Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?

• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have you forgotten that you too started at 0?

  Not at all. In fact I remember the day my server was hacked because I’d left a service running that had a vulnerability in it. I remember changing passwords, calling my bank to ensure there had been no fraudulent charges, etc. I remember “war driving” to find vulnerable WiFi networks. I remember changing default passwords on a service setup by a client of mine.

  As I said - it’s not gate-keeping it’s experience.

  Yes, it sometimes can be difficult and frustrating, but so long as someone, anyone, is willing to try and learn and fail and retry, they can get my help

  Teaching is “gate-keeping” apparently. You can’t tell somebody that they need to learn something! You just need to give them a link to a url and say “run this thing as root and your stuff will work - totally not a scam tho”.

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  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not at all. In fact I remember the day my server was hacked because I’d left a service running that had a vulnerability in it.

    Was this server on an internal network?

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