Came here to say this. I use wireguard and it simply works.

Ahhh, the classics never get old.

that is okay feddit.uk is blocked by my default blocklist on the router. I’ve started to add it to the white list a few times but no I think I’ll let fate sort it out.

Let me guess. A aged purpose built program used for something like inventory and accounting. Built with something like cobol or pascel. With a set of specific feature set that they are unable to or unwilling to pay for a updated rewrite?

They tried to use the DMCA for header files in the source. https://linux.slashdot.org/story/03/12/22/1815224/sco-invokes-dmca-names-headers-novell-steps-in

Bless your heart.

SCO died by self inflicted gunshot wounds.

My thought is that people who dont like this will stop using proton vpn.

Now remember old fella you can’t have cake anymore. It messes with your blood sugar.

You want me to top off your coffee before you go home to take a nap?

Like a bunch of old farts in a coffee shop arguing over which truck brand is better.

Yeah its a program that has a minimal OS. Its more about the program than the operating system.

They can go ahead and create all they want. I just wont use any of them unless they give me a reason.

I’ve had wireless working in linux since 2002. 802.11b was complex but quick. I was still running slackware back then.

I was gonna charge the guy 500 dollars to rename thirty thousand images to match the directory names. Since the guy had switched cameras several times it would have involved more than one simple script but I wasn’t being paid for the script. I was being paid to do the job. Except my bash prompt scared the guy. The truth of it is he used me to leverage the company that specialized in data recovery into lowering their price down to a still absurd but much smaller amount.
Its not the first time I’ve seen it but when they do something like that to me they burn a bridge.

A related scam is charging absurd amount to convert and catalog microfiche to images or PDF’s. Granted a machine to do this quickly and efficiently is in the 10 to 20 grand range. The process is boring and repetitious and in no way worth the amount some companies want to charge.

I knew that one was bullshit or probably just simple ignorance. I use ssh and scripting to control my macs. Its easier than using ios depressing GUI tools.

Nothing morally wrong with working around a artificial limitation.

Wireguard so you are always seen as being on the local network. This bit of assholery is easily defeated.

Another thing you can do under certain circumstances which I’m sure someone on here will point out is depreciated is use TCP Wrappers. If you are only connecting to ssh from known IP addresses or IP address ranges then you can effectively block the rest of the world from accessing you. I used a combination of ipset list, fail2ban and tcp wrappers along with my firewall which like is also something old called iptables-persistent. I’ve also moved my ssh port up high and created several other fake ports that keep anyone port scanning my IP guessing.

These days I have all ports closed except for my wireguard port and access all of my hosted services through it.

I’ll keep it in mind but will probably just keep doing what I do. I only reload every three or four years.