• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Random stupid stuff in my agreement Fortunately, my ISP is pretty decent in practice and doesn’t seem to care what I do with it.

    Found the guy that either does illegal things, or embarrassingly stupid things with his ISP connection.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      I do neither.

      I’m a developer that likes to mess around with hobby projects, and that tends to look a lot like illegal/stupid stuff. For example, I’ll port scan my cloud services I maintain (explicitly against the rules) to verify it’s configured properly. I’ll create persistent connections to enable automatic deploys from home (again, explicitly against the TOS). I’ll use torrents to download legitimate Linux ISOs (again, against TOS), and I’ll use Tor to mess around with onion sites (again, against TOS). I’m building a P2P app, so there’s a lot of unfamiliar packets flying about.

      I’m an enthusiast, but I’m a respectful enthusiast, so I do my shenanigans off peak hours. If I did illegal stuff, I would hide it so the ISP doesn’t find out.

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      6 months ago

      Most consumer internet providers have clauses in their agreements which prohibit things like hosting a website, or serving content. Both of which are things done pretty regularly by hobby level selfhosters.

      Now, I’ve never actually heard of an ISP actioning on such clauses, but they are there none the less.