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Whats a hobby/craft that you wouldn't expect that has an incredibly high ceiling either monetarily or in sheer skill?
  • Gymnastics. The skill part is obvious but monetarily its more than i expected. I thought it would be like going to a regular gym but its usually much more expensive to use the gyms and thats if you can find a time slot where adult males can train.

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  • Okay so ideally it wouldnt be local but i'm behind a carrier grade NAT and my isp isnt very cooperative but monopolies gonna monopoly so here i am.

    What i want is basically beeper. I want to use element on my phone with bridges so i dont need half a dozen different messaging apps.

    Note that i know what i am doing is probably horrible in terms of security.

    I setup matrix by following the ansible playbook docs. I skipped all the dns stuff. I set to a random made up domain. And changed my hosts file to point

    matrix.made-up-domain.com

    element.made-up-domain.com

    to my server internal ip address.

    I disabled ssl in

    inventory/host_vars/matrix.made-up-domain.com/vars.yaml

    Using

    devture_traefik_config_entrypoint_web_secure_enabled: false

    In inventory/hosts i also used my made up domain.

    I hit go and eventually i got it to work. Even got a couple of bridges working. The issue is it only works on my desktop not on my phone. Both of them are on the local network. I think it has to do with the element app on my phone not liking that ssl is disabled.

    I dont really know what the best option is at this point. Should i try self signed certificates? Or maybe something like ngrok or pagekite? Its okay if it is only local. I can play around with zerotier or something similar so i can still access it outside the network.

    Note that im not able to pay for anything either which makes things more complicated. Cant buy a domin name or pay for a vps or any of the things that would make this easier.

    Update: I got it working. The key was the self-signed certificates I think. That simplified a lot of stuff. Well, it made it so I could follow the playbook more closely, so I was able to use the work that other people put into that instead of having to tweak a bunch of stuff.

    I also setup pi-hole to use the local DNS stuff on my made up domain. I think i was right that Zero tier gives me access to everything from outside the network using pi-hole for the DNS. I don't get cell service where I live though, so testing that will be a process.

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    Arizona Republican refers to Black Americans as 'colored people' in House floor debate
  • I definitely agree. But someone publicly speaking on the subject should probably look into it first or at least their team should give them a heads up.

    I feel the same way when politicians fuck up talking about tech stuff. If I'm talking with my friends about encryption and I fuck up the terminology I don't really care. If I'm a politician talking about it in a house floor debate I'm gonna make myself look retarded to anyone who knows anything about encryption and ruin my own credibility in the process.

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    Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?
  • Yep. I'll second this. I've used it for years and across many laptop changes, phone changes, etc. It's painless but you're also responsible for not losing everything.

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    Wish we didn’t live in a capitalist dystopia
  • True. I want a nice car before getting a house. How the fuck else will I get to my job to pay for my car and house? And by "nice" I mean "won't break down on the way to my job." very few of my friends have ever bought a new car.

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