I host my own vpn from home, which keeps me behind my pihole(s) and able to access my private services without exposing them to WAN.

Also secures my mobile traffic from snooping/modifying while on public networks.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

I use pihole+cloudflared to translate all DNS requests on my LAN to DoH requests. Regular DNS isn’t permitted to leave my network. (port 53 outbound is blocked)

Can’t redirect/modify/monitor DoH requests like you can plain DNS.

The instance and it’s mods suck, but the people having discussions there come from all over. Federation n all…

Woke up at full mast; obviously you’ve gotta raise the sails and weigh anchor.

This is the way.

I want a full bowl of cereal, with milk added to soften/moisten it; not a bowl of milk with some cereal floating on top.

🤦 They’re not saying accidents don’t happen…

Look at the bold words.

Repost: https://feddit.uk/post/16382677

It’s barely been two days…

Na, I’m still using a TV from 2009.

Oh Canada; We love our beaver.

The default Samsung Calculator doesn’t display a privacy policy (or any menu options really) in-app, but you can find them as a link at the bottom of the ‘See Details’ page under ‘Data Saftey’ on the play store. Annoyingly, it’s just a generic set of terms that covers most of their products/services. That document says they collect and share all sorts of data, but the store page for the calculator say no data collected.

Two piholes at home (redundancy). Those both translate all regular DNS requests to DoH using Cloudflared which rotate through 4 non-isp upstream DoH providers.

The router is set to block all port 53 traffic from leaving the network and handout the 2 pihole IPs to dhcp clients for dns. If a LAN device wants regular dns, it MUST use the lan servers or it’ll get no response. (or it can use its own DoH setup and/or vpn out of the network). This enforces the ad/telemetry/malware blocking lists pihole uses without having to configure dns on everything.

Those piholes also keep lists/records in sync using Gravity-Sync. Should I change ad lists or add/remove lan dns records, I don’t have to do it on both.

I miss spending hours using forge to build a pair of bases, then try and invade each other for capture the flag.

Hmmm, which of these 6 teleporters takes you to the flag, and which 5 dump you into a trap…

Hello, Tech Support? Yeah, I can’t remember my password… I know, this is the 13th time this week… I’ll try real hard to remember this time I promise.

That’s a fair solution.

I’ve just got remote devices syncing to my local server. From there Borg handles encrypted historical backups of that server which can be sent offline/offsite.

I like borg because of its insane de-duplication and compression algorithms. I’ve currently got ~480GB of data being backed up, with 16 historical copies going back 6 months: that entire archive takes up 303GB of space currently. Without the de-duplication and compression that’s 7.76TB of data.

Yeah, I’m sitting there changing my password 13 times until I can go back to mine. I already do this with our 3 month expiry, but ours only checks against the current password, not a history of old passwords.

Password expiry doesn’t make systems more secure, it makes users lazily set insecure passwords to deal with your shitty mind games.

Any system I’ve ever used that expires passwords, forces you to set a new one upon logging in with the expired one.

It doesn’t just lock you out and expect you to figure out on your own that you’ve gotta reset it via the ‘forgot your password’ link.

I used to use RDP from Android to my Windows 10 pc constantly. Since switching to Debian, I haven’t gotten around to getting that working again. (Debians out of the box RDP solution gives me a black screen on the remote device)

Instead I’ve been using ssh a ton with JuiceSSH for a terminal. X-Plore for GUI managing files between local(android), ssh, gdrive, dropbox, and many more locations all in two tabs you can swap between and copy/paste/move files as if it’s all one big file system.

Finally I use Folder Sync to keep all of the userdata files on my phone backed up to a folder on my server via SSH. Images are synced immediately on creation, and everything else is backed up on a schedule.

(my phone’s always connected to a private VPN keeping it within my LAN and able to reach things like my SSH server, without exposing them to WAN)

The only thing I really miss having RDP for is the occasional website that refuses to play with a mobile browser. Hotmail/Outlook (I know, I should really change to someone not trash for email) for example will not let you edit inbox rules via a mobile browser or their mobile app. (even with ‘request desktop site’ enabled). You have to use an actual desktop browser for that. :(

Otherwise I do pretty much everything from mobile.

Poorly.

Yup, Swedish police issued a search warrant and raided Mullvads offices last year. They left empty handed as Mullvad does not retain ANY customer data.

Whether you chose to care or not, the upcoming US election will have an impact on your life; regardless of where you live. Arguably more so this year than most past elections. While you can’t vote yourself; you can have some influence (both directly and indirectly) on your social group, which may or may not contain Americans.

It is also good to generally stay informed of what’s happening in the world. Particularly with countries that have great influence over the majority of the planet.

Besides that; it can be quite difficult to find topics that interest/affect you both. Perhaps your father is trying to find common ground and bond over a topic that impacts both of you.