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#unbound

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Marquis de Geek

FWIW To read my personal background on the #Unbound matter, this is what I wrote last week when the news broke:

linkedin.com/posts/marquisdege

www.linkedin.comUnlocked: I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house!… | Steven GoodwinUnlocked: I might have accidentally destroyed an entire publishing house! At the end of 2023 I released a book "20 GOTO 10" via the publisher Unbound. (4.4 stars on Amazon!) It sold tens of thousands of copies, and yet, I was not paid for any of them. I waited. Politely emailed. Looked past their emails of "any day now" and waited some more. Last year, I filed a legal case. The week after, they sent an email to all their authors claiming "issues" with payment. A few weeks ago, I escalated my case to the County Court. Today, they sent an email saying "We will shortly be announcing that Unbound (United Authors Publishing Limited) has gone into Administration." In short - they took my royalties, paid themselves, ran, and started a new company to absolve themselves of the responsibilities and the debt. Guess what? The same people are in charge! No morals. No learnings. Had I filed suit earlier, it might have distracted them from genuine recovery work, and more writers would have lost money. Had I not filed, they might still be selling the dream. But since they launched a new magazine while we were all waiting on royalties, I don't feel bad about playing my part in their downfall. (As Spike Milligan might have said!)
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Michael Jack

I wanted to set up VPN with ad-blocking for laptop and mobile, for when away from home, so I installed FreeBSD 14.2 on a Raspberry Pi 4, because why not?

Followed:

1) zenarmor.com/docs/network-secu

2) it-notes.dragas.net/2023/09/23

(only using IPv4)

Seems to work as intended, but I'm not sure if ~500 ms ping times are normal for 5G mobile connection through VPN.

FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi 4, output from fastfetch and ping to mobile phone, connected via VPN
#FreeBSD#RaspberryPi#Wireguard
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