EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood 3 weeks ago:
I mean you can and they probably will. Unless something is easy enough to make yourself in your garage there will always be a free market to expand into and then extinguish.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 3 weeks ago:
Using browser exploits to steal commissions from affiliate links without even the user knowing.
Then if you used PayPal checkout, they would also “find” you discounts but swap them out with lower ones and pocket the difference. For example you buy something for $10 and they find a 30% off coupon, but tell you it’s a 10% off coupon. You go to checkout with PayPal and they charge your card $9 but only pay the merchant $7 and pocket the other $2.
- Comment on Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Postiz (v1.19.1) - open source social media scheduling tool (tons of new featrures) 4 weeks ago:
You have to feed it an OpenAI key. You can deactivate it by not giving it the OpenAI key.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 1 month ago:
This fella shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (An American health insurance company) dead in the street in NYC yesterday.
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 2 months ago:
Bluesky doesn’t even have to be Mastodon. It just has to Twitter before it went bad.
- Comment on New to selfhosting 2 months ago:
Unfortunately not as self hosting is really just an amalgamation of a number of different technologies, concepts, groups of best practices, and there are nine and a half viable ways to do any given thing you’ll want to do.
I think if you wanted a rough plan of what would be the most valuable things to learn in which order it would be
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Docker, especially persisting your storage and also how its network works. Use containerized services only on your local network at first to get a feel for things, and give yourself the ability to screw things ip without putting yourself in any danger.
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VPNs and how they work. You can start with a direct stupid simple VPN like WireGuard, or Tailscale if you want a mesh-VPN. This will allow you to reach your services remotely without having to worry too much about security and the micromanagement that can sometimes come with it.
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Reverse proxies for things you’d like to expose to the public. At this point you want to learn as well about things like server hardening, have a system in place to automate software updates etc. there’s a common misconception that using a reverse proxy is innately much safer than port forwarding directly to your services. It can help by obscuring your home IP, and if you pair it with a WAF of some kind that’ll help you with much of the chaff attacks that get tossed your way, but at the end of the day in both cases you’re exposing the web services on your local network to the internet at large, so you have to understand the risk and reward of doing this.
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- Comment on topical 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what you’re on about and I don’t think anyone else does either.
- Comment on topical 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what you mean by that
- Comment on topical 2 months ago:
something so minor and inconsequential that it would gained .001% more votes
It’s actually closer to 16% and I would definitely not call it inconsequential given that Trump one this election with several million votes less than he got in 2020 when he lost.
- Comment on Nintendo's new music app is a clone of YouTube Music. 2 months ago:
This is just Material Design a set of design principles and components by Google for developers to use.
- Comment on Nintendo's new music app is a clone of YouTube Music. 2 months ago:
I am by no means a YTM Stan and I agree it’s not a great app, but at the same time I struggle to think of one that’s objectively better, besides the now defunct Google Play Music. And that was only really better because it was easier to navigate.
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 2 months ago:
If you have an iPhone, it’s a pain over Tailscale because Tailscale frequently likes to disconnect for various reasons and this isn’t something Tailscale can fix, it’s something with the way Apple manages background processes.
If you’d like an alternative, you can host your services directly to the internet via a reverse proxy like Caddy or Nginx, and then use mTLS to secure that access with a certificate you load only onto your devices.
- Comment on Are any games using neural networks for better hard AI that doesn't cheat? 2 months ago:
Hard bots have actually been so much trouble, that literally the only way to make them hard at all is to make them cheat by allowing them to operate outside of the ruleset the player is bound by. It’s a humongous issue with every strategy game on the market.
- Comment on Feds Say You Don’t Have a Right to Check Out Retro Video Games Like Library Books 2 months ago:
Stop it man you’re just going to give them ideas
- Comment on Do you selfhost your own blog/website? 3 months ago:
There’s nothing wrong with just using a VPS for this. Despite what some mouth-frothing hobbyists will tell you, it’s still well within the realm of self hosting. There’s just no reason or difference for hosting a blog on your UnRAID server vs a VPS.
If you really want to be some kind of purist and only use your own hardware, then you could configure a web server that can reverse proxy on your UnRAID server and forward port 443 in your router to your UnRAID box, but you’d have to change your UnRAID access port to something else. You’d want to keep this web server docker container up to date, and preferably see if you can implement some kind of WAF with it or in front of it. You’d then forward the requests from this web server to your ghost container.
A better idea would be to use a different piece of hardware for this web server reverse proxy, like a raspberry pi or something, and put it on a different subnet in your house. Forward 443 to that, then proxy the connection back to UnRAID, in whatever port you bind the ghost container to. Then you can tighten access that raspberry pi has.
- Comment on Starfield: Shattered Space - Official Launch Trailer 3 months ago:
No he’s objectively right. No Mans Sky has made improvements but they just made puddle wider. It’s no deeper than it was at release.
- Comment on PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off 3 months ago:
Most games are locked at 30 fps anyway
No?
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 3 months ago:
Years of ongoing issues with their metadata server bricking its ability to search for content.
- Comment on YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books. 3 months ago:
Well, it would be if Readarr worked consistently.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
I think they absolutely know how willing their employees are to quit. It’s been demonstrated over and over again in the tech industry for the last couple years. It is is far more likely that they’re counting on it, than are somehow all being blindsided by it.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
Realistically there’s AWS and Azure, and with Azure being run by Microsoft it’s not like it’s going to be better in anyone’s minds. Google’s is a VERY distant third with no real shot to take over, and everything else is a rounding error.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 3 months ago:
Oh I fully understand it, which evidently you don’t or you’d understand why that has nothing to do with the absence of climate change. You could try educating yourself but… you won’t. If you did that, you’d lose your what in your mind is an anti-climate change silver bullet and then you’d have to spend even more energy finding another one.
What I have is t an opinion it’s just an object fact, bend yourself.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
You fundamentally do not understand how big tech companies operate if you think they can afford to hemmorage engineering talent without impacting their bottom line in a multitude of ways.
Evidently Amazon doesn’t either then since, you know, they’re literally doing it.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
That’s assuming the real talent wasn’t secretly given exception to this. And in any case, what’s important isn’t having the best talent, it’s making the numbers look better for end of year.
- Comment on Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate 3 months ago:
To literally no one’s surprised, least of all the leadership at Amazon. No unemployment when you quit.
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 3 months ago:
El Niño / La Ninya are terms that the uneducated just learned about but pretend has always been common knowledge only because it’s something to desperately grasp into to “explain away” climate change.
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #8 - Satisfactory 3 months ago:
Not at all. It’s a factory building game. 3D Factorio if you will.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 3 months ago:
I mean that’s not hard to do, Vance is at least vaguely human shaped.
- Comment on Balatro is now out on Mobile. Humanity is doomed. 3 months ago:
Fun game, if not a little on the easy side. Beat Ante 8 on my second run. There is an endless mode thankfully.
