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- Comment on HELP: Wireguard for home network with remote exit node 18 hours ago:
It’s not really clear exactly what you want.
When you’re at home, and for services running on your home server, it you want everything to go through the remote wireguard server then that’s achievable.
However, if you want to be able to access services running on your home server, while you’re not at home, via that remote wireguard server, that generally requires port forwarding which commercial providers generally don’t offer.
Can you clarify ?
- Comment on Can you house-sit instead of renting? Australians turn to pet-minding to escape the housing crisis 20 hours ago:
This is kinda happening already.
In the past house sitting was always a service performed in exchange for accommodation.
However, I hear that recently it’s becoming more and more common for owners to collect rent.
I don’t think that’s necessarily greedy owners (although there are plenty of those), it’s more of an indicator of how high demand is.
- Comment on Two VPNs? 3 days ago:
I don’t use tailscale or gluetun. They’re probably good options I just wasn’t aware of them when I was setting up and what I’m doing now has worked great for years.
My home server has 4 containers you’re interested in:
wireguard_out
this is a wireguard instance which is connected to a mullvad server on a paid subscription.
For any containers I want to “use this vpn” I just attach them to this container’s stack. it’s one of the
networkoptions in docker. Notably these containers include qbittorrent and squid (below).Wireguard configurations look unapproachable at first but it’s one of those things where messing around with it for an hour or so will serve you well for a lifetime. There’s not heaps more to learn. LLMs are great at writing wireguard configurations.
squid
This is a http proxy attached to the wireguard_out stack. You didn’t ask about this and may not need it but I’ve found it super useful.
One of the private torrent trackers I use will only let your torrent client connect to the tracker from the same IP address you used to download the torrent file - so when browsing their website you need to use the vpn connection. Using squid makes this really easy.
In firefox (librewolf) I have foxyproxy addon which allows you to specify a proxy to use for specific urls. So when I navigate to mytracker.com firefox automatically routes the connection through squid > wireguard > mullvad on my server.
wireguard_in
This handles my “road warrior” set up so I can access services on my home server while I’m away.
This container has a separate docker network to most of my other containers, in the ip subnet 10.0.2.0/24.
traefik
this is a reverse proxy
it’s on the same network as wireguard_in with the ip address 10.0.2.2
I’ve configured a public dns “A” record *.home.mydomain.com to point to 10.0.2.2, the private ip address.
The configurations I use for the wireguard connections on my phone or other devices only route requests for this subnet through the wireguard connection. so if I’m away from home and my phone requests lemmy.world that goes through the public network, but if I request photon.home.mydomain.com that goes through my vpn. This way you don’t need to turn off / on the wireguard connection.
I use file based configurations for traefik. It can do docker label configurations but they’re just awful IMO. The yaml configurations are much more readable and manageable.
As an aside, you can replicate this structure many times on one host. I have several incoming wireguard networks for different purposes. You configure the traefik container to sit across all the networks, like a spider at the centre of a web.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 4 days ago:
Yeah, you’re right in that wealthy people are heavily motivated to capture the value provided by new technologies.
However, I don’t think that’s always the case.
Roof top solar is one example. Really high rates of adoption here in Australia. The cost of the equipment has reduced dramatically and it’s a bit silly not to install at this point. It’s good for the planet and it reduces costs for individuals and families of all kinds.
Food production is another one. Yes a lot of farms are owned by large corporations, but a lot of farms are also family operations. If they make more food they make more money and secondary industries can charge farmers more money. In my area this agricultural production is the primary industry and although there might be $100k people in my city almost all employment is in supporting industries, whether that’s maintaining equipment, transporting goods, financial services, et cetera. While there’s always some concentration of wealth it doesn’t seam particularly problematic for the moment.
I don’t really know anything about this but it’s possible that in the future you’ll be able to make synthetic meats at home in a bioreactor.
I guess I’m just saying that while I agree the implications of climate change are bleak, emerging technologies might mitigate the impact on human-kind to some extent.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 6 days ago:
I’m not sure this is an accurate summation of the situation.
Recycling pretty much doesn’t work practically or economically, never has. It’s not possible to collect plastic, and convert it into a product that has value, at a cost of less than that provided value.
If this was possible, companies would do it. (I’ll forego a rant about one of the few virtues of capitalism, anyway).
Redcycle collapsed after a fire at a warehouse or something. That’s a bit like saying my wife asked for a divorce after I accidentally shit myself.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 6 days ago:
Yeah this has always been the case but sadly it’s just not how things roll in 2025.
I’ve always said, impose a levy on any product which contains plastic of any kind, and watch how quickly producers transition to something else. Start at 1% and increase by 1% per year. I bet plastic packaging would all but disappear from the super market by 2030.
