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Cake day: July 31st, 2023

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  • Did both. Setting up your own VPN is a bit annoying but when it works it works. Tailscale is really easy and solid. For folder syncing I can recommend using tailscale and syncthing. Install both on both devices, then connect the devices in sync thing (it will reciprocate) and then you can add a folder and share it with the other device. Latency for syncing can be 10s-3min, plus the actual file transfer speed.

    Knowledge level: configuring software and setting up software. Maybe some basic network troubleshooting if it comes up.

    It’s never gonna be as easy as paying for a service that does it for you but this setup is also not that hard.

    If you have questions feel free to ask me or other nerds on here, I’m sure they can help you ^^~





  • Just tried out Kodi on Android but I’m sorry, the app sucks. No native addon browsing, the keyboard is custom but incredibly small on my phone, navigation is weird, there’s no back button and my main buttons on the phone get hidden so I always have to manually show them again. The design is unappealing and for some reason it really wants access to my devices microphone.

    Literally the worst one I’ve tried and I didn’t even get to the video player, which everyone says stops working every once in a while.




  • This is probably the best answer. If everything is truly only running on local network and nothing is exposed with a port through your router, you are very safe.

    Most issues get introduced when running a server exposed to the Internet.

    That said, on the lowest level, if they want to get you, they will. It’s all a risk analysis. And the more interesting you are to adversarial parties, the higher the chances you’ll get pursued.

    If you’re Edward Snowden, 99% your calls and conversations are always on record.

    If you’re John Doe, truly only your ISP cares when they get a law enforcement request because you really pushed the envelope.

    Trending movies are notoriously bad, because movie studios will really try to rake in the revenue.

    On the other hand, ripping music from YouTube, no one cares or is able to track it, so risk is very low.



  • I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

    What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.