Registering a company in Australia is virtually free. APNIC fees, on the other hand, are much higher than what you'd pay with RIPE. It's pretty hard to justify a minimum of $1300 a year + a $500 sign-up fee just to have a personal ASN that you don't need unless you want to run a full table.
This is not a "feature", it's just a by-product of how iptables works. The alternative would be to have a proxy run in userspace, instead of letting the kernel forward packets
I still don't see how that's an issue, yes a password using a series of ridiculously complicated family emoji will be truncated but the actual bytes still provide entropy, just because the data doesn't use pixels when rendered doesn't mean it doesn't increase the search space
Does this really need yet another blog post? 72 characters is more than enough to be resistant to brute-force attacks, as demonstrated by thousands of data breaches containing bcrypt hashes that remain uncracked (excluding the obvious top 1k passwords/ credential stuffing). In my personal opinion calling it "unsafe" is just fear mongering, especially in conjunction with a recommendation of using Argon2 which is comparatively very new and is probably safe - but once again, does not have the proven record that bcrypt does.
Yeah you definitely should not be paying that much. Throw your NMI into https://www.energymadeeasy.gov.au/ and it'll show you the most cost effective option from your actual usage. I'm also in Sydney and pay 29c flat/ 18c secondary circuit