ResiP apps are highly problematic. While the premise of having easy access to a nearly infinite number of residential IPs for super cheap is appealing for all sorts of reasons and may even have some legitimate uses such as for anti-circumvention campaigns that would route traffic from activists in democracy challenged environments through residential IP exit points thus mitigating the abuse penalty incurred by commercial or Tor gateways, abuse of ResiP systems is rife, likely dominant.

Servers used to see script kiddies attack via abuse tolerant VPNs or colo/virtual host tenant farms and so were easily managed by detecting a pattern of malicious attacks coming from a finite number of IPs or C-classes or domains and against this reactive intrusion detection tools and IPBLs have been useful. Someone attempting credential stuffing might get a few guesses down the most common password/account list combos before being locked out and then move on to the next target in their list. Now logs are filled with the same sort of attacks: password:toor@server.com, pasSSword:toor@... etc but each sequential try comes from a different IP, often a different country. Dynamic block lists exploded from dozens (my Fail2Ban list ran 50-200 or so IPs) to thousands of IPs (today 8,065 IPs and 514 C-classes, most listed for one obviously malicious connection attempt).

Tor exit nodes do carry some of the same issues and running one will result in reputational consequences for your IP, just as running a ResIP app will for every connection you pair with.

A difference in practical implementations that matters is that setting up a Tor exit node isn't trivial and the consequences are well documented; the people capable of doing so generally also competent to comprehend those consequences. ResiP apps require no particular competence and are often marketed in deceptive ways. Further, the "exit point" moves with the user-device. Everywhere they go, they spew malicious traffic and criminal activities over whatever end point they connect with: home, friends, LTE, coffee shops. Every hotspot the device pairs with becomes a victim of the crimes enabled by the app.

ISPs need to look for indicators of ResiP exit nodes (if you block the command and control domains, you'll see traffic move to direct DNS across all commercial DNS providers, block those and traffic moves to DoT and then DoH, at which point the ISP should blacklist the client until they clean up their proxyware infection.

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It means Iran has severely limited the capacity of the Strait of Hormuz. It's a hostage situation. No one is winning, but the objective isn't to win in the sense of completely closing the Strait, the objective is to create a sufficiently long period of pain that eventually the US and its allies walk away. Christ almighty, force multiplication is hardly a new concept.

There are plenty of places in North America without coverage because there's so little to cover. The Los Vegas metropolitan area has about three million people. So yes, that would be a place with cell phone coverage. By the same token, coverage in states like Montana, particularly in mountainous areas is spotty because, well, there's not a lot of people.

Are you fucking stupid? Names actually are useful, which is why we propers nouns at all.

Jesus fuck the supporters of Trump really are a pack of morally compromised halfwits.

I suspect you were just asked to be nice, and through a combination of spectrum OCD and insufficient cognitive therapy, you decided somehow you were being asked to do something wrong.

So you helped elect an ignorant sociopath. Congrats on that. Maybe you should have attended more of those cognitive therapy sessions.

Jesus Fucking Christ. It's 2026, Trump has been putting his boot on the necks of major networks and studios for a year and a half now. I realize you probably fell into a coma in 2016, but ten years later, the free press, regardless of what you think of it, or fair you imagine it is, is under direct assault. Fuck off with the "MSM" bullshit and grow the fuck up.

Yes, sadly, they do not cure mental illness.

Truth Social I'm sure. As hard as it is to believe, there are still people who think Trump is a genius, and still want to "own the Libs".

How are these people not in prison?

40% of Canada's land area is covered in forests. It is simply impossible to "manage" that much forest, and it's utterly fucking absurd to suggest otherwise. And to try to take climate change out of the equation is just a way of misdirecting away from the actual fucking cause; GHG emissions raising surface temperatures.

When will humans stop buying the most trivially fucking moronic red herrings? What a disreputable idiotic species.

It's almost as if allowing emissions to ramp up with little meaningful effort to control them is having the inevitable consequences predicted decades ago. But let's not deal with that, because it's hard. Instead let's have the President of the United States demand Canada hold back the tides.

I don't actually use Apple Store all that often. A fair portion of the software I have installed, like LibreOffice and Firefox is just installed via DMG images. It kicks up a window about unrecognized source, but then just works. iOS devices are definitely more locked down, but the Macs are really no different as far as installing software than Windows or Linux.

I imagine the Mac Neo is the real source of their panic. Right now RAM prices are probably saving them from even more losses, but the hegemony is coming to an end. If a credible useful, at least for average users, non-Windows platform using smart device level hardware can sell as well as the Neo has, I'd say Microsoft's reckoning is finally upon them.

At what point in this long and seemingly endless list of fixes to even the most basic usability features in Windows do its users finally admit it is really a shitty and badly maintained operating system. I use Gnome or MacOS, which are streamlined and uncluttered, and then I head over to Windows and it's like looking into the mind of someone with severe ADHD. It's a colossal mess where nothing particular makes sense, there's no coherent approach, everything is slow and inundated with advertising, context menus that worked for decades don't function right or at all, even the simplest tasks just seems to land you in the wrong place.

I suppose under the hood it's still a fairly decent operating system, although tools like Powershell, which can be achingly slow itself, demonstrate that there's a lot of layers of cruft.

I don't play video games, and frankly Office isn't that much better for my needs than LibreOffice, and Outlook is a bloated pile of crap, so I rarely even access the Windows desktop I have at work via RDP, save for two applications I rarely use. Windows is rapidly becoming irrelevant in my world.