If you’re behind cgnat opening ports on your router won’t do you any good. You have to call your isp and ask them for a dedicated public ip, usually for a price if they offer one at all. If that ip is static you can remember it, if not, you need ddns. If you’re one of the lucky few not behind cgnat then yeah, your setup will be the simplest possible, but if you are, like the majority of people these days, it’s one of the most complicated.

Depends what you mean by setting up ssh. Installing sshd, sure. Opening up ports, calling your isp to buy dedicated ip if they even offer one, getting a domain, setting up ddns…

That’s not always an option and when it is, setting it up is often more complicated and less secure than using a relay server. Honestly, the fastest (to setup), easiest and most secure option would be ssh server as a tor hidden service. Everything is handled by tor out of the box, .onion domain name, nat hole punching, E2EE, port scanning bots… all taken care of, no need for opening ports, static ip, dns, ddns, fail2ban, worrying that there’s a 0 day or that you misconfigured something. No one can exploit you service if nobody knows it exists.

If you can rent a vps you can use it as a relay server. You setup sshd on your home pc and ssh to the vps with the -R flag.

ssh -R 8022:localhost:22 user@relay

As long as the connection is live you can ssh to the server via relay. If you set GatewayPorts to yes on the relay in sshd_config then it will act as an open port on your home pc and anyone will be able to connect to it over the internet with

ssh -p 8022 user@relay

so make sure to secure it correctly, only allow ssh keys etc. If you set GatewayPorts to no, then only clients connected to the relay will be able to connect to the server, this is a must have if you’re gonna use unsecure protocols like VNC. First ssh to the server

ssh user@relay

next

ssh user@localhost -p 8022

or one line, especially useful when combined with -i to point at the home pc’s ssh key stored on the client

ssh -J user@relay user@localhost -p 8022

You can also setup VNC over ssh. Add 2nd -R on home pc with vnc ports

ssh -R 5901:localhost:5901 user@relay

or together

ssh -R 8022:localhost:22 -R 5901:localhost:5901 user@relay

On the client ssh with the -L flag

ssh -L 5091:localhost:5091 user@relay

Now you can connect your VNC client to

localhost:1

Great, this might actually kill centralized social media in a long run. Future generations will grow up on decentralized web because it will be the only one they can access.

We call on the European Commission to propose legislation ensuring that digital identity and age-assurance systems used to access online services in the Union remain voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory. Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law. The legislation should require anonymous or pseudonymous proof-of-age, data minimisation, selective disclosure, open-source implementation, independent security audits, prohibition of cross-service tracking by relying parties, and equivalent alternatives for citizens who do not use a digital wallet.

Yeah, nah.

Slightly off topics but this reminds me of this video making a case that forest fires are inevitable and the more often they happen the better https://youtu.be/HBluLfX2F_k?t=1448

🤣

Isn’t this just a public company with extra steps?

I have a feeling that this will backfire. There will obviously still be a lot of unlabeled AI content made in/by foreign nations and local models, and since AI content is supposed to be labeled, people will be less cautious and more easily fooled by it.

I don’t see that as a problem. A vacuum cleaner isn’t critical infrastructure and shouldn’t be connected to the internet, so no security concerns. Worst case scenario it ruins your carpet. Majority of the work here will be done on hardware side it seems.

Why protect the children from rape gangs and stabbings when you can protect them from youtube and tiktok instead.

Probably a way to lower initial cost for new customers. $400 or however much it is, is a hefty ask before you even tried the service.

Holy based.

I trust him more than Jeff or Zuck.

If you dont need an sbc or something arm based mini pcs/thin clients/laptops work well. I run redlib, yamtrack and a monero node on hp t630 w/ 16GB ram (bought before the rampocalypse for ~ $60) and a torrent seedbox/streaming nas on wyse 3040 (~$10). Here’s a great website about thin clients https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hware/hardware.shtml

So the shape of the plug is the same for all devices regardless of the spec… doesn’t it just make things more confusing for non techies? I can already see people saying their new laptop is broken because their 5v 0.67A power brick won’t charge it, or buying a USB-c charger just to find out it doesn’t work. A lot of aftermarket chargers claim to support up to 120W etc. Except they mean 120W is a sum of all ports for a 6 port charger so really it’s only 20W. For techies it can get annoying too if you like to play with hardware. You can just feed appropriate voltage DC over those barrel connectors, for example from a car battery with a buck converter or AA/18650 in series and it will work while usb-c charging needs to be negotiated.

It’s so good that some people download two in case the first one breaks.

https://reticulum.network/