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Who is Nicole really? Who got messages from Nicole? Who is behind the messages? What is the resolution of Nicole's profile images? Do I really have to be a racist to join her server? This comment section's purpose is to collect all that information.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I'm no expert. In life I am very much a knockoff swiss army knife. I can technically do a lot, but I am the shittiest pair of scissors ever made.

I dislike how obtuse networking stuff can seem. I run a whitelist firewall because it is the easy way to control exactly what I connect to my computer. I have written bad code and will continue to do so. I download sketchy stuff some times, but it cannot escape. Telemetry stuff all gets blocked too.

It is a pain in the ass to initially setup and maintain a DNS whitelist. It must be on a third party device or you'll need to be super meticulous about how your system is setup. Lots of packages can and do try to bypass a local firewall on the same device they run on. I have to log in and add addresses and ports manually for everything I visit. Still, I can let an AI write code I barely understand and run it knowing it cannot escape. Scripting and configuring your own whitelist setup on a device is not fun. Once option that is reasonable and fairly easy is PC WRT. That is a small business commercial version of OpenWRT. It is just an Asian guy in Texas, but his stuff works pretty well and he maintains it long term. I modify all of my routers to add an external USB to TTL serial module to the port on the PCB. For most routers, the internal UART serial port gives access to the bootloader and OS in ways that are nearly impossible to hide what is happening. I've screwed around with PC WRT stuff a good bit and it seems legit. If you are really concerned about aquariums for sharks, this will get you an interface for Open VPN, all the adblock options, and most add on features people configure in OpenWRT.

Ultimately, such a DNS filter is your digital front door to your home. If you run adblock, someone else is closing your front door to old familiar bad actors only. With a white list, I'm only opening my door to those I wish to enter.

It is pretty clear that Nicole is not what they appear to present. It is fishing. If they were relevant they would not spam. The main litmus test for anyone is if they have a diverse and mostly positive post and comment history. Anyone that has a monolithic presence in any one space is fake or potentially dangerous.