I've been very happy with Netcup too as a European VPS provider. They have a coupon until the 17th if you decide to go with them, I think it applies 7EUR off of a purchase above 7EUR: netcupSpring26

As for throttling of the VPN traffic from the ISP side, that's hard to say. Theoretically it's possible they are doing deep packet inspection to specifically target VPN traffic, which would work through different ports, but I'd think that's overkill. Maybe they're doing it by protocol and just throttling UDP traffic, which would be easier, but I don't know how to confirm that with mullvad.

"The name Orbán will also live on in the government, in the form of the intended new Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Orbán - who is not related to Viktor, however."

The fuck is this article?

I thought we were abandoning Discord. Why do i still see so much coverage about this platform? I also still see way too many posts linking to substack.

I'm skeptical about Sora getting killed. I think it's very plausible that they just privated their model for internal use by the US gov. Sure, it's one less power hungry AI video generator, but there are multiple of those available already, I don't think it's the win most people think it is.

Serbia / Hungary. 

My thoughts exactly. Also I wouldn't really like to risk my stuff by connecting to their infrastructure anyway. At least over here, I saw how incompetent they are. 

Yes, I just moved from github to a self hosted Forgejo instance the other week

Ooh, Australia, I have a question. Was PalTalk a big thing over there? Obviously way after what you described. I remember my father having an old classmate over from Australia and he introduced us to "The Internet", and how instant messaging was possible a cross borders through PalTalk. Even though I never heard anyone using it in Europe, even years past that encounter. 

From my other comment it looks like this dataset contains various strings that trigger refusal: https://huggingface.co/datasets/mlabonne/harmful_behaviors

Also, you might want to research this Heretic project, which aims to remove safeguards from local models as those might be similar to what's in the larger versions. Figuring out the phrases they test the safeguards with might have some decent results. 

Asking questions about Chinese politics and/or Tiananmen Square  stops most China based AI models, like Qwen and whatever is on Huawei phones. They aren't that high traffic yet, but are certainly in the list of "all ai models" 

In the videogame Wolfenstein: The New Order there's mentions from a character that might be loosely based on her, or at least the details are very similar. Look up "Ramona's diary" if you'd like to read more.