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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hosting multiple services with one IP address.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. The reverse proxy takes http/https requests from the WAN, and forwards them to the appropriate services on your LAN. It will also do things like automatically maintain TLS certificates, so https requests can be validated. Lastly, it can usually do some basic authentication or group access stuff. This is useful to ensure that only valid users or devices are able to reach services that otherwise don’t support authentication.

  So for example, let’s say you have a service called ExampServ running on 192.168.1.50:12345. This port is not forwarded, and the service is not externally available on the WAN without the reverse proxy.

  Now you also have your reverse proxy service, listening on 192.168.1.50:80 and 192.168.1.50:443… Port 80 (standard for http requests) and 443 (standard for https requests) are forwarded to it from the WAN. Your reverse proxy is designed to take requests from your various subdomains, ensure they are valid, upgrade them from http to https (if they originated as http), and then forward them to your various services.

  So maybe you create a subdomain of exampserv.example.com, with an A-NAME rule to forward to your WAN IPv4 address. So any requests for that subdomain will hit ports 80 (for http) or 443 (for https) on your WAN. These http and https requests will be forwarded to your reverse proxy, because those ports are forwarded. Your reverse proxy takes these requests. It validates them (by upgrading to https if it was originally an http request, verifying that the https request isn’t malformed, that it came from a valid subdomain, prompting the user to enter a username and password if that is configured, etc.)… After validating the request, it forwards the traffic to 192.168.1.50:12345 where your ExampServ service is running.

  Now your ExampServ service is available internally via the IP address, and externally via the subdomain. And as far as the ExampServ service is concerned, all of the traffic is LAN, because it’s simply communicating with the reverse proxy that is on the same network. The service’s port is not forwarded directly (which is a security risk in and of itself), it is properly gated behind an authentication wall, and the reverse proxy is ensuring that all requests are valid https requests, with a proper TLS handshake. And (most importantly for your use case), you can have multiple services running on the same device, and each one simply uses a different subdomain in your DNS and reverse proxy rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ford owning an /8 block is one of my favorite “internet designers didn’t really plan that far ahead” tidbit. For the unaware, every single company device on Ford’s corporate networks uses a WAN IPv4 address in the 19.x.x.x range. They don’t have LAN addresses at all. Because why not, they own the whole fucking /8 block and have like twelve million spare addresses to play around with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies with TLDs named after them is the best example of how ridiculously big those companies are.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Remaining with just the few means everyone will eventually be using “thisismyextremelylongexampleurlbecauseallofthegoodonesweretaken40fuckingyearsago.com” types of URLs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I run all of my audiobooks at 1.25x speed as a bare minimum. If a narrator is particularly slow, sometimes I’ll even bump it up as high as 2x. Any half-decent audiobook player will have built-in speed controls.

  For instance, if you’re running AudioBookShelf for self-hosting your audiobooks, Plappa (an unofficial but very well done listening app that syncs to your server) has it right there on the bottom:
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  On my particular color scheme it is purple, but you can change that in the settings. You can also set things like auto-pause (after {x} time, at the end of the chapter, or at the end of the next chapter), and bookmarks (which you can label) to come back to later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: listening to audiobooks and reading books both activate the same language related areas of the brain⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Almost 0 in 2024, to over 50 in 2025. Spun up my AudioBookShelf instance in May, so that number will likely be a lot higher in 2026. Just from listening while doing chores or driving to/from work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Video] A good cameraman says more than a thousand words⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine does nothing when the video is full screened. I had to open the post and hit it while it was playing above the comments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It can be both server and DNS provider. For instance, Cloudflare allows you to set rules for what traffic is allowed. And you can set it to automatically drop traffic for everything except your specific subdomains. I also have mine set to ban a IP after 5 failed subdomain attempts. That alone will do a lot of heavy lifting, because it ensures your server is only getting hit with the requests that have already figured out a working subdomain.

