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selfhoster··on How the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg Got Added to the White House Signal Chat
"These people"

Indeed, like this:

https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-dir...

"From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received."

selfhoster··on How each pillar of the First Amendment is under attack
There's always something scary for those whose team lost the last election.
selfhoster··on It's five grand a day to miss our S3 exit
> It's the time in between that's the most awkward.

That's an odd way to describe hemorrhaging money.

selfhoster··on Retreating Glaciers Expose 1,500 Miles of Coastline
I scanned the related research link page, curious if any artifacts have been uncovered indicating exposure in the distant past but the content seems to not cover that question or I missed it.
selfhoster··on I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs
"It talks to me like a person."

No, it provides responses. It does not talk.

selfhoster··on We're Still Not Done with Jesus
I believe the latter verse I mentioned is what he wanted us to take literally. I could be wrong.
selfhoster··on We're Still Not Done with Jesus
Agree with the first part of your comment but "that first generation Christians believed the end times would occur within their lifetimes" is at odds with Jesus's teachings where he said he does not even know when God will choose to bring the apocalypse.

In modern culture, it's often asserted the apocalypse has occurred any time someone doesn't get their way.

selfhoster··on Imagine telling 2010 devs that in 2025, collapsing a div would require $8/ month
Imaging telling the general public one day they would be pumping their own gas.
selfhoster··on Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS
Glad I read this, I wasn't aware whois was being sunsetted. Now I have to change one of my critical services to do rdap. Wow. How can you sunset the main service that is the backbone of the internet?
selfhoster··on Canadian woman sent to Arizona detention for trying to renew her TN visa
"I don’t know how someone in her position can be subject to this"

She broke the law, it doesn't matter whether she is attractive, affluent and Canadian.

selfhoster··on Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today
This expensive M3 macbook has a pad you touch with your finger to move the cursor around. It has one click only.
selfhoster··on Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today
I use my PC keyboard to control the macbook so I have a backspace button. The macbook itself doesn't have one.
selfhoster··on Apple introduced its Retina MacBook 10 years ago today
I have to use mac at work because one of the company officers loves apple products. As a developer, I hate it. As a power user, I hate it. Hate is a strong word but when you look at a keyboard after using Mainframe keyboards, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, Linux and now look at a mac and there's no Backspace key.

Control sometimes acts like Control and other times acts like an alien interpreting what it thinks I want to do.

The touchpad has exactly one freaking #$#%@#%$ button!?!!?

selfhoster··on Tailscale is pretty useful
I guess I'm not clear what "when traffic is decrypted in the cloud" means but, here's how it works...public traffic comes in on port 80 to the VPS, Wireguard is configured to route it over the VPN to a VM on my home machine. I control the VPS and the peer receiving the traffic.
selfhoster··on Tailscale is pretty useful
That makes sense, I forgot people also expose a server at home the way I do on the VPS then route to a peer at home. Appreciate the insight.
selfhoster··on Tailscale is pretty useful
I wasn't sure and still am not what your statement means, I checked Google, their AI tool offered this:

"Yes, WireGuard does support NAT traversal, though it doesn't handle it natively; it relies on techniques like UDP hole punching to establish connections between peers behind NATs."

That makes no sense to me, I have my peers talking to each other on the Wireguard VPN behind my ISP NAT. I do have one UDP port open on the VPS that they all talk to. Is that what you mean by, "Wireguard doesn't do NAT traversal on its own, which is, IMHO, the killer feature of Tailscale."?

If so, how does not having to open one UDP port which can't really be detected anyway, justify having all your traffic controlled by a third party through servers (I forget what Tailscale called them) you don't own?

selfhoster··on Tailscale is pretty useful
> Everything on my home network is set up as if it were public-facing.

That's Wireguard, I have the same, just Wireguard + VPS, everything I want available that is. I don't put every PC on my home network on the VPN, I could though, pretty easily.

selfhoster··on Tailscale is pretty useful
> Unless like OP your ISP has put CGNAT on you.

I run Wireguard on a VPS and route public traffic with it over Wireguard to my home machine.

Are you saying my ISP must not be CGNAT or else it wouldn't work?

selfhoster··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
Once with Microsoft, I filed a request on their site and they fixed it.
selfhoster··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
Nope.
selfhoster··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
I've had no issues but I'm a PAYG customer but stay within always free limits.
selfhoster··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
I no longer use a tool like Spamassassin, I use postfix's config files to block repeat offenders and I have my own tool I wrote that checks things spam checkers don't.
selfhoster··on Ask HN: Replacement for Rackspace SMTP Hosting?
I've been selfhosting my email for around 3 decades. Currently hosting for free thanks to Oracle Cloud's generous always free resources. Running Wireguard there, then it routes ports I've designated over Wireguard to my home machine.
selfhoster··on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
Another politically motivated asinine post on Hacker News, I wonder why, right President Trump is in office and doing a great job. Makes sense.
selfhoster··on A DOGE staffer appears to be posting DOGE work on his public GitHub
Is it OK to make baseless accusations on Hacker News now? When did that become OK?
selfhoster··on How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
It is and regardless a few other commenters saying or hinting it isn't...it is. An air gapped build machine wouldn't work for most software built today.
selfhoster··on 'Everybody is looking at their phones,' says man freed after 30 years in prison
> Even when people are not looking at the phone, they need to know it's nearby.

Ugh..I felt like I was on the high ground until I read that.

selfhoster··on Gmail marked my email to my wife as suspicious?
For the record, yes I have all of those and DMARC in place. My domain was literally registered with Google Domains so they had full access to all traffic through them before they made the unusual decision to sell Google Domains to Squarespace.
selfhoster··on IPv6 Is Hard
IPv6 is mainly only wanted by people whose job it is to track people. In any IPv6 discussion they yell, flap their virtual arms and gums and attack any non-IPv6 true believers.
selfhoster··on IPv6 Is Hard
To address some of your points:

I've been writing software for pay for several decades and do not want IPv6.

Phones use IPv4 and IPv6 and you can switch your phone to IPv6 only in the networking settings, run like that for a month and observe multiple weird and bad behaviors.

I don't want IPv6 for several reasons, it looks like it was written by an alien and it inherently is privacy busting. I know many whose job it is to track people as closely as possibly will object but it's true, IPv6 is mainly only wanted by people whose job it is to track people.

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