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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (3 children)
  1. AFWall+ firewall to allow list apps to internet using your preferred method (e.g. VPN, wifi, data, etc)
  2. PcapDroid to help monitor and analyze packets, or to just confirm things aren't communicating unexpectedly
  3. AdAway if you're not using your own dedicated dns over a permanent VPN connection

If not all 3 of these, AFWall is probably the best to go with. Having a way to not only block Apps, but also define your own custom firewall rules is very powerful. For example, I redirect all DNS requests to my own DNS with a custom rule (for apps, like Termux, using hardcoded DNS lookups instead of what the phone is set to)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I totally thought because of how long the equals looked, it was multiple equals characters, not just >>= lol. That's what got me confused. Don't think these are things I'd personally use but each to their own preferences right xD

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

Omg the editor has regions??? Time to abuse this on a few files....

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (6 children)

What is that weird >>=== symbol? Looks like a cross breed between C and JavaScript here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Try using the private IP options instead and see if that works. The generic one being 10.64.0.1, but other options that include ad voicing and such ranging from 100.64.0.1 to 100.64.0.25 or something like that. I've got my entire network setup behind their VPN and a a pihole pointing to one of their private DNS addresses without any issues. I left their pubic DNS years ago so that I could make sure my DNS requests were always within the tunnel instead

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox.

How about you show you respect user privacy by making it an opt-in...?

Feels like no matter where I turn, even the "privacy friendly" options turn away from privacy eventually.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I hate short variable names in general too, but am okay with them for iterators where i and j represent only indices, and when x/y/z represent coordinates (like a for loop going over x coordinates). In most cases I actually prefer this since it keeps me from having to think about whether I'm looking at an integer iterator or object/dictionary iterator loop, as long as the loop remains short. When it gets to be ridiculous in size, even i and j are annoying. Any other short names are a no go for me though. And my god, the abbreviations... Those are the worst.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Agreed! I was just mostly showing my gratitude to the people fighting Sony and my relief that I can get a chance to play, didn't mean for my message to be taken literal on the "too long" part lol.

That being said, my reasoning for wanting to play it soon is that I've got a few friends who are all now interested in picking it up... I'd rather enjoy the time to play with them now then not be able to play it with them in a year when they've moved onto something else.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Nice! Guess I can add it back to my wishlist and consider buying it soon! Been holding off on it too long

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Not much for myself, like many others. But my backups are manual. I have an external drive I backup to and unplug as I intentionally want to keep it completely isolated from the network in case of a breach. Because of that, maybe 10 minutes a week? Running gentoo with tons of scripts and docker containers that I have automatically updating. The only time I need to intervene the updates is when my script sends me a push notification of an eselect news item (like a major upcoming update) or kernel update.

I also use a custom monitoring software I wrote that ties into a MySQL db that's connected to with grafana for general software, network alerts (new devices connecting to network, suspicious DNS requests, suspicious ports, suspicious countries being reached out to like china, etc) or hardware failures (like a raid drive failing).... So yeah, automate if you know how to script or program, and you'll be pretty much worry free most of the time.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Plus 1 to openvas. UI is indeed horrendous though.

Be careful running high load tests against sensitive devices. I once ran it against a PoE switch I used for my cameras and it did something so crazy that it required me not to only power cycle the switch, but to disconnect all the cameras first and then power cycle. Was super confusing and felt like it found a way to short the device lol. Scared the hell out of me.

That being said, I've found many many things to improve on my devices thanks to openvas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

It's not free, they ask you to buy credits. I didn't buy any so don't know how much they cost, but just mentioning to make this clear.

I assume anyone who's set their profile to private without sharing apps, external links, etc, and only go to private servers wouldn't have much to worry about against this scenario?

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