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Turkish DNS is really an interesting thing. Awhile back, the govt hijacked Google’s DNS service via bogus BGP routes so they could block/censor traffic. They then also started directing DNS queries away from the EU and pushing those to APAC.

Not sure what the sites are or what they resolve to on your end, but you might try using openssl to see if its a bad cipher or outdated cert maybe: openssl s_client -connect domain.com:443 -ciphersuites TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 -tls1_3

I would just use https://pcpartpicker.com/ to figure out compatibility if you haven’t ever built a PC before. Most users tend to use AMD because it is a little better supported, but honestly having an NIVIDIA GPU doesn’t stop you from doing anything.

Phone apps are a pet peeve of mine. Most apps are just websites wrapped up in the ASAR archive format. Instead of spending all this extra money to build an app, just make your original website responsive.

What does Lemmy (an open community) have to do with privacy? What does privacy have to do with piracy?

1. If X was not available to pirate, would you pay for it?
2. If you would not have paid for X, does pirating X cause any actual loss to its owner? If you would not have paid for it either way (even if that were the only option) and you haven’t caused them a loss of revenue by pirating it, did you impact the creator at all?

The counter to this is always that just because someone wouldn’t pay doesn’t mean the creator’s work has no value. To that I would yes that is completely true. The creator’s work has value, but maybe not monetary value. You can’t always conflate value to money (ex. FOSS, canonical sci-fi lore, protest symbols, etc).

There is also a morality component used against my argument that would say I’m ignoring the intent, consent, and ownership the creator has. Its usually worded that I’m using outcome-based morality and that the ends always justifies the means by that logic. But I pay for X, not for access to use X. If the creator can opt without my consent to remove X from me, I’m not longer obligated to follow that moral constraint. Morality is a two-way street.

The controversy stems from a few things:

1. Surveillance Creep Fedora devs have suggested a Windows-style telemetry system. It was purposed as being anonymous and opt-in only, but the fear from the community was that it would slowly change over time (much in the same vein as how Windows telemetry system has done over the years).

2. Conflict of Interest Red Hat was purchased by IBM which led to the perceived conflict of interest it may then have. RHEL went closed source after this which has been a red flag to many people in the Fedora community.

3. Flatpak Fedora maintains its own flatpak builds (a lot of which don’t work as they are outdated). Without clearly knowing what you are doing, there is a good chance you’ll be installing outdated Fedora versions as it runs side-by-side with the non-Fedora.

4. Wayland This I don’t see as an issue, but many users do. The community does mention sometimes that Fedora prioritizes bleeding-edge new over stability. If you combine that with #3 though, I don’t put much weight in it.

Germany hasn’t officially endorsed ChatControl, and groups like Hetzner outright oppose it. In the US, ChatControl takes the form of the LAED Act and the EARN IT Act. All three focus on this appeal to emotion that to protect kids we need to get rid of end-to-end encryption. Legislators are pretty fucking dumb when it comes to this stuff, though. They don’t understand that if they have a backdoor to encryption, everyone has a backdoor to encryption.

that would require sitting down and manually doing that for every conceivable payee

That’s just called VLOOKUP(). I think you’re over-complicating this process. If you sit down and look at your finances, you’ll notice that the number of payees you have isn’t some absurd unmanageable amount. As others have mentioned, there’s no real use case for involving AI this way. There’s no scale, no real benefit to financial tracking, etc. I get this is just to use AI for the sake of using AI, but that’s not really a goal when writing financial software.

Honestly, you don’t even need NLP for this. Excel supports regex now so you could just do a call like =REGEXTEST(A1, "(?!)^w.*mart$"). Then just mark by type and graph out to see where your main spending is coming from.

Germany’s legislation is largely spearheading the effort. They aren’t trying to build the infrastructure to support it, they already have the infrastructure. They are one of if not the biggest GDPR actors and have a large datacenter presence through companies like Hetzner and DE-CIX.

SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN means incorrect SAN information, proxying, or DNS manipulation is occurring. You could compare what you see in the browser and what you see via something like: $ openssl s_client -showcerts -connect cs.rin.ru:443

You could also check the DNS resolution and traceroute to see how you are getting there to confirm if DNS is being effected or you are being proxied: $ dig cs.rin.ru @127.0.0.1 A $ mtr cs.rin.ru

I’m sorry, its been a long day.

