And the monkey’s paw will be they have late capacity gas turbines to generate electricity that will continue to spew greenhouse gases.
Netbird is a zero trust mesh VPN, very similar to Tailscale. My use would be accessing my Jellyfin and Navidrome servers remotely
Yes, I’m a geologist by education and career. I self-host a few different services but keep them all on my LAN. Setting up Netbird is on my to-do list, but I’m simply not confident enough in the network security aspects to expose anything outside of a VPN tunnel.
Man, when the fucking LAPD is concerned about civil liberties, you know it’s pretty damn bad.
They’ve been building it openly in the public for years and giving statements and interviews about building a surveillance state. I guess now it’s official because there’s a report?
People are mentioning pyrite. There are also many other examples that all fit into the cubic crystal system. Geology, yo!
If your need is temporary (e.g. to get a coupon code), I suggest looking into emailgenerator.org. Disposable addresses for private use, receiving only.
Hardware: what you currently have on hand to play around with.
Software: start with something simple and well documented. Not quite the driver for the learning phase, in my personal opinion.
“Utilities” as you call them: What is useful to you? What do you want to play with or need to improve your personal use case?
I don’t mean to be flippant with my answers here. Do a little introspection and determine what is genuinely useful for you to self host. I personally run Technitium, Jellyfin, a portion of the "-arr"s, Immich, and Navidrome. My family uses all of these services/utilities on a daily basis, so they are useful for me to host. I have some of the services that need CPU and GPU processing power running on my gaming PC and others running on a Lenovo ThinkCenter that I got for free from the IT department at work. They have bins of PCs slated for recycling that work perfectly fine but are “outdated”.
Bold assumption on my part here, but why would the manufacturer of such a juicy target for tracking not make it with connectivity? Something like this would be monetized and milked for advertising and subscription revenue on principle alone. Eye tracking technology that determines vision clarity based on where the user looks is but a small skip and a jump from advertising based on where the user looks.
ETA: Per the first line of the article, the company is backed by Amazon.
Yeeeeaaaahhhh, I’m going to go ahead and stick with a one time payment for proven 250+ year old technology instead of what would very likely be a subscription based privacy nightmare that can revoke my access to clear sight whenever they update their T&Cs. Hard pass, get fucked with a splintery utility pole.
There’s one across the street that captures my home. I fantasize about taking it out in a number of creatively destructive methods.