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- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 hours ago:
And yet, there is an entire world out there. With people from all countries that are dealing with sash and case windows, restricted opening windows, or windows that don’t open at all.
- Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 hours ago:
The “ever” is maybe stretching it.
I think it can survive the occasional mis-opening. But I wouldn’t do it regularly, not leave it like that for a day.
Like “yeh, you’ve fucked up but I’m fine for now. Please fix me and never do it again” kinda scenario - Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 hours ago:
I feel like it’s a “can survive, but please fix quickly” kinda scenario.
I have no doubt the mechanism can support it. But used regularly will likely break something (where the entire fucking window falls into your room) - Comment on They have a right to feel smug 2 hours ago:
1st position detent = tilt (small opening).
2nd position detent = door (big opening).I get that “horizontal handle = door” kinda makes sense… But doesn’t feel intuitive to me
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
A typo/brainfart
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
Myst 6…?
A brainfart/typo
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Myst V: End of Ages 2 weeks ago:
The remaster of myst 1 is good, the remaster of riven is good.
Must 3-6 felt… Thin. Like, the game was about it being 3d and the tech… Not the puzzles.I feel a true successor to the myst 1 & 2 games is Quern: Undying Thoughts.
Felt like the original premise, but in a modern game engine.Another game that gave me the same hook as Myst is Blue Prince. A rogue lite puzzle game that is amazing.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 2 weeks ago:
In that case, maybe look into proxmox and VMs.
Then run docker inside a VM. Have multiple VMs of docker for different environments (eg a VM for containers that should only use a VPN, another for media server stuff, another for experimenting… Whatever)Learning proxmox (or another hypervisor) is well worthwhile, because the base installer sets things up to just work for virtualization. And VMs are great for learning to run services.
Then you can spin up VMs for isolating environments, and have the benefit of oversight and management tools as well as snapshots. Snapshots means you can take a snapshot, tinker and break things, then roll back to a known good snapshot and try again.I use proxmox on any bare metal before I start setting up VMs for services. Even if it’s just a single VM with the majority of resources allocated to it.
Is proxmox overkill for running a server for some docker containers? Yes.
Does it make things easier? IMO, yes. At least operationally safer/easier. - Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 2 weeks ago:
Imo, only services that require a VPN exit node should use a VPN exit node.
github.com/qdm12/gluetun
Is a well known VPN container that people use, and works with ProtonVPN.I don’t know anything about how to do this, but a cursory search for “gluetun qbitorrent docker” suggests that gluetun gets
network: “host”. Any container that has to use a VPN exit node getsnetwork_mode: “service:gluetun”. Adepends_on: {gluetun details}style option will ensure that any service that should use a VPN exit node will not run unless gluetun is running.Then it’s getting the data out of the qbittorent container into whatever you are using as a media server.
- Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 2 weeks ago:
Ah, gotcha.
So… You generally have to pay a VPN company to get access to their VPN exit nodes, and “hide” in among all the other traffic.
There is nothing you can self-host to do that.ProtonVPN used to be a popular recommendation, however they are slipping out of favour due to behaviour over the last couple of years.
If you are looking for a VPN for anonymity, be careful of “review” articles posted on blogs owned by dodgy VPN providers.
I’m not sure who the “go to” VPN provider is these days.If you rent a VPS (virtual private server) in order to run your own VPN exit node, and the VPS provider gets a letter regarding illegal activity, then your VPS will be deleted.
I don’t know of a VPS provider that will protect customers privacy WRT legal requests (maybe there are, but they will be exceptionally expensive).So everyone pays a VPN provider that doesn’t keep logs in order to hide amongst the herd.
In order to make sure that your file downloading system uses a VPN instead of the default gateway for internet access is a huge field.
So you need to describe exactly the software you want to use the VPN exit node, and how it’s installed.
Because the solution could be host firewall, docker networking, isolated networks… Pretty sure there are many others. - Comment on Options for protecting home IP on my self hosted home srver 2 weeks ago:
You can’t hide your public IP. It’s public.
I presume your servers sit on your home network, and it’s a basic flat network. And you have a basic home router. And you forward a port on your router to your server that’s running wireguard.
Sound about right?You already use a VPN to access your homelab/home-servers.
So the only ports you are forwarding (presumably) relate to wireguard. So the only accessable ports are secured sensibly (by wireguard, cause thats what it is).So you are already doing everything right.
If you want a fancier router/firewall, then OpnSense or OpenWRT are good options.
But I wouldn’t run everything through your server. Let your server serve. And use a router to do network things.
If you really want to hyperconverge onto a single server like that, then I’d do it inside different VMs (probably running on a proxmox host). Have a VM running OpnSense that only does network and routing. Then VMs for other services.
You’re directly coupling your home internet access to the proxmox host and the VM, tho.
Which is why I prefer using a more embedded/dedicated router appliance (I’m a huge fan of mikrotik stuff, but my home network is TP-Link Omada. Tho I think I’ll move to Unifi) - Comment on What is in for the antivax in a government? 2 weeks ago:
“God will protect us. He has sent judgement on those unworthy” also contributes. Not directly eugenics, but damn fucking close
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- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 weeks ago:
Imagine the debuff that blueballs would inflict because you missed the quicktime event
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 1 month ago:
What about liquid particles in the flatulence phase-changing and lowering the temperature? (Like how an evaporative swamp cooler works)
- Comment on Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg 1 month ago:
A bunch of other YouTubers are reuploading it in protest.
So, you can watch it on one of the reuploads.
Just make sure you watch it again on Gamers Nexus when it comes back, help them jump re-start it on the algorithm so it gets the views it deserves.Thankfully the Streisand effect will take care of the publicity.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m guessing that - from my experience of the CasualUK community when I used to be on Reddit - they have similar rules of ABSOLUTELY no politics. Even something that might lead to politics.
It’s to keep the place extremely light hearted and not turn into a depressing news/politics community.So immigration/border policy and Palestine Action would both be out.
Even jokes about small boats would likely be too close.It is a fun story, glad you shared it. And good on the mods recommending an alternative community
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 1 month ago:
Ah, the classic “scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^”
- Comment on Google Refuses to Deny UK Encryption Demands 2 months ago:
Yeh, good.
Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage! - Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:
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Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec. -
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
How they enforce that, I dunno.
Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage -
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 2 months ago:
Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.
independent.co.uk/…/vpns-online-safety-bill-labou…
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
“If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
The likely conclusion of that report is that “VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned”
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 2 months ago:
One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it - Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 2 months ago:
Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour - Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 2 months ago:
If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism.
I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Why do we even have that lever?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 2 months ago:
All the cool kids are running kubernetes
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 3 months ago:
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does - Comment on Sounds good tho 3 months ago:
Bloody hell is more of a surprise thing, tbh
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 3 months ago:
He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren’t idiots.
It’s either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff - Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 3 months ago:
It’s part of the strategy.
Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported.