion of which we can debate but not hatred or block's just because of all above this post.
Many are detached from reality and what really happens around them and it gets forgotten by the day. I do not forget, I forgive but you wont have a 2nd chance with me.
And one can not debate a stupid person as that makes two stupid persons.
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How can you hate this person and heil an ex Nazi nation, whilst condemning another but it's the best friend of the one that started the cycle? It is like I said mainstream media, and many here are indoctrinated simply set. 20 million people here and majority is just brainwashed af. And as such contradicting as well. In short they follow the majority's choice and be a herd type.

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@Melissa BearTrix You won! 😃
You see, even time can be an ally in chess.
lichess.org/LDxsqru5/black#17
There's a new one on and you are black, read chat there for your moves to learn you the ropes.

Correspondence Chess • MelissaBearTrix vs masterplan8

MelissaBearTrix (1500?) played masterplan8 (1447?) in a casual Correspondence game of chess. masterplan8 ran out of time after 9 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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@Melissa BearTrix As for those that use that queen early game to get that tower to move next in line , this is how to punish them.
lichess.org/0bi23NqW/black
This is the Caro-kann opening on my side, best as black up to 500 elo in rapid games.
I did 5 inaccuracies yes.
This is how I want you to play.
His queen had no chance to move out with his reckless gamble.
Such pins etc you learn them in puzzles there.
4 or 3 of the inaccuracies were in setting chess mate in one move instead I went to take material, I'll learn end game then and play end game puzzles.
Rapid is timed so better get him mate in time... hence the not viewing the best solution was rushing.

Rapid Chess • Espoirsdgj250 vs masterplan8

Espoirsdgj250 (787) played masterplan8 (742) in a rated Rapid (10+0) game of chess. masterplan8 won by checkmate after 26 moves. Click to replay, analyse, and discuss the game!
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The "14 Eyes" refers to the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR) alliance, an extension of the Five and Nine Eyes agreements, where member nations share mass surveillance intelligence. A significant portion of Tor exit nodes (estimated at ~70–80%) are located in these countries, raising concerns about traffic correlation and deanonymization if multiple nodes in a single circuit fall under these jurisdictions.

SIGINT (Signals Intelligence) is the practice of intercepting, decoding, and analyzing electronic signals to gather intelligence. It is the technical backbone of the 14 Eyes
SIGINT is an umbrella term covering three main disciplines:

COMINT (Communications Intelligence): Interception of human communications (phone calls, emails, chat logs, radio traffic). This is what agencies like the NSA (US) and GCHQ (UK) primarily use to monitor internet activity.

ELINT (Electronic Intelligence): Interception of non-communication signals, such as radar emissions, missile guidance systems, or drone control links.

FISINT (Foreign Instrumentation Signals Intelligence): Telemetry data from foreign weapons testing (e.g., speed, altitude, and performance metrics of a missile during a test flight).

more so
Unlike human spies (HUMINT), SIGINT is automated and massive in scale. Collection: Agencies use undersea cable taps, satellite interceptors (like the ECHELON system), and ground stations to capture raw data.

Processing: Supercomputers filter noise and attempt to decrypt encrypted traffic. If decryption fails, they often analyze metadata (who called whom, when, and where) which is often unencrypted.

The "Loophole": As revealed by Edward Snowden, SIGINT alliances allow countries to bypass domestic spying laws. For example, if the NSA is legally barred from spying on a US citizen, it can request the GCHQ (UK) to spy on them and share the data legally.
This is the core function of the SIGINT Seniors Europe (SSEUR) or "14 Eyes" group.

When you use Tor, your traffic is encrypted, but SIGINT agencies can still perform traffic correlation attacks. By monitoring the entry node (via your ISP) and the exit node (via a server in a 14 Eyes country), they can match timing and packet sizes to deanonymize you, even without breaking the encryption. This is why excluding 14 Eyes countries from your exit nodes is a critical defense against SIGINT capabilities.
NSA XKeyscore SIGINT capabilities 2026

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Unus Nemo

@Plan-A̵̛͈̬̥̿͋̓͛̕

Tor over VPN is a total waste of time and creates far too much latency. If you feel you have to mask your use of Tor then just use a bridge. People seriously do not understand what VPNs are, what they were really made for, and why they are not great for security. Though they can get you past some regional blocks on the internet that is about the extent of their usefulness. Unless you are setting up your own VPN (which requires a publicly available server such as my VPS) to use the VPN for what it was actually made for.

