Cood example: I needed to get voter information abroad in order to get a mail-in ballot, but the government website blocked all foreign origin connections.

How awful. Which country?

United States of America

an eagle screeches in the distance

Fun fact: the bald eagle scream heard in most movies and television shows is actually the call of a red-tailed hawk.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2023/03/28/do-you-...

Rewriting history is a part of our culture

I read about the long walk of the Navajo recently. You can say that again..

This should be considered unconstitutional...

Personally I think it should be illegal for government websites to even present you with a captcha, especially one from a hostile corporation like Google. But this is a battle I've long since quit fighting...

It doesn't matter anyway. They can claim a million mail in ballots and there is no way to verify it beyond "just trust us" which we clearly do not.

Can't you make the same argument for regular ballots?

Just tried to rescue one by my property, poor thing passed

I knew this academically from a while back, but have seen it in the wild by my house where I have both hawks and bald eagles.

Late at night I also get those classic spooky owl noises (great horned owl).

I recently wanted to check the price of tickets on Ticketmaster. Got an error about me looking like a bot (this was clearnet from a foreign country). Same deal with Tor.

This is why we cannot have nice things. Ticketmaster wants to keep all the scalping on their platform and not anyone else's.

Just curious - Does VPN help in this case ? Or do you prefer Tor

Tor exit nodes are also frequently blocked or severely scrutinized... I'm surprised it worked..

Maybe since it was official government affairs, any US ip address had to be let through no matter what.

Is there any mechanism to control this in the UI? It seems like something users would want: exit from XYZ country.

Not in the GUI but its possible via modifying the torrc file[0].

[0] https://communitydocs.accessnow.org/147-Tor_force_exit_nodes...

Tor* [0]:

> Note: even though it originally came from an acronym, Tor is not spelled "TOR". Only the first letter is capitalized. In fact, we can usually spot people who haven't read any of our website (and have instead learned everything they know about Tor from news articles) by the fact that they spell it wrong.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about/why-is-it-called-tor/

While I know that’s the correct answer from the tor project, I still dislike it. It was/IS an acronym. Capitalization I’ve seen used across people familiar and unfamiliar with the tech.

I like it better as Tor than capitalised. All-uppercase words are a bit shouty.

I remember it back in the day as fully capitalized.

Now that the TorProject has opted to correct the record, it is too little too late. Most presentations at the time did use "TOR" and it was called the TOR router. Even they understand the acronym comes from the original onion routing project from the Naval Research Lab.

All that to say, I don't know why they would try to distance themselves from what it was, and what it still is.

Maybe they changed it because it seemed redundant to say "TOR router" (like ATM machine)... :)

Either way I don't mind, but personally I think "Tor" looks more professional, less shouty, and doesn't conflict with "top of rack" router/switch (which is a thing in datacenters). I have noticed that the Tor project is pretty protective of their brand, e.g. if you start a project including "Tor" in its name they will complain and ask you to clarify lack of affiliation.

It's written "Tor", not "TOR".