Self-promotion posts advertising their product requires community participation, or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & can be self-hosted *in full* without payment, your post is exempt from this rule.

How about

Promotional posts advertising a product requires community participation. If more than 10% of your history is promotional it will be removed. F/LOSS Exception: If a project is completely open source and can be self-hosted in full without payment, it is exempt.

Edit: we’ve come full circle. Let’s just do ‘don’t be a shill’ and be done with it…

Promotional posts require community participation or they will be removed. No more than 10% of your posts or comments may be self-promotional, or your post will be removed. **F/LOSS Exception**: If your post is about a project that is completely open source & without any paywalls, it will be exempt from this rule.

To me, this says, if you’re posting something behind a paywall (F/LOSS or not) they’re going to look at your post history. If you’re a shill, it will be removed. If you’re someone who self hosts and just wants to talk about self hosted apps, you’re fine.

Said another way, if all you do is post promo content it’s not welcome here. If it’s a one off then post it.

Look, if you don’t like the rule, make a suggestion to the mods on how to make it better. The spirit here is we all love learning and using new tools paid or not. If you want to share something new to you, like Plex, I’m 100% sure its fine. Post, promote what you love, start a conversation around Plex. The problem is if you only ever talk about Plex and promote it. It gets old FAST and it’s not a community I want to he apart of.

Symfonium is another paid example. Amazing app. Even with the new rules we can post about them. With that, I don’t understand your original complaint.

If you’re not pushing your paywalled stuff, it doesn’t affect you, does it?

Yeah, I understand that. I was suggesting saying the same thing without the exception wording. In the end, it doesn’t stop us from talking about paid software. I use Plex, etc, etc, it’s the promotion that’s the problem… That being said, maybe I’ve misunderstood non_burglar’s complaint. Unless they are a closed source dev looking to promote.

I think that’s the important distinction to make. Maybe get rid of the f/loss exception and explicitly call out the paid aspect. If you’re here to promote software that’s pay walled you get the 10% rule.

ETA: I’m fine with the new rules. Just trying to find common ground.

After the files have copied I always run sync to be sure then I umount

Ah, I’ve purposefully been ignoring US since trump got in. My ignorance isn’t an excuse so my bad.

My dad moved to another country on the other side of the earth… Covid is bad, made from baby fetus and will kill me if I get the vaccine… Supports trump, supports Russia, etc, etc, etc. Believes the earth is flat too. He’s a Canadian living in Asia. He’s the last fucking person who should have an opinion on this shit… I still call him, he’s my dad, I just hang up on him when he gets going. For that reason and more, I try to avoid most of what’s going on down there. I just see red. 7 vaccines in and I’m not dead yet. Wanted the wife to let me tell him that we were recruited to “help make the vaccine” for Canadians but she said it’s too far…

Anyway, rant over. My bad and I’m sorry. Will be more careful going forward.

I have no idea who he is. My bad. Will edit

If the site fails to load, they provide a mirror on their actual blog. The one linked by OP took over a second to load for me.

https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

It’s not so much about the ports, its about what you’re running that’s accessible to the public.

If you have a single website on 443 and SSH on 22 (or a non-standard port like 6543) you’re generally considered safe. This is 2 services and someone would need to attack one of the two to get in.

If you have a VPN on 4567 and everything behind the VPN then someone would need to hack the VPN to get in.

If you have 100 different things behind 443 then someone just needs to find a hole in one to get in.

Generally ssh, nginx, a VPN are all safe and they should be on their own ports.

NC is kind of a pain to run and tries to do far to much. I’d pick different software to run than adding addons to nextcloud.

That being said, I add contacts and calendar and use it to sync to my PC/Phone

Do you test public WiFi with ZeroTier at all?

I ask because there’s a few public networks where WG won’t connect and I’m trying to find ways around it. I could always use cell data but this is more fun to me.

I know this doesn’t answer your question but I’ve never had this kind of problem with Usenet. I pay $35 USD a year and bought a couple “lifetime” memberships 6 years ago.

What others have said should help solve the problem with torrents. If you can, it might be worth getting an account with a private site.

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It doesn’t check all your boxes but pingvin is what I use to share large files

Looks like you got it! Congrats.

Router gets the public IP. Login to it, find port forwarding option. You’ll pick a public port. IE 443 and forward it to a local IP:port combo, IE 192.168.0.101:443.

Then you can pick another public port and forward it to a different private IP:port combo.

If you want a subdomain, you forward one port to one host and have it do the work. IE configure Nginx to do whatever you want.

EDIT: or you use IPv6. Everything is a public IP.

Hang on, why not open the port to jellyfin to the internet?

I have a lifetime Plex pass so its not urgent but I have a containers running emby and jellyfin to check them out. When I decide which one I planned to open it up and give people logins.

This is actually really interesting, I might have to try this.

I currently use a USB stick with a key file on it that I need to plug in on boot. Something like this but it wasn’t that easy for me. https://openterprise.it/2022/07/fedora-unlock-luks-full-disk-encrypted-system-using-usb-stick/

Edit: I wonder if yours will work on my VPS… I’d love to encrypt that.