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  • humanoidchaos@lemmy.cif.suOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldHow to selfhost with a VPN
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    1 day ago

    Thanks.

    It’s my understanding that https provides encryption for the data sent between you and the server. If you’re not sending any sensitive data, then the encryption shouldn’t be necessary.

    Don’t get me wrong, encryption is great even when it isn’t necessary. For my demonstration purposes though, I chose not to include it.

    I also believe it’s possible to set up HTTPS encryption without a domain name, but it might result in that “we can’t verify the authenticity of this website” warning in web browsers due to using a self-signed certificate.


  • It’s not dumb at all! Don’t be afraid to ask. I’m not an expert and still learning myself.

    The VPN is running on the same machine that I am hosting the website on. There may be some configuration you can do to perhaps have the connection routed through your raspberry pi with a VPN running on it to the machine that’s hosting the website, but I’m not sure how.

    Otherwise, you should be able to at the very least run the entire setup on a raspberry pi.











  • Sorry you hate it. Thanks for being honest.

    I avoid all of those kinds of devices because the price in no way reflects the mediocre hardware that we’ll be getting.

    When we can get 4070 Lenovo laptops at Walmart for $1,000, it just doesn’t make sense to be spending a comparable price on something without a fucking GPU.

    We’re lining the pockets of businessmen at that point. And don’t be fooled: it’s all business at the end of the day.




  • Who is the guy and how did he get that position?

    I’m guessing he’s just a businessman that was hired based on connections or “credentials”? Does he have any connection with the free software space at all?

    We need to keep scumbags like that as far away from the ecosystem as possible. They are leeches and will take advantage of our ignorance if we let them.

    I have practically no respect for the gnome project at this point, so it wouldn’t surprise me if this guy was brought in because the gnome foundation wants to emulate proprietary software companies.

    Looking at his list of contributions, he didn’t do much but probably sucked up a fat paycheck.


  • That makes a lot of sense.

    I personally don’t like any kind of big moves in the free software space at this point. Anything that stands the test of time does so because it has the community backing it.

    Whenever we put our faith into a company to do the work for us, it always ends up being really expensive and mediocre.

    Don’t be fooled into thinking the rules of business stop applying when dealing with a Linux company. These people still care about profit above all else and will never do anything that would get in the way of maximizing it.


  • There’s a point where we have too many options and the space becomes too fragmented and inconsistent because everyone is doing their own thing instead of improving what others made.

    I don’t think we reached that with DEs, but if they don’t maintain this one then it’s kind of going to just be a waste of time and resources that could’ve been spent improving a different one.

    Time will tell. DEs are massive undertakings and they have a lot of catch up to do.