Joe

I don’t think you need separate laptops, but a separate router may be useful.

If you use Linux, you can have apps isolated to their own lightweight network namespaces (like containers), using different VPNs. Otherwise VMs can serve a similar purpose on Windows and Macs.

Iptables can also be used to block traffic, and force it through proxies (which can be whitelisted by uid/gid) or VPNs.

If you want a more secure VPN setup, I’d even recommend having the VPN(s) running on the router (eg. portable OpenWRT setup) so your laptop never gets offered a public IP / connects directly to network. Put a proxy on it for special (eg. DNS based) routing exceptions, like banking from real IP, reddit via the US, etc.

Disable IPv6 on your router or primary interface, and enable it on your VPN. If anything can discover an Internet IP on your PC, the link can be formed. Worst case, you are not using the VPN for IPv6 at all.

In the EU, there are typically three levels of VAT, with members having some leeway to choose which applies to what.

Health services, public transport, rentals/housing and education are often exempt, while most groceries and medications are at a reduced rate. eg. Germany has 7% and 19% as the reduced and normal rates.

Income taxes are additional and (in most EU countries progressive). Social insurances are often separate, and similarly progressive.

This works alongside the basic welfare nets, which ensures that people have just enough to survive if they fell through the cracks. Without this net, even the reduced rates on groceries would seem punitive.

Not every EU country is equal, but there is a goal to provide these societal safety nets alongside fair taxation, which is invested back in society.

Watch who rages publicly now, and you’ll know where they get their (slightly profitable) clicks and kicks.

It’s a sad state where an entire alt-news circle-jerk industry develops because influencers can be bought with streams of bot & fake outrage clicks.

And a developer with admin rights will never admit that they’ll quit on short notice in a few months, leaving hard to support snowflakes, each based on the latest cool fad at the time of writing.

Both k8s and aws native services can be chaotic and snowflaky… An organization should be working to standardize the tech stack and deployment tooling across teams as much as possible.

K8S is an opportunity to standardize, but the potential is often not realised. Platform Engineering is now the latest kid on the block, trying to address the next layer of challenges. We’ll see how this looks in a few years…

What do you have against the project and the people behind it? It sounds personal.

There are plenty of non-commercial Linux distributions. Some managed better than others. Some generic, some with niches. OpenWRT is a favourite of mine.

They could. The protocol also supports IP spoofing, so doxing could also be a thing.

For individuals, it is a time consuming and costly legal process, whether justified or not. For the law firm, it costs a few cents per letter, but they get a few hundred (or more) euros when some sucker pays.

In Germany and no doubt some other countries, private law firms can (on behalf of the copyright holders) request people’s identity based on residential IP addresses and then send extortionist legal threats. Apparently an IP appearing on a public tracker can be enough to trigger it, without any confirmed data transfer.

VPNs are common and usually sufficient.

Neither one of the two links seem to support your two claims. I gave you the benefit of the doubt by assuming you pasted the wrong link(s). shrug.

Fix your link

The cops won’t actually do anything, but you will have a case #. Theft is a crime, and crime should be reported.

What are your geographic constraints, if any?

She is just on someone else’s payroll.

With apparmor, you could enable and disable profiles that could restrict access to files and paths by name.

For network traffic, it’s possible to use dnsmasq to blacklist or whitelist some domains.

800k? Not even half the bots are subscribed to it…

I would expect that the military & intelligence services engage in due diligence and risk analysis, though.

What the public gets is signalling at best, to set expectations without causing panic. I’d take it seriously when it’s coming from a trusted government.

Let the potatoes fly!

It’s a trait of sociopathy (psychopathy?), I think. One tends to align oneself with the views of the other person (aka lying). And to survive a demanding role that requires one to form and hold and justify one’s own opinions, he probably takes the lazy route and keeps the last persona until his next mental reset.

He is an imposter in his own mind, and we know it.

Fake it 'til you make it… or not, whatever.

Heh. Tax returns and music should have been the giveaways, although I know someone who takes great satisfaction in taking every tax deduction they legally can, down to the last cent. :-P