I have my Immich instance setup with an nginx proxy for security and ssl, and that’s exposed to the internet. I have a domain for my personal website, so I just put up my Immich instance at a subdomain of that. I can now make public share links I can just copy and paste into a group chat. I haven’t added any other users yet but I’d I wanted to all they’d need to do is login via email/password.

This is an officially supported kind of setup for Immich, so I would consider it secure: https://docs.immich.app/administration/reverse-proxy/

I don’t have all of my homelab services exposed publicly though; I VPN in for those.

General tips for exposing a server to the internet:

• only expose the ports you need for services you intend to be accessible. Use a firewall and/or your router’s port forwarding settings to enable only what you need, with blocking as a default.
• update all software regularly
• only expose programs that are built to be exposed. For example, if you make a Flask website, they will warn you several times not to expose it directly, but to proxy it through something like nginx

Here’s a class assignment from UC Berkeley that is somewhat similar. They provide a VM image of a vulnerable computer and you have to break it. I believe all the (student side) resources are publicly accessible:

https://sp25.cs161.org/proj1/

I’m not waiting 2 minutes much less 30 minutes to create an account wtf

Maybe if it takes like 10s. That’s still slow enough to discourage mass spam bots.

The risk is your computer reaching out to something on the internet (either by you browsing, or some automatic background activity) and whatever it finds infects it.

This could be something like an ad on an otherwise trustworthy website.

TLDR They were considering shipping a phone that had already been restored from a backup via their cloud servers.

IIRC iCloud backups have already been the target of both hackers and law enforcement activity before.

But more generally, if whatever service you use for backup isn’t end to end encrypted, then whoever has your backup could sift through it if they wanted.

Note that Apple does allow “Advanced Data Protection” which includes end-to-end encrypted backups along with the warning that Apple cannot help you if you lose your password.

This is one of those cases where the name brand cable probably is better than an off brand.

Tangential story, but a cheapo headphone cable once broke the headphone jack on my computer. It was too big and stretched out the connector in there.

My family would always go skiing in the nearby mountains every Christmas. We are starting to have the conversation of changing that plan, given how bad the snow has been the past two years, and predictions for the future are only getting worse.

“For Joe”

I kinda mentally adjust it. If I see 7/10 I assume it’s very average. 8/10 is good, 9/10 and above is great. 6/10 is bad and anything worse is awful.

So basically subtract 4 and take it as a score out of 5.

This varies. Some albums are absolutely meant to be listened to back to back in order. Others are just a collection of songs and nothing is lost by missing them into a random playlist.

I don’t think El Niño is America centric. That weather cycle affects most of the world.

You can also go find the article and read it and judge it for yourself.

I strongly recommend paying extra for one of the nicer modern printers with FULL automatic bed leveling. I regret buying a cheaper one that is a pain in the ass to calibrate every time I want to use it.

But when I’m riding my bike along the street to the city center, I can barely hear my podcasts, even at 100%.

Get something with noise cancelling.

20% has been the standard for dining in as far as I can temember

lol

The pressure isnt violently different (it’s only 1atm. Scuba divers can go up to 70atm with special breathing equipment). The issue is the boiling point of water is very low at that pressure, but on a cellular level the physics of that are going to be different.

Also space being “cold” is a bit of a misconception. Your body produces heat constantly, and it’s hard to dissipate heat in space, since you can basically only radiate it out as infrared light, which is a much slower process than being in physical contact with something.

In fact, we use vacuum chambers to insulate things such as in those metal thermoses that they tell you not to put in the dishwasher.

So being in space would actually be more like being wrapped in the thickest possible blanket than being cold.

There’s enough microbes in any living thing that some decay will happen, for a while at least…

Samba.

Or one time I made my own simple file sharing website

It probably isn’t going to cost less to get something without wifi.