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Yeah Maine is so well known for it’s urban housing

Are those distros copyrighted?

I assure you, he’s still doing stupid shit. The national mainstream media has just moved on to other things.

He’s gotta be either entry level or part time… Or getting really ripped off

Awk is ok but often when I come across a script that I need to optimize because it’s too slow, the easiest gains come from replacing awk command. Most of them use awk for the most mundane stuff that can easily be done with shell parameter expansion instead.

If they did that it would be far too easy for people to boost listens and ratings with bots

Yes, it started dropping years ago and is now less than 1% of peak infection rate. It is endemic now and treated like the flu. Keep living in a bubble for the rest of your life if you want, I guess.

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This should be in the next Beetlejuice movie

So many suggestions here but I thought I’d chime in because I have a setup very similar to what you suggested and I found a very easy way of hosting it securely. I am using Unraid on a system in my house. I have my web service running in a docker container. I exposed it using a cloudflare tunnel. There is an Unraid plugin for cloudflare tunnels that takes out a lot of the configuration work involved in getting it running locally. You just have to also set up a corresponding endpoint on Cloudflare’s website and have a domain name registered with them for you to link to it.

The way it works then is when someone requests your domain (or subdomain) in their browser, Cloudflare gets the request and redirects the traffic to the cloudflare tunnel client app that you set up in your computer. That app on your machine then redirects the traffic to your other container that is hosting your web service and established bidirectional communication that way.

The benefits to this system are:

• Relatively easy setup, especially if you want to expose more services in the future (you’ll need to run a separate cloudflare container for each service exposed though)
• No need to open ports in your router or firewall on your home network. Cloudflare just knows how to communicate between its server and its client app on your computer (I think you have to set up an access token so it is secure).
• None of your users ever learn your home IP address because once they connect at Cloudflare’s server, they don’t get any more knowledge than that about what’s on the other side.
• It’s free (not including the cost of registering your domain)
• You don’t have to worry about changing anything if your ISP randomly changes your IP address. Hell, you could even move to a new house and take your computer with you and you wouldn’t have to reconfigure anything.

Downsides:

• You have to trust that Cloudflare is not scraping all the traffic going through the tunnel.
• Some people have a moral issue with giving Cloudflare more responsibility for hosting “the Internet”. We already rely on their infrastructure heavily for large sections of the Internet. If they ever become malicious or compromised, there is a lot to lose as a society.

I believe you can use Wireguard and a rented VPS to recreate this setup without Cloudflare but it will require a lot more knowledge in order to set it up with more points of failure. And it would cost more because even though Wireguard is FOSS, a VPS will cost you a monthly fee of at least a few bucks per month.

I currently have 2 services exposed using Cloudflare tunnels on my Unraid system at home. They’ve been running for over a year now with 0 interruption.

The HOA won’t let me have goats to keep the grass low though

That’s a shitty move, but people should still request that rent control be a federal law rather than a provincial regulation.

Use docker

At least not.

People don’t like centralizing the Internet in a single service. There’s nothing wrong with the product. It works great and is much more secure than opening ports in your home network. This community is just more biased toward decentralization and privacy, which is a common reason for people to start self hosting.

I think wireguard can allow you to set up a similar external connection with some extra steps. This would remove Cloudflare from the loop.

Pretty sure most people are above sea level. But I’m no sea doctor.

I mean I only watched a few episodes of Arthur on PBS after school back in the day. He was kind of an asshole but I’m over it now.

No, you’re not allowed. Now go to your room and think about what you’ve done.

That’s a good bet

Life of Brian