[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 weeks ago

It seems like your whole threat model is avoiding DNS poisoning, which is fine, but I fail to see how you can compare using DoH/DoT to a VPN.

so no one can even read which website you want to visit.

Except for the DNS provider (in your example, Google, so... yikes), the operator of the network you're on (since the destination IP can be rDNS'd or WHOIS'd, or simply grabbed from the Host header if your browser still tries HTTP first). Any traffic that is not encrypted will be snoopable. Traffic volume and connection times to each destination can be analyzed.

By contrast, a VPN will also use secure (if you trust the provider ofc) DNS servers for your requests, plus making all of the traffic completely opaque except for "going to this server".

no app, no account, no money required

You can also make your own, free VPN service with a little technical knowledge.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 weeks ago

Since Wireguard uses UDP and peers only reply to a received packet if it's expected and valid, it won't show up in port scans and barely increases your attack surface. Tailscale and Zerotier are quite nice, but personally I dislike NAT-punching protocols.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, I am aware of what they do. And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

A computer that is used by a user, aka "not a server"

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

First step, make lobbying illegal ffs

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bad analogy imho. This would be like going in a mall, entering a store, and being told that it's actually a house and you're trespassing

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 months ago

Weather getting ever odder you say? Hmmm

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 months ago

I'm sure he's devastated.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Not true, SSH keys need their passphrase to be used. If you don't set one, that's on you.

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

Probably not worth trying to actually use today. I'd leave it as it is, imo it's better as a small piece of history - Android on PC is pretty niche

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

It's kinda funny to think that the "woke mind virus" is actually real, just the exact opposite of what conservatives think it is. Something that they are spewing around, and its effects are lack of critical thought x)

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

European law generally isn't precedent-based, but the commission already put out a statement saying that "pay-or-okay" models are not GDPR compliant. https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion_202408_consentorpay_en.pdf

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