A real pain in the ass. It was still worth it to use for the experience, especially if you had an actual reason to use it. Other than that it was just an exercise in futility most of the time.

Lots of things are improved with a GUI. IMO this is one of them.

Having a no-nonsense and predictable folder structure to store documents makes sense for those who are organized. For those who aren’t, you can still use projects like this to sort data so they’re retrievable by everyone, not just those who know and understand your folder structure.

The intake emails are particularly interesting. Receive email with attachment and save it automatically. Excellent for repetitively collecting data without setting anything extra up. Just create an email alias for your intake, and distribute it. Wait for people to email shit to you.

Great idea, IMO.

There’s no particularly smart way to accomplish this in the exact way that you want. I don’t like the solution which searches your $PATH because now you’re adding latency to search your entire $PATH for every command to add this functionality. It’s a singularly better solution to tell the CLI what you want versus the CLI attempting (using logic) to figure it out.

The easiest solution here is to create your own command which calls the target application with --help;

#!/bin/bash
$1 --help | bat --language=help

Then run it;

$ script_name docker

and it will run docker --help | bat --language=help. If you use this solution a lot you can try to use bash function which you call at the end of commands if they error;

helpfunc() {
  $1 --help | bat --language=help
}

trap 'helpfunc' ERR

But now you have to run logic to truncate previous commands to only return the first word of a command from history and it becomes a real PITA…

Long story short, if you want to hack your console experience like this, you’re looking for a functional shell scripting language, like Elvish shell and not bash.

It sucks, because all things considered, they’re great little devices. I really like mine.

They absolutely do. But it’s a symptom of capitalism. They must seek higher and higher profits each year. And this is one of their ideas to seek higher profits…

lmao this post is fuckin wild. I love it.

Required? That’s quite a commitment. Is this a Cloudflare thing?

There are specific TLD which are required at the DNS level to be served over HTTPS. .dev is an example. The browser will physically not load a .dev domain over anything but HTTPS.

I self-host on a .dev domain. It’s extremely simple with Caddy, as its HTTPS by default. Anything else is kind of a pain in the ass sometimes.

I also know of those who’ve had great success with Lego although I’ve never personally used it.

It’s evident to me that you’re either stupid, or lack the ability to read. You make up your mind on which is which.

It’s not possible for a company, no matter where they are in the world to permit users to do things which are illegal. Period. Proton cannot allow their users to use their VPN to use the torrent network to download IP. As with any company anywhere in the world. To live in some state of reality to be unable to acknowledge this is the most insane shit I’ve ever seen in my life. You literally are living outside of reality here… The sheer level of stupidity here is fucking insane to me, so I’ll try one last time to put it into perspective for you;

I’ve said “Murder is illegal, no matter where you are. You can’t just kill people” and you’ve said quite unironically “GLOCK allows their customers to kill people, they’ve made murder legal.”

Do you genuinely not see how fucking idiotic and stupid you sound?

Many countries don’t even acknowledge DMCA.

This also has nothing to do with DMCA–which is a US law and cannot be enforced in other parts of the world. As I’ve said from the very beginning, theft of IP (torrent or otherwise) is individually illegal in all but less than 5 countries on this planet… It doesn’t matter how you do it, or where you do it. It’s always going to be illegal because all of the countries from which these VPN providers originate, it’s illegal in those countries.

I’ve done my very best to explain this very simple concept to you–that you can’t break the law just because you’re behind a VPN and they don’t actively pursue you for every little infraction–but if you still don’t understand it after all this, then do us both a favor and just take a vow of silence for the rest of your pitiable life.

I mean Jesus Christ.

Using a VPN for accessing your private, home or company network is the literal reason for which it was created and designed.

It’s in the fucking name, virtual private network. I don’t have to mention it like it’s somehow tangential or some kind of secondary and unused function of the technology. It is it’s literal primary focus.

I’m having a conversation with a literal child trying to explain to them the purpose of a network software that is self-evident in the fucking name of the software itself, and you have the balls to say that I’m insufferable? This community is fucking insufferable–filled to the brim with 12-year-olds that don’t know their ass from their elbow and assert with absolutisms without reading or understanding anything at all. It quite literally brings bile to the recesses of my mouth.

Sweetheart, if you’re going to participate in online communication you need to keep up. And you need to read the entire statement and not just cherry pick like what you’re doing now. Not once did I ever say torrenting is illegal. I said very specifically an exactly that torrenting IP is illegal.

That’s not a contestable statement. It’s not an opinion. It’s a literal fact. There’s no politics here, where I say a statement that you disagree with and we agree to disagree. There’s no version of this where what I’ve said is wrong and you’re somehow correct. It’s a wholly truthful statement from start to finish… And you’re pretending like it’s not by cherry picking the very first part of it and convincing yourself that I’m saying that torrenting by itself is illegal and I think you know at least on some basic level of intelligence that that is not at all what I have said, and it’s concerning to me that maybe you don’t even understand that you’re doing it. It’s truly sad and pathetic thing to see…

Why are you moving goalposts?

There are no goalposts. This isn’t my opinion. It’s an incontestable fact that stealing IP is illegal in 98% of every country on this planet. You can choose to live denial in some virtual fantasy where you pretend that this isn’t true, but you can’t change facts. Period.

