That makes sense, although if its a severe power outage the other end might go out if they dont have a working UPS.

I’ve got a home battery, so its kinda like a bad UPS. Will run all day, but the switchover isnt seamless, so it hard-shuts down. Never lost any data though, so happy to keep risking it.

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Even better idea. Although if your power goes out, usually your internet goes as well, which somewhat diminishes the UPS value.

1. Yes, lots of people do this. Good idea to remove the battery if possible, or you’ll have a spicy balloon eventually.

2. VPN (or cloudflare tunnel) is not a bad idea, but its not essential either, my server is publically exposed, and it largely isnt a problem. I only expose port 443 and some specific random high ports though. I wouldnt expose 22 to the internet.

3. Keep SSH, just dont expose to the internet, its always nice to have multiple ways into a box, incase one is hung or something.

Wikipedia has google translate (2006) pre-dating android (2008) by 2 years. Iphone was 2007. It has improved significantly since, but it was pretty good even then. Adequate enough to communicate with foreign language speakers. I used to use it to email a japanese penpal, and while it may not have been perfect, it was understandable even then.

I hear you, I host lots of stuff. But none I can think of would be RCE vulnerable directly from a CPU vulnerability. You could use a CPU vulnerability to privesc later, but once someone has RCE, your already pwn’d, and privesc is mostly a given anyway either way. So CPU vulnerabilities falls way down the list of things to worry about.

As long as you keep your router OS patched and up to date, CPU vulns really arent a concern.

I can’t think of any typical services that you’d run on a router/home server that allow arbitrary code execution. The main risk was mostly web browsers with JavaScript, or VPS providers.

Either way, definitely unlikely for a home router.

The beauty of game dev, is that you can make the most cursed codebase, and as long as it works, the only person itll impact is yourself.

Also, startup costs are basically zero, there is no need for a top end PC, whatever you have now is probably good enough to start.

Exploiting those vulnerabilities via pure network traffic is borderline impossible. Most CPU exploits (meltdown et al.) require execution on the device, you can’t do it via crafted network packets.

https://cameroncros.github.io/wifi-condom.html

This is my travel router setup, might be useful for you to start from.

Probably, but raspi only has one interface, and USB network cards can be flakey. You’ll also not get outstandingly fast speeds, so ifnyour on a fast fibre connection you’ll struggle to hit the full speed.

Its a bad idea from a power consumption POV, your old PC will be very inefficient, and running it 24/7 as a router will rapidly add up.

Security wise, you’ll be running a fairly up to date Linux or BSD based OS, so its perfectly safe.

Or a Colorectal Surgeon.

To address the edit, I think part of the US’s problem is that you are already on the slope, and have been for a while. Violence has been normalised and accepted (and legalised as you’ve pointed out). I’d like to beleive you can reverse course, but it certainly doesnt seem likely.

I dont have any answers for you or op, but if it were me, I would focus on the defence and protection of my family/community first, rather than searching for retribution. I know that sounds hollow and empty though.

I can definitely place people above the line so to speak, but I dont think I could draw an objective one-size-fits-all line.

Humanity is a continuous spectrum from people living in extreme poverty up to the one percent, and its very hard to find any clean delinineation that I would be comfortable drawing the line through.

And the other problem is that the definition of that line would vary wildly from person to person.

If I’m honest with myself, I live in a well off first world country, that in of itself means that I am indirectly responsible for a non-zero amount human suffering in other parts of the world. It doesnt necessarily make me black and white evil, but to someone in one of those parts of the world, they definitely might see it that way.

I’m happy with death as a penalty for certain acts of evil, but I would want it to be the exception, not the rule. Everytime someone is death-row’d, we should all be unanimously sure that its the right thing to do.

Yes. Separate out each part out. You are currently publishing the equivalent of of a compiled binary. Split it up, and use a script to “compile” it back into the mega shell script.

It means that changes to each file can tracked (and audited) individually, you can conditionally compile bits in or out, and most usefully, you can write tests for the individual components.

Sorry, but a photo of a directory structure is not a source tree.

Your git repo consists of 4 files, a readme, a licence, and two packed shell scripts.

If you have an actual published source repo, link people to it.

For when you want high latency and poor data integrity

I dont understand why people do this

Charitably: AI turbocharged dunning-kruger

Less charitable: Malware delivery.

There is no good reason why they couldn’t have a normal source tree, that they pack into a single shell script in CI.

You used so many subjective terms in that description. You can draw the line at a number, that is objective (but see tax evasion for how that works in practice), but “heavy worker exploitation” is entirely subjective.

In my mind, most failing hospitality businesses fall into “heavy worker exploitation”, but many of them are owner by people who arent billionaires.