Those had me nail biting over the scale of months/years. That first cancer one where they were holding each other with no reference frame was rough. 800 frames of sarcasm and wit and all of a sudden… BOOM

He explained it like 6 months later, but stayed pretty quiet, then the two years (1141) was kinda optimistic, then 7 (1928) was kinda a breath of relief, 10 years (2386) was refreshing, now I’m quietly waiting to see 15.

Before the Judge has time to intervene is now optional.

They’re looking for traffic patterns. It doesn’t matter what encryption you’re using, If it’s point to point, they’re going to find it and disable it.

I use sync thing with untrusted keys. That way the data ends up in multiple locations but it’s not accessible remotely. If you don’t care about the data and the locations you don’t have to do that but it’s a nice feature.

There are adapters to bring then back to regular SATA connectors. Then you could throw HBAs at them. You’re going to have a hell of a time managing the heat though. They’re lower power, but they’re not exactly cool running.

Hard disagree, I’d bifurcate my internal DNS in a hot second before I tried to fix this with static routes. Those* internal services and that DNS server aren’t going anywhere. The only time they can affect it is when it’s needed

Asking a noob to handle static routes is a double ungood situation.

A home gamer with a router that can handle reflection would be rare.

It’s one service that he’s hosting and in control of, and he’s also in control of that internal IP so it doesn’t have to change.

If anything I’d be worried that those VMs (and applications in the VM) are getting regular updates. He’s more likely to get intrusion through a zero day on one of those hacks than he is to see any serious issues through throwing a couple DNS records around.

They should be careful, they’re just selling small form factor computers with removable drive bays. Standing up and unraid or a true Naz isn’t all that difficult. And then there’s plenty of competition out there ready and willing to eat their lunch.

Balatro isn’t gambling so win:win

Lets encrypt could run a patreon and stay funded. Plenty of people with money depend on them.

Ansible’s not all that bad. The alternatives are far more complicated.

Jeff geerling has a bunch of videos on ansible 101.

Ansible if you want to do it the right way.

Or keep all of your configs in one tree and use syncthing on it If you want to phone it in. Turn on versioning call it a night.

I ran tdarr for a while, eventually I found for most things that it was faster (and better quality) to re-download in better formats than to re-encode.

Bit Warden, one password, whatever float your boat just not last pass.

For SHTF stuff GPG.

You get some coverage for free but if you’re really getting slammed I wish to stay up they’re not going to do everything for free. I believe They click here to prove you’re not a butt is gratis.

The DMZ is the right idea. But it’s the old way. You definitely want whatever is serving your website to be separated out from your house. You’re hosting should be on an isolated VLAN. The internet should only be able to talk to the server it needs to talk to, no other ports. That box should only be allowed to talk to what it absolutely must talk to and only on the ports that are required. You should run an independent firewall on each one of the boxes that are involved in the hosting with only the proper ports open.

Giving up your private IP Will definitely give away your general location to everyone and your precise location to the authorities.

I would highly recommend using cloudflare or one of the other funnel options. A lot of people don’t like cloud flare because they can capitalize on your traffic, The cloudflare also just won’t shut you down and sell you out like your ISP will at the first request, They don’t do shit about anything until there’s a warrant or a court filing. On the upside you don’t give out your private IP to anyone. You have DDOS protection, and a reasonable layer of anominity.

You need to check daily to make sure all of your software is updated. We’re talking OS, middleware, plugins, application. Preferably via automation. All of the software and plugins you use for this type of hosting end up getting vulnerabilities.

Security is especially difficult on forums. There’s lots of opportunities there for skilled people who are pissed off at what you or someone else is saying to get butthurt. People know exactly what you’re running, then they do some magic behind the scenes next thing you know there’s a bunch of admins you didn’t create.

You don’t need to be hosting your own email but you are going to need an SMTP provider, most free services won’t let you masquerade the from address.

Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.

Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.

Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.

I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.

The eye-opener now has been that

We’ll probably flux forever in between centralized corpo trash and open decentralized projects, until of course to governments collectively outlaw decentralized projects because they can’t control/police them.

I agree to disagree, have a good one.

To gently disagree with you here: UI/UX work is absolutely not art,

UI without art is just a bunch of shitty buttons no one wants to press. Come to think of it, that’s one of the problems with Gimp. There is a UI, it’s just not a good one.

UX is arguably design. But most design departments would place UX as a mixed discipline.

scientific evidence as to how people see, perceive, and interact with things around them.

You’re describing Usability. This is, in fact, its own discipline that should direct both UX and UI.

The problem of poor UX in FLOSS can’t be attributed to a lack of talent; the fact is that FLOSS projects are not hospitable environments for designers, both technically and culturally.

That’s just saying it’s a lack of talent because FOSS teams are inhospitable. Blanket statements like that ring as a stereotype.

their expertise is often treated as a difference of creative opinion by developers who know nothing about basic design principles

The consumers of the product know nothing about basic design principles either. Does their opinion not matter either?

If FLOSS devs want usable interfaces (and I’m not convinced many of them do) this is the problem that needs to be solved.

So, forgive me if I’m reading too much between the lines, but what you’re saying here is if FLOSS wants better UI, they need to engage someone who says they’re an accomplished UI artist and blindly execute their vision even against their own impressions of the requested work?

Maybe there are reasons the FLOSS devs don’t want to sign up for that?