The VPN privacy thing is a scam even when most of the net was http and not https. The reason being is that just like when you leave a Tor exit for a http site the connection between the Tor exit and the site is not encrypted. The same applies to VPN. As soon as you connect to a site that is not encrypted from your VPN you lose encryption. Now, if you are connecting to a https site, then you do not need to the VPN for encryption and you are just subjecting yourself to unneeded latency for no reason.

So-called security experts that are really just trying to sell you a service have totally misrepresented what a VPN is and its uses. I have entire books on VPNs if you are interested. OpenVPN also has some great documentation. The VPN for privacy is just smoke and mirrors that knowledgeable users do not fall for. It is like Anti-Virus on Gnu/Linux which is a scam as well, just to sell a product. I am not talking about Anti-Virus on servers to protect against their spreading viruses to MS/Windows machines connected to them such as Clam. I am talking about the BS anti-virus programs that really do nothing on Gnu/Linux there are other ways to protect yourself on Gnu/Linux that does not exist on Older MS/Windows but they are starting to add some features since MS/Windows Vista. Though most users disable these features on MS/Windows because they are inconvenient so they do not benefit from them. I am not implying that there are no security vulnerabilities on Gnu/Linus as there certainly are. They are just managed very differently than on MS/Windows. With stricter ACL then most home MS/Windows users have turned on and SELinux or Apparmor. And by just practicing good OPSEC.

Keep in mind that most Anti-virus software is mostly required because of proprietary software. When source code is available and can be vetted you do not need Anti-virus to scan files looking for attacks. Because they are in a binary format you cannot vet. With Open Source Software you can just read the code, no scanners required.

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@Unus Nemo I do not use Anti Virus at all even on my XOS and there no VPN neither. I know it's scam, just for here to help access sites due to geolocation using a wireguard tunnel to all accessible servers in a set region which is Canada, also to cloak my real ISP when I browse the net or use internet for tools etc. The proxied DNS is just a feature in the browser I love to use. I know that all these are storefront or they sell your data. Mullvad stores no data and i use their Wireguard to encrypt my connection and cloack real location for browsing only. Well it's system wide but there is little latency without the hopping, DAITA whatevere they sell a person just 1 encrypted wireguard for here ( This OS) and that proxied DNS in browser really make me evade Youtube's captcha's, log in's and what have we not.
For AV only thing I need is the GUI site of VT$ Browsers to check URL's and it turns to be a good social engineering tool as well.
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Unus Nemo

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Just keep in mind that the encryption you gain from VPS or Wireguard starts from your computer and ends at their server. As soon as you connect to anything besides their server (which is everything) the encryption is gone and the only encryption is provided by the https or e2e if your app supports that. This is the biggest BS part of VPN. A real VPN would have every node on the same VPS so everything would be encrypted on that VPN. But the way a VPN or Wireguard works with Mullvad and other paid for services is that you are the only node the VPN that is accessible on their network unless you have more than one device on it. Even other Mullvad users you cannot connect to via the VPN. As soon as you go to a website Mullvad turns into a proxy server. So anything beyond their server from your entry point is not encrypted at all unless another method of encryption is employed. Which means you will have dual encryption. It will cause latency even if you do not notice it and it may even be acceptable for you. Keep in mind that dual encryption offers absolutely no benefit to your security and only causes latency.

The reason that the early Web was all http was that machines were not powerful enough back then to deal with the encryption and the latency just became unbearable. So it was only used on government mainframes etc. Back then businesses used Dedicated Service lines that they paid mega bucks for. As machines got more powerful VPN became their answer (which is the true use of VPN). Now most of the net is https most browsers will throw a fit if you even try to connect to a http site unless you enable it, which it will warn you is not safe. So providing your own encryption, except for in the case of Tor, is really just a sugar pill. If it makes you feel better then do it but it has no gain with only cost.

Your machine and ISP may be fast enough that the latency does not effect you to a point were you notice it. Though you can be sure it is there and is costing you additional bandwidth with no benefit.

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@Unus Nemo I see it more as a privacy tool, but then again as chat controls roll out and as I mentioned earlier they can decrypt server side (CSS) , let us say it adds a little anonymity for browser scans e.g. and mostly as you say geo location restrictions. I pay 5$ just for that 1 WG tunnel.. which made me consider to make my own from scrap and free.
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