leetnewb

ShieldsUP is fine. Also check out: https://www.routersecurity.org/testrouter.php

You could also just port scan yourself with something like nmap.

I use rclone to mount the Linux NAS from my Linux and Windows computers - SFTP backend is usually fine. Then I am uniformly reading/writing the NAS files as the local NAS user.

I feel that /r/programming lost a lot of volume and intensity following the API protest drama. This community seemed like a beneficiary. Even anecdotally though, I sit in a couple of language discord servers and engagement seems lower than it was a couple of years ago.

Even just watching other open source projects go through it is demoralizing to me, and I'm not a contributor.

Also attributed to burnout.

Apple has turned out to “prevent the chrome monopoly” far more effectively then firefox has.

Turns out that owning the platform (Android, iOS) counts for a lot. I like having an independent option.

Pretty sure he is a meaningful sponsor of PHP.

edit: https://thephp.foundation/ https://opencollective.com/automattic

Technically true, but FOSS isn't "free" in the sense that someone is contributing labor to build and maintain the software. Free to use, but not free to make. I personally wouldn't expect or shame a person for using FOSS without contributing. But if you make a profitable business off a FOSS project, it seems reasonable to expect some form of contribution back to the project - not because it is technically required, but because who better to sponsor a project than someone profiting from it?

Re reverse proxies, not exactly. Tried reading vanilla nginx configs and trying to understand nginx proxy manager, couldn't grasp either. Also gave haproxy a shot.

rpm-ostree

I guess I don't exactly understand the value of rebasing the core system. Small atomic core with snapshot-based rollbacks, with containerized beyond core stuff seems to get you 99% of the way there, no?

If you can host thelounge on your LAN and access it over VPN on the go, it makes for a very nice IRC experience.

Otherwise, ssh (termux or whatever) to your irc host running irssi or weechat

Atomic automatic updates with snapshot creation? Maybe consider opensuse microOS if you are going headless...didn't quite understand from your description. I have a VPS running microOS that has been doing its automatic updates/reboot thing for a year+ now without a single issue. Opensuse's rolling stuff works very well, and you get native btrfs and snapper integration out of the box.

Easy to use reverse proxy - I really like Caddy. Reading/writing the config for that clicks better for me than others.

I like the novelty of using filesystem tools for backups, but can't shake the feeling that tools like restic and borg are more widely deployed and battle tested.

I like that ipfire is still going strong when many Linux router projects seem to be dying out.