that will work. always test your FW rules after a change. never just trust it.

netcat is your friend for a quick test to port 9050/TCP from a different PC if you are listening on more than just the loopback. careful with the loopback source addy AFAIK there is no guarantee that local host traffic to 127.0.0.1 will be sourced from 127.0.0.1 - I may be wrong here, but be safe.

regardless, depending on your rules, you will either get a timeout, instant connection reset or connect. obviously connect is bad if you think the traffic should be blocked, refusal is ok as long as the daemon is actually running (FW on a non-listening port can generate a TCP RST so its somewhat ambiguous), timeout is best as you know as long as the host is up, the FW is likely dropping traffic.

a more comprehensive test against any local host would be done with nmap.

sounds like you are poking things with a stick - thats awesome! happy to help :-)

edit: clarify loopback.

more than a few actors may (likely?) have very low yield devices. only takes a few to panic people and governments into stupid actions.

…and this ensures it will happen again. with greater magnitude. the machine needs more meat.

I am so so so expecting a nuclear exchange in or around the middle east witin 12 months - possibly after a “dirty nuke” attempt somewhere.

I am clutching at straws to even excuse this out of my top 3 worst case black swans.

only positive news is that nuclear winter will sure fix up that global warming thing real good.

exactly what the us allows them to do. I can only guess that kind old uncle sam has been feeding its billions in war change to israel for reasons more compelling than mere genocide (but that would suffice for some). a middle east ground “incursion” may be it.

because nothing could possibly go wrong with this. nothing at all.

its to control access from your lan socks clients to the Tor daemon.

generally Tor will appempt to connect on 443, 9001 and possibly others for traffic, but that depends on the remote node its connecting to (nodes can specify their port). you only need to open/forward if you plan on receiving unsolicited traffic - still a good idea, but Tor should have the ability to initiate traffic to remote hosts on a few ports (e.g. 443, others) to establish a connection to the Tor network.

9050 is your socks proxy - so protect it. if your nftables is blocking localhost:9050/TCP then you need to correct that.

your applications then connect to localhost:9050 and Tor will proxy traffic for them.

edit: take a look at your Tor logs and see what its telling you. Tor usually produces reasonable quality logs for troubleshooting.

edit edit: if you are just looking to browse via Tor, an easier, more secure out of the box option is the Tor browser bundle. anonymity can be accidently broken, for anyone - even the most careful. if this is just a learning exercise, then carry on :-)

gotta agree. I think we are suppressive fire support. I am good with that. gonna smash that trigger will I get a thermal jam.

gen x here. mortgage, kids, etc. more than happy to exorcize the poltergeist of late stage capitalism with a nice focused, deep burn - if I can improve the future for my kids (and, perhaps, yours) I am ok with personal pain.

I know this sounds trite, but my commitment is to a better future, not my mortgage. you later alphabet soup peeps need to show up at the fucking polls and vote. show the power you have. I promise, TPTB will start paying attention - because you are coming for them.

a coalition of generations is needed here. I propbably wont be here for the worst of climate change, so those that will… vote and put your ideas out there. I think there is more gen x support for you than you think.

hmmm… surprisingly self-consistent. I guess stopped clock and all that.

all good.points. my only retort is that its ineffective until its not. this direcyaction has an effect on a small number of people and I think the blowback is likely minimal - net positive? the people involved may geninely not ever engage in any other way on this issue. and if the marketing people are right, engagement is vital.

good question. it seems to work on me, but I don’t think I count.

I can say that when people in my orbit start talking about the direct action they have heard about (a few do), it is a possible entry point into a personal discussion on climate change. I don’t often pursue these openings, but I have gotten into 2 or 3 good conversations - apply exponential growth and …?

“excuse me, but do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour bringer of war and famine?”

so, I don’t know. but it feels like its a net positive.

respectfully disagree. its way too easy to normalize every disaster, every lie, every little “we’re all going to die anyway”.

I may be a sick minded outlier, but I am ok with this action and others. there is no damage done (soup on glass and cornflour on rock don’t count) and these people are putting their bodies and freedom on the line to keep people talking about what is likely the single biggest existential risk humanity has faced.in 50k years.

right now, any time this issue is in front of eyeballs (even if tangentially reported) its a win.

this resonates so much…

“ok, which one of you crackheads decided an unconstrained recursive C function was a good idea right her… oh.”

this thread is it in a nut shell. the x11/wayland situation can trip things when it really should be super seamless. that will be fixed soon enough.

if you are ok with an Ubuntu base (which these days is drifting further from its Debian base) then regular mint is great.

if forced…

1. Debian stable (or sid if you loathe/love yourself)
2. lmde
3. mint
4. something other than ubuntu
5. …
6. ubuntu

not hating on ubuntu, its just been moving away from where I am at.

oh, christ, this thread need to blow up. hilarious!

just had a chance to re-read your take in a better headspace. pretty on target I would say. the leaders of this assault on reason and truth (excepting trump), however, I think have a much better grasp of what is objectively true

the truly sickening thing is watching the grifters feed the desparate what they want to hear knowing that every single trump voter is a camp line candidate - just like everyone else.

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no, not cartoon villains, just morbidly self interested and narcissistic.

any host (out world included) has a finite carrying capacity. we are currently well beyond ours. the profit motive is strong in these people but, for a small but meaningful few, survival is (surprisingly) stronger - go figure!

<ravings> however, in typical billionaire/trillionaire grandiosity, I don’t think the idea is just survival, but correction. and the correction is reducing the load on the planet to appropriate levels for profit and service - I kinda, sorta think the dime store tony stark himself, one elon musk, is there on this… </ravings>

I have no proof other than my fevered imagination and observation of people and especially those who think themselves masters of the universe.

am I right/wrong? I am not sure it matters. we are in 100% uncharted territory here and the likleyhood is high that we all go down together on this one.