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Is a VPN necessary for torrenting? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] rylo@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

I think it depends on the country. In the US, ISPs tend to be fairly strict so using a VPN is necessary (at least with Comcast). After 6-7 DMCAs, I've heard of people getting their accounts and service terminated. Best to use one and not take the chance with them. With 3rd world countries, most ISPs don't care about DMCAs so I can see there not being a need to use one in those situations.

3 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years. in c/usa@lemmy.ml

[–] rylo@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago

Ah shit, here we go again...

What do you want the world to be like in 100 years? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[–] rylo@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Not a privacy barren wasteland that we seem to be heading towards currently. Governments seem to be taking it into the other direction with how much they are trying to limit digital safeguards. I wouldn't even be surprised if most places turn into China with regards to censorship levels. The US isn't too far away either, with legislatures trying to pass bills such as the Restrict Act.

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[Resolved] Question About Cloudflare and Federation (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by rylo@infosec.pub to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml

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Hello, I've been trying to setup an instance and have been running into an issue with federation. Despite having federation enabled (in the site admin panel), I can't seem to fetch or load content from other instances. I've checked the wiki and verified the system time, internet connectivity, and backend availability (via curl). I have it currently setup through Cloudflare and I am wondering if that could play into the issue. Would Cloudflare inhibit federation communication? I'd imagine the instance-to-instance requests being sent from my server would have the true origin IP that wouldn't match the DNS records (which would reflect cloudflare's ip addresses). Matrix doesn't seem to have issues with Cloudflare when it comes to federation from my experience, but I thought it would be fair to ask in case there are differences I'm not aware about. Any advice or insight would be appreciated.