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Good Day 🌞

The sun in the title might be cute and all, but I'm unimpressed with the weather so far this February. I, Canadian through and through, demand deep freeze february as it used to be! Then me and by bear can snuggle under a log. Aha. Well asides from that Ŧ̸̻ĥ̸̻Ǝ̸̻❽ Ѽ̸̻о̸̻ѻ̸̻Ԁ̻Ҟ̸̻մ̸̻է̸̻է̸̻Ǝ̸̻Ʀ̸̻ (The ❽ WoodCutter) have acquired my laptop again after some time. Today I managed to do a few cool things in the ambition of unfucking the networks. And by networks, as plural, I have been managing 4 Linux hosts like hell for the last two days. Two of them are my VPS-es and one a Debian VM and my Rocky Linux 9 host.

What happened an hour ago that I did is a great example of how Tor and proxies in general are really handy and it's my current working study right now to test out proxies and proxy configurations. My interest next for a type of proxy is apparently called a "transparent proxy", such as squid or better yet privoxy. Have a link, or three:

Squid (software) @ WikiPedia
Privoxy @ WikiPedia
Proxy Server#Transparent_proxy @ WikiPedia --:>
Also known as an ' intercepting proxy', 'inline proxy', or 'forced proxy', a transparent proxy intercepts normal application layer communication without requiring any special client configuration. Clients need not be aware of the existence of the proxy. A transparent proxy is normally located between the client and the Internet, with the proxy performing some of the functions of a gateway or router.[citation needed]

Another thing I've tried but didn't make it far with is ipsec VPN, a layer 2 VPN. I'm intrigued about how a layer 2 connection can VPN over the internet. Also, I don't know if I've ever mentioned on my blog here but I think what my most favorite single pinpointed motivation in Linux is happens to be networking, but more specifically the uses of network packets. Maybe this is actually new knowledge to me, the part of me saying that, but I'm quite sure that's always been what I want to create with. So with that comes network protocols, yay! Subnetting, interfaces virtually and as computer hardware or peripherals as well as many others no doubt. This is the ҏҽԅғҽҫէ substance, or can I say my rice! Bowl o Packets!

Yes, so I'm glad I've gotten my laptop working okay again. Those 3 weeks I didn't have it I forgot my very anal and very peculiar setup sequences, and that led me to a number of hours of problems, and it didn't help I was baked outta my fuckin tree D: .... The dangers of Marijuana D:
Please keep your children away from the chunk, he is a wild animal and you never know what he might do. Oh, a kitty!

Spare change?? 🫣

Tags: tim-hortons, proxies, stuff, linux, amaze, dont-feed-the-chunk