Joe

Like the kid asking if there’s any homework tonight 😆

Agree to disagree on HL2.

HL1/Black Mesa also excellent though.

Oh. This makes sense.

Oh this is interesting. Yours is shortened too.

I host my own instance and it’s just me (because I’m so unlikable I can’t even get my 2 FRIENDS to join my instance. I digress)

I wonder if there’s some setting or ENV variable somewhere on the instance to change that.

As far as I can tell the full username is only hidden on the same instance. So for instance, I see your full user name, but I only see the shortname for mine.

To each their own! The story and design of HL2 still holds up for me, but at it’s core the mechanics are indeed FPS. If that’s a no-go, it’s unfortunate, but understandable.

If you haven’t played half life 2 you should stop what you’re doing right now and do that.

This is disgraceful thank you for marking it nsfw.

This. This shit right here man. I love it.

Well in that case, tailscale is running as a daemon, so it effectively is doing it’s own little Dynamic DNS.

I suppose the point I’m trying to make is SOMEONE has to know your public Home IP. In the case of using tailscale, it would be the tailscale servers. But you would be correct that I don’t believe it would be published to any public DNS servers.

In my case, I’m using cloudflare for DDNS.

The solution I describe comes with a bit of risk acceptance (just like anything else really).

Well the VPN connection depending on what technology you use will still need to connect to the Public home IP, which is probably dynamic, which means that you’d probably need to use Dyanmic DNS to keep it connecting properly.

As far as someone just connecting to the reverse proxy the Home IP shouldn’t be visible at all. I just mean it wouldn’t hide well were someone really trying to find it.

I’m not sure I’m explaining this well. I haven’t had coffee yet.

It’s not a perfect solution but, and requires some sort of VPS, but you could run a reverse proxy on a VPS, site-to-site vpn from the VPS to your Homelab, and point your reverse proxy to the services over said VPN.

I do something like this. However, it doesn’t completely hide your IP.

So the software you’re looking for is a Reverse Proxy (nginx, traefik, caddy… etc. there are tons), a VPN (Wireguard, OpenVPN, StrongSwan (IPsec)), and more than likely some sort of VPS. My Linode VPS costs me $5 a month. They constantly have sponsor deals that will get new users free time though.

Hope that gets you started.

Since I’m hosting my own, I have it set to subscribed, which is not much different than “All” for me.

It takes a little getting used to but I’m liking it more and more. Even with it’s quirks.

I don’t have it set to private because when I tried that before it seems to break federation entirely. I do however have to approve anyone who wants to join. At this point I’d probably allow my close friends to join if they wanted, but that’s about it.

Mostly because I am nearly 100% positive I will either lose my ZFS array, try to move the server to different hardware and bork psql, or what have you…

My homelab is mostly duck tape and bubblegum.

I think for philanthropy to even be a possibility your company needs to be profitable first. Reddit has never been profitable.

But I get your sentiment.

I’m on the app right now and I find the jank kind of charming.

It’s part of the reason I chose to host my own rather than depend on another server somewhere. That way when I do fuck it up at least the only person to blame is me

Yay federation and activitypub!

That’s ok we have /c/linux now.

Not only that. They are a for profit company that is extremely dependent on volunteers to moderate their subs. I feel like they are going to learn a hard lesson about alienating your volunteer workforce.