Like others said, self signed or internal only domains work. Really though for the minimal cost of generally less than $20/year you can make it a lot easier by just buying a domain.

From a pure security stance it could be argued that a personally owned CA is more secure than any public one since it’s possible for others to create a trusted cert with a public entity. Cloudflare ends up doing that for any domains you register with them, but that’s really only an issue for things facing the web and using self signed certs will typically cause problems for any pre-compiled client apps you might use.

I mean it’s technically not wrong. I’m 46 was born in 98, also in 88, and 78 as well.

Pretty simple simple ‘castle & moat’ setup. Lots of firewall, IPS, dynamic threat, etc around it with separate subnets and all the usual biz. My ISP doesn’t use CGNAT so I’m lucky that way, though they did question WTF I was doing last I made a service call to them based on the bandwidth usage.

My two main boxes are split to be storage vs compute. The NAS box has a minimal CPU and a pile of 3.5 drives for the low cost storage and they hypervisor has all the CPU and fairly small storage.

Basically the goal in my setup is all the working data is in one place and the handling in another with various snapshots and RAID mixed in to avoid the risk of “oh shit did I just…?” situations.

So anything that could be called bulk data gets offloaded to the NAS directly via mounts and any cache/working data is held locally. If your lab space grows to a notable level over time eventually you need to consider disk I/O as part of the design and having the bulk data on another box let’s you effectively trade some network load in for disk load.

That’s a big part of the appeal of the fediverse for me. Setting up a personal site used to be fairly easy, but was largely isolated and unidirectional. With the AP protocol, and frankly a lot of self-hostable apps in general these days, you can make something to converse with the whole globe and you don’t even need to make a big effort to help people find it.

Webrings still exist, but finding them is less than trivial when they get drowned out by the noise of corporate sites. I’ve used IRC within the last year, but had to look up the proper use of nicserve commands. The old web mentality is still out there, but for the major part people want simplicity. Few want to go through the learning curve to deal with some of the more esoteric parts of it when they can just auth into a site and do a thing.

Sounds more like war on a bunch of legacy regulation that needed to be updated requiring their use.

I tend to find the R820 behind me to be a pretty reliable host so long as you don’t mind footing the power bill to run it.

They used to have this thing called the Ionic Breeze from the ‘as seen on TV’ brand Sharper Image. Pretty sure they went bankrupt, something about shoddy products and creating excessive indoor ozone as I recall.

https://www.northernbrewer.com/products/draft-brewer-flex-keg-system

Something like this is available from a lot of places, just gonna cost.

If he has x-ray vision shouldn’t he just be seeing a bunch of bones or other dense objects not penetrable by x-rays? Can it be shut off? How? Are we sure he wasn’t responsible for a drastic rise in cancer rates by going around just blasting everyone with his radiation vision all day?

Don’t know about them, I had The Matrix come to mind though.

Pretty sure that’s the type you’re supposed to be able to shape and bend with your mind

Well we had to make enough for a whole party. The salt was just a bonus knowing no true Brit would ever let seasoning get near their meal.

I suppose technically every chicken alive is on track to be a world record holder, until they’re not.

Yeah, see I’d hardly know the difference from the $5 a box bags I buy to make iced tea in the summer.

–Barbaric Murican 🙂

This may be one of the most ‘first world problems’ worthy problems I’ve ever read…

edit: /S for the downvoting folks that take a shower thoughts post seriously

Was put to me at a young age that non-profit only means they spend any revenue they get before it gets to the bottom line to show up as a gain or loss. Always good to sort out the shady from the legit.

So is sounds like effectively his donation was supposed to force them to stay open and develop tech on the cheap that he could then take to use in his commercial systems.

But didn’t they already have a popup window asking if they’re old enough? That should have fixed it already.

Similar to why a recording of classic films are important. They serve as cultural touchpoints connecting individual experiences from a time and place long past. We retell stories from written literature for centuries and those are relatively difficult to preserve historically where video games are just a matter of storing a ROM on some file system