politics - americas original reality game show. they tune in for the lolz.

trump seems to have figured this out a while ago and managed to zombify 20% of the population, idiot savant style.

edit to say: a badly broken system allows a trump to threaten the rest of us.

happy that shes pounded on pads. not happy with that ring finger knuckle being involved.

that will work. always test your FW rules after a change. never just trust it.

netcat is your friend for a quick test to port 9050/TCP from a different PC if you are listening on more than just the loopback. careful with the loopback source addy AFAIK there is no guarantee that local host traffic to 127.0.0.1 will be sourced from 127.0.0.1 - I may be wrong here, but be safe.

regardless, depending on your rules, you will either get a timeout, instant connection reset or connect. obviously connect is bad if you think the traffic should be blocked, refusal is ok as long as the daemon is actually running (FW on a non-listening port can generate a TCP RST so its somewhat ambiguous), timeout is best as you know as long as the host is up, the FW is likely dropping traffic.

a more comprehensive test against any local host would be done with nmap.

sounds like you are poking things with a stick - thats awesome! happy to help :-)

edit: clarify loopback.

...and this ensures it will happen again. with greater magnitude. the machine needs more meat.

I am so so so expecting a nuclear exchange in or around the middle east witin 12 months - possibly after a "dirty nuke" attempt somewhere.

I am clutching at straws to even excuse this out of my top 3 worst case black swans.

only positive news is that nuclear winter will sure fix up that global warming thing real good.

exactly what the us allows them to do. I can only guess that kind old uncle sam has been feeding its billions in war change to israel for reasons more compelling than mere genocide (but that would suffice for some). a middle east ground "incursion" may be it.

because nothing could possibly go wrong with this. nothing at all.

its to control access from your lan socks clients to the Tor daemon.

generally Tor will appempt to connect on 443, 9001 and possibly others for traffic, but that depends on the remote node its connecting to (nodes can specify their port). you only need to open/forward if you plan on receiving unsolicited traffic - still a good idea, but Tor should have the ability to initiate traffic to remote hosts on a few ports (e.g. 443, others) to establish a connection to the Tor network.

9050 is your socks proxy - so protect it. if your nftables is blocking localhost:9050/TCP then you need to correct that.

your applications then connect to localhost:9050 and Tor will proxy traffic for them.

edit: take a look at your Tor logs and see what its telling you. Tor usually produces reasonable quality logs for troubleshooting.

edit edit: if you are just looking to browse via Tor, an easier, more secure out of the box option is the Tor browser bundle. anonymity can be accidently broken, for anyone - even the most careful. if this is just a learning exercise, then carry on :-)

hopefully they will make us pay for it.

gotta agree. I think we are suppressive fire support. I am good with that. gonna smash that trigger 'til I get a thermal jam.

gen x here. mortgage, kids, etc. more than happy to exorcize the poltergeist of late stage capitalism with a nice focused, deep burn - if I can improve the future for my kids (and, perhaps, yours) I am ok with personal pain.

I know this sounds trite, but my commitment is to a better future, not my mortgage. you later alphabet soup peeps need to show up at the fucking polls and vote. show the power you have. I promise, TPTB will start paying attention - because you are coming for them.

a coalition of generations is needed here. I propbably wont be here for the worst of climate change, so those that will... vote and put your ideas out there. I think there is more gen x support for you than you think.

Firefox and noscript will get you almost any wapo article.

edit: article is worth the read.

damn, lemmy hot takes are lava.

hmmm... surprisingly self-consistent. I guess stopped clock and all that.

I think the issue here is, in typical conservative style, they just take and never offer anything in return.

quite telling that no woman will have this weird freak.

I try not to judge with incomplete facts...

but damn, do I hope the fucker is now blind - you know, to ease the terrible pain of having to look at people with (assumption incoming) a different skin color from his. you are the problem. fuck you.

signaling that mascweirdulinity like a lighhouse.

fun fact: the long term trend for number of US choking deaths per 100k of pop. does appear to be increasing again after 2017. 🤔

all good.points. my only retort is that its ineffective until its not. this direcyaction has an effect on a small number of people and I think the blowback is likely minimal - net positive? the people involved may geninely not ever engage in any other way on this issue. and if the marketing people are right, engagement is vital.

good question. it seems to work on me, but I don't think I count.

I can say that when people in my orbit start talking about the direct action they have heard about (a few do), it is a possible entry point into a personal discussion on climate change. I don't often pursue these openings, but I have gotten into 2 or 3 good conversations - apply exponential growth and ...?

"excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour bringer of war and famine?"

so, I don't know. but it feels like its a net positive.