Look at the PDF carefully before sharing it. Most academic publishers put a timestamp on it that reveals who downloaded it, at least at institution level. Sometimes this is even embedded as metadata. If the PDF says anywhere “author personal copy”, please don’t share it on the author’s behalf.

This is mostly to avoid getting them into trouble.

Otherwise, go and share, authors love it!

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Yeah..this is going to be measured in $10Ks

I have self-hosted my own emails many times. Up to having three SMTP servers with failsafe option at DNS.

It’s super nice, but I would never self-host SMTP again. It’s a nightmare. I had to email or open a ticket at most ISPs despite my clean IPs. Most ISPs simply blacklist all IPs unless they are major email providers already.

My advice is go for it but let SMTP be handled by who will deal with these frustrations. MXroute is a great choice and it’s cheap.

There are some managed tunnel alternatives but they are not cheap. At this point it’s cheaper to rent a $20/year VPS and install one of these: https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

I personally love frp

Edit: I have never tried it, but there’s also Tailscale Funnel https://tailscale.com/kb/1223/tailscale-funnel/

I use it. It’s more lightweight than AdGuard, in terms of resources. I find the UI to be at the same time a worse UX but quicker to achieve things. I don’t think that they perform differently once they have the same blocklists.

Not anymore https://www.ivpn.net/blog/gradual-removal-of-port-forwarding/

I use https://github.com/bastienwirtz/homer because it is dead simple to configure, and I protect it with HTTP auth at the reverse proxy level.

Speaking of, it’s been a while since I’ve looked at these downloaders. What are the most recent and good ones?

In case nginx does not work out for you, you can opt for more generic reverse proxies. frp is my favorite one: https://github.com/fatedier/frp

See https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

Perfect. Came here to post the very same, and I’m glad to see that it is planned. Really like the app so far, there’s significant improvements at each release.

If you have an offsite copy of your files (and not in a sync service like Dropbox) you are already in a better position than most.

Restoring from offsite takes time, even with Backblaze’s option of shipping a hard disk. You may also have data corruption troubles, companies may close all of sudden. It’s just not as convenient as local copies.

A further copy that is locally available is simply a better strategy. Adding more copies after these two is not a bad idea but you start getting hit by the law of diminishing returns.

You can actually read more about the 3-2-1 rule in a Backblaze post: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

My instance is so far to browse Lemmy Fediverse. There are no local communities. It is for a bunch of friends only.

Does it make any damages if it doesn’t de-federate from these or other problematic instances? Genuine question.

I bet it is also going to be a “minimum 100 seats” kind of way. Let us know what they say!

Put.io only has torrents, though. There’s also premiumize.me which has torrents, Usenet, and some DDL. It has been a bit of hit and miss for DDL, though.

It was nice to see a notification for once. Well received!

MXroute. First, because Jar is stupid (hope someone will get the reference). Second, because they are awesome and cheap at the same time. You can go from full-fledged hosting with them to using them as relay, and for pizza money for a year.

Hey 👋

I can feel it. This is it. 2023 will be the year.

Technitium that I host myself. Works like a charm.

How could one be invited to their email service? I don’t think I know anyone who’s in there.