He volunteered.

The BBC Historic Farm Series is a collection of docuseries about daily life on English/Welsh farms from the Tudor period to WW2, with each series following a group of people spending a full year on a farm in each period. They show you all the ins and outs of life as it would have been in each era, and it’s like traveling back in time, a living museum.

The first series, Tales From The Green Valley, is available in full on archive.org, and is my favorite of the bunch. One episode per month of a year, on a little farm in Stuart-era England. It’s lovely.

DNS is what you’re looking for. To keep it simple and in one place (your adguard instance), you can add local dns entries under Filters > DNS Rewrites in the format below:

192.xxx.x.47 plex.yourdomain.xyz
192.xxx.x.53 snapdrop.yourdomain.xyz

Now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a loooong time.

What is your root filesystem installed on - lvm, zfs, or bare disk partitions? Are you booting with grub (legacy/bios) or systemd-boot (uefi)?

This is just an attack that attempts common username/password combinations on ssh, and the article even states that the worm is dime-a-dozen. Unless you have both password auth enabled and an available account with an easily guessable password (and if you have either you should change that), this is nothing to worry about, even with sshd available to the internet.

Sensationalist title.

I’m with you there. It’s all layer upon layer of vulnerability and false security, and then at the bottom of all of it lurks the Ken Thompson hack.

Still bad advice to tell people it’s okay to use an explicitly vulnerable OS, I think.

Would you advise your enterprise clients that running Windows unpatched is ‘not a big deal as long as you have patched web browsers and AV’? Of course not. Because that’s dangerous advice and could even open you up to legal liability.

So why would you advise otherwise to home users, who are often more vulnerable in the first place?

Not having security patches on a system you do things like go to your banking website on is actually a pretty big deal, and I don’t think it should be dismissed lightly. Also AV is mostly snake oil, and is in no way an adequate substitute for a properly patched OS.

Any proclaimed prioritization of privacy or privacy improvements in stock Android serve only to bring your data more directly under the control of Google at the expense of other entities, so that those other entities must pay Google as a middleman to your data. On stock Android, there is no privacy - Google has access to everything, always.

In my opinion, one step that could reasonably be taken to improve the situation is for Google to go fuck itself, lose every anti-trust suit brought against it, and die.

It’s still right to complain and protest about something that is unjust, even when ways to circumvent it exist. Because the next logical policy step is to ban VPNs, as many countries already have, and the solved problem becomes unsolved again.

Thank fucking god for the EU, for fighting for global digital rights where nobody else does.