JoeCoT

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit power users balk at chance to participate in IPO as Wall Street debut nears⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that reddit cares is mostly used for harassment told me all I needed to know about how they're handling their community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker - what use is it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't know of a good way to route other application's traffic through the VPN container with them being in docker containers, unless you use some intermediary setup. That's why I have socks proxies routed through the VPN, so I can selectively put traffic through it. If the app supports a socks proxy you could do it that way. At the least you could use Proxychains to do so if the program does TCP networking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker - what use is it?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So it's always going to be used for technical things, but not necessarily development things. I use it for both.

  For my home server setup I have docker setup like this:

  1. A VPN docker container
  2. A transmission (bittorrent client) container, using the VPN's network
  3. An nginx (web server) container, which provides access to the transmission container
  4. A 3proxy socks proxy container, using the VPN's network
  5. A tor client container
  6. A 3proxy socks proxy container, using the tor container's network

  Usually it's pretty hard to say "these specific programs and only these should run over my VPN". Docker makes that easy. I can just attach containers to the same network as my VPN container, and their traffic will all go over the VPN. And then with my socks proxies I can selectively put my browser traffic over either the VPN or Tor, using extensions like FoxyProxy. I watch wrestling through my vpn because it's cheaper overseas and has better streaming options, so I have those specific sites set to route through my VPN socks proxy. And I have all onion links set to go through my Tor proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you un-smart a smart tv?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Google/Android TV devices support "Basic TV" mode. You get the option during device setup, you can switch to it later by resetting the device. I would probably also not connect it to the internet, but that should cover making it a dumb device. I bought a Hisense one, tried it with Android TV for a bit, experienced it slow down and freeze up a bunch, and just switched it to Basic TV and plugged in a chromecast. Has worked fine since then.