That's great for you. But some people need to pick a specific country. People in different countries often get different prices for things like airline tickets or online subscriptions. Maybe you need to appear from a particular country to access certain media.

I mostly use it to avoid exposing my IP address too, but if I knew my VPN was comfortable with a little light fraud, I'd be concerned about what else they're comfortable with.

NordVPN calls out when a location is virtual, so unless ipinfo is claiming they have virtual locations that are not labelled as such, they are at least transparent about it. They did document the physical server locations of their virtual locations at launch, but I'm not sure if there's a live doc for new locations. https://nordvpn.com/blog/new-nordvpn-virtual-servers/

All the ones I use pick one for you, it is up for you to change it, and you play a fat rate per month or year regardless of what you pick.

Are you implying that laws should never be changed?

> But some public comments released by the commission expressed concern that the legislation could undermine user security.

I'm constantly amazed by how many people have fallen for this trick.

I (American) regularly use litotes both for ironic emphasis (like saying "not bad" at an amazing restaurant) and when I genuinely mean "it's not great but it's not terrible". Honestly not sure which is more common. It all depends on context and tone.

> People's words about a restaurant matter more than the star rating to me.

I find that both offer an incredibly poor signal. I can usually get a much better idea of the quality of the place by looking at pictures of the food (especially the ones submitted by normal users right after their plate arrives at the table). It's more time consuming to scroll through pictures manually than to look at the stars, but I'm convinced it's a much better way to find quality.

Maybe that could be a good angle for this kind of tool. At least until this process becomes more popular and the restaurants try to game that too by using dishonest photography.

Buying GPUs and RAM is a bit of a barrier right now, but renting a cloud instance at Modal and running a model off hugging face is relatively affordable

What open-weight model comes close to the quality of Sora 2 and can run on hardware mere mortals can afford?

I agree with you when I believe a choice can be freely made. But peer pressure as a child is extremely intense, and if you're the one weirdo you know whose parents don't allow them on Snapchat, it can cause lots of strife and probably be ineffective anyway.

So I'm assuming weed laws have put an end to the "peer pressure" of teens getting other teens to smoke it?

Life always comes down to personal choices and it's always the hard ones that are the most important. No law will ever change that.

Not saying that laws are the reason, but there isn't much childhood peer pressure to smoke weed. There is peer pressure around iMessage in some countries just cause of Apple, rather than kids finding the obvious workarounds.

> But it's a weak substitute for proper open source that you can just fork and fix if you need

Many source-available licenses explicitly allow this, as long as you don't try to sell your fix commercially to others. You can certainly share it with others, it just has to be free of charge.

I agree with you the "source available" is overstretched. It's hard to come up with a good new label for the first group. Maybe "Open Use" or "Fair Source".

I'm curious as to where this is going. What happens next?