The single use plastics thing makes me grumpy because it doesn’t address the problem, but makes consumers feel like they’ve shouldered some of the burden so the problem must be fixed now.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 1 week ago:
Ah yes, illiteracy. Hilarious.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 1 week ago:
nostr
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 week ago:
I guess it’s subjective.
Sure, climate change is starting to have an impact and more people might die due to malnutrition which is related.
My predictions within 5 years are something like :
- intensifying weather events like floods, storms, cyclones / hurricanes, to a point where insurance becomes a real unavoidable problem, putting trillions of dollars of real estate at risk.
- intensifying weather events like droughts where some traditionally viable agricultural areas no longer are, maybe a 10% reduction of arable land in any given region.
- localised famine events generating a few hundred thousand climate change refugees per year.
- increasing commercial interest in arable land in regions less likely to be impacted, farm values doubling in some areas
- increasing political interest in arable land in these same regions, with escalating political tension
I think societal collapse is still a decade away at least. However, the poor and impoverished are certainly going to start to feel the burn.
On the one hand I have a left leaning progressive mind set and have with young children - I’m heavily motivated to try to change our trajectory. On the other hand I’m 43 years old and I don’t remember a period where people weren’t predicting societal collapse in 5 years.
Climate change is bad. Mass extinctions, severe weather events, and famine, are all a certainty in the coming years. However, this needs to be balanced by technological advancements that are going to mitigate the effects. Just as an example, we can produce more food from less land than ever in history.
- Comment on They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly 1 week ago:
ex-fucking-zaccly.
Don’t like inclusion and welcome-to-country? I know a place …
- Comment on They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly 1 week ago:
I’ve been mulling over a kind of dickhead exchange in recent months.
There’s plenty of Americans who are just normal people, who might be considered “the radical left” at home. We should create a special class of visa for them.
In exchange, we could send them our own home grown wankers.
- Comment on Does anyone know of a Alpine Linux docker image with LFTP, cron, and possible openssh built-in, ready to go? 1 week ago:
I’d never heard of the XY Problem before.
I get it - big opportunity to waste lots of time.
However, while I’ve never posted a question on stack overflow or similar, a common complaint is that it’s a toxic community because of responses related to this problem - a user asks about X and is accused of asking about Y and most responses undermine the premise being question Z.
- Comment on Does anyone know of a Alpine Linux docker image with LFTP, cron, and possible openssh built-in, ready to go? 1 week ago:
I have been fiddling with trying to build a Dockerfile and container
- Comment on They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly 1 week ago:
Not sending our best and brightest.
- Comment on They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly 1 week ago:
The stupidity of these people is breath-taking. I can’t find it within myself to feel sorry for them honestly. I feel sorry for the children of these morons I guess.
Old mate that voluntarily became cannon-fodder is sadly just too stupid to be allowed to draw breath. My knowledge of russia is meager to say the least but even I know their military operations run on fresh meat.
- Comment on Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't. 1 week ago:
I disagree.
I dont think its particularly likely there will be famines in the next 5 years or so on a scale that can’t be countered by aid.
Sure, economies might start to feel some very serious consequences, shit might start to get very real, I just dont think we’re quite at the point where people start dying.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
I love watching politicians try to understand the internet.
VPNs have loads of vanilla use cases.
It would be infinitely more productive to regulate the predatory practices of stream providers and reduce the incentive for piracy.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
Amazing.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
You can but it’s unnecessary. For most people just configuring each device to use a vpn is the path of least resistance.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
Not really.
This happens everywhere. It’s the police job to ask for access and it’s the signal CEO’s job to decline.
Ultimately the ASIO (aus federal police) won’t call signal’s bluff because signal leaving isn’t good for them. Threat actors would just use some alternative platform.
- Comment on Signal boss warns app will exit Australia if forced to hand over users’ encrypted messages 1 week ago:
So you can talk to… yourself?
- Comment on The ATO was warned its systems were lacking, then scammers stole $2b 1 week ago:
It’s not really a “scam” it’s just tax fraud.
Nobody is checking.
Honestly, do a db search for refunds > $100k, ask those tax payers for invoices for their three biggest claims.
A team of one person using this method could have reviewed several dozen of these a day.
- Comment on introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server 1 week ago:
Sync is one of those things that seems like it should be trivial but is actually super complicated.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Sure does sound pretty toxic.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
The term has had so many definitions its not really meaningful.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
I just message my partner like a troglodyte.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
If the only thing stopping your partner from cheating is location sharing then you’ve got problems.
- Comment on YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West 2 weeks ago:
Its like you’re consciously trying to make yourself look like an ass by complaining about people’s grammar on lemmy.
- Comment on Let's get Physical 2 weeks ago:
Yeah but why would it be on the front pages?
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
Thats what i said?