Keep your passwords secure (don’t share them, make sure they aren’t anything you would ever say in a conversation), make your passwords with a lot of entropy (capitals, lowercase, punctuation marks, math symbols) and if the VPN provider you use has even half-way-decent security this attack won’t work

1. I don’t know how to set one up
2. I already have NextDNS and I can make that work everywhere I go.
3. Having AdGuard for windows on both of my laptops and my 3 desktops and my server and my windows tablet already serves the purpose of Pihole plus a few extra things to block the bullshit in windows that PiHole can’t do as effectively
4. Updating a Pihole periodically involves buying and configuring a whole new piece of hardware, updating to a new version of AdGuard involves running the installer and sometimes restoring from a settings file or two.

Why two laptops and a windows tablet? One is a beefy gaming laptop, the other is a mediocre laptop that I sometimes take to wifi hotspots. The windows tablet is a different form factor, I don’t really use it much anymore

Two desktops? One for gaming and my daily driver, the other for work.

I’m not telling you what I do for a living.

See here’s the thing, if the international laws that came about as a response to what the various members of the Axis forces did applied to the US…Every post WW2 president would’ve been executed for war crimes.

Literally every one of them is guilty of war crimes as well as most of the people in those administrations

If we convicted Trump of as many as 30 something felonies, why didn’t we convict any other president for any of the horrible things they did?

I don’t have the ability to run a PiHole of my own. But I have adguard installed on my PC with its DNS protection set to put my DNS requests through Next DNS and I have my DNS settings changed to put traffic through NextDNS on all of my shit

When ya gotta fart, let’er rip! Ladies, men. Everyone farts, so no one should be ashamed or shy about unleashing the gaseous phenomenon within ourselves!

Hi Mili! I hope you’re having a better day than I am

I fucking hate it when people say that. You can’t choose how you feel

I just said twice that everything works fine as long as “direct” connections can be made. if your torrenting client says that’s happening, everything is working fine

Port forwarding is a huge vulnerability. With proton it’s not as much of a vulnerability, but it still opens a lot of shit that should stay closed

whatever the case is, I’m able to seed without port forwarding

yes, seeding works too, with no port forwarding. With mullvad, it just works and with proton I have to enable “moderate NAT” sometimes, but seeding works without port forwarding, it always has

I’ve never used port forwarding. Everything works fine

swap proxies I have this problem from time to time with mullvad.

Depends on the online store I guess, regardless, refunding the money always takes WAY longer

You: buys a digital thing from an online store

Store: takes your money right away with no waiting time

You: Decide you don’t want it anymore, too expensive to renew

Store: okay, you’ll get your money back in 5 to 10 business days

Please stop the political stuff

Things that are in every threat model include, but are not limited to.

Surveillance from your internet provider and advertising companies its partnered with.

Surveillance from advertising companies partnered with websites you go to and online services you use.

People online who might try to doxx you if you say something they don’t like or win too much in a game

The owner of a malicious website getting your IP address from visiting it by accident.

If your internet provider or anyone else gives you the third degree about using a VPN or any other privacy-friendly alternatives to anything, just say all but the first one

oh and be mindful of internet providers using AI to find patterns in the packets you’re sending and receiving

I don’t know if they even have something that advanced whichever one sees it first just signals to the others “HEY! BIG FOOD! BRING IT TO NEST!” with urgency and then the others repeat the signal until all the gatherers start getting it then they all signal to go back to the nest with it.

Fortunately, human beings have individuality and independent thought. Embrace that, use your brain to think critically about everything you see and hear. The billionaires think of us like we’re ants, cogs in a machine, brainless drones that believe everything we’re told. Don’t be the way they want us to be

open brave browser > Stack of three pancakes to go to the settings > Shields menu > “Content Filtering” > Click on “show full list” > enable “bypass paywalls clean filters” > click “update lists” > back to the shields settings > Change the “trackers and ads blocking” to “aggressive” just for good measure

the way it is, it’s like whack-a-mole and if one of the mods on one of them bans people for a stupid reason, there’s all the others to go to

I disagree. Keep it the way it is without any automation like that