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  • Of course I do, but its very conditional in your case. For the record, I did miss that you had port forwarding enabled already and read your post as if you were just trying to connect to the open internet and see any traffic going to some rando servers. That would be a very different situation.

    How is the traffic proxied locally? Does the VPN client even allow inbound connections? Is a virtual interface configured for the VPN and is there an inbound port open?

    What makes this situation conditional is that there are several ways your VPN client could be configured and it is my guess that it is the bottleneck in this case. If you tried every address that you could find and saw nothing, chances are, there is no traffic to be seen. Any stateful firewall will drop an inbound SYN or traffic not related to an established connection.

    Your routing table may give some good clues as to where traffic is going as well. For example, the VPN client could be creating a local default gateway IP. Unless there is a split path configured, all traffic should be traversing that IP, regardless of what it is.

    So, can you elaborate more on the route your traffic is taking? Listening on 0.0.0.0 can sometimes work, but usually a specific interface needs to be defined as well. In some cases, tcpdump setting the interface to promiscuous mode can break things.

    Also, it’s a VPN. How traffic is getting routed in through the tunnel could be problematic. I have just been assuming that everything is fine up to the client you use and the computer sending traffic to inside your network is part of the VPN.


  • Ok, you are putting the cart a few steps before the horse here and put simply, you can’t just tap the entire Internet from behind your own Internet connection and “through” a VPN. (A VPN “tunnel” is a bit misleading on how traffic is seen in the wire, but that is still many more steps ahead.)

    Watching pcap is cool, but you need a fundamental understanding of networks and network protocols before you can actually see more than characters of the Matrix and understand what you are tapping into from the start.

    To kick off your own research path, start reading into the OSI Model, TCP vs UDP, traffic routing and subnetting. You need to understand where you need to be to see the traffic you want to see first.

    Unfortunately, I can’t begin to answer your question without some foundation in place first.








  • A bad trip isn’t fun even in the best of familiar environments. On the battlefield, it would lead to a very unpredictable situation in an already chaotic environment.

    Psychedelics are so different from person to person, it could be extremely inhumane for some, but the exact opposite for others. In other cases, you might actually be improving the reflexes and eyesight of your enemy. (For example, my visual acuity gets substantially better and it’s much easier for me to identify shapes against camouflage as an example.)

    If no combat action is planned against a drugged opponent, it becomes much more humane in that regard. That entire division would absolute out of commission but trying to capture them could become even more dangerous. It’s easier and cheaper to pin an enemy with a stream of bullets flying over their head, TBH.

    Sorry, I am basically thinking out loud.

    After thinking through a few scenarios regarding psychedelics, it would be pointless in most cases as the risks are higher than the rewards as its application would be extremely niche and would have to be combined with some other kind of deep psychological coercion. Otherwise, bullets and explosives are equally effective against someone who is drugged and someone who isn’t.



  • Yeah, it’s a common pattern with the “victim” crap. Same stuff I was just testing, actually. (Check my comment history with UM over the last day or so; re: define propaganda)

    Very nonsensical responses, no discussion and just absolute crap posts. If it is LLM assisted, it’s tuned to respond to people like they are hating on the acual article and UM. It’s an easy formula: post a shit article and just argue with everyone about anything while assuming they are commenting against the post.

    But I have met people just like that IRL and it usually comes with some serious mental disorders or poorly prescribed medications. (I am being extremely serious with that comment and no joke is intended, at all.) It’s probably for that person’s benefit to get kick-banned at all turns. Assuming it’s actually one real person, social media is not where they need to be spending their time.


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    It works great, actually. Any time I need to do a good clean, hosting some kind of gathering really helps.

    You could also adopt some kittens. We had to do a last second video walkthrough of the kitten areas before we adopted and got the place cleaned and kitten safe in about 15 mins. (My wife and I can produce quite a bit of clutter and are masters of guilt cleaning.)



  • I wouldn’t go so far as to say that. What I believe happens is that so much fake stuff is mixed with fact, the line between the two become blurred.

    In most processed food, there is an acceptable amount of insect bits that we almost always consume. So, when I am eating a sandwich, maybe 0.05% of it is insect. To me though, I don’t think of it as my daily dose of extra protein: it’s just my sandwich.

    The point of that colorful example was to explain how much worse the fake bits of Reddit actually are: Many people don’t usually know or even think about how much of it they actually consume. Lemmy has the same issues in some corners, but it’s much easier to identify.


  • Again, you missed the definition of propaganda completely. I don’t agree or disagree with the post and haven’t even read it, TBH. Your posts have a fairly strong bias so it’s not hard to determine what the articles are going to be like.

    I should also point out that you said you are just sharing articles you find interesting and then knock Lemmy on diversity of opinion. So, it seems your point is that your article posts are a reflection of your own opinions. Totally cool.

    You just need to realize that this is the dictionary definition of propaganda, especially when it’s political in nature. (Maintaining a news community without bias is exceedingly difficult, btw.)

    If you can agree that your political posts are made with the intent of sharing your opinion and influencing others opinion, then you must also agree most of your political content is also propaganda. It doesn’t matter if the article was “wildly shared”. That is actually irrelevant.