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Die Linke is the most leftwing party in the current and upcoming governments. Though, because of how right-shifted the overton window is in this country, that doesn't mean they're radicals. Their policies are still basically just social democracy. They're also basically the party of east German cities. The east German countryside votes for the AfD.
And the Greens in Germany are a center-right party, further right thank the SPD. They're very militaristic, extremely pro-Israel, in favor of repressing democratic protests at home... They're not that far from the label of "eco-fascist", except in practice without the "eco" part. Still, they get a lot of votes from well-meaning moderates who don't look to hard (or at all) at what the party stands for or dies and just vote for them because of the vibes.
Die Linke are nowhere close to tankies, what are you even talking about. They are a center left party.
Yeah I guess Obscura does obfuscation between the client and entry node, which is where it matters
Understood, thanks. Seems like most people are doing it this way, keeping the app installed. Do you have to restore a backup when you re-log in? I'm always losing messages when that happens
Mullvad already has that. It's called "WireGuard Obfuscation" in the settings. Obscura just seems to have a different implementation based on similar principles.
Ah got it, thanks. It's not an ideal setup tbh, it'd be great to be able to delete the WhatsApp app from my phone, but better than nothing...
Thanks, but I mean how did you set up the external client for it? Did you have a spare phone to use, or did you set up an Android VM?
Good to know, thank you. How did you set up the whatsapp bridge?
Thanks for the report. Do you use the whatsapp bridge? If so, how did you set it up? Emulator?
When I was looking into matrix bridges I heard a bunch of stories about people getting their accounts blocked after using them through the bridges. Is this still an issue?
Look at the very least you should write in the blogpost clearly which parts are generated by LLMs, so your readers can decide whether to trust them.
Idk man, it seems pretty irresponsible to me to write a blogpost with stuff that you got from ChatGPT without understanding it. People will assume that if you wrote a blogpost on this then you know what you're doing. ChatGPT gets stuff wrong all the time, and we're talking about firewall configuration here. If it misconfigured some stuff it could leave you and your readers vulnerable to all kinds of shit.
In this case it seems to me that (luckily) there's just a bunch of redundant routing, but the next time it could be leaking your and your readers' torrent traffic out of the VPN tunnel, leaving you vulnerable to legal repercussions for piracy.
Please don't authoritatively post stuff that you got from the automatic bullshit generator without understanding it.
Nice, I recently went through the same struggle of setting up this configuration based on that LinuxServer post. My main nitpick on this is that automating the ip route configuration for the qBittorrent container is a pretty important step which is not explained in the post. Leaving any manual steps in any Docker setup is pretty bad practice.
Since you're using LinuxServer's QBT image a good way to do this is to make use of their standard custom init scripts. You can just mount a script with the ip route commands to /custom-cont-init.d/my-routes.sh:ro on the container and it will be run automatically on each startup.
Another nitpick is that the PostDown commands in the wireguard configs are useless since you're running them in Docker.
Fantastic, thank you
Wow thank you, this is the most useful reply I've received so far!
This means I don't need to mess around with QBT's "proxy" settings? I was pretty confused since the only options available are SOCKS/SOCKS5 and HTTP, but I'm guessing that's a different kind of proxy than what I need...
I indeed have a domain name pointing to the VPS IP, with Caddy managing TLS. Other apps are exposed this way, and I will do the same for the qBittorrent WebUI as well. I like having Caddy as a single gateway where I can apply security configs and monitor all traffic, I was hoping I would be able to pass torrent traffic through it as well but everybody seems very much against it.
I already have wireguard setup as you describe so I guess I'll just give up on passing torrent traffic through the proxies and just open a localhost port on the qBittorrent container...
Resetting the "time since last being told I don't know shit on the internet" back to 0 once again...
I already have an existing and working setup used for other apps, it's close to the one described in this blogpost. Yes, it's complicated and inefficient, but it has reasons to be. I want to keep my qBittorrent configuration as close to this setup as reasonably possible for consistency. If your point is that it's counterproductive to follow this setup then... fair enough. I can just route traffic from the VPS to an exposed port on the local qBittorrent container over Wireguard, but that wasn't my preferred solution.
Running a torrent client through a proxy doesn’t isolated a process.
