No shit the VPN requires an open port, I never said otherwise, but if your router is the one running the server, you aren’t forwarding the port. The router itself is listening on its WAN interface.
The VPN prevents you from having to forward any ports, because the router allows you to tunnel in. The only open port will be whatever port the VPN server listens on, and it isn’t a forwarded port.
Source: I literally work at a VPN company.
going from a public device to a device in a protected network
You mean the literal function of a VPN?
A VPN eliminates the need for port forwarding.
Edit: Not talking about a “privacy VPN”, but an actual VPN that lives up to the name “Virtual Private Network”, where you are connecting to the private network you wish to access.
There’s an AliExpress link in the article that clearly prices it at $260…
Anyone arguing “Discord has more users” on here can just be reminded that Reddit / Twitter has more users than their fediverse alternatives, and yet here they are on Lemmy, and probably Mastodon too.
A better world is possible.
Beeper isn’t a Discord client.
fwiw, OP wrote the article himself and then spammed it to lots of different instances. Definitely worth blocking this spammer.
Why the fuck does everyone keep referring to Andres Freund, the skilled Microsoft engineer who discovered this as an “autistic kid”? Can everyone doing that please fuck off?
Even if he is autistic, which I am not finding anything suggesting he is, this shouldn’t be a part of the conversation. He protected the Linux community from a major exploit, just give him the credit for a job well done.
They didn’t welcome the discussion, they insulted those who disagreed with them.
I personally want mods that are a part of the community that they moderate. This is like the Lemmy equivalent of a city cop that lives in the suburbs.
This wasn’t even a real question. They basically wanted a brainstorming session on how to write monetization contractually into FOSS, and when overwhelmingly told by the community that their idea was counter to the Libre movement, they argued and made rude comments to anyone that wouldn’t budge.
People answered the question honestly: No such license exists for FOSS and never will. If they wanted to learn more about FOSS this was their chance.
This level of ignorance of what this community stands for and contempt for the users here is completely disqualifying for a moderator. The only saving grace here is that they didn’t abuse their moderator powers - if they had it would be like kicking an anthill.
I don’t want them banned or punished, but I absolutely question their value as a moderator here. It doesn’t reflect well on this community that someone like this has power over what the users can and cannot say, given their own propensity to endorse anti-libre values and insult people who oppose the same.
The difference here is that if a state actor wants a backdoor in closed source software they just ask/pay for it, while they have to con their way in for half a decade to touch open source software.
How many state assets might be working for Microsoft right now, and we don’t get to vet their code?
Linus was a child prodigy.
If it’s a service, sure, but if you charge money for access to the software itself, that is non-free.
If Ubuntu charged money per seat for running a prod server I’d call foul. But I have no problem with Ubuntu Pro.
Even proprietary software can be “open source”, you just wouldn’t have any freedom to use that code without paying.
Not FOSS software. Free as in Freedom.
Your opinion is at odds with the rest of the FOSS community though, and always will be. You can license your software however you feel fit for your project, but don’t expect to get any traction from the Libre community when you do.
“Free as in Freedom” means a lot to people. Restrict that freedom and you’re out.
“Forcing donations” is just a fancy way of saying “charging licensing fees”.
Not if HIP is a part of your network stack (adding a waist). Unfortunately this is not a plug-and-play solution unless you have the budget for my employer’s product, which is not priced for consumers.
We literally have a global rise in violent fascism and multiple ongoing genocides, and TikTok is the worst thing you can think of?