Quite a few model years of Synology were stricken with a network transceiver issue where they would just stop talking randomly.

I have two WD-EX4’s and the six bay Synology, and none of them have the kind of uptime I get out of my unraid.

If you want something rock solid I would probably scratch build a box with truenas

The opposite of self-hosted would be managed service.

You run it yourself at your own location however you want it

Vs

Someone runs it for you at their location. However the want it

VPS is someone loans you a VM at their location that you run yourself however you want to.

It’s still relevant to self-hosted because you still have to do all the work, you were just using their network, power, air conditioning, hardware and fire suppression. You’re still in the hook for installs and patches, configuration, and software issues.

I really worry about places that claim that AI access is anonymous.

The models they’re using aren’t super cheap to run and they don’t get a lot cheaper with scale.

When you are the product, and the anonymize the data that they sell to people, They still have your correlations there somewhere. If they get hacked, or sold, with a simply change their business model you are at risk.

Good enough to keep your ISP at bay.

Good enough to keep you from getting on a list from passive checking.

Not good enough to stop a state agency that wants to go after you legally.

They do support port forwarding which makes torrenting much nicer.

Proton said they wouldn’t give up the IP address of their mail users either until they did.

I have no issues with the other three.

I think it wasn’t really consented to as much as it was built around us.

Tap to pay was created to make small transactions more palatable to the public. The big players dreamed it up financed it and put it out there. The cost to do so was likely staggering as it required a change to how all card processing machines worked.

If you wanted to do this as a grassroots movement, you’d need to provide hardware to read the cards/devices. You’re simply no way that any of the current major financial players is going to accept anyone on to their network without paying big bucks.

Samsung Galaxy watch 3 actually did something that worked somewhat amazingly that FOSS could follow, They post the NFC radio on and off to match the contents of a credit card stripe. You could actually walk up to an old machine hold your watch up for the card was swiped, and hit pay and your watch would trigger the card reader to think it read a card. I blew some poor cashiers mind at the local Ace hardware. Oh no, we don’t take tap to… BEEP, oh. I. I never seen it …

You can’t just buy into API access for NFC payments. You got to pay somebody big bucks to let you on their network.

I actually saw some news bleed into shitpost the other day. It’s that bad.

I’m only dealing with desktop browsers in this and trying to type with autocomplete from an uncomfortable position. I’m fairly certain privacy doesn’t really exist in OTC Android.

They slightly edge out brave on vanilla. Once you load all of your plugins and stuff braves a little better at lying about it. To be fair they’re both close enough it doesn’t matter either one will get the job done. I usually think of mull as a leave it vanilla and use it when you need to leave no trace.

I keep Firefox, brave, Librewolf, and Vivaldi All configured and loaded with my plugins and bookmarks.

When Google pulled out of Firefox funding I expected them to go down a dark path.

I don’t know that any of those choices of browsers are going to be significantly better than the others long-term. I’m also hoping for ladybug eventually.

LW doesn’t seem to play nice with some of my sites and some of my plugins. It’s the one I want most to work. The last time I tried it, delivering pass keys out of bitwarden in it didn’t work. And that kind of makes it a no-go for me. I should try it again though it’s been at least a year.

I’m pretty sure brave would sell my kidneys if they could. But they are the only one on the list that’s truly funded and they keep up with the Joneses on YouTube ad blocking. And there also probably the strongest browser for anti-fingerprinting at the moment.

Vivaldi seems to work okay but it’s just a Google clone, they’ve only dedicated to not enforcing manifest V3 for “as long as they could.”

They do say that. And I can’t say they’d tell us if they started. But for the moment let’s assume they still don’t. I also can’t say that they’d tell us if the government asked them to. But let’s put a pin in that too.

They do not claim not to scan the SMTP and mail transport. We know that they do scan it try to discern spam.

Do you trust them not to sell that juicy email they just scanned from an external email address?

Nope 0 fucks given. Or would have to be @ashleymadison or @pornhub or something. and even then it may just net you an interview.

When places look at resumes, they’re looking at communication skills, education, experience, and work history. They’re looking for lies and exaggerations. The poor bastards have probably been through 60 resumes a day and they’re just hoping to find a keyword here or there that isn’t like the other 60 resumes.

If they’re unscrupulous they’re also looking at your name and trying to figure out your race/gender.

As long as the email address and content you provide exudes professionalism, and the email works, They don’t care at all.

As far as privacy, forget it. The business you are working with is already certainly using Microsoft or Google, they’re vetting your email address and content through a spam filter. In most cases you are private email has no longer private the second it gets to any company.

By it’s not too difficult, are you actually expecting average users to run certbot cli?

We need to get out of the mindset of jellyfin being self hosted and into the same mindset Plex has of you’re just running it.

Hosting is one of my professional duties so I don’t have problems doing all this. But any idiot can install PMS and have secure shared communication with their friends and family. And we need those idiots.

Jellyfin needs the ability to request certificates and install them without any serious user intervention beyond the initial setup, maybe just an email address. And none of this should require users to touch CLI. This probably needs to be dynamic DNS, maybe we also partner with duck DNS. Right in the GUI make an account, store off the URL in the configs.

I’m presuming this means a le API that will not change from the let’s encrypt side, or advanced clear notice when things are going to change, with opportunities to delay if possible and necessary. That’s where your actual partnership comes in.

We need that thing that Plex has that shows you that your server is remotely accessible from inside the admin. This will help the uninitiated set up a port forwarding and test it.

Once the server is set up and working we don’t need centralized login but we need something. Start with the main settings page, where you drop down in your account on the admin We need an invite users option. It just takes you to users add.

Users add needs to have email or slack or something so that when you add the user it can notify them that they’ve been added and send them a link back to your server. It could be a mailto:// or maybe just a page saying here’s the link to share with your family.

That link would contain the dynamic DNS previously set up and whatever port you’re able to use.

It’s just a handful of creature comforts that plex does particularly well that is barely touched on the jellyfin side. But there’s some of the most important comforts.

Blocking tor at the firewall level isn’t difficult. Anything with packet inspection can do it.

Edit: I’ve looked into this some more and you’re kinda right. It’s SSL and with very little to give it away except talking to exit nodes. Most of the systems I’m looking at are just discerning it from IP, the few exceptions require SSL MITM, which I also wouldn’t put by the government.

Now if they could just tidy up remote access so that everyone is comfortable being able to use it.

They really need to partner with let’s encrypt. If they implemented automated SSL generation and regeneration in the app and a dynamic DNS/Port registry, they would get mountains of new users.

Just tidying up remote access would probably be enough to sync Plex.

When they get serious about encryption they will make tor illegal as well.

Tor will not hide you from the feds once they decide they really want to go after encryption. They can either own enough endpoints to find you directly or simply go and shut down all the endpoints. Or, If they have other IP leaks that are unpublished…

On the upside they are firing most of the competent people in government so there’s a chance the CIA can’t do that anymore

They share some inspiration. Same with Linux/Unix confusion.

About 15 minutes in a terminal trying to do Linux’y things are you get completely disillusioned.

Ahhh give him a break he probably just forgot. If it helps, I’m sure he was thinking something horrible about somebody reasonably nice. /s