When is Anubis useful (eg vs CloudFlare)? The GitHub page doesn’t say much-

In most cases, you should not need this and can probably get by using Cloudflare to protect a given origin. However, for circumstances where you can’t or won’t use Cloudflare, Anubis is there for you.

The League of Nations was a precursor to the UN which did include enforcement, it turns out that is really complicated. One description was that collective security:

failed ultimately because of the reluctance of nearly all the nations in Europe to proceed to what I might call military sanctions … The real reason, or the main reason, was that we discovered in the process of weeks that there was no country except the aggressor country which was ready for war … [I]f collective action is to be a reality and not merely a thing to be talked about, it means not only that every country is to be ready for war; but must be ready to go to war at once. That is a terrible thing, but it is an essential part of collective security.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations

So… take your time?

Definitely

If eBay, Amazon and Facebook are all cesspits, where can you buy stuff online in a decent way? Search small shops individually?

You might have more luck with a hamster, pythons are not hairy

There’s other camera apps which remove the awful filters that automatically get applied and give more manual control, for example open camera or camera on fdroid

Sure, you could also simply stand around looking at things saying “hmmmm…”. After all every observation is unique, so you could accept all the differences and just observe it as it is, say “hmmmm” and then move on to the next unique and special observation. Trying to identify commonality and give it names just throws away most of the information in each unique and special experience

Sure but every tree you plant takes up space and there is a limit how much you can do this. Unless you then farm them and store th carbon long term somehow

Well I think she amount of caution is still appropriate no matter how much you manage to secure the local machine

Yes that sounds like pull backups, which is worth exploring

That’s an interesting idea

Yep offline backups are useful, although it does require remembering & making the effort to do it each time

Certainly sounds relevant, although overall it is quite a different approach than in currently using

For doing snapshots did that means the local system identifies the changes? Or it all gets copied each time?

Yes that seems like one way to go. Although I am using rsync so maybe keeping the files in place and changing owner could be an option

That’s some good suggestions and a few things I hadn’t considered. A VPN is also possible, although setting up the port forwarding might be a bit more complicated

This also has cause and effect backwards in many cases. People who do awful things are ripe for blackmailing and controlling, so they get inserted/promoted to important positions to act favourably for those running the blackmailing. (eg the Epstein files)

It’s for a home network, I managed to get it working using port forwarding through SSH thanks to suggestions. I’m not sure what the difference is with using the pi as an entry/exit node, that is what I was trying to do with the SSH forwarding. VPN is also possible but it it would also need to be set up to go through the pi

That worked thanks, I didn’t know you could put an address like that in the -L command, and the -N is correct here too