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  • I asked this exact thing somewhere else, and the best answers I got were:

    • there is a somewhat legitimate motivation for fedora to package their own flatpaks in the context of their atomic desktops project.
    • they started doing this before flathub was established, and it was a better idea at that time.

    So, as per usual with Linux, there are some obscure and historical reasons this is a thing, but it is useless for the majority of users. Fedora should really not have it configured as the default source for flatpaks out of the box


  • My advice: only forward ports 8080 and 443, then make sure that you have fail2ban or crossed properly set up on your reverse proxy. After that, you are pretty much fine as long as you keep on top of updating your containers.

    I would be careful about which apps you proxy. Idk why you need to access the admin portal for pi hole worldwide. If you really want to do that, you should set up a vpn.













  • People are saying that it is a cloud managed reverse proxy, but I would not recommend using it like this. You should be running a reverse proxy on your own hardware, imo.

    It is still useful because you can use it as just a proxy. You can point your dns to your cloudflare tunnel endpoint and cloudflare will screen all traffic going to your server. I’ve actually stopped using it, but it is a decent way to auto feel all the random internet traffic pitfalls like portscanning bonnets. Also putting something between your server IP and your domain is nice.



  • The other thing to keep in mind is that youtube (and twitch, and shudders quora), with all its problems, does share revenue with creators on the platform, instead of treating them as free labor.

    I would love to see it, but I dont think we are there yet. No impetus to switch combined with much more expensive tech. I would also antipate dmca to turn the whole thing into a mess. But one day we’ll get there hopefully.



  • Yeah, I have been following it a bit, and I don’t think it is going to pan out. I was already planning on not subscribing simply because I hate subscribing to things and try to have as few subscriptions as possible. I would honestly gladly buy relay for like $60-70 rather than pay $3/month (Although honestly, I wouldn’t do that too). There is going to be no way to make that work if Reddit wants to position itself as a pay by usage, or conversation as a service company.

    But I think it all goes to show is that this isn’t a business model. Talking on the internet isn’t a business model, and tracking people without their knowledge or consent (even if you technically have it on paper) isn’t working either.


  • Oh, are you using Podman on windows? Yeah, it needs a virtual machine because it has to load the linux kernel. I would definitely believe that the windows version (or mac, I guess) of podman is way heavier than the alternatives on those platforms, but on linux it just ends up using the host kernel.

    If you are doing this on linux, and still need to load a vm to use podman, that would be interesting. I haven’t run across that, but I haven’t been able to use podman too much.


  • It is relay for me on Android. Apparently, they are going to continue with a subscription version that won’t get NSFW content. Why would I start paying for a worse product? Not to mention that I bought the ad free version way back.

    Relay and reddit are one of the two non open source stacks I rely on, with the other being windows and steam for gaming. And it has bit me in the butt. The lesson to be learned is clear- no more closed source anything from here on out. Steps will be taken.