Rclone works with many providers, and allows for encryption.

Ripping it out instead of paying 4 figures for new hardware/support was cathartic.

Negate/pfSense in now, but they’re not immune to troubles either. Thinking about OPNsense for future.

Cloud backup of firewall configs or anything else sensitive - with insufficient or no encryption - is inexcusable. For both parties.

I already shitcanned our MSP for pushing overpriced SonicWall crap. Very glad we’re long off that train before it derailed.

Government Response:

We’re using Emby set up on a container with GPU passthrough. Used to be on a Synology, but that absolutely sucked for transcoding and now just hosts the library.

Does the job and does it well with a little extra setup for subtitles (extensions, API keys etc). Subs are a must as I can barely hear shit.

Apps work well, as does the web interface. Sometimes struggles with the highest quality files (hardware limitations rather than software), but 1080p is fine for our use.

Haven’t needed to look into anything else, no dealbreakers yet.

evs.ee at least offers ISO standards at a not extortionate price:

https://evs.ee/

The pdfs do have some DRM on them and they will come watermarked with the buyer details though. The former is easy to get around - I used foxit reader and a pdf ‘printer’ to make a copy that opens nicely in anything.

Age regardless. Get them taught or take it for from them for their own good.

Yes, they’re glossing over the fact that the user must manually paste and execute code that the fake captcha puts on the clipboard.

Not a new attack vector in the slightest, just a play on the entry method.

Anyone doing this should have their computer taken away and head inspected/retrained.

Stevie/Stevies (as in the name, Steve) is the house-level localised name here. Stevie Slater.

Why, I don’t know.

Woodlice are my favourite for this. From the wiki:

Common names include:

• armadillo bug
• boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
• butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
• carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
• cheeselog (Reading, England)
• cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
• cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
• chiggy pig (Devon, England)
• chisel pig
• chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
• doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion and for the cockchafer)
• fat pig (Ireland)
• gramersow (Cornwall, England)
• hog-louse
• millipedus
• QuaQua regional to Beddau and Keppoch Street Roath
• mochyn coed (‘tree pig’), pryf lludw (‘ash bug’), granny grey in Wales
• pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
• potato bug
• roll up bug
• roly-poly
• slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
• sow bug
• woodbunter
• wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)

I’ve begrudgingly accepted that the greater war in this regard is long since lost, but I’m happy to win the small battles today. Unfettered internet access. Ad free media. VPNs, adblockers etc etc

It helps that I’m a fairly dull person to begin with. I’ll probably be dust by the time it gets too bad to tolerate.

The majority of people will sacrifice security for convenience, I guess we all know that’s a given.

For 2 at least if enough users behave ‘adversely’ in the same way, they become less distinguishable from one another within that subset.

Interesting to see how such an arms race pans out.

1. Don’t use shit that monitors in such a way.
2. Where you can’t avoid it, do your work in a separate, trusted program and then copy paste it in.
3. Where you can’t paste, I’m sure you could whip up an ahk script to ‘type’ for you from the clipboard.
4. If you’re at this step, they’ve already won.

proper keyboard navigation

• Goes on shitty website that doesn’t play nice with password managers
• Enters username
• Presses Tab
• Begins typing password in the now highlighted ‘forgot username’ element
• Unfathomable rage
• Tabs and types again
• Presses Enter
• Nothing happens
• Continues to mash Tab, trying to find when the submit button element will select
• Break, and click the button like an animal

Belt sander pillows for the people that design this shit, please.

On and off over the last 15 years or so.

Only recently have I become much more comfortable & able to resolve things without resorting to search, stackoverflow etc.

The turnover point was the day I finally learned vi & cron so I could fiddle with an old Buffalo NAS, that was long out of support, riddled with security holes, and offered only very limited tooling.

Was a great learning experience, but it didn’t pan out the way I wanted. So it runs Debian now, supports modern protocols, and continues to serve. Amazing what you can keep in service when you try.

Rock on :)

Confirmed issue, just gave it a test.

Adding the uBlock Origin extension to Tor Browser will resolve it and make the links proper again.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Working fine for me on Mullvad.

Worse: Back row order is decided by a lottery machine. No intentional symmetry, black and white get unique draws.

We shoulder-surfed a tech back in the 90s when he was getting us set up. Thus, the “HAHA FREE” dialup connection was born.

Gave years of service to our old beige box.