The entire point of selfhost is to host private services not available to the public. By literal definition, that’s allowing only local traffic to connect to your services. It’s infinitely more secure. A VPN allows you to extend those services over the clearnet to authorized devices via virtualized networks. You don’t have to worry about messing with inbound/outbound ports, or worrying about software failure or misconfigurations accidentally exposing you to the clearnet. You don’t have to worry about DDoS, or abuse. Being attacked? Bring down your VPN and that completely shuts down your issue. Your network is completely unreachable by anyone but a local host.

There’s simply no room for an argument. VPN is objectively better in all possible situations.

I don’t know what kind of firewall you use, but if my firewall is down there is NO traffic at all passing through!

Only a hardware firewall would do this. If it’s software, like implied in your post, no traffic is filtered and all connections are accepted.

VPN is the least amount of work for the most secure setup. There’s nothing to even argue, its superior in every way.

I never knew. My version of Deluge is 1.3.5, and super seeding requires 2.0+. So that looks like the issue. lol

There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.

Yeah, except I’m not equating developers to end-users. I’m equating the two situations at hand. Because they’re equivalent situations…

Stating the fact that I’ve been in development for longer than most people I converse with have been alive isn’t attacking anyone. If you feel attacked by someone because they have a difference of opinion, then you need to go outside.

You don’t even know who Joel is.

I know who Spolsky is. I just don’t have an overabundant need to blow smoke up his ass like his word is that of Gods.

Joel addressed your argument that the code is misread throughout the entire essay.

Go get your reading glasses and go back to reread my previous post. It’s not my argument that code is misread. I was literally directly quoting him. So if Joel says it, it’s the word of God to you, but you misinterpret something I’m saying (which he’s actually saying) and now all of a sudden you have an issue with it?

That’s pretty telling that maybe your reverence for Joel is getting in the way of your brains thinky-thinky party.

It’s entirely possible.

Just like everything else in life, it’s not a binary situation. You can’t say “either it is, or isn’t stealing! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” because circumstance always matter.

If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that’s not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say “well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it’s murder! Circumstance doesn’t matter!” That would be the answer of a child.

The argument of Piracy has never been one of “oh, well, it’s not theft.” Of course its theft. You’d have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It’s not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn’t fucking matter–no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you’re just a fuckin’ thief. And that’s not moral.

There is absolutely zero truth to that statement whatsoever. There are a grand total of zero federal laws which require retailers, or anyone for that matter to round to the nearest nickel… There may be a state or two who do this, and that’s great. But no one is required federally to do it. So saying that it’s “by law” is not only misleading, but it’s a boldface fucking lie.

There is. It’s called VPN Split Tunneling.

If you want to proxify your connection between you and a service, you enable the split. If you don’t care, or want to not use the VPN, then disable it for that application. So it’s effectively “proxify all connections to this app,” which is the same as your use case.

This is effectively the same damn thing with a single exception. If your VPN is down, there’s no access to your server. If for whatever reason your firewall is down, there’s unrestricted access to your server…

VPN is unquestionably the correct choice 100 times out of 100.

You may say that’s a good practice to separate things

You’re missing the point. VPN isn’t about separating anything… I’m not even sure what you mean by that. VPN is the accepted practice here. Unquestionably. You create private services, and for security you only expose them to the least amount of people possible. You authenticate via VPN connections. You only have to maintain a single database of users to access any number of services, even tens of thousands.

OP is specifically talking about hosting local content that they want to protect. VPN is the solution here.

Your use case, and OPs, are completely different scenarios. I can’t tell if you’re being purposefully disingenuous or just flippantly stupid.

I rather think you do.

There will come a point where working around Windows quirks takes up more time than it does to simply seek and learn something else. This is organically how most people seek to find alternatives to software and begin to jump ship.

This is why PHP, as a programming language was replaced. Despite its popularity it became increasingly inconvenient to use. As such, they created other languages to replace it. They took the time to create an entirely new development language to sidestep the inconvenience of using PHP…

The same will eventually happen to Windows. Unquestionably.

I’ve been developing software for likely longer than you’ve been alive.

That article you posted makes a supposition; that the developer is just misreading existing code to be poor when it’s actually really good–which is absolutely not the case with Windows…

It’s the only possible solution. The issue with Windows version to version is they merge shit into the base without worrying about how it affects the codebase as a whole. That’s why we have 2-3 different ways to access different menus.

It depends. Some trackers will automatically add newly announced torrents. Some won’t. In either case, adding them directly to the tracker is quicker.

What’s the weirdest one you’ve tried?

NixOS.

Most challenging?

NixOS.

Have you found any really cool defining features in any distro?

Flakes. lol

Is there a list of super-seeding complaint clients? I can’t seem to find one. Hell, I can’t even check to see if my client supports it.

Cold storage is $2 per TB/mo. Could easily be crowdfunded. $410/yr to keep it around.

inalienable rights

Well, firstly the Constitution references unalienable rights, not inalienable. Secondly there are only three rights which are considered unalienable according to the Constitution; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

The idea of unalienable rights is such that they’re not given to us by law–they’re given to us by God and cannot be taken away. Therefore any person, be they US Citizen or not, if they’re in this country they’re also protected by these rights. So detaining someone specifically because they don’t have the right paperwork can be interpreted as denying someone their unalienable right to liberty. There are dozens of examples you can come up with, and not everyone will agree with them and that’s pretty much the point.

The founding fathers specifically chose verbiage which was as broad as possible to limit the power of the Government and ensure that as long as you could make a convicting argument for it, then you could claim that just about anything is an infringement against your rights, which starts a discourse, and leads to new laws to either protect or curtail certain things.