MANY support it.

There is no VPN on this planet which “supports” theft of IP. There are providers which don’t actively seek to ban users for doing so. Which is absolutely not the same and you pretending that it is, is disgusting behavior. Truly infantile.

Well then explain me why I would need a VPN in the year 2025 with encrypted connections and HSTS being the norm

To connect to a network, which is private and virtual. As the name suggests, this is the reason for which VPNs were invented and are still used today. Using VPNs for “privacy” is how they’re popularized for anyone who doesn’t actually know what they are and how they’re used. Which clearly includes yourself. To believe that there’s no legitimate use for VPNs outside of their layman’s usage is so incredibly fucking insane.

If you’re going to speak about something, do yourself a favor in the future and at least do a cursory Google search to find out what it is that you’re speaking about first so you don’t look like a total idiot. For fucks sake.

Mullvad didn’t remove port forwarding because people were torrenting too much they removed it because people were using it for real criminal activity

Regardless of your personal feelings on the matter, pirating IP is illegal. The statement you just made is unabashedly stupid beyond all measure. Everything you listed are crimes.

I have no idea why you’re mentioning legal versus illegal torrenting as laws differ everywhere

There are less than 5 countries on the planet where pirating IP isn’t illegal. This isn’t a “well, it’s illegal in Arizona, but not in Idaho!” type of deal. It’s essentially illegal in every sovereign country on the planet save for a few.

This community is so incredibly naive and stupid sometimes. I swear to God.

My Man, unless you buy all the bullshit that YouTubers claim VPNs do, the only reason to get one is to torrent

This is one of the top 10 dumbest statements I’ve ever seen on the internet and shows a total and complete lack of understanding what a VPN is, and what it does.

Yes, most VPNs will allow you to do that just fine.

There are currently 2-3 countries where torrenting IP isn’t illegal. Unless you have a VPN in one of these countries, there are no conditions where its “allowed,” because it’s entirely illegal. Even if it’s not expressly outlined in a services TOS it’s still illegal, and therefore not allowed. Even if they expressly permit it, it’s still illegal, and therefore not allowed.

I absolutely fucking beg you to use the brain you were given and stop embarrassing your parents who put time and energy into raising you.

You’re going to be very hard pressed in finding a VPN that supports torrenting. People abuse it. That’s why mullvad pulled port forwarding support.

Additionally people misinterpret what they can do even if their VPN does support torrenting. It’s still illegal to use their service to torrent anything other than legal torrents…which almost no one does, which is why VPN providers aren’t lining up to show their support for the torrent network.

There are no services available to you that allow you indiscriminately to torrent illegal content. It’s always illegal and against TOS to torrent someone elses IP.

The new service includes a WiFi 7 router

I don’t recommend it.

I would shoot for a 4 port 2.5Gbe unmanaged switch with 2 SFP+ ports (6 total ports) for 10G networking. 2.5Gbe is going to be more than enough for any WiFi solution you choose with room to upgrade 10G to WiFi if you wanted to spend a bit more on a higher tier WiFi router still leaving a single SFP+ port for 10G networking from your PC.

Biggest hit for your buck. Gonna set you back $40-50.

but if I ever wanted to get the max out of it, what does that take?

Kind of a lot. At least a top to bottom upgrade, from modem (PON), to 10G networking, to new Ethernet cables, to new 10G network drivers. Looking at a few hundred if you do it right. I also had Optimum’s 8Gbps internet and was never able to even get anywhere near advertised speeds due to network saturation. IMO, the upgrade right now is too expensive to justify the expense for what you get. If you were confident you would be able to max out the connection, that would be a different story. But ultimately it’s gonna be up to you. If you don’t mind dropping a few hundred on upgrades, then go nuts.

The multi-tennant approach to the linux operating system isn’t just for security. It’s the way the OS was designed to operate. You’re not meant to use root as an ordinary user.

Disabling root removes the safety net, but it also plugs the security hole that leaving root enabled leaves.

This is marvelous, but goddamn do I hate cross compiling rust projects from source.

Reasoning skills and experience. There are entire botnets dedicated to finding servers with open SSH ports on 22. If the bots can connect, the IP of the server will be added to a list to be brute forced.

I’m a per diem linux systems administrator. Right now I have a VPS that I setup myself. It uses a non-standard ssh port, fail2ban, and rejects incoming connections to port 22. According to connection logs, I get about 200 attempts per 24 hours from bots randomly pinging ports to see if they can catch an open SSH port–and they’re banned via fail2ban.

I checked out some other servers that I manage, which I did not setup and have no control over how they operate. Sifting through just 3 random servers and checking connection logs, they have a combined 435,000 connection attempts in the past 6 hours between the 3 of them. These are relatively small servers with an extremely small presence. Simple fact of the matter is, is that they all have port 22 open and reachable. So botnets attempt to brute force them.

So just anecdotally that’s a difference of 0.0459770115% or 99.96%. Anyone telling you that changing the default SSH port doesn’t do anything for security has absolutely no practical experience at all. It significantly reduces your attack surface as bots have to guess at ports until they find your SSHd’s operational port to even begin to start sending attempts.