Thank you so much!

Wait I’m confused. Sam Altman is OpenAI right? And he says the DoW agreed to work with them but with the same prohibitions that Anthropic wanted?

If it’s the sending and receiving part of email, I’ve switched to purelymail (you could pick another) and put it behind my custom domain name. Because behind a custom domain, that’s the last time you’ll have to update your contacts as it won’t be dependent on which email provider you choose.

Searching through decades of old emails I do still use the Gmail account, but I just have to get off my butt to self host a local IMAP server for that.

That makes a lot of sense

Thank you so much for your response!

I feel the same way. I was looking into a Udemy course for those Cisco exams (not to take the exam, just to learn) and I was discouraged that the content is so vendor specific.

Do you have a recommendation on “neutral” learning? I have access to a fair amount of Udemy of that helps. Also happy to read static text, though preferably written as more of a tutorial than just a raw RFC or man page.

lol what’s the Melania one? I want to read his tweet on that.

I hate when someone’s house has an Alexa or whatever and I either have to accept it’s listening to me, or spend social credit asking if they can turn it off when I’m there (I’ve never actually made that request).

Awesome! You’re making me want to give Portainer another go.

I’m running a potato pi with 0.5 TB and 8 GB RAM so…slightly different situation here :P

Do you place any restrictions on the containers or the container daemon as a whole?

Moreso asking so I can copy your settings. But I have had my server brought down just from the services themselves consuming too much memory or disk space, so something to look into if you haven’t already.

Also where are the “think of the children” folks that are putting in the age verification laws. Shouldn’t they be concerned that a marketing agency built to profile individuals is privy to everything your kids do at school?

Yay!

Should I learn iptables or is it more sane to use a front end like ufw?

I have an RPI with dual Ethernet between my modem and consumer router so I don’t have to depend on the obsolete and limited consumer router software. I’m using OpenWRT at the moment but curious if you have other recommendations. I like the Luci gui so if I switched to headless Debian or something then I’d still want a luci equivalent.

I’m self hosting with docker and I want to set up a wireguard vpn container that joins a network with a select set of containers. So I’d have containers that are accessible only by actual LAN users and then others that are in this isolated group that only the VPN (i.e. WAN people) can access. I thought that’s what docker was all about! But by default it seems all authenticated VPN peers just get to be on the LAN. Sure, they can’t get at containers on a different docker bridge network, but they get to access the host itself! This is why I asked about iptables above, but it’s daunting. Any ideas on how to achieve “two levels of trust” for self hosted services?

I’m in the process of getting this going in my lab. I appreciate these efforts to find alternatives.

That being said, can I get some opinions so I can pare down the list?

Would be great to have E2EE and audio. Video bonus. I don’t think I’ve got much in the way of preferences beyond that.

My latest leaning is hosting the Matrix protocol.

Also the only friends I have that would be willing to move off the easy corporate software are tech literate, so I have the option to distribute VPN confs and the like. Has anyone hosted chat over their own VPN, or does that just become a mess because STUN/TURN needs to be “free”?

(Sorry I’m still learning a lot here)

Funny the timing of your post; just yesterday I got the latest nvidia driver (sorry forgot if it was stable / new feature / beta) and magically Proton 10.0 started working with a DX12 game (StarRupture) I’ve been troubleshooting. So if you can still boot to Linux, give it a try!