ShellMonkey

joined 2 months ago
[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 78 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

When you suddenly realize how disposable you are to the cult if you dispute the word of their deity...

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I'm something of an outlier in the use level for sure with all the self hosting. When my kids starts downloading these several hundred GB games for the consoles though that take hours to pull it can sure eat the bandwidth up. Makes me wonder what the more typical home user's average is.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 1 points 19 hours ago

There's a fiber build in progress around here that I expect is going to kill all the existing local carriers, or at least force them to drop prices by a drastic amount. Nothing close to $5 though.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 2 points 20 hours ago

That last mile thing would make a lot more sense if the carriers kept enough staff to have appointments not take a week. Add to that the wireless carriers around don't have much price advantage either, but that's mostly a 'fuck you, we can' pricing I figure.

The joys of living in the corn fields.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A VPN creates a private tunnel to route traffic over, so in effect they need to have the bandwidth for both your payload and the tunnel overhead.

 

So I was just renewing a contract with a VPN provider, and paid out for a couple years it works out to somewhere under $2/month.

ISPs around me can run from about $50-$150/month

If I'm putting the major bulk of my traffic over a tunnel that could eat up a sizable chunk of a given connection point for the provider that I'm sure costs more than $2/month to maintain. I would have to assume it would take the combined subscriptions of several users to pay for a given node.

So how does that work as a business model? Unless these VPN providers are getting a steal on their connections it's hard to envision how they can manage to pay their costs without these nodes being absolutely bottlenecked when a few people start streaming some shows.

It's really just the first additional outside of the primary. My employer has a self+children option (in case the spouse has their own plan) that's around the same as a self+spouse.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

https://docs.mailcow.email/

Has worked well for me, but keeping in mind that email is probably about the hardest thing to properly self host.

DMARC/DKIM/SPF/MX records have to be set up properly, DNS for auto config and such preferable, and dealing with a myriad of mail IP blacklists (good monitoring service for free: https://mxtoolbox.com/) all come into play.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Despite Trump's slide in approval ratings, he's holding up well with his base – 9-in-10 Republicans continue to say they approve of the job he's doing.

I would guess that a not insignificant portion of this could be called 'sunk costs'. As in, people not wanting to admit their wrong choices and holding the line out of stubborn pride.

[–] ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

FAFO?

Would be pretty sweet if this stands but they fail to block CA's redraw that was only done to counter this shit to begin with.

Accidentally forgot to distract enough people who would notice.

36M vs 1.1B isn't quite the earth shaking win I might hope for, but it's a nice slap in his face.

Depends on a few things. If you actually put the site 'through' cloudflare then they act as a SSL offloading proxy and could read the content.

If they're just providing a DNS record than no, that just points people in your direction.

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