because this post has a guerilla marketing smell to it.

If we were all board execs, maybe you might have a point…I guess. However, we are selfhosters, homelab’ers. As such, no one here will probably be pumping millions of dollars into the Cloudflare machine or attempting to persuade others to do so as well. As I mentioned in another comment, I can only think of around 10 major outages going back 5 years or so. Sure there have been hiccups, glitches, etc. Welcome to the internet. Shit breaks…all of it from time to time.

I have to believe they are ads/astroturfing.

I recommend what I use. I have no interest in shilling for any company, opensource or closed. I can understand not liking a company. That’s fine. The animosity is a bit overboard imho, but with 8.4 billion people on this planet, opinions range widely. It works for what I use it for, and when it no longer does, I’ll move on to something else.

whatever you use can write the date & time onto the camera images, otherwise it isn’t usable for any police / insurance claims.

Weird. I mean, could you just access the properties of said picture to reveal the date taken?

I access my Navidrome and Invideous instance without any issues. I am the only user on my network, so that would be a consideration if a lot of people were using your streaming services.

I apologize. I didn’t mean to make a big deal of it. I really meant my remark in jest as all the words were blurring. Old age and old eyes.

Wow, ok. I was having difficulty reading. Me skuzi

Holy missing paragraphs Batman!

Nice!

ASCII porn! LOL It take about 30 minutes to bang that out on a dot matrix, tractor feed, and, well, if you stood back about 5 feet and squinted one eye, it kinda looked like a pin up gal.

I hear what your saying, and I agree to a certain point. I think that we can and are pushing boundaries Also, I realize that all technology wields a double edged sword. Always has, always will. I agree with you on data acquisition/brokerage. It is unfortunate that we, as private citizens, must go through such great lengths to preserve as much of our privacy, security, and anonymity as we can. Taking my data that I generated with my own labor, use it to further profit your billion dollar company, without giving me due compensation is quite the slap in the face. If my data is worth so much to them, then it’s worth a mint to me. I get that loud and clear.

However, to me, the internet is a vast information repository.Full of all manner of entertainment, data, interesting adventures, and education. At no other time in human history have we ever had the sum total of the world’s knowledge in the palm of out hand on on our desktop. Maybe not wisdom, but knowledge. The great libraries of Alexandria couldn’t hold a candle to the internet.

I just filter out the stuff I want from the stuff that I don’t want and call it a day. It would be fascinating to see what it will be in 50 to 100 years.

My first encounter with a computer was the Altair. then the Timex/Sinclair, then I think a couple in between, then TI 99-4a full setup, then one of just about each since then. It’s been a wild and crazy ride. I can’t keep up, the technology is moving at a lightening fast pace.

a small Hotline server.

Hotline was pretty underground as I remember. Pre-cusor to P2P and a host of other platforms. At the time you’re not quite as aware, but looking through the lens of history, it’s fascinating where all of this technology originated.

I am humbled, and glad you got it stood up and running. Pay it forward. :)

I need to learn Ansible. Seems like an easy way to orchestrate server ‘stuff’

Cloudflare has a ton of services from filtered/unfiltered DNS to Tunnels/ZeroTrust.

but I set up the DNS thingy

From this, I guessed you were attempting to use just the DNS portion like 1.1.1.1 or 1.0.0.1. If I misunderstood, me skuzi. What I’m talking about is:

https://www.cloudflare.com/zero-trust/products/access/

The caveat to use Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust is that you need a proper domain with which you can change the nameservers. Duckdns.org or similar won’t do. When you sign up for ZeroTrust, they will give you two nameserver entries. You take those to your domain registrar and insert those in place of the registrar’s nameservers. I got a domain name from NamesCheap for less than $5 USD.

“I’m on my phone 100 miles away from home, open Jellyfin/Nextcloud/whatever

Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust will do that and more. They have all kinds of bells and whistles that are available on their free tier. I didn’t need most of them. It will do all of that without having to adjust your server’s firewall like UFW. You don’t have to worry about port forwarding or such on your router. It just punches a hole in all of that, and delivers what you need. No muss, no fuss.

To be fair, Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust is not unique. There are a plethora of ZeroTrust Tunnel providers. Ngrok comes to mind and seems to be the more popular of the alternatives, but there are others. Like I said previously, it took me a couple tries to get Cloudflare Tunnels/ZeroTrust down pat. Not so much that it was overly complicated, that’s just usually my modus operandi. I’m dense some days. LOL

Can relate. When I get to going on something, I have to force myself to pause, write the shit down, and proceed on. Then after the session, I’ll review my notes and insert any addenda that needs to clarify a certain point or problem I had that I fixed. It’s a process for sure, but for the most part, I can stand up a Linux server, with firewalls, defenses, docker containers, et al and be ready for production in about a solid day’s work. So, notes are paramount and I lean on them heavily. Then, after everything is buttoned up, I save the raw notes in a labeled sub-folder that gets backed up to multiple stores such as /projects/takeovertheworldproject/. Finally I transfer that to Trillium, which is searchable, and it too gets backed up.

NetVisor looks interesting

meh, probably smoked a bowl and got chatty. Happens.

I mean, at one time I went a bit overboard, but now, not so much, With newer technology happening, you don’t really need a lot to accomplish a lot.

Probably about the time BBS became more popular. I guess there was arpnet, and all these nets, mostly for science, academics, or governmental. Then they essentially rolled it all into one and viola! The internet was born. (It’s a bit more involved) I’ve hosted BBS, forums, chats, irc, a fully licensed/automated internet radio station with live shows with requests et al, <deep breath> services, websites, you name it.

Unfortunately, my brain is shit now, and I’ve forgotten so much. So, sometimes I have to re-learn on a cyclical basis. Plus, the technology is moving now at such a blinding speed, what I did even 5 years ago is old school. Needless to say, I keep copious notes. Somebody is gonna go through all my stuff when I’m gone and think ‘What the devil? This looks like some weird kind of manifesto in some sort of long forgotten code.’ LOL