So Russia is using point-to-point radio.

Musk runs a service that gives internet everywhere and has the ability to pinpoint the ground access point precisely, as well as requiring a billing account to access.
You can’t use starlink without the service provider knowing.

You can use cheap, 2nd hand, outdated, whatever network equipment to create your own local network without anyone knowing. It can be entirely airgapped and still work.

Unifi/Ubiquiti point to point radio kit is extremely easy to get hold of an can be used entirely airgapped (because it’s on the border of pro & consumer level kit).
That’s like saying “Russia is using ethernet cables” or “Russia found to be using intel NICs” or “Russia found to be using Mellanox SFP modules”.
That can’t be restricted.

The ability to tune in a point to point wireless network and maintain that ALL the way to the frontline takes skills. Any mid station can be targeted and isolate a bunch of frontline networks. Running multipath redundancy links is a significant challenge.

The ability to drop something on the ground and have instant internet access anywhere (starlink) is not a skill. It’s an enabler, and musk enabled.

The person in the middle would be supporting twice the weight of the person over the hole, and they would have to do it twice.
The person over the hole and the person not over the hole just has to hang on.

When the middle person is over the hole, the people at each end support half the weight of the person over the hole.

The length of the pole doesn’t matter, as long as the person in the middle is in the middle of the pole and that the pole is more than twice the length of the hole.
If the pole was significantly long enough, then the force on the middle person could be reduced significantly, but it will always be more than the weight of 1 person.

Great, use cloudflare or any number of other ddos mitigation services. Or get a larger peering connection and eat the ddos.

Edit:
And to be clear, my context for the suggestion was this part in OPs question:

I use it to provide me with a Cloudflare tunnel to get around not being able to forward ports.

It doesn’t.
Have you ever been ddos’d? I haven’t.
I imagine if it happens, I’ll just switch off the VM.
If it’s actually a problem, then I’d see what the VM hosting company recommends. Ultimately they will have something in place so that if my VM gets targeted they can isolate it.
My sites get denied service. Oh well.

I’ve never had anything get so popular that I actually need the tooling that cloudflare offers. I’ve never had anything targeted in a way that cloudflare would protect against.

If that is actually a vector in your security and reliability analysis, then yeh. It’s probably the right tool for it.
And there are other competitors than just cloudflare if you actually need the protection, which should each be considered.

And a VPS and any number of tunneling systems for the remote reverse proxy.
Rathole is my goto. But SSH forwarding, wireguard… There’s plenty, even ones that will entirely manage the reverse proxy on the VPS.

Yeh, we need c++ss

And yet the guy on top technically finishes first

“think of it as an extra safety restraint”

Mumble was awesome. It probably still is, to be fair

Discord is going to be the age-verification-service for gaming, if they can get laws to follow fast enough.
They have the gaming community, they have chats/friends/DMs/VoIP.
If they release a dev toolkit that implements in-game chat, in-game VoIP, friends list and age verification… All while not being tied to steam? Imagine if they offered a system for in-game purchases and gifting purchases to friends (oh yeh https://gam3s.gg/news/discord-adds-in-app-purchases-for-in-game-items/ )
They are positioning themselves to offer a huge range of features, easy navigation of legal minefields, and no distribution-platform tie-in - while also offering out-of-game functionality of all of that (likely leading to player retention for games that leverage it properly).

They are positioning themselves to be a market-leader/industry-standard for game social networks. Everyone that has ever used discord is the product they are selling, and they are now releasing the features and tools for companies to leverage that.

I see :)

I’d be interested in seeing end-to-end details of the entire funding pipeline.
But it’s pretty obvious. America and Russia.

https://www.ft.com/content/f8696da1-5fe6-4218-be9c-5309bd9a6ae5

(Older, but it’s stupid to think anything has changed. Maybe reduced cause of Russia’s fucked economy).
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/russia-ukraine-war-putin-europe-far-right-funding-conservatives/

No doubt none of these specific links have concrete evidence. I’m sure I searched for what I wanted, and found what I want. No doubt influenced by the echo chamber in which I live.

Like I said, I’d love to see the evidence.
But I have no doubts that America and Russia are interfering with European politics.
It seems stupid to think otherwise, considering how vocal Musk has been about the subject.

I think this is the a major step in discords plan to be a service to games (ie business-to-business).
They are positioning themselves to be an age-verifying platform for games, alongside in-game chat, in-game VoIP, in-game store and game community.

At some point, games are going to have to require age verification. It’s just the way the “protect the children” bullshit is going (instead of “enable the parents to raise their kids”, which is far to socialist and progressive) Or game shops will. But if you don’t sell your game, that bypasses game shops. And if cracks can bypass purchasing, then… It’s on the game to comply with laws.
If there is in-game chat: needs age verification.
If there is in-game voip: needs age verification.

At some point, discord is going to roll out this massive suite of dev tooling that “just works” for devs creating multiplayer games with voip, chat, in-game purchases, gifting in-game purchases to friends, friends lists, out-of-game chat, game communities etc. while also offering age verification.
It already does a lot of that.
They are getting ahead of the age verification laws so they offer a very simple path for developers to “just pay discord” to skip a HUGE legal minefield, and get a bunch of functionality for whatever cut discord decides .

I hear the 3rd best is tomorrow, and that fits with my energy levels

Don’t you dare take this as validation of half a complete task being considered a completed task.

That’s awesome work. Think of the space you will have when you do more. Think of the positive messages when you get to say you cleared it all.
Great work, keep it up!

Nah, they have a cellular data connection.
It pays for itself, because the car manufacturer can sell the driving data to insurance companies.
And now it’s used to make sure your brakes subscription is up to date

Maybe all of DOGE was about finding Epstein files content, and failed.
And now that they have been released, Musk realises there is no kompromat on him so he can recover some PR points or something

I have a laptop with 32gb of ddr5 ram. It feels a bit slow on windows for work stuff.
On endeavour os (arch btw), it is blazingly fast

Such is “being rich and famous”.
Nobody on earth is “pure”.
But some people will do anything for themselves. This is how billionaires and monsters are made. They are ALL bad

Oh look, the consequences of Elon being in the Epstein files.
This is called PR.

The questions should be:
Why isn’t he being prosecuted for being in the Epstein files?
Why isn’t he being prosecuted for supplying internet to militantly aggressive enemies of the US?