If it’s about pedophiles sharing stuff with each other, they’ll never be able to stop that.

I mean they can’t stop it entirely, but the could do some things… Like invest in mental healthcare to understand and combat such social problems, but just passing laws is so much easier.

Yep. iOS spellcheck really is shit.

Wasn’t sure if you meant that or “Over the Edge” from 1979. Can’t remember if HOA specifically was the Bad Guy, but it was kids vs The Man.

Mr Frankenstein’s blog helped me out early on. I also found a write up that dovetailed into it using dockerproxy & swag instead of traefik or caddy. Unfortunately, I don’t have those links handy. Should be able to search for the first one pretty easily, though.

Tim Apple is retiring. John Apple is taking over.

Astonishingly effective Senator.

Absolute turd of a human being.

This was in DC, IIRC

No this was in DC

I actually saw Bruce do a Q&A after this movie in a theater when it came out. Crazy afternoon.

Was mainly making a cynical joke. That said, my 401k probably does represent the largest gain or loss I’ve had in a week or month; probably even a day, given how wildly the markets can sometimes fluctuate.

Does my 401k count?

“Big Tobacco” moment? You mean when they collectively paid a fine, then went on to continue making billions of dollars selling an incredibly deadly product to this day?

AI is not a substitute for experience. Too many people assume that it can be.

If you’re not going the VPS route it’s even easier. Pangolin handles the wireguard tunnel for you with a docket container running newt. Very straightforward.

My goals have been:

1. Avoid opening ports on my home network.
2. Don’t require people using my services to join my Tailnet (or some other VPN).
3. Require 2FA/passkeys (via Authentik for the moment) on anything that’s publicly accessible.

There’s plenty of YT stuff out there for Pangolin, but I haven’t seen a lot for their cloud service. Personally, I prefer it to self-hosting it. Similar to tailscale, the free tier meets my needs, and their security team is (hopefully) more competent and better staffed than… me.

Of course, you get what you pay for, but I see this as a similar position as Tailscale & Cloudflare. With my free account, I’m piggy-backing off the security infrastructure of their enterprise offerings. Obviously I don’t get all the fine-grained controls of those tiers, but like the other two companies, they have a reputation to uphold, and from that perspective a breech is a breech. Even if it only affects free tier users, it makes them look bad.

Pangolin handles proxying (it runs traefik under the hood) and cloudflare-like protection (crowdsec). I did self-host it, but the free tier does what I need.

It does set up a wireguard tunnel between itself and the Newt resources you set up. That’s hard for proxy traffic. I have Tailscale set up for any other traffic between my resources.

I asked a similar question as you a few months ago (I think in this community), and one of the responses kind of put the fear in me. I went forward anyway, and never really did anything with my VPS. I’m still setting this new arrangement up, but so far really happy with it.

I used swag, dockerproxy, and cloudflare in the past. That allowed me to run things without exposing ports on my home router.

I recently moved to Pangolin cloud. Still not exposing any ports on my home server. Also repositioned my VPS to use pangolin as well. Haven’t hashed out the details, but the idea will be to allow port 443 on public IP, and anything else over tailnet.

Moral of the story: look very hard for ways to do what you want to do without having to expose ports on your router. Unless you want your hobby to become your second job. I enjoy self hosting. I don’t enjoy being paranoid about some script kiddie pummeling my setup with some AI-generated attacks while I’m asleep.

This actually made me LOL. Thanks for that.

I agree! I absolutely love my GTI. My boys used to ask me what my favorite car was, and I’d always tell them, “you’re sitting in it.” That thing is fun to drive, gets 35mpg, and I’ve packed 3 people and baseball gear in it for a weekend travel tournament. It’s the perfect car for me.

Now, if VW brings an EV GTI to the US, I’m totally down for that. Right now, I’m looking hard at an Ioniq 5N, but I can’t justify it. I barely use the GTI, and it’s paid off.

 Ultra 3. The second one I’ve purchased on FB Marketplace (wife inherited the Ultra 2 I previously wore). I would never pay retail for one of these, but the battery life is a step up from the regular models. Mainly use it to track exercise, as a flashlight that won’t blind me in the night. When I was last England, my older series 9 was awesome for tap to pay getting around on public transit. Most notifications are turned off, but the calls and messages are useful since I usually miss them on my phone.

Also, good for telling time and date a/o having to pull out my phone.

Eventually the battery has to be replaced, and that can be a big expense. But yeah, over the life of the car, the maintenance should be lower, and as the technology improves the costs will hopefully come down.

I work from home so my 13-year-old GTI hasn’t crossed 60k miles yet. If/when I ever replace it, it will likely be with an EV. We also have a RAV4 hybrid, and we’re just now feeling the pain of the higher gas prices.