Trailblazing Braille Taser

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Cake day: August 16th, 2023
  • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPiracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Piracy in Mexico.English
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    23 hours ago

    You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

    Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

    This is a rough sketch:

    • Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
    • Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
    • Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
    • Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
    • Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
    • Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
    • Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
    • Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

    Boom. Tailscale’d.

    I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.

  • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoNews@lemmy.world•FDA's top vaccine scientist is forced out
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    4 days ago

    This is the same logic people like Kennedy use.

    It’s not the same logic it all? It’s not a huge leap to guess that we’re about to have a measles or bird flu pandemic.

    Talk to your doctor about whether this would be helpful or effective. Don’t just go get vaccines because “if one is good two must be better!”

    Did they recommend getting non-evidence-based repeat vaccinations? It just sounded like they recommended getting vaccinations that are not commonly given to US unless they’re traveling.

  • Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.comtomemes@lemmy.world•I'll be there for youuuuuu.
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    16 days ago

    I do see where you’re coming from!

    At some point, I radically rejected the concept of blame for extreme cases — all the way from drunk driving to murder. I think it’s necessary to prevent these people who are acting irrationally from hurting others, but it just feels like a waste of my emotional energy to assign blame to someone who’s behaving in a way I can’t comprehend.

    For context, someone in my family was killed when I was a kid. I still feel anger at the perpetrator, but I can’t even pretend to understand what would go through their head to make them act the way they did. My conclusion was just that they’re basically an alien to me — a broken person who can’t be trusted and has to be locked up. But did they commit a sin?

    After writing this, I realize it’s the same sentiment as “Larry Ellison is a lawnmower.”

    Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think “oh, the lawnmower hates me” – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle.

    https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/17/bryan-cantrill/