I think you're referring to Russia Today, not Russia Times, aka RT. They are a state-owned news service controlled by Rospechat. They are not even remotely independent. If you're looking for news from a Russian news source, I would recommend Novaya Gazeta. They are staff-owned (a rarity in the Russian Federation).

But news from facebook is not first person. It's just your friends posting links to those same news sources that you're complaining about.

Hi there. This is how OpenBSD's PF has always worked. Linux needs to catch up to the times.

You can.

1) Use OpenBSD

2) Use FreeBSD

3) Use Debian with a FreeBSD kernel. This is debian and the kernel has PF. You get everything you want.

We kids have no idea what its like upgrading thousands of computers at work because unlike you, grandpa, we use [Ansible / Salt / Chef / CFEngine / Puppet]. And making changes to thousands and thousands of machines takes seconds to send out to all of them. A bit more time to verify, and any that are stuck can be rebuilt from scratch in a few more moments without even worrying about why it didn't work the first time.

Second point: why would you need some kind of interface to your firewall rules. Its a text file. Learn the syntax and keep in in version control. Then have the back end of version control push the change out through the programs that I just mentioned.

You're getting old. Its probably time to retire.

Yes. Exactly. Actually its the Comcast peacock now.

This paper does still count for your request, since it has an English language online version - Novaya Gazeta from Russia. This is one of the trustworthy news sources from Russia. Most news outlets in Russia are state owned, but this one is a rare occurrence of the paper's staff controlling 51%. This, however, is not the reason why I find the paper trustworthy. It is a bit of a grim statistic, but Novaya Gazeta has more journalists killed than any other news outlet in Russia. The majority of whom were either murdered by the state, or at least the state turned a blind eye to their death.

This next one is Russian-language only, and a radio station in Moscow. But it is a fairly good, unbiased news source. It's called Echo Moskvy or Echo of Moscow.

Unfortunately, one of the best English language news sources in Moscow, The eXile, closed its doors a few years ago. There are two possible reasons: one, that the paper was harassed into closing by the government. Or that the editor, Mark Ames, was tired and used some light harassment from the government as an excuse to close shop. Either way, it used to be a good source of insanely funny gonzo journalism with a constant streak of hard-hitting honest journalism.

The ideas that are put forward in the section "Is advertising rational?" are very interesting. They seem related in some way to what happens in biology, specifically evolution and sexual selection. The process of exponential growth in female preference seems to me to be similar to the advertising process. The male grows some fairly useless appendage such as a plume of feathers or antlers that is basically a waste of energy, but a public and visible waste of energy. This demonstrates to the female that the male is healthy enough that he can expend this energy and still have offspring. Females then select males with larger of these appendages creating an evolutionary force that increases the size of the appendage to a point of equilibrium in the population. In advertising, the act of spending money on advertising demonstrates the health of the company rather than serving a more direct purpose.

You can also use AWS, Azure, HPCloud, Rackspace, or others and pay a few cents per hour for the server only when you need it. Spin it up when you go on holiday, and destroy it when you come back home.

This would not work. All the firewalls that I've encountered are configured to only allow UDP port 53. If you just have ssh listen on port 53 it will still be blocked because ssh uses TCP.

To do it properly, you really need to have the correct client and server that will make real DNS or ICMP packets that contain your data as a payload.

Why pay? Connect to their access point and tunnel all of your traffic over DNS or ICMP. The firewalls that they use rarely block ICMP and almost never block UDP port 53. All you need is to have a client installed on your machine and run a server out on the interwebs somewhere that is running the right server software and acts as a proxy. The tech to do this has been around for quite a while, and most linux distros have the clients and servers in their repositories. The main system used for DNS is called iodine and there are two different, very good ICMP tunnels that I know of. One is here and another here. If you search through your favorite linux or BSD distro's repository search for "ip over icmp" or "ip over dns" and you'll find what you need.

This article sounds like the DICKS plugin for nmap that was described in this issue of hakin9. This was a beautiful trojan horse.