What if I had a firewall installed in Linux

A previous company of mine, required an “AntiVirus” installed on the Linux computers too.
The one the IT guy installed, ran in the background all the time, doing nobody-knows-what and and slowing down every thing and having multiple segfaults in a minute, shown in the journal.

Long after I left, I also saw an RCE vulnerability related to it. So essentially, my system would have been more secure without the app.

The malware argument is a bit weak

It’s much more than just a bit weak, unless you are somehow continuously monitoring it, so yeah, in most end-user scenarios, it would hardly make a difference to keep it on, even if there were no updates.

Not illegal, but the ISPs are seemingly under no obligation to give you those details. In Germany, there’s the “freedom of routers” embedded in the telco law. So they HAVE to give you everything you need to get your custom router online via their wire/fibre.

OIC, so, same as here. Germany seems to be having pretty well made laws in these cases.

Bridge mode is just using the ISPs router and bridge that into your router. It’s not the same - you still need the ISP’s access device instead of just yours.

Except that it is a layer 2 bridge and I couldn’t connect to the network directly, either way, because their line is copper ^[1] and consumer routers/modems are usually RJ45/RJ11.

you’re not supposed to get this kind of information from your ISP

Wait, do you mean, it’s illegal to ask for it?
In my case, it just depends upon the ISP’s policy.

In fact, with the current ISP, even though they provide their on modem (copper line), it has a pure bridge mode available, which I can connect to my other router and have fun looking at those packets with full transparency and the tech even went ahead and explained to me what I messed up, before resetting the modem for me, when I did use the bridge mode.

Read the title and went: What? They want you to keep your network hardware ON, when unattended, to increase the undetected malware entry opportunities?

Turns out it as their own devices they wanted to push updates to.

I would really prefer to use my own device though and even better, configure it myself after learning how the ISP’s network works. But convenience is what it is.

Should’ve Open Sourced the CENC. Now they pay the price.
Everyone* saw it coming.

Thanks, that definitely made it very simple to understand.

Still not 100% convinced on the applicability under various conditions^[1], but I understand it from the Government POV. Kinda similar to the country-country hostage exchange we see in stories, which makes sure the other would have a reason not to renege on some agreement, even if they don’t have a reason for mutual trust.

They are having to take on the burden of gently letting down other devs who are angry over a simple misunderstanding.

I feel like, if anyone would be happily willing to do that in their free time, they would have been a Politician or an HR and not a Developer.

I’m pretty n00b as a dev, but if I were to see someone misinterpreting my explanation, the most I would do is rephrase the same in a more understandable manner.
Definitely not going to resort to using “people management tactics”, specially not in an Open Source Free Work setting, where the expectation is that the other person wants the good of the project as much as I do ^[1].

Facts are more important than feelings, specially when written text is the medium, where the reader can, at any time, go back and re-read to make sure they are at the same page, which a responsible, non-sleepy, non-drunk person would do in such a case.

On this note, I went and re-read the above comment and I realise, the “But that’s the thing where you are wrong.” sentence is kinda useless. If the previous commenter were to have read the rest, they would realise that’s where they were wrong. Mental note to not use useless stuff like this as the first sentence in a reply, because I probably have the habit

Yes, I know I joined both circumstances, this comment thread and the condition of the Rust Linux dev. It seemed relevant to me.

What I find difficult to understand, is that they require said chap to be physically in the country.
Unless said law only works in case the company has a physical presence in the country (which it does, in this case), I feel it hard to get the logic to apply it to an internet service.

your company must have a legal representative to be within our borders

Interesting. Yeah, I was too lazy to look it up and instead cracked a joke.

But, isn’t that law kinda expensive? Or does it only apply in certain conditions (like company size or sth)?
And what’s stopping Musk from just putting an underpaid intern for compliance?

The law being, “Thou shalt not have fun on the internet” ?

Looking at how current emojis tend to be hard to distinguish without increasing the font size (I see ~13 px on this page), I’d say the fediverse icon fits the criterion well enough.

Also, I can see the icon in here well enough