Just a follow up to this.
So I never ended up contacting O2 to say “please stop this”, I just used Wireguard to home and ignored it. Until the local Morrison’s wifi started doing the same thing but worse and I couldn’t event Wireguard round it.
So I finally just bought a domain and setup my Apache to redirect the old duckdns to the new domain.
So far this all seams to be working great.
I’m very happy with Nextcloud, and not just for photo backups.
Snapd is something I’m waiting to die to be honest, so things that have it as a prerequisit repell me.
Seriously guys, no one saying Nextcloud?
Yer, I used Rethink DNS in F-Droid to test this already. Basically it’s fine when the DNS is encrypted.
Edit: I was wrong. It was just working again generally.Even with DoH DNS, I still see “Access denied” going to duckdns.org and my sites still don’t work. Direct IP works. Not sure how this block is working yet.
I’ve tried it with F-Droid’s Rethink DNS already and everything is fine then.
Pretty sure they are doing DNS packet inspection. If the DNS is to duckdns (and no doubt other Dynamic DNS), then port 80 has their block page, and not sure what they are doing with 443, but it’s not accepted.
Boringly, it’s not being messed with right now. It’s done this before. Coming and going. It’s one of the things that stopped me working it out before.
Edit: I was wrong. It was just working again generally.Even with DoH DNS, I still see “Access denied” going to duckdns.org and my sites still don’t work. Direct IP works. Not sure how this block is working yet.
I tried their help chat bot and it just said to install their app after a few exchanges. My phone is de-googled, so good chance their app won’t work. Plus, I avoid installing closed apps as it is unhygienic. Each one seams to demand access to contacts and location and won’t work if you deny it. Dystopian present, let alone future.
Pretty sure they are working via DNS packet inspection.
It’s not the DNS server. I’m sure of this because Termux uses a different DNS server but does the same. I also tried setting my phone to use OpenDNS directly. I’m pretty sure they are inspecting the DNS traffic. Exactly so changing DNS server doesn’t help.
I don’t see a problem when using IP directly. I mean the IP is static, so I could must buy a domain, but I’d also have to piss about with my setup.
I’ve emailed them. See what they come back with. I mean unless they block SSH, Wireguard and Tor, I’ve got to hand work arounds. I just doesn’t like them fighting me.
If you’re not in the UK, try a UK proxy?
O2 didn’t until recently. EE does’t currently (wife’s network)
I’ve been doing some investigating. It’s not just DNS. Termux doesn’t use the system DNS, it uses Google. But there is still a interference with SSL on 443 and a different page on port 80.
Edit: oh and the IP address is current with ping.
“This page has been blocked for either a legal or technical reason.”
But you can see the block page used yourself at: http://shieldcf.o2.co.uk/blacklist
Oh I know some ports are ok. My SSH and WireGuard get through. Port 80 is redirected to a block page place holder and 443 is interfered with so SSL fails.
Hydrogen for cars is a nonsense. It is so inefficient. Unless you are making it from oil, which why the oil companies are pushing it, you lose loads of energy making it. Then it has to storages and transported, which is hard. Then the car use of it is inefficient too.
So ignoring the oil industries’ “blue hydrogen”, and looking only at “green hydrogen”, you are looking at about 22% of the energy generated ending up pushing the car forward! With an EV it is about 73%. So hydrogen car are over 3 times more expensive to run.
Plus you can just plug in an EV anywhere. With an EV, if need be, you can charge, slowly, off a normal home socket. Of course, normally, you fit faster charging at home.
Hydrogen cars is lie pushed by big oil.
The antifeature of DRM anyone? Wanting open source that you can keep running, up to date and secure, as long as you want?
Maybe. But not all police forces and legal systems are like this. In the developed world, the US is a bit of an outlier.
I’m sure that is the motivation of some, those involved, but the vast majority of support will be voters who think deterrence works.
The logic is deterrence.
I mean it’s stupid, but that’s what the supporters think.
The thing they are missing is that no one commits a crime thinking they will get caught. So ever increasing the deterrence doesn’t help.
Drugs is a public health issue, no really criminal. Prohibition doesn’t work with things done at scales like drugs and alcohol. You’re just feeding the criminal gangs.
I can only speak of on Linux. If you know the disk is bad, clone it, with ddrescue, and fix the clone. But in future RAID and backup remotely. Also, next gen filesystems like ZFS and Btrfs for check sums and self healing and subvolumes with send/receive deltas between them.