Trailblazing Braille Taser

You can also “simply” raw-dog Wireguard. It’s built into the Linux kernel, so you barely have to install anything besides the userspace tools.

Basically, I objected to being reliant on the generosity of a for-profit company. “We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.”

This is a rough sketch:

• Create a Linux server. It can even be a VM/container if you get the networking right.
• Create a Wireguard interface and pick a private IP address subnet that won’t conflict with your home subnet: https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
• Define PostUp and PostDown rules in your Wireguard config that modify iptables to masquerade traffic from the Wireguard subnet
• Also set net.ipv4.ip_forward=1 with sysctl. (There is probably an IPv6 equivalent but I live in the past.)
• Generate keypairs and configs for each device you want to use
• Set up dynamic DNS, e.g. https://freedns.afraid.org/
• Forward UDP port 51820 to your server
• Install the Wireguard app on your client devices. If Linux, you can just write a client config containing the necessary magic words and start it up with wg-quick.

Boom. Tailscale’d.

I’m sure I’ve forgotten some steps. I have some janky automation that’s broken in a new way every time I try to use it.

I thought flies use ZZ for the onomatopoeia

I have no opinion of them, but I’m curious why advertising would imply untrustworthiness. Are you saying they’re too eager or something? Spending money on ads is also consistent with a company that’s making money by charging for a service — I’d be more suspicious of free VPNs.

Y’all remember Amarok or am I old?

We thought things were bad before the experimental DoD teleporter accident that destroyed the bodies of Trump and Musk. Elonald Trusk and Donlon Mump rose from the ashes. Their greed multiplied. Their lust for power became insatiable, but nothing could trump their carnal, sensual desire for each other’s bodies. [Ok, stopping here, I don’t like where this is going.]

Jesus, I thought you made a typo until I tried it. Gotta love those unary operators…

For the lazy: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

These atomic printers are such a hassle. I just want to print some organic compounds, but it’s complaining that the copper level is low!

Not just a “shouse” but a “stunning shouse.”

Obligatory scene from Hot Fuzz

Oh, in that case all OP needs is cat.

I don’t even capitalize pronouns for gods, why would I do it for you? Wait, are you saying you used to be a god?

Wow, you’re a jerk.

Just to add another anecdatum, I had the exact same experience installing Windows 11 this year. I have never had this much trouble installing an OS in the 20 years I’ve been screwing with computers.

Imagine if you could block notifications matching a regex

Yeah, there really should be some expectation of stewardship in exchange for absurd post-Disney copyright durations.

You can also ask it to repeat the letter A one million times. For reasons I don’t understand, it will say “A A A…” for a while before hitting some sort of repetition limit and then it starts speaking gibberish.

What does “maintain a lower profile” mean specifically? I think the point of a private tracker is that you don’t need to enable DHT, which effectively broadcasts to the internet that your IP address is trying to download content identified by a specific hash.

Isn’t that the whole point of a private tracker?

Of course, you will certainly not regret piping curl into bash from GitHub.com.