[–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

I uninstalled syncthing-fork when I first heard "foul voices on the air" (LotR ref) because I haven't needed it recently, & decided to reinvestigate when I next need it (& the dust might have settled itself by then). In the meantime someone commented that you can configure & use vanilla syncthing on termux instead. I use termux for so much already that it is the obvious choice (for me) if actually true. If you hadn't heard that either it might be a viable choice for you too...

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The one I'm really hoping for is a torch-song sung by Darth Vader in the style of Adelle's "Hello". In the video, Darth stands in a warrior-pose, fist raised to the heavens, fan-generated wind billowing through his cape, singing "hello from the dark side"...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Anyone who knows enough about Wireguard, iproute2 tools, iptables/nftables, etc (firewall-marking certain packets based on criteria, then directing them through alternate route-tables based on that) can hand-roll split-tunneling, internal point-to-point tunnels/meshes, etc. For (most) people who want to achieve this in a less painful/fragile way, from what I've understood it seems Tailscale just does exactly this under the hood in a less arduous and more intuitive way for users, while also providing a static internet-facing ingress point when needed. Headscale exists for those wanting that but with their own static ingress (self-hosted at their own IP) instead of Tailscale's.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Very well said. I will make a concerted effort to inject "hypernormalization" into my speech more often going forward. For decades I've been saying to friends that the reductionist obsession with "normal" (whatever the hell that means) is a cancer to modern society.

    In particular it already sounds creepy when you replace usage with its verb-form, e.g. changing "all my friends are normal" to "all my friends have been normalized". It's common practise to use a re-encoder to normalize a "background" playlist of songs to the same dB threshold so no single song sticks out and distracts us from what we are trying to focus on while listening. Similarly, authorities of an authoritarian ilk try to normalize populations so none of them stick out and distract from the primary focus (centralization of power and money). Hypernormalization involves taking that to its logical conclusion, telling the vast majority of people "stay in your lane" - meaning "shut up and consume, and when we tell you what to buy you buy it", AKA be "normal(ized)").

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Although I agree with the implied sentiment that "the Perfect is the enemy of the Good Enough" (especially for low-profile personal web-presence) and that naval-gazing about protocols can become a counterproductive rabbit-hole, sometimes it can also be risky to oversimplify in the other direction without at least parenthesizing the caveats too. For example this "HTTP/1.1 must die" site points out how desync attacks make HTTP/1.1 robustness a bit of a game of Whack-a-Mole. For certain sites (even some personal sites) this can occasionally matter.

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