  Personally, I see a lot of hacking attempts aimed at my main www. subdomain, for Wordpress. Luckily, I don’t run Wordpress. But the bots are 100% out there, just casually scanning for Wordpress vulnerabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for dropped connections on invalid domains. Or hell, redirect them to something stupid like ooo.eeeee.ooo just so you can check your redirect logs and see what kind of BS the bots are up to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard choices. Who would you choose?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The real concern is whether taking Courage will also invite all of the weird stuff that seems to follow him. You get a dog, and then suddenly your house is besieged by alien cats who want to steal your eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨(TW) Phishing mail in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you a registered republican, or live in a conservative area? I’m registered R so I can vote for the least crazy candidate in their primaries. Because a democrat has basically zero chance of winning the general election in my district. And I get the MAGA bait too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨200 million records exposed in massive Pornhub data breach — here’s what we know so far⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I’m not mad about why they removed so many videos. They had a massive CSAM and revenge porn problem, to the point that you could often find it on the front page. They also had really ineffectual methods for victims to report offending content, to get it taken down. There was also the whole “victim can only begin the takedown process (which likely won’t even get the video taken down) if they know it has been posted” problem. And their fix was to only allow uploads by verified users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨State of the Fin 2026-01-06 | Jellyfin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Tizen app will be huge for me. I’ve been dual-running Plex and JF specifically because a few of my users have Tizen devices. And there’s no way I’d be able to explain sideloading to my “throws up their hands and says it’s too complicated as soon as they see anything unexpected” relatives over the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The new version of PCSX2 2.6.02, the free open source PlayStation 2 emulator is released⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this post was right below the one about Anna’s Archive losing their .org domain. I started reading this one and was like “oh god a second takedown has hit the towers…”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom with the real questions ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty much what we did in my first apartment. There were four of us, and we all just circled our monitors around one end of a dining table, and the other end was kept clear for eating, projects workspace, etc… Every night was like an old school LAN party. I’ll admit, it wasn’t the worst setup. Getting around the back of the table was kind of a pain, but the only people who ever realistically needed to get back there were the two people who sat on that side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate it when this happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, the Scunthorpe Problem in action.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate it when this happens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Only with cold water. Semen has a lot of protein in it, which means it will curdle and harden like scrambled eggs when it gets hot. Lots of women make the mistake of trying to use hot water, (because hot water cleans better, right?) but that has it immediately gumming up and getting sticky before they can even get the shampoo lathered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For my older Millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe they were thinking of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome? That’s when you take an NSAID and then your body rejects your skin and it all starts falling off. You go from perfectly healthy to spontaneously looking like a critical burn victim in about two days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Other side of the same coin: I work for a municipality, and I can’t even connect my phone because they use MAC whitelists for the entire network. Many cities used to be pretty lax about cybersecurity, but a few high profile attacks have made most of them (at least anything larger than a small town) rethink that stance. Hell, one city a few miles away had a ransomware attack that left their city services entirely unavailable for like three weeks. That was actually studied by lots of the local cities, to see what they can do to prevent similar attacks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tired of those annoying cookie banners? They’re not just frustrating—they’re a lazy response to GDPR.

  They’re not lazy, they’re maliciously compliant. The sites know how to comply with GDPR, but wanted to throw a fit instead. So they came up with the annoying cookie banners, to make users hate GDPR instead of hating the sites that were stealing and selling all of their data. And the worst part is that it worked. Many people wholly equate GDPR with the cookie banners, instead of the massive leap in privacy rights that it represented when it was passed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The vast majority of memory foam is made in bulk by only a few companies, who sell to all the various mattress makers. So with memory foam mattresses, pillows, etc, it doesn’t really matter which brand you buy; the foam is coming from the same suppliers regardless. And the foam itself is actually dirt cheap. The raw materials for the mattress are only like $50-100 total when they’re bought in bulk.

