At the risk of being a contrarian, why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network, or vice versa?

PatchPanda

I too saw PatchPanda on selfh.st and it is on my watch list. The only thing holding me back is that it isn’t out of beta yet. So, I’m waiting on other selfhosters to plow that field before I deploy. It does look like it would solve a lot of problems tho.

Oh I get how it would all work, I’m not into sharing my network. lol I did have to provision a separate vlan for my lady friend when she comes over so she can get her fill of all the advertisements she wants, but, there are direct benefits of such a compromise in this instance. ;)

but I dream of a day when everyone’s wifi router meshes with all the other routers in the neighborhood

A modern resurrection of the party phone lol. I remember those well.

Man it’s been a hot minute since I was in my ham shack as a kid banging out code on a little 5 watt transmitter/receiver. There are a good handful of repeaters in this area and they are quite invaluable when we have climate related emergencies, or other. During the pandemic I would listen to the chatter. They definitely serve a valuable purpose. The general public doesn’t really realize how these little ham shacks can be quite the boon in hard times and are usually surprised that they even exist.

There is a user here that mentioned he is in funding talks for a local, independent ISP. I’m not really sure I’m ready to be connected to my neighbors intimately. Good fences make good neighbors.

This looks very intriguing. I think I may just have a specific use case for it. Thanks for the work, and again thanks so much for including screen shots. I’ll have to spin this up later today and give it a go. Are you Italian by chance?

Pretty much…after the dust all settles and the crying stops, life goes on without you. That’s reality.

message sent

Is your country also having a fascist problem?

Ok this has been carried far too long, so I’ll digress the conversation. I do wish that one day very soon, being LGBTQ+ will br as boring as being hetero.

Well, I’m a contrarian then. I assure you there is no butthurt here. I mean, why would I be? For real? You don’t like AI, LLM, RAG, that’s fine by me and fine for you to express such. Do I get the same considerations? The ’ Read The Room’ comment felt like imposed group think. If I took it wrongly, then I do apologize.

Yes you are defending it, by saying it’s okay

Nope. Does he not have the right to be an alt-right piece of shit? I’m not sure what country you are a citizen of, but in my country, you most certainly have the right to be an alt-right piece of shit. Oh, and yes I’m very familiar with the tolerance paradox.

Are you not master of your own domain?

It’s sod’s law though, I was supposed to have two pretty much free days yesterday and today, and they’ve turned out to be two of the busiest days I’ve had for a long time. Networking is one of my blind spots, I can never quite get my head around it, so gave myself two days to try to get up to speed and seem to have jinxed myself :D

OK, well the notes offer is still valid if you should so need them.

I commented on ONE comment…not the whole thread.

However, if I am a contrarian because I have contrary core values, beliefs, and opinions, then vive la différence! Hope you had a great thanksgiving day if you do participate. If not, hope you had a wonderful day where ever you are.

defend

No, I am not defending anyone or anything.

It is the easiest thing to give freedom and equality to those we like. It’s much, much harder to give freedom and equality to those we don’t like.

I do appologize for not getting back sooner.

through the Cloudflare tunnel is encrypted,

Yes indeed

I thought you needed something like Caddy to get certificates

You can, and Caddy works well. It just didn’t make sense in this scenario. No worries, mate.

but I’m going to give it a proper look once I’ve had some sleep.

Well. I do have some notes tjat might help put the pieces together, if you get stuck.

The main thing I’m still not sure of is Tailscale

I use tailscale on the server as a overlay protective overlay, which could be accessed as well if needed,

Not trying to be confrontational in the least. but I am fully aware and autonomous. I thought you guys weren’t down with group think?

It’d be nice to donate all my equipment to some kid who is very interested. That would be something I’d be interested in.

Futo’s CEO being a alt right piece of shit is a better reason.

I didn’t down vote ya but, I am quite certain that if we knew all the little idiosyncrasies, personal core values, or private lives of both open source and closed source software devs, teams, sponsors, equipment manufacturers, components, et al, we’d probably never turn on our computers. I mean, I get it, you are free to make choices. I wouldn’t have it any other way. However, until the dev teams start writing that into their software, I’m ok with them being an alt right piece of shit. It’s kind of like, I enjoy Ted Nugent’s music. It comes up in my playlist every so often. I can’t stand his political stance, but I am able to separate the two without condoning his political core beliefs. Gosh, if I were to listen to only those artists that align with my core beliefs, it’d be a mighty slim playlist. ymmv

I know we all hate AI

Not everybody.

LOL Someone took exception to your use of Cloudflare. Hilarious. Anyways, yeah, what Cloudflare doesn’t get, pFsense does.