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- Comment on Google Refuses to Deny UK Encryption Demands 1 week ago:
Yeh, good.
Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage! - Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:
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Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec. -
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
How they enforce that, I dunno.
Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage -
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.
independent.co.uk/…/vpns-online-safety-bill-labou…
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
“If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
The likely conclusion of that report is that “VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned”
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 4 weeks ago:
One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it - Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 4 weeks ago:
Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour - Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 4 weeks ago:
If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism.
I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Why do we even have that lever?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 5 weeks ago:
All the cool kids are running kubernetes
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 5 weeks ago:
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does - Comment on Sounds good tho 1 month ago:
Bloody hell is more of a surprise thing, tbh
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 1 month ago:
He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren’t idiots.
It’s either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff - Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 1 month ago:
It’s part of the strategy.
Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Your threat assessment is way off.
So, you import a phone. What sim do you use? Where do you use it? When do you use it? Who do you contact with it?
All of that is more valuable and easier to get for the police than some sort of modification of firmware or platform as it passes through customs.
If in doubt, flash your own firmware.If this is actually a threat assessment to you, asking on Lemmy is the wrong place. You need people with the same experience that an entire country has at their disposal.
If it’s a concern as opposed to an actual threat, buy some 2nd hand phones from random places and buy some prepaid sims (ideally via smurfs or black market means). And be aware of how you use them
- Comment on just beat it 1 month ago:
The whole “well, it’s already broken: what’s the worst I can do?” is such a liberating position to be in.
- Comment on Stop Trusting VPN Companies. Host Your Own (WireGuard getting started guide) 37:29 1 month ago:
Stop trusting VPS providers! Run your own servers at home!
Unless you infiltrate someone else’s network, the endpoint your basic VPN connects to can always be traced back to you.
So, either you trust a VPN company doesn’t hold logs and try to hide within all the other traffic.
Or you host your own VPN on a VPS knowing you haven’t set up any logging (and hope that your VPS hasn’t been tampered with), but then have a static IP that comes back to your identity. - Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 1 month ago:
XKCD alt text is always worth!
And it’s not always available (like, the well known ones being circulated around social media).Props to the OP for linking to the image from XKCD (as opposed to rehosting it) and further props for linking the source!
Just missing the delicious alt text (at least for me using jerboa, Firefox and a pixel phone)
- Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 1 month ago:
If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity
I hope I typed that right. I couldn’t copy the alt text from the source on mobile.
And I was annoyed that XKCD alt text wasn’t included with the post, so I thought I would include it to the best of my ability - Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 2 months ago:
That’s a great rundown with decent logic & examples behind each point.
I think the biggest point is the takeoff weight.
If the impact/evac/safety aspects can be addressed, the only way I can see it working is to add a “cattle class” that’s like $10 cheaper than current economy and has something like 40 “seats”.
Then increase the price of what is currently economy class by $10-20.
You lose $400 because of the new cheaper class, but gain $1,200 to $2,400 by increasing the price of economy (considering a 160 seat plane, and convert 40 seats to standing). So, net gain $800-2000. Let’s you advertise new cheaper fares, and the price increase isn’t hugely egregious when the 40 seats sell out instantly.
I guess it doesn’t work on less busy flights if only the 40 cheap seats sell - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Outlook (formerly Outlook New) for Live (formerly Outlook Cloud)
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 2 months ago:
If it was real pain, the body has ways of rejecting it
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 2 months ago:
Is that an insult?
Nature normally smells lovely - Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 2 months ago:
It’s pretty much just does it.
Default settings are good.
I think you can dial in stricter block lists, but might have issues with some websites.
But you can pause PiHole for 5 minutes, allowing you to do what you need to. I think there is even browser plugins to give you an easy toggle button - Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 2 months ago:
If there is ever a way to continue any process without agreeing to terms, services, data processing etc: that’s my default action.
I’m not going to check a checkbox unless the form forbids me from continuing without checking it - at which point, I figure out what the checkbox wants - Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I have no idea, but that website is a bit of a red flag to me.
It sounds like it’s some sort of file sharing service. So you can upload, share and download files from the RealDebrid servers.
A quick Google suggests it’s primarily used for downloading/streaming movies, TV series etc. Essentially piracy. - Comment on Microsoft Allows Bethesda To Continue To Be Cool Regarding Fan-Made Remake Projects 3 months ago:
Now they need to stop interfering with windows
- Comment on How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring? 3 months ago:
Uh, don’t?
