The server you’re on!

Like how you’re on infosec.pub, the OP is on break3.social, the community (subreddit equivalent) is on lemmy.world, and I’m on pawb.social. :3

– Frost

You can totally do that yeah!

We have our stuff set up so inbound VPS traffic (for HTTPS) comes in on port 4430, while LAN traffic is on 443. It’s not done for firewall reasons, it’s so we can pass the client’s IP through with Nginx’s proxy_protocol feature, but you could just make your local-only services not listen on 4430. Boom, done.

Fail2Ban on the VPS is probably good. On the home server, it might just lock out the VPS (since everything comes from there).

Anyway yeah, I’ve got a whole guide on this sort of setup! https://frost.brightfur.net/blog/selfhosting-with-a-bounce-vps-part-1/

– Frost

Fedi, tracking accounts? What do you mean by “tracking”?

Semi-permanent, yeah, I’ll give you that one. That said, if you delete something, generally it’s actually deleted. Any servers which turn out to be ignoring delete requests tend to get cut off from everyone else pretty quickly. I guess there’s always the possibility your “hey this post was deleted” notification might not bubble through to a given server, but it should work.

We have a spindle of CD-Rs. I wish it was DVDs! We’d have a use for DVDs! It’s WAY easier to just burn a Linux ISO than it is to faff about with a USB stick. Less convoluted to boot from, too (hybrid ISOs are a bit cursed; it doesn’t matter if you’re doing the usual pure “overwrite the entire stick” thing, but it’s not great if you’re also using the drive for other stuff – that’s not an issue with DVD[-+]Rs, they come in packs and each individual disc is cheap enough it’s one disc per thing).

Wee do have a couple OpenBSD install CDs. We don’t use them enough to be super useful. But a Debian install DVD? I’d use that.

– Frost

It’ll definitely be more expensive than a console, since they sell the consoles at a loss expecting to make it back on the games. (But not that much more.)

… Especially in this fucking economy when it seems they’re deliberately trying to destroy the concept of having a functional computer that you own and can run arbitrary stuff on.

Which, is why it’s more important than ever to have a PC.

It, uh, was at least definitely possible to do a <$1000 computer back in 2020-25. Ours is under $1000 (I think we started at $400 for a no-GPU build in 2020ish, then got a used RX 580 ($150) once the GPU craze died down and a slightly better CPU ($100), and have an RX 6600 now). Though now with the exploding RAM prices…

– Frost

The fact that I’m stuck in a human body. I’m a wolf, dammit.

– Frost

Look, between the “let’s not do anything at all” party and the “wants us, specifically, dead” party, I’ll take the “let’s not do anything at all” party.

You don’t have to 100% like everything a given party is doing to recognize that they’re the least bad option. Sure, they aren’t really actively good, but a vote for them is a vote against the people who want to kill us. (And voting third party is just tossing your vote in the garbage, unfortunately.)

– Frost

Honestly, IMO it’s by definition real because we’re all here and experiencing it.

Even if it is a simulation (I personally don’t think it is, but wouldn’t really mind if it were) that doesn’t make it less real. It’s still our reality, after all.

I can’t prove to you that I exist, of course. But like, who cares about “actual existence” anyway? I’m clearly here and talking to you. Even if I were a simulation NPC or “just in your head”, I’m no less real. Probably the more important thing is that I can’t prove I’m not an unthinking NPC just following a program.

Then again, Occam’s Razor. It’d be weird if you were the only one who was actually thinking and everyone else was just mindless NPCs. It’s way more likely that we all exist and think independently (whether that be in a simulation or otherwise, doesn’t really matter).

– Frost

Our HTC Vive (yeah, it’s not made by Valve, but it’s the Original SteamVR Headset and is kinda close enough) has a color passthrough camera. It’s really low res and useless for fancy AR but it’s great if you need to look around for a sec.

KDE4, funnily enough, implemented it as “entirely separate set of widgets per virtual desktop”. Which would also be nifty, but I can understand why it might be hard to do.

(The desktop wallpaper? That’s a widget, of a sort. It goes in ~/.config/plasma-org.kde.appletsrc along with your panels and widgets.)

– Frost

Man, it’s so weird to think about misogynistic/degrading/abusive porn existing. I’m used to furry porn which, generally, is much more positive “yay let’s do [insert rule 34 of literally anything you could possibly think of] and have a great time!” type stuff.

– Frost

(Okay, what the hell did Lemmy do to my quotes?? I used straight quotes for a reason! It just went and decided to guess opening vs. closing ones and totally scrambled them. If I want open/close quotes I’ll type open/close quotes.)

Hi, we (personally)'re various types of queer, and plural, and otherwise don’t really have local “”“”““real-life””“”“” community. The internet and such is crucial to our continued existence and we know literally nobody offline.

Don’t throw out computers just because “oh Real Life is More Real”.

(yes, you didn’t technically say “throw out computers in general” but it feels like you’re implying it with the “throw out games in general”.)

Also singleplayer games exist and those are good too.

Games are not purely a means to be social to other people in the same room with you. They’re still good for that! But societally we’ve moved way beyond that being the only reason.

(English could really use an inclusive and exclusive we, heh)

Games are actually among the LEAST enshittified regions of tech these days. And that’s with all the shit Ubisoft and their ilk are pulling. Games are like the one category of proprietary software where you can update relatively safely and expect to not be screwed over. Most of the time.

– Frost

We actually use a 90s clock radio that has a “radio alarm” feature! So we get whatever the radio station we last used is playing. It’s nice.

– Frost

Our right alt key is used as altgr, so we have to use that one for “third level” special characters, and the left alt for shortcuts! It’s rather annoying; I kind of miss the Mac way of doing it where both alts were for both special characters and shortcuts.

– Frost