Good, make them suffer.

I knew it was a guy just from the title alone, it’s always a guy who does these things

would that be dropped because they do not show proper identification

They have badges on, so I would guess they would get an assaulting a federal office charge yeah.

It is indeed very difficult to type convert 001.jpg example.pdf and ffmpeg -i rock.mp4 rock.avi

Because it’s easy to accidentally run services or set up services temporarily and forget that you left them running. With UPnP being able to automatically/dynamically open ports, a firewall is just another layer of protection. You can also configure firewalls to ignore packets silently or log dropped packets, and if applications ever get new versions and end up listening on new ports, you would have to manually allow the ports. Maybe you want to have one part of an application accessible through the firewall but not another part of the application.

Plus, like you said, country blocking is another feature which personally I think is nice to have, and there are also other features too like being able to throttle connections, especially with things like fail2ban.

It’s just another layer of protection, and it ensures that everything you run is deliberate.

Yes, correct, I made a typo. I fixed it now.

Same thing that happened with NCIX’s personal information data, it probably goes to the highest bidder.

It’s important to have seperate directories for unfinished torrent downloads and complete ones, and only have sonarr pick up from the completed one

Back when I used Torrents instead of Usenet for sonarr, I had only the one folder, since Plex would generally pick up the library changes automatically anyway. I’d assume that Jellyfin is similar, although I don’t use it enough to know for sure. These days I use only Usenet for sonarr/radarr since I’m paying for Usenet and it’s excellent for automation/new content, and SABnzbd provides both incomplete and complete folders by default anyway.

You should, yes. I run a firewall (I usually use ufw) on all of my Internet-connected devices, since all of my devices run Linux. There’s not really any good reason not to in 2025.

Hell yeah! When you’re visiting another country, you are a guest in their country and should obey their laws and rules.

He would be a much funnier person if he weren’t in a position of power (and thus didn’t have the ability to affect people), especially one as terrifying as being the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world.

If I didn’t already have my lifetime pass, I’d use Jellyfin as my primary media server platform instead of Plex.

One of these days though, I’m sure Plex will make a mistake serious enough that it impacts me, and I’ll end up switching to Jellyfin as my main media server platform.

The young people should be killing the older people causing all this chaos, not other young people, but apparently that’s not allowed and not welcomed. In fact, in some countries you can probably be killed for even speaking this way.

I’m travelling to France next month. Oh dear.

most people are stuck with the couple choices they have in town and when tech comes in and forces the enshitificstion of services in order to pump stock price you’re stuck just eating this shit forever.

Is that the fault of the technology, though, or is that the fault of the companies?

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

if I went to a restaurant and was told that I had to install and use their app to order their food, I would fucking leave. If it was the only restaurant left in town then I’d have much less choice in the matter. The insidious nature of technology is that it changes “can” with “must”.

That’s not really the fault of technology though, that’s the fault of how companies are implementing technology through their policies and procedures.

Companies can have stupid, arbitrary rules and requirements and policies and do stupid or harmful actions regardless of technology or not.

I don’t think it’s fair to blame tech for company policies.

I didn’t want Trump to become president for many reasons, one of the main ones being I didn’t want him to pull USA out of NATO, because it strengthens our shared enemies.

Things are actually going worse than I expected, which is really impressive.