I was talking about network isolation, not process isolation.
make sure your traffic is routing there properly
That was pretty much what I was asking for help with.
I have already set up all of that. My setup is similar to the one in this blogpost and it's already working for various apps that only use HTTP. What I'm trying to do is to also route BitTorrent traffic (TCP/UDP) over the same setup without opening up entirely new paths.
Yes I already have that set up with Wireguard, what I'm figuring out is how to route traffic through it.
I'm guessing what you mean is setting up port forwarding in Wireguard...
The thing is ideally I would want all connections in and out of my homeserver's Docker network to go through the local Caddy proxy, so the app containers are isolated. That still means having at least the local Caddy acting as a TCP proxy, even if the VPS Caddy is bypassed. If that's too much of a hassle though I can instead just expose a port on the qBittorrent container directly to the homeserver's localhost, and forward that with wireguard to the VPS.
Proxying torrent traffic to homeserver
I'm setting up a self-hosted stack with a bunch of services running on a home device. I'm also tunneling all the traffic through a VPS in order to expose the services without exposing my home IP or opening ports on my local network. Currently all my traffic is HTTP, and its path looks like this:
- Caddy proxy on remote VPS (HTTPS, :80 & :443)
- Wireguard tunnel
- Caddy proxy in Docker on homeserver (HTTP, :80)
- app containers in separate isolated subnets, shared with Caddy
I want to set up qBittorrent and other torrent apps, and I want all their traffic to pass through the proxies. Proxying traffic to the WebUI is easy, there's plenty of tutorials; what I'm struggling with is proxying the torrent leeching and seeding traffic, which is the most important part since I live in a country that's not cool with piracy.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, BitTorrent traffic is TCP or UDP, so I'd need Caddy to act as a Layer 4 proxy. There's a community-maintained plugin that should support this.
Hosting a public wishlist
I'm involved with an org that needs to set up a public wishlist for supplies for a project. The rough requirements are as follows:
- Public webpage with a static URL
- Can be easily edited by non-technical people
- Editing requires authentication
- Avoiding corporate services, especially avoiding tracking of both users and admins
- As cheap as reasonably possible
- As quick to set up as possible
Nice to have:
- Hosted under a custom domain
- Supports users "reserving" items so multiple people don't all supply the same stuff
One option I considered would be running something like wishthis in a VPS under our own domain, but this is kinda expensive, complex, and I don't trust wishthis' auth. A different option could be just having a static page in something like Notion or Github pages, which would be free but relies on corporate services we don't trust.
Is there a middle ground between the two previous options? Or a better solution that fits most
Instance blocks and Threads
With debate raging in the Fedi about Threads' federation, I was having a discussion with another user about the recently implemented instance blocks. They pointed out that, blocking an instance simply hides their content from your feed but doesn't prevent your posts from being sent to them. Firstly, is this correct? Is this how instance blocks are implemented in Lemmy? If not, has this been discussed before? I couldn't find such a discussion in Github issues...
It seems that many people have concerns about Meta's use of their data, and would like to opt out of sharing their content with Threads. Is there any way to do this in Lemmy right now, or any plan to implement such a feature?
Privacy-preserving solution for managing subscriptions
I'm looking for a way to keep track my recurring subscriptions. I just want a nice overview of recurring payments and where they come from, I don't need a solution to actively go and manage the subscriptions for me. Unfortunately my bank, despite being a trendy digital bank, does not have a good built-in tool for this.
There's a plethora of third party services I found for this (Truebill, TrackMySubs, Hiatus, etc.) but they require you to give them unrestricted access to your bank account activity which seems like a privacy nightmare. I've also found some less invasive apps, such as Subby for Android, but they're basically just nice views over manually entered data. The ones I've found also seem to be single-platform only: even if you can sync your data (not always the case) you can then only view it from the app on the same platform.
Do you have a good solution for this? Something that's a middle ground between giving your entire payment history to some random company and a good-loo
How To Torrent Software Safely (For Dummies)
I wrote this post for a friend, I'm sharing it here for anybody it might help. I got asked multiple times how I download cracked music software so I figured it'd be easier to write it down once. It's meant for people with very low technical skills who just want to start torrenting software without major risks, and it includes a bunch of safety tips that are already known in this community.
If you have feedback, let me know and I'll update the post.