Switches don't typically block DHCP packets. You can literally just spin up your own DHCP server and plug it in to a switch port - if your fake server responds to a DHCP request faster than the legit DHCP server the client will get your lease instead of the right one. It's this way by design - it's not at all uncommon for the DHCP server to not run on the router itself, but on some other device elsewhere in the network, or even outside the layer 2 network using a DHCP Relay.
This is a huge pain point for me as a user, too. I interact with a lot of managed network devices that have web UIs as their primary configuration method. All existing options for this stink. At least Firefox still lets me click through the security warnings - in Chrome you have to know the 'thisisunsafe' incantation, and who knows when that will just go away. There has to be a better way.
One problem is that it's easy to inject malicious DHCP on to any network you have access to, and you can then route all traffic to yourself (by telling clients that you are the gateway.) This kind of attack is partially mitigated because of TLS - redirecting all traffic to yourself isn't particularly useful if it's all encrypted. But if you could issue a cert along with the DHCP it'd be game over for everyone on the network.
You're making an argument against tracking in general. That's fine, but it's not what we're discussing. What we're discussing is if sites should treat traffic from browsers in incognito mode differently than traffic from browsers not in incognito mode. Do you think they should? I would argue that sites shouldn't even know whether or not their users are in incognito mode.
In your view should Google not allow people to log in to Gmail while in incognito mode? How can someone remain untracked by Google while in incognito mode but also interact with personalized Google services, like email?
My wife had a tremendous amount of pain while breastfeeding, to the point that it was harming her relationship with our children. Watching her suffer through that was emotionally painful for me as well. Having been through that experience and talked to other moms about it we know that she is not alone in her experience.
4G (or maybe even 2 and 3G ...) would probably be better at that than 5G will be. 5G will have high capacity and very short range. Great for video calls and streaming YouTube if you're close to a tower, not great for the toaster trying to phone home from the basement.
I have some extra work that I'd be happy to offload. Probably not enough for full time yet, but I could pay hourly much better then min wage for moderately technical work (like: configuring SaaS products, making presentations on technical projects, writing up project proposals, maybe setting up some networking gear.) All remote, with maybe the opportunity to travel a bit if things work out and you want to. Email in my profile, hit me up if you'd like. Open to anyone interested.
Seems like we abandoned this type of emotional, personal rhetoric not because it didn't work but because it worked too well at manipulating people's opinions. I wonder if we can return to it without losing our grasp of reality.
> But by far the likeliest explanation in my mind is that these institutions knowingly lied to the public in an attempt to manipulate people into not buying masks,
As I remember it, the advice wasn't "don't wear masks," the advice was "stay home." If they said "go buy masks," that would mean leaving your house to get a mask, which would directly contradict the more important advice of staying home. Also if they said wear a mask when you leave the house it would have been interpreted as "it's ok to go on with normal events as long as we have masks" which wasn't the message they were trying to send, either. The message was stay home, and at the time it was probably the right message, and not a lie.
My argument isn't really "they said these things were bad and they're not," it's more like "these things are actually kinda bad in some circumstances, but mostly we all turned out ok anyway, and things wouldn't really be much different or better if rock music were more heavily regulated when we were kids."
On the other hand, 'Social media damages teenagers mental health' sounds a lot like puritan arguments against rock music, weed, and video games from decades past. All of those things had legit studies done on them that showed harm, too. Honestly I think the kids are gonna be alright.
Native Firefox is really good at this, in addition to bookmark and password sync. It also allows sending tabs from device to device and syncs plugins and configuration options.
I think the argument is that while ants are indeed interesting to us as a subject, not every single anthill gets our attention. There are probably lots of anytime anthills in out of the way places that have never had human interaction.
Legitimately surprised at sibling comments missing the subtext here. s/cash/cryptocurrency of parent post and you have word for word the standard complaint against cryptocurrency, which I believe is the point @camjohnson26 is trying to make.
That things that happen (agriculture, manufacturing, etc) in rural parts of the country are important to everyone, but will suffer if the people living there have no voting power.
Yes this is mostly my feeling to. A central part of libertarianism seems to be insisting the governments give up power, which is all well and good until someone worse steps in to pick it up.
Thank you for the thoughtful response. I mostly agree - we can criticize corporations for their current actions from a moral perspective but not a legal one.
To your second point - isn't the U.S. one of the only developed countries where you kind of can do this? I regularly see armed guards in front of private businesses, from Walmarts in the middle of nowhere to dispensaries in downtown SF.
(FWIW I think calling SV tech 'commies' is off the mark - Marx would find little in common with the SV tech industry, I think.)
What is the proper libertarian response to current events? Asking in good faith, honestly curious.
To be fair, I'm curious about what the response would be to BLM riots+politician involvement, MAGA riots+president involvement, and big tech censorship in response.
The MikroTik UI is... an acquired taste. Honestly I don't think it's bad, I would argue that it's among the best GUIs out there for routers. I would be surprised if it's more common for MikroTik routers to be left in an insecure state that any other router, unless it's only because people who work on routers tend to have been trained on Cisco or Juniper and that training just doesn't translate very well to MikroTik. But I'm also not going to die on a hill of defending MikroTik's configuration design choices, there's a lot to be desired.
> in an ideal world, we have laws applied even handedly to deal with this
We have laws protecting people from discrimination based on race, sexuality, etc. A grocery store can't refuse to serve people by race. Maybe we should expand these protected classes and make sure they apply to Internet businesses as well. I don't think we will (or should) expand them in such a way that Parler would be included, though.
It's definitely overkill, but what is a homelab if not overkill? It's not really high maintenance, though. Once it's in and running you'll never have to touch it.