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Maybe I should’ve just shut up and thought for a bit longer before writing that comment…

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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • My problem with lists (and anything text honestly): I lile to see identical formatting and structure.
    And if the indentation isnt just right enough it can make me a tad agitated/irritated. Worst case can be if someone talks to me while I am in that mode…











  • I use gluetun with my own ovpn file. I have no knowledge on other vpn-integrations!

    I see some issues with the provided info

    There are some ping issues in the log
    Have you a monitor service like uptime kuma that you can cross-check?
    Best case to be configurable to the frequency gluetun checks for

    2026-03-15T07:04:49Z INFO [vpn] 👉 See https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md

    Have you tried that before posting?

    2026-03-15T07:04:50Z INFO [openvpn] UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]46.29.25.4:1194

    2026-03-15T07:05:50Z WARN [openvpn] TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity)

    🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚒🚒🚒🚒🚒 (…)

    That seems bad.

    Side quests:

    • Have you a separate system or VM that you could test your config on a fresh vanilla system? (to rule out issues related to networking tweaks)
    • Have you the issue with other connections?
    • Do you notice a pattern? Maybe in time (clock), duration of connection (how long did it work before the issue arrised? Does Proton force kill connections periodically?) Maybe a program/service executing in the background that touches the network config?
    • When was the last config change? Yesterday? Two days ago? (Example: My traefik cert failed because I fucked with the config. I also touched my 2FA proxy container redirect which resulted in a faulty integration and me being unable to login. The time since I have touched the config was 3 days prior.)



  • I see the numerous websites having to close down because they can’t/won’t do the integration.

    I mean look at YT.
    The stupid COPPA law prevents me from reading funny comments under cartoon intros because youtube couldnt be arsed to prevent kids from using the regular youtube app instead of the “youtube kids” app.
    Even some meme clips are barred because youtube thinks they are “for kids” (lmao) (Example. Ironically those videos, when shared, don’t have a tracking id in the url and some of the quick access share options like for whatsapp are not available, only the internal share options by the OS)

    Another example that grinds my gears on YT:

    • Mini player is deactivated, because supposedly kids could watch the forbidden sauce in a minimized video while the parent couldnt see wht it was.
    • Adding to playlists is forbidden. But why??? What is so dangerous about being able to add a video to a playlist? Just deny kids to watch a playlist if it’s not 100% populated with “made for kids” or something.
    • Commenting is disabled. Even if the account is known to be a verified adult account.

    All of these just because some USA state needed to extend their reach across country borders because they are headquartered there.
    Just restrict it to USA-IPs or something. ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)


  • Whether it should be government-mandated is one question,

    That:s my primary issue

    Is your expectation then that parents should sit over their kids’ shoulder every moment that they access the internet? Are our tools not supposed to make that easier to handle?

    In a perfect world, I would want APIs and other integrations be made available that will do that and the parent will only need to press a button to allow/deny it.
    Not really government mandated but voluntarily by a group that executes the vision of a parent, requested by the government (due to requests by the parental society but not because corps deciding they need/want more controllable elements) and the technical parties (e.g. OS devs) that can integrate the wish.

    Unfortunately this will probably be a mandated integration requiring everyone, doesnt matter if a child is existing, to authenticate that they are truly legally able to access the device and/or ressource.
    Great, now as a childless person I have to do those things because some were irresponsible and ruined it for everyone :/

    I hope I could communicate my issue.