Like I said, people doing self hosting, they often open up ports for those services and management ports.

Some routers have backdoors built in, such as the Fortinet NGFW backdoor, that can also be exploited.

I work in this industry and believe me the risk is real, no vpns aren’t a silver bullet, but there are a few good providers out there that can help mitigate some risks of using P2P for more than piracy.

That depends on whether they are port blocking as I said.

If there was a vulnerability it would be exploited in the matter of a few minutes.

Around 10 minutes for an unpatched XP box with no firewall.

Much longer for obscure vulnerabilities in routers or more difficult to exploit vulns in hosted software.

It is also possible for vulnerabilities in peertube itself to exist, which will be an issue regardless of VPN use.

I could scan your network for vulnerabilities.

I could anyway but knowing a target used a service like peertube increases the odds of unpatched hardware or self hosted services in my experience.

If you’re using an older router you probably have a problem due to unpatched vulnerabilities.

If you self host you might have a problem, as many package maintainers and developers lag a bit behind security patches.

A good VPN provider will also block unusual ports.

I hope our politicians are ready to tell the American military that are stationed here to pack up and go home.

The yanks are now the biggest security threat we face.

The old hags in the fucking HR department at one place I worked were the most racist sexist pieces of shit I have ever had the displeasure of being within earshot of.

Any group is capable of making a workplace toxic.

Various food ingredients were discovered, including wheat, barley, fruits of wild grasses, knotweeds, and acorns. Starch-rich tubers, and possibly a small number of wild legume seeds, were also detected.

Saved you a click. This doesn’t seem like news to me.

I wonder how intellectual one could call this community

I get you may be neurodivergant, though I have no idea how/why or to what degree, but what normally happens here is that people ‘read between the lines’. I’m not certain reading between the lines i necessary here because you have been pretty blatant.

You’re basically saying the community is pretending to be intelligent by latching onto certain media. You also say, very clearly, that the community is incapable or parsing that medias content.

which mentions an interest in philosophical/political manifestos and sometimes CS Lewis content but suggest they wouldn’t understand the syntax norms in them

Intentional or not your message is clear; you believe the community are less intelligent than you, aren’t “true” fans of the media, and couldn’t understand that media even if they were fans.

That could be true, you might be the smartest person in the room, though I have my doubts.

I have the pleasure of being friends with several individuals who are at least one deviation above myself on the intelligence scale and they communicate differently, but that doesn’t mean your communication style is good, or that people will be receptive to your attitude.

Lucky is an understatement.

I hope he survives this war.

They’re all hoping for Fortnite sort of longevity as a live service game.

What killed Apex for me was rampant cheating and a toxic player base. I have no idea what killed it for others.

If you need a /s at the end of that comment to get the sarcasm you are really really bad at reading context cues.

Non-whites have never been police, never talked to police, never voted for the Evil Party and shouldn’t be included at all in advice to not be evil, misguided or duped.

Shame this didn’t have earlier success as a sequestration technology but all emissions cuts are good.

The 2024–25 Budget estimates that the total cost of the NDIS, including both Commonwealth and state contributions, will be $44.3 billion in the 2023–24 financial year

https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_departments/Parliamentary_Library/Budget/reviews/2024-25/NDIS

This is absurd, over $66,000 per year on average is spent for each NDIS recipient

Poor fuck had that planned out. Just tucked it under his chin like he had been practicing and ended it.