DNS4EU doesn’t provide DDNS service, you are correct. Checkout deSEC, they partner with DNS4EU and the EU as part of the initiative to limit dependency on US based infrastructure.

You might try DNS4EU: 86.54.11.1 86.54.11.201 DoH: https://protective.joindns4.eu/dns-query DoT: protective.joindns4.eu

I had a similar setup to this awhile back. You have to port the number to your VoIP provider of choice and then decide on what client you are going to run (no need for SIM card). I was wanting voice service and only needed limited SMS, so I went with linphone (and played around with zoiper too). If you are needing good SMS support, then JMP is probably the best. It supports both SMS and MMS. You won’t get E911 access I believe, but as data only its a good solution.

Free wifi is all over the place and if you wire up a mobile hotspot in your car (yes it somewhat defeats the purpose), you can get some pretty decent coverage.

No, installing Tailscale on all machines is not actually required. You can setup a funnel that exposes a service to the internet for all to see. This also removes the requirement for them to access via Wireguard if desired. https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/funnel

I think the idea of an IP address (IPv6 or not) providing anyone a semblance of privacy is wishful thinking in this age. Google ad revenue in the EU is estimated to be lower because the power in GPDR areas isn’t in PII obfuscation, its in the consent model. Positive opt-in to Legitimate Vendor Interest makes tracking difficult, not whether your IP is generic. You have to remember companies like Google are still able to monetize off of users in mobile CG-NAT environments in the US/EU. Given the roughly 150 other metrics Google (or any publisher/SSP would have access to), removing one doesn’t really stem the tide.

What’s also interesting is how IPs become anonymized. For IPv4, the industry standard I kid you not is to take the 4th octet and mark it zero. That’s it. It just assumes carriers use /24 CIDRs like someone’s home network might. The funny part is what if that was 50.50.0.0/22? A publisher could in practice replace one user’s IP with another user’s IP which means that they still would be passing PII unanonymized which could violate GDPR.

IPv6 uses the same basic system. 2001:db8:85a3:8d3:1319:8a2e:370:7348 becomes 2001:db8:85a3::. You just truncate at the 64th bit. Rolling through available host bits doesn’t really matter then. IPv6/IPv4 really aren’t ever used for Google user syncing.

I’ve mentioned this elsewhere, but to fair, even without you providing Google an IPv6 address, they still know exactly which computer contacted them from inside your LAN. Even in GDPR territory they can do that.

Yes, that is correct. As I said, there is probably already a docker image out there for the provider you go with.

I think its easier and shorter to say what is the same between the two than different, but some things that are different:

1. Filesystem (ex. Linux treats everything as a file, more flexibility in organization, more compatibility for differing systems, etc)
2. Security Model (NTFS vs UNIX, selinux, ACLs, etc)
3. File Execution (File extensions don’t really matter in Linux - based on file permission not extension, ELF vs PE, etc)
4. Kernel (Monolithic vs Hybrid kernel systems - Windows hands off to HAL vs the Linux kernel doing core functions)
5. System Calls (Windows use Win32/NT APIs, Linux uses POSIX-compliant)

Performance is dependent on use case, but in general:

1. Linux uses fewer system resources
2. Linux has faster boot time
3. Linux has better CPU/disk throughput
4. Windows has better gaming driver support
5. Linux has higher stability/control (hence why its the defacto server OS)

If we stripped all ms’s junk out and made windows open source, would we still prefer linux?

In what context? For gaming maybe, but that’s one single use. There is more to computers than video games, at least for the majority of Linux users. I wouldn’t trust Windows on any server I run.

Pretty sure that is just a discrepancy between when a site has last checked client announcements from the tracker and when what the tracker currently shows. As of 2025, TPB for example links to 3.2 million torrents. Assuming client announcements were set to an average 1hr interval, that would require TPB to make 76.8 million checks every day for announcement updates.

So, I could see sites not maintaining accurate seeder/leecher data.