Find a problem they are experiencing and introduce them to a solution they can self-host to fix it. Expand from there.

I began my self-hosting journey 7ish years ago with media piracy and a desire to watch/access my files wherever I was. Learned of Plex, then Emby, Reverse Proxies, Domains, SSL, and on and on…

Today I’m running 24+ docker containers and some miscellaneous stuff, across 3 systems; that’s always accessible via my domain/vpn.

Oh damn, I hadn’t noticed. My setup is still functioning just fine.

There is an alternative though: Orbital-Sync

I haven’t actually used it, so I can’t say much about it; but I’ll probably look into replacing gravity-sync with that.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

I use this to translate DNS to DoH, and use cloudflare, and quad9 upstream.

environment:
  - TUNNEL_DNS_UPSTREAM=https://1.1.1.1/dns-query,https://1.0.0.1/dns-query,https://9.9.9.9/dns-query,https://149.112.112.9/dns-query

Haven’t really noticed any DNS based lag.

Why not both?

My primary DNS is pihole on a rpi dedicated to the task; but I run a second instance of pihole via my main docker stack for redundancy. Should one or the other be unavailable, there’s a second one to pick up the slack.

I just provide both DNS IPs to LAN clients via DHCP.

Gravity Sync is a great tool to keep both piholes settings/records/lists in sync.

If they are like me, they have probably already found ways to watch porn, monitor their crush’s computer, read their email, and get into their webcam.

I got into quite a bit of similar mischief as a (pre)teen; but I didn’t do any of it on equipment that I knew was monitored (at least, monitored and signed out to me…)

And again; I think that’s a bit of a separate issue. These devices shouldn’t be equipped with cameras, let alone have the camera monitored/accessible.

The actual activity happening on the device; running applications, what’s on screen/in storage, even it’s location (with informed notice of said tracking) sure. but there’s no need to monitor/access the camera regardless of how or where the device is used.

A simple piece of tape fixes this problem. (plus education to teach students why, ofc)

kids take these computers home

I feel like that is the bigger problem. These aren’t private/personal devices; students shouldn’t be treating them as personal devices. Especially knowing it’s a monitored device.

Properly educating students on the use of these devices is the solution. Not telling schools to turn a blind eye to the use of their own equipment.

Yeah, when i was in school; there were no devices issued to students. We had ‘computer labs’. Ie; a room full of computers for student use. There was always one computer for the teachers to use that had a remote-desktop interface monitoring every screen in the room live. They could always see what you were doing, lockout your keyboard/mouse, blank your display.

This really doesn’t seem any different.

I could understand outrage if students were require to install this on their own hardware; but school issued devices are under the schools monitoring and control. Always have been.

And for a much much smaller paycheck.

All corporate gives af about.

But still far to much of a hassle for the general public. Hell, half the people I know refuse to figure out a regular e-transfer/cash app. There’s no way they’ll even consider bitcoin; or really any other currency.

They can revoke Starlinks license to operate within the country; then issue arrest warrants for its operators.

The US has an extradition treaty with Brazil.

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Supposedly Starlink is maintaining service for existing accounts, even if they can’t bill them ATM.

Somehow I don’t think that’ll last all that long.

I work warehousing; no IT background, I just like to tinker with whatever. Have since I started breathing.

I was a fairly casual pirate, grabbing movies/shows I couldn’t find elsewhere (or just couldn’t afford). Got into Plex/Emby for my first real exploration into self-hosting (if you don’t count SRCDS and/or Minecraft Server at like 13yo); and expanded my knowledge from there. Reverse Proxys, the ‘arrs’, DNS, Docker, VPNs, etc.

Now a days, I’ve got 20+ services that I mostly access via a VPN I host, and I’m always interested in messing with new things :)

they closed their local branch

That was due to threats of arrest for not paying these fines, that were issued for refusing to silence critics.

I was trying to skip past all those middle steps and get to the root of the issue. What started it all.

that’s what you think is wrong with Twitter

?

What is ‘that’ exactly…?

I’ve said nothing about what’s wrong with twitter. I’ve said I agree with refusing to silence political opposition for those in power, at least in principle. I’ve also, at least tried, to be pretty clear I’m likely missing some contex; so that may be a bit of a misinterpretation of the situation.

As far as I understand this is a right-wing authoritarian gov silencing left-wing opponent’s.

Am i mistaken?

/pre-post edit: Yes, yes I am.

That certainly throws out any bit of sympathy I may of had… Though I still think they made the right decision to refuse to comply.

¯\(-_-)/¯ oh well.

I’m kind of on the fence with this one.

As much as I dislike Twitter/X and it’s owner; their ‘crime’ is refusing to silence the political opponents of those currently in power, then further refusing to pay fines for that decision… Decisions, at least in principle, I agree with.

That said: I haven’t actually seen the content that’s at the center of this dispute; the posts of those political opponents. I’m also not very familiar with Brazils politics, so perhaps there’s context I’m missing.

I don’t have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself

That’s kind of the root of the issue imo; having a subscription based model doesn’t really work with open source as the project just gets forked every release to remove the subscription.

This leaves Emby with little option but to go closed source if they want income through subscriptions.

So, I’m not sure I understand what you mean with ‘the way they went about it’. Is it the subscription you had an issue with, or the fact that they were no longer open source? What would you have done differently?

And, if you don’t mind me asking: Had you supported (paid) Embys developers prior to them shifting to closed source + ‘Emby Premiere’?

To be clear, I’m not trying to be argumentative or divisive; I’m just trying to understand the animosity towards Emby and why it’s so often left out of the conversation, so to speak. It’s something I’ve never been able to wrap my head around. Thanks for taking the time to chat about this.

I’m curious to know why you think/feel that way.

I found/started using personal streaming solutions around 8 years ago; so post-Emby/MediaBrowser split into Jellyfin.

While I started with Plex, I very quickly came to despise their always online/centralized authentication system and moved to Emby as the only alternative I’d seen/heard of at the time. From there I learned of Jellyfin and (at least some of) it’s origins; though I’ve had 0 reason/need/desire to actually install Jellyfin as Emby works fantastically.

I’ve been really quite happy with Emby; particularly with their stance of not tracking/collecting userdata and maintaining Emby as a private company focused on their customers instead of investors/partners. I understand some people don’t like the Premiere licensing model they use; but I think it’s a good way for the developers to ensure stable income for their work; and TBH, especially with the lifetime purchase option, I think it’s undervalued. Unfortunately that model is not compatible with opensource (as users just fork it to remove the paywall), which is why Jellyfin exists from what I understand.