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@forestjohnson

I am a web technologist who is interested in supporting and building enjoyable ways for individuals, organizations, and communities to set up and maintain their own server infrastructure, including the hardware part.

I am currently working full time as an SRE 😫, but I am also heavily involved with Cyberia Computer Club and Layer Zero

Joined 2/15/2021
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@kawaiipunk yep same idea that wiki page just talks about how to make it "clean" , run as a systemd service unit with its own isolated ssh known hosts file and what not. Iirc you can also set the tunnel users login shell to some program that hangs forever if you want to prevent the tunneler from being able to run commands on the server.

@kawaiipunk I like forward or reverse tunnel instead of VPN, I know thats not what you asked for but it does work and IMO its simpler / easier to reason about because it doesn't require root or modify route tables. Ssh can be used for this in a pinch, I dislike ssh but at least its something that seems we all have to wade thru at some point.

There's lots of software that implements tunnels, I don't have a fave I can recommend as massively improved over ssh.

https://wiki.cyberia.club/hypha/infrastructure_and_operations/reverse-tunnel

@mxfraud yeah, i understand and agree, I had to develop a scraper blocker to keep our git server from constantly crashing so I understand the issue here. Used to be if you had a comment section or open registration on anything it would be filled with spam, now its worse where the site will be ddos'd by scrapers coming from "residential proxy" trojan malware installed on everybodies phones.

https://git.cyberia.club/sequentialread/pow-bot-deterrent-rp

But at the same time, whether I use or don't use some LLM on my own GPU, it doesn't change any of this. I see it like dumpster diving. I am not increasing the demand for little caesars pizza by taking the pizza from the dumpster. If anything, I think we should promote eating food waste in this analogy (use open weights model, model is good enough, demand for proprietary one is misguided)

I guess you could argue that by buying the GPU on ebay, I'm increasing the demand for the GPU, but so what? I'd rather have it than not have it and at least im offering to share with anyone who wants.

@mxfraud

I think they were both destructive, I kinda talk about that in the post,

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...unspoken rule / expectation that any issue a user might run into should be solved by looking up a workaround posted to a site like StackOverflow, instead of being the software author's responsibility to fix. Unless that software author happens to be a megacorporation w/ a public-facing product in a competitive market.

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SO lowering the bar for what it takes to publish software that people can figure out how to use