  The only real difference between a $3500 Tempur Pedic and a $300 Amazon Basics mattress is which warehouse it was assembled in and shipped from. And you could buy a brand new $300 mattress every single year, spend less money, and be more comfortable at year 10 than someone on a decade-old Tempur Pedic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cost cutting and designing for the lowest common denominator. Suits are afraid to take risks, because they want to sell to the widest possible audience. So they end up playing it safe and making bland milquetoast games that all feel exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. There are currently ~180 billionaires in the Virgin Islands for a NYE mega-yacht party. Those ~180 people collectively represent ~80% of the entire nation’s wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not so fast!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Housing is also a sort of money pit in Japan because abandoned houses often aren’t considered worth repairing. Old Japanese houses tend to end up with lots of issues, to the point that it is often cheaper to bulldoze and build new. There are plenty of stories of people buying an abandoned house for like $50… But that’s only the initial property cost. It was so cheap because everyone knows that they have to actually invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in bulldozing and rebuilding before the property will be habitable again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was this in a radio station (or was someone nearby acting as a radio operator, like a police station or dispatch center), by chance? They tend to be picky about RF interference, and Ethernet can be fairly noisy on certain RF bands. In that case, the ferrite bead was likely to do the exact opposite; They wanted to stop the Ethernet cables from broadcasting RF interference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"i can hear the difference"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, there is a lot of snake oil in the audiophile world. The worst instance I saw was someone posting about an intermittent buzz in their system. Multiple people were recommending a full rebuild, (which would cost thousands of dollars). From what they described, it was pretty obvious that OP just needed a ~10¢ ferrite bead on a power cable, to make it stop acting as an antenna.

  I was like “okay, you could try rebuilding your entire system like everyone else is suggesting… But maybe start with a ferrite bead. Here is a link for a multipack on Amazon. Worst case scenario, you’re only out like $5. And even if it doesn’t fix this specific case, the multipack is handy to have around anyways, because manufacturers often cheap out and skip adding them when their devices really do need them.” Like three days later, I got a “holy shit this actually worked. You just saved me thousands of dollars (and a ton of time) on a complete rebuild.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaker Who Apple Is Suing Says 'Screw It,' Here's the Foldable iPhone Early⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes and no… Women do complain about a lack of pockets, while simultaneously buying pants that physically don’t have room for pockets.

  But on the other side of the same coin, women’s heavy duty cargo pants have smaller interior pockets too. Like the exterior pouch pockets may be the same/equivalent size, but the main front and back pockets are often still tiny. There’s no real way to rationalize that or blame women for it, because that’s the entire point of the pants, and there is 100% enough room for larger pockets in those baggier pants.

  And no, they often can’t just buy men’s pants, because the cut is very different. Guys tend to have narrower hips and wider waists. Women wearing men’s pants will tend to have the waistband fit (but can’t get their hips into them) or be able to get their hips into the pants (but then need to cinch down the waist by a ridiculous and uncomfortable amount). Women’s pants tend to have more hip room and narrow waistbands, to account for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, this is the real answer. Verified vendors’ stock isn’t kept separate from the shitty scammers’ stock. Vendor has 10 good memory cards in stock, and a scammer has 5 fakes? The bin will have all 15 cards… So buying from the vendor doesn’t guarantee you get a real memory card, because the counterfeits are in the same bin.

  Every professional photographer knows that good SD cards are Sandisk branded and come from B&H Photo Supply… While bad SD cards are Sandisk branded and come from Amazon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had it happen to me at MicroCenter. Got a mechanical keyboard, in a seemingly-new box. No return sticker on it. Opened it up, and the damned thing was missing like six keys and absolutely covered in gamer chud. Someone very obviously bought it, put their old keyboard in the box, and “returned” it. And whoever took the return didn’t bother checking, or mark it as an open box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t disclose it because there was no AI in the final product. The AI was for placeholder textures, which were replaced by real artists’ work as they were made. Some of the AI textures slipped through the cracks on release day, but a week 1 patch removed all traces of the AI before anyone even realized it was AI.

  IMO this looks bad on the awards show, because the final product didn’t have any AI. And the production team was proactive in ensuring it didn’t have any AI before any kind of public backlash ever happened. Once they realized the issue, they issued a patch to fix it on their own, without needing to be pushed into it by public pressure. That’s what a company should do, and it shows that the devs really cared about their game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tax productivity, not work. Worker productivity has skyrocketed in the past few decades, but taxes have remained constant. So the rich have been able to extract increasing amounts of productivity, while paying proportionally less and less in taxes. Meanwhile, worker wages have remained stagnant, meaning their productivity has gone up but they’re still being paid (and taxed) the same.

  Wealth taxes should still absolutely be a thing, but they should be entirely divorced from a work (productivity) tax.