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Re: Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN region chooser in Emacs


From: Leo Butler
Subject: Re: Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN region chooser in Emacs
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 11:23:16 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux)

It sounds interesting.


TRS-80 <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name> writes:

> Hello *,
>
> Some months ago, I had written for myself a completing-read style VPN
> location chooser, implementing PIA's most recent API.
>
> They do publish some F/LOSS shell scripts[0] to do this, but they
> automatically choose for you the "closest/fastest" region, instead of
> allowing you to choose your exit point.
>
> Of course, preferring not to leave Emacs anyway, I implemented in
> Elisp a few functions which first fetch the list of exit points, and
> extract the relevant bits using jq.  Then a connect function will
> present them to you in completing-read style so you can choose a
> region, and then connect.  Disconnecting and changing regions is also
> supported.  It's pretty basic, but it does what I need.
>
> I have been using this for some months now without issue.  Publishing
> them publicly would involve a minimal amount of polish and writing a
> README, which I could be bothered to do if there is enough interest.
>
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
> [0] https://github.com/pia-foss/manual-connections



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