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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • That’s the whole point of a domain. Your IP changes every now and again you need people to know where to reach you. You give them a domain, and you configure the name records so that the domain always points to the right IP address.

    Your options:

    • dynamic IP - you keep your setup as is and just periodically tell them the new IP you’re on. Annoying and exposed
    • static IP - you buy a static IP (from your ISP) and share it with your friends once. A little bit less annoying and still exposed
    • you use a VPN like hamachi or radmin - your friends install the software, they look for you IP in there, you’re done - very secure but also very annoying
    • you buy a domain - you have to configure an IP updater like ddclient or similar, then you jellyfin should be reachable - least annoying for your friends but also slightly less secure

    Domain is the cleanest option.

    I am telling you how annoying it is because that’s how likely your friends are to adopt it and how secure it is because depending on your country you are doing something illegal and you really don’t want anyone to find out and you gotta keep it updated more often if you don’t want people to exploit it. There’s an endless supply of very smart people out there who use known bugs to target public services.

    Edit: I forgot DDNS, see below comments.


  • Duplicati is at it’s base just a fancy ui for backups as opposed to custom bash scripts.

    It does support s3 storage, SFTP, ftp, and a bunch of other stuff so this might actually be on point for your off-site backup design.

    Of course off-site backups are superior. If my home burns down I’m fked. I do use different hdds though, so at least there’s some security isolation in that. Also if one of them breaks, the other one doesn’t necessarily.


  • I have different vms which all write to an smb mount.

    Then I have another VM that runs duplicati and mounts that smb share, but also another one just for the backups. And only this duplicati container has access to the backup share, which isolates my backups for security reasons. The only thing still involved and able to read and manipulate my data is the router which can see all the traffic.

    Now idk if this is the best setup, but it feels secure to me and it works for me. Maybe more experienced people can chime in to agree or disagree.





  • I have vaultwarden on my home server and I usually visit it through it’s Webinterface because the bitwarden addon for my browser breaks all the time with my vaultwarden instance.

    I also have tailscale and a Headscale server so access should be VPN level secure.

    I’m gonna be honest, it’s quite inconvenient sometimes but it’s an ok working setup.

    The addon issue gives me the most headaches because it means I have to login like 10 times into the web ui and then search through the passwords every time I am building stuff on my servers.











  • While the observations are true, the characterizations of this article are completely wrong.

    What’s plausible is that AI genuinely changes their information based not only on what you speak but how you speak.

    LLMs work in associative thinking patterns. People who speak in a similar way often know about the same of specific topics. And because AIs are lords of the common and average, these broad stroke patterns are just regurgitated back at us.

    It’s just like racism in policing: black people often land in prison. And a part of that is racism on it’s face: police think less of black people.

    But another big part is obscured systemic racism: if you’re less educated or more poor, you have a higher chance of doing criminal things. And black people generally have less access to good education or wealth. It’s not causality, but it’s an indicator and a noticeable and patternized correlation.

    And I think this is exactly what we see here. The AI hasn’t specifically been trained to be classist and racist, but it’s just throwing those patterns back at us and finally visualizing underlying classism and racism in our real world.

    AIs sure do a lot of bad, but in this case, the bad thing already happened before AI became involved. At least that’s my humble opinion.