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  • Around 82. Most of them by train, bus and boat.

    But the country count is irrelevant. Travel should be a personal experience, not a form of conspicuous consumption. Mass airplane travel in particular is completely unsustainable, which is why I hardly ever do it. I’ve been to a ton of very remote and interesting places but I don’t blog about my adventures or post anything on social media. Only a handful of people ever hear anything about it, which is the way things were for everyone until approximately yesterday. Traveling slowly is not particularly expensive, it just requires time and a patient mindset.








  • The valid answer is that the Chinese police state has no authority over individuals in the West and is unlikely to share information with Western law enforcement given the geopolitical situation. In narrow terms, that makes for an inadvertent privacy win for individuals in the West.

    But the problem you describe is certainly real (whatever other seem to think here) for countries in China’s sphere of influence, in Asia, Africa, Latin America. For them, China is already selling off-the-peg solutions for mass surveillance. If your country’s homegrown dictator gets his hands on this stuff, it’s going to be harder than ever to get rid of him.

    For us the problem is rather that China is pioneering and normalizing practices that will certainly be adopted and copied one day by our own police forces with our own technology.






  • it depends how secure you want your network to be. Personally I think UFW is easy so you may as well set it up

    IMO this attitude is problematic. It encourages people (especially newbies) to think they can’t trust anything, that software is by nature unreliable. I was one of those people once.

    Personally, now I understand better how these things work, there’s no way I’m wasting my time putting up multiple firewalls. The router already has a firewall. Next.

    PS: Sure, people don’t like this take - you can never have enough security, right? But take account of who you’re talking to - OP didn’t understand that their server is not even on the public internet. That fact makes all the difference here.