Curated by experts, specifically. Seeing a lot of people use this stuff and flop, even if they're not doing it with any intention to spam.
I think the curl project gets a lot of spam because 1) it has a bug bounty with a payout and 2) kinda fits with CVE bloat phenomenon where people want the prestige of "discovering" bugs so that they can put it on their resumes to get jobs, or whatever. As usual, the monetary incentive is the root of the evil.
I don't know the full history of mdns and zero config networking, but Bonjour is indeed Apple's implementation of it. In my printer's web config page it specifically lets me enable/disable Bonjour, so I assume they are using Apple's implementation. On Linux we have Avahi as a competing piece of software to provide the same service.
Seems unfair to not share what I've been printing! Plus some status/config pages and I ran a few tests to see how I can manually duplex print (odds then evens on the back). I only have a few sheets of printer paper so I've been running them through again and again 😆
“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted,” the former Israeli ambassador said.
Damn, really? Maybe the Democrats shouldn't have put up a doddering, old, dementia-addled, genocide-enabling maniac for President, then, so that there wasn't the whole candidate-switcheroo last second. Let me go blame myself for this.
Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.
So to be perfectly clear, setting up Wireguard is about bridging two LANs (or devices) to make them virtually appear as if they belong on the same network. For every client that connects they would need to be issued a key and every device would have to be set up. But all the traffic between the two "LANs" would be encrypted and secure.
But I don't think WireGuard is what you're looking for, because this would require setting up all these other people with WireGuard as well. Or doing a more complex setup where you use a VPS and WireGuard and have that serve an exit point instead of your home connection. Or any other number of more complex setups that would work but require a lot more effort... and it sounds like you were just looking for basic port forwarding.
Mullvad took that feature away a couple of years ago (presumably to combat CSAM dissemination). So if you were hoping to just have a secure path for someone to connect to your media server routed through Mullvad, I don't believe that's possible anymore.
The takeaway is when he logged into his Protonmail they logged his IP address which helped track this individual down. But note that Reddit thread I linked. I also cannot find that much information about "what happened next," or the details of who was arrested and why.
There may be other examples, but this particular case kinda hit the rounds back when it happened.
Depending on how you're accessing this, and how many people you're trying to set this up for, it would probably be easiest to learn how to deploy your own Wireguard network. In my case, my phone automatically connects to my own Wireguard on my server (an 11 year old laptop) and whenever I'm on the go I have full access to my LAN + PiHole DNS filtering.
So, what's the point? The point is that you will be able to securely connect to your media server without exposing it directly to the internet, all without paying for a service to do what you can already do yourself, provided your ISP allows you port forward.
Of course. By giving a big corporation money they then turn around to pay lobbyist groups to advocate for shittier copyright laws that favor big corporations. Why would I pay them for this "privilege?"
If in the future you think you might bring family/relations onboard to the password manager, it may be worthwhile to pay for a BitWarden family plan. BitWarden is really low-cost and they publish their stuff as FOSS (and therefore are worth supporting), but crucially you don't want to be the point of technical support for when something doesn't work for someone else. Self-hosting a password manager is an easier thing to do if you're only doing it for yourself.
That said, I use a self-hosted Vaultwarden server as backup (i.e. I manually bring the server online and sync to my phone now and again), and my primary password manager is through Keepassxc, which is a completely separate and offline password manager program.
Edit: Forgot to mention, you can always start with free BitWarden and then export your data and delete your account if you decide to self-host.
You might notice that your Windows installation is like 30 gigabytes and there is a huge folder somewhere in the system path called WinSXS. Microsoft bends over backwards to provide you with basically all the versions of all the shared libs ever, resulting in a system that can run programs compiled from decades ago just fine.
In Linux-land usually we just recompile all of the software from source. Sometimes it breaks because Glibc changed something. Or sometimes it breaks because (extremely rare) the kernel broke something. Linus considers breaking the userspace API one of the biggest no-nos in kernel development.
Even so, depending on what you're doing you can have a really old binary run on your Linux computer if the conditions are right. Windows just makes that surface area of "conditions being right" much larger.
As for your phone, all the apps that get built and run for it must target some kind of specific API version (the amount of stuff you're allowed to do is much more constrained). Android and iOS both basically provide compatibility for that stuff in a similar way that Windows does, but the story is much less chaotic than on Linux and Windows (and even macOS) where your phone app is not allowed to do that much, by comparison.
Interesting. May need to check it out, but I pmuch only use Gnome or KDE. I hate having to configure the extra parts in a WM (widgets for bluetooth, wifi, etc...).
Curated by experts, specifically. Seeing a lot of people use this stuff and flop, even if they're not doing it with any intention to spam.
I think the curl project gets a lot of spam because 1) it has a bug bounty with a payout and 2) kinda fits with CVE bloat phenomenon where people want the prestige of "discovering" bugs so that they can put it on their resumes to get jobs, or whatever. As usual, the monetary incentive is the root of the evil.