You want a Lemmy instance - that I presume you would want to be somewhat reliable - without doing anything? WiFi prioritises convenience over speed and reliability. So, things will randomly fail.I guess pay for a Lemmy instance provider. Probably the easiest. But this is self hosting, and it sounds like you want a place to start and have chosen “hosting a Lemmy instance” as your learning ground.
Something like cloudflare tunnel will let you punch through a firewall without having to mess with network stuff.
A docker compose stack makes things as easy as they can be in such scenarios.
These are terms you can google “Lemmy docker compose cloudflare tunnel”Here is 1 result: lemmy.world/post/299429
Here is a GitHub for Lemmy in docker compose github.com/Drakeyves/lemmy-docker-setup
This looks like it covers cloud flare in a compose stack: joelparkinson.me/self-hosting-with-cloudflare-tun…
Read through, learn docker compose, understand cloudflare & cloudflare tunnels
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sounds like you have had a very productive life! Your son is very lucky.
Encourage the education. But there are loads of good careers that don’t need university degrees.
And all the while, he can try and achieve his dream.From personal experience, university wasn’t useful for me - other than giving me time to figure out what I don’t want to do, and meeting friends that are still friends to this day.
But I could’ve easily done an apprenticeship, or gone straight into some industry/company. Some days, I wish I had. Other days, I wouldn’t want to be doing anything other than what I am atm.Dream case, he makes it.
Best case, he figures out what he wants to do by 21.
Worst case, he’s still figuring it out when he’s 25.I wasn’t making decent money until I was late 20s. Even now, I can’t guarantee I have enough work next year. It’s extremely likely, but I’m self employed so…
Knowing my folks will still support me means I can continue pursuing interesting, useful and innovative things, even in my 30s - even tho that’s not longer required.Maybe talk to some of your contacts in the football industry.
See if they have similar “football or nothing”, or if they had backup plans.
Talk to some managers, coaches, sports scientists, medics etc.
Ask them how they would get into pro football. Ask them what happens to pro-football aspiring players that don’t make the cut.
Use your experience and connections to help and support your son. And be there if it doesn’t work out.
You might know better, but he still has to learn. The best lessons are mistakes. - Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Did you go straight into being a pro footballer? Or did you have back up plans? Like “if this doesn’t work out, I’ll be an electrician” or something?
I’ve never had super lofty goals, but my parents always supported me in what I wanted to do. They never tried to steer me, but they did ask pertinent questions about what I was planning at various points. Probably to hint at bad idea.
I feel like I could have asked them for money/support at any point for any of my projects/ideas/whatevers, and - after making sure I was serious - would have helped out however they could.
I have a very unique career at this point, and I am only in this position because of the eclectic experience I have.Ultimately, he is growing up. He’s going to have to make mistakes.
I’d say you have to be prepared to support him as much as you can in his dream of being a pro footballer.
Maybe he won’t be a pro footballer, but he might get a satisfying career out of being football-adjacent. Medic, science, coaching.
Or maybe he will try it for 5 years and eventually realise it’s not gonna happen, and be an electrician.
Or maybe he will struggle for 2 years, realise he needs to double down, and make the cut a year later.I had a friend when I was growing up that dreamed of being an RAF pilot. Everything he did was around that.
Due to some unfortunate life circumstances, that dream was ripped away in the space of a week. Completely out of anyone’s control, but he could no longer qualify as an RAF pilot.
He was heartbroken. He’s now an engineer/mechanic in the RAF and seems happy.He shouldn’t find another dream.
But he should be aware that dreams don’t always come about. And if this dream doesn’t, would he be happy in an adjacent career? Or something else entirely?
Help him research the backup plan. - Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 3 months ago:
I moved to endeavouros. First time using a rolling release, and I was struggling with some webdev stuff cause node was on a recent non-lts build and a few other things.
Not a problem for building, cause I already have that containerised. But things like installing packages was refusing, and obviously couldn’t run dev workflows.Until I realised I should just work inside a container.
I know vscode is still Microsoft (and I’m sure I could get it to work with vscodium), but the dev container workflow is fantastic.
Absolute game changer.
And I know I can easily work on a different platform, os whatever. And still have the same dev environment. - Comment on It's the law! 3 months ago:
Or use what PTP does.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_Time_ProtocolWhich is a more accurate protocol than NTP.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol