A long time ago I was doom scrolling Facebook, and I came across an ad for NFL-branded triptych art. This particular ad was in a master bedroom, and over the bed was hung the Carolina Panthers logo with their slogan “Keep Pounding!”
I immediately saved it because of course I did, and now I can’t find it. Still makes me laugh, though.
Legendary Amazon review section on those!
Pangolin handles proxying (it runs traefik under the hood) and cloudflare-like protection (crowdsec). I did self-host it, but the free tier does what I need.
It does set up a wireguard tunnel between itself and the Newt resources you set up. That’s hard for proxy traffic. I have Tailscale set up for any other traffic between my resources.
I asked a similar question as you a few months ago (I think in this community), and one of the responses kind of put the fear in me. I went forward anyway, and never really did anything with my VPS. I’m still setting this new arrangement up, but so far really happy with it.
I used swag, dockerproxy, and cloudflare in the past. That allowed me to run things without exposing ports on my home router.
I recently moved to Pangolin cloud. Still not exposing any ports on my home server. Also repositioned my VPS to use pangolin as well. Haven’t hashed out the details, but the idea will be to allow port 443 on public IP, and anything else over tailnet.
Moral of the story: look very hard for ways to do what you want to do without having to expose ports on your router. Unless you want your hobby to become your second job. I enjoy self hosting. I don’t enjoy being paranoid about some script kiddie pummeling my setup with some AI-generated attacks while I’m asleep.
How millionaires look defending billionaires who don’t give a fuck about them.
The episode of Parks and Rec where they were trying to get the young country star to perform at the festival is one of their best episodes. The half-assed patriotic dog whistling in the songs was so good.
This actually made me LOL. Thanks for that.
The problem is, that’s how the country creeps rightward. If the Dems aren’t going to do anything because of “stability,” that leaves the door open for the Reps to yank it to the right next time they’re in power. And they do. Every time. Much moreso the last 2 times. There are little to no “moderate” Republicans left - most of them are Democrats, now, which is also Not Good.
So given that the US has the Fascist party, and the “Don’t make waves” party, they’re on a path to full-on authoritarianism unless they can drum up an actual progressive opposition.
Good point! I’ve probably peed off more boats than in the woods (or yard, as the case may be).
I love that I’m looking at this right next to the community guidelines photo of The Idiot with his hands in his standard, “That wasn’t my fault” pose. Poetry.
I agree! I absolutely love my GTI. My boys used to ask me what my favorite car was, and I’d always tell them, “you’re sitting in it.” That thing is fun to drive, gets 35mpg, and I’ve packed 3 people and baseball gear in it for a weekend travel tournament. It’s the perfect car for me.
Now, if VW brings an EV GTI to the US, I’m totally down for that. Right now, I’m looking hard at an Ioniq 5N, but I can’t justify it. I barely use the GTI, and it’s paid off.
Famous quote: “The buck stops here.”
Republicans: “What buck? Where? Wasn’t me.”
I prefer “meticulously disheveled.”
Ultra 3. The second one I’ve purchased on FB Marketplace (wife inherited the Ultra 2 I previously wore). I would never pay retail for one of these, but the battery life is a step up from the regular models. Mainly use it to track exercise, as a flashlight that won’t blind me in the night. When I was last England, my older series 9 was awesome for tap to pay getting around on public transit. Most notifications are turned off, but the calls and messages are useful since I usually miss them on my phone.
Also, good for telling time and date a/o having to pull out my phone.
Good to know…?
Eventually the battery has to be replaced, and that can be a big expense. But yeah, over the life of the car, the maintenance should be lower, and as the technology improves the costs will hopefully come down.
I work from home so my 13-year-old GTI hasn’t crossed 60k miles yet. If/when I ever replace it, it will likely be with an EV. We also have a RAV4 hybrid, and we’re just now feeling the pain of the higher gas prices.
Yeah, don’t leave us hanging!
That, and hammering down any dissent.
Doesn’t sound at all fascist. Not sure why it makes me think of The Wall movie with Floyd leading his political rallies.
While I applaud the sentiment, I think it’s too small. There needs to be a national movement to normalize recognizing Trump as “The Idiot.” It’s simple, classic (referencing Dostoyevsky in the most American way possible: incorrectly), kid-friendly… IMO, it’s perfect. My goal is until the day I die, when I reference “The Idiot” anywhere in the world, the stranger I’m talking to know exactly who I’m talking about.
If you’re not going the VPS route it’s even easier. Pangolin handles the wireguard tunnel for you with a docket container running newt. Very straightforward.
My goals have been:
There’s plenty of YT stuff out there for Pangolin, but I haven’t seen a lot for their cloud service. Personally, I prefer it to self-hosting it. Similar to tailscale, the free tier meets my needs, and their security team is (hopefully) more competent and better staffed than… me.
Of course, you get what you pay for, but I see this as a similar position as Tailscale & Cloudflare. With my free account, I’m piggy-backing off the security infrastructure of their enterprise offerings. Obviously I don’t get all the fine-grained controls of those tiers, but like the other two companies, they have a reputation to uphold, and from that perspective a breech is a breech. Even if it only affects free tier users, it makes them look bad.