welcome to neoliberal economics.

you're capable of using a dictionary. pick which ever definition you feel fits best. their intent was very clear from the get go. They were never interested in being a decent interaction.

the fact china actually invests in engineering and manufacturing and doesnt outsource is the primary driver of the low costs.

no, it was irrelevant to their harassment of the person they were replying to. they were simultaneously attacking the person accusing them of essentially being an idiotic nationalist for literally espousing the exact same position. Trying to claim the moral higher ground for literally identical positions is fucking retarded.

yes, are you implying you'd prefer that americans continue that particular interpretation? or adopt the one this person is advocating for?

found the wizard who cant reverse their hat.

I was hoping to instill a moment of self reflection into you. but clearly that didnt happen.

The words / aspirations coming from a flawed group of men don't demean the nature of those aspirations. It simply means some things transcend cultures/generations. And I will note a fair number of the men involved in that whole process did aspire to them and wrote against slavery, for allowing women to vote, and other such things that align with your world view. surprise LGBTQ+ existed in the 1700s as well!

Nor do they necessarily invoke nationalism you're railing against.

You can strive for these things without clinging on to a rose tinted past.

what percisely is 'rose tinted past' about this paragraph? and which parts do you disagree with? be specific now.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

On the one had you're 'yes of course they should aspire to the meaning of those words' and on the other your harassing an individual whose invoking them in the hope of inspiring people to actually live up to them.

Your nationalism is exactly why you are stuck struggling like his. It needs to die already.

America's*** not mine. see the distinction there?

so they shouldnt aspire to being better got it.

Ultimately, to handle the fact that things are going to shit, you either choose, despair, ignorance or indifference. The last was my choice.

you've missed a important option.

didnt say it wasnt. you just missed the option for others. =)

The immigrants aren’t taking our jobs. They’re doing the work “we” don’t want to do. Agriculture. Janitorial. Construction. Stuff like that.

partially false, they're working under conditions we technically have employment laws against. longer hours, no recourse against management, etc. it helps suppress wages across the board. This include higher paying jobs like software development, nursing, doctors, etc.

yeah 64 is about all im willing to run with these days but I'm a developer who has a bunch of heavy RAM loads.

yup people forget about convenience. its why I've been building retrovibed for the last year. that *arr + plex/jellyfin + vpn + reverse proxy nonsense is insane. yes you can do it.... but seriously who the fuck wants to manage that many moving parts.

AMD for about everything except AI (and its not far behind on AI, I run AMD with AI loads)./

most important thing these days is RAM. lots and lots of it. unfortunately its also expensive as fuck now.

things you shouldnt need to do....

Wear a plastic face guard. the build up is literally tiny particulates flying out of your mouth while you brush. just wash your counter after you brush is basically the only way.

I never said anything about using the VPN as an ACL.

its literally your entire argument. you may not realize that is what you're saying but it is. 'vpns prevent {insert entity here} from accessing your systems by not publicly exposing them'. ACL -> 'access control list', you need to be on the VPNs list in order to access it which provides control for the network. your router already exposes you to the public internet. using a VPN or not doesnt change this.

in fact:

Sure, but someone would have to first get on the VPN

what do you think the phrase first get on the VPN means? its literally has access via the ACL. more on that paragraph later...

I’m also only talking about residential use cases, where it’s a common practice (when not using a VPN) to just expose everything via port forwarding.

business vs residential doesnt change security properties of approaches.

Businesses aren’t setting up Jellyfin on their servers.

because its literally is not a tool designed for any practical business use case. but that's completely unrelated to its security properties. You're literally just slapping a VPN in front to deal with the broken ACL's that jellyfin provides.

Sure, but someone would have to first get on the VPN, and then find vulnerable apps once on the internal network, as opposed to just scanning the internet for public-facing vulnerable systems.

Doubling up on the authn/authz layers doesnt improve security, it just worsens user experience, which then leads to users taking short cuts for their own convenience undercutting whatever security you're doing.

again as that wonderful federal document discusses VPNs are useful for preventing lateral movement once a device on a network is compromised (see worse user experience). but you literally need multiples of them in order for that to be effective and you need a reason for the segmentation.

Wireguard (and thus Tailscale) doesn’t respond to port scans at all - it only responds to packets that are signed with a known key.

port scanning isnt a vulnerability, its an attack optimization. a discovery mechanism once an attacker already on a network.

it doesnt really even slow attackers down these days. it doesnt take long to just plaster every port with your request for a specific application and when you're attacking a system you essentially already know what vulnerabilities you're going to attack (or you just try all the ones you have). oh no, it took them 30 seconds to compromise the network instead of 3....

you can also achieve similar properties at the application level w/ quic's 0-RT, you send the auth request in the initial packet. so either the authn works or the connection silently hangs just like wireguard.

Nevermind the fact that using something like wireguard gives attackers something to target on your local device. 'oh look, the keys to the kingdom just sitting here... on disk... in a well known directory... so kind of people to just leave these skeleton keys just lying out in the open like this, its a great trick VPNs have pulled teaching everyone they're for security instead of privacy'

Admittedly, networking and network security isn’t my specialty

And I'll refer you back to my original posts about VPNs not being effective security measures and how you should stop quoting dogma.

Its perfectly fine you're using one, just stop spreading misinformation that they're for security in any manner. you're just using it to poorly plug security issues down stream in jellyfin.

fun fact: did you know that the encryption in the bittorrent protocol is basically useless and has major performance impacts when enabled?

also fun fact: did you know most networks get compromised by attacking the router itself first? you know the easiest thing to secure in the first place from a complexity standpoint? making this entire discuss pointless?

in real terms: try retrovibed at some point its still early days for it but its UX is designed around dealing with a lot of these issues.

If a service is publicly accessible, anyone can access it.

false.

Even if it’s secured, there can be security issues in the auth layer of the app, improperly secured endpoints, etc.

true, fun fact a VPN is also an application with an auth layer. dun dun dun!

If a service is only available over VPN, nobody can access it unless they’re on the VPN.

which is basically anyone soon as a browser is in the mix. which it is.

I’m not sure why you seem to think that a private network isn’t more secure than a public network.

because I've done network hardening and know that they are only as secure as the devices and people that are a part of that network. it has nothing to do w/ private vs public and everything to do with what you do while within that network.

There’s a reason why practically every company requires people working remotely to connect to a VPN to access company resources.

uh huh. heard of lemmings? appeals to authority? etc, etc, etc. thats you right now. federal agencies guidelines regarding VPNs search terms for you: Federal Zero Trust Strategy (notably via OMB Memo M-22-09). Individuals like yourself are literally the reason they had to release these updated guidelines. because people kept quoting out of date security practices from their old guidelines as 'good enough for the feds must be best practices'

like i said you dont know what you're talking about. historical foot note: when the federal agency updated their recommendations regarding VPNs they were criticized by security experts for taking so fucking long to finally remove the misguided position that VPNs improve security that you hold.

here is a relevant snippet for everyone:

Regardless of the approach selected, agencies must move away from the practice of maintaining a broad enterprise-wide network that allows enhanced visibility or access to many distinct applications and enterprise functions. Accordingly, agencies should choose their zero trust approach early enough to permit them to align that approach with their plans for IT investment

Literally use 'authn/authz' and dont rely on VPNs for ACL. Here is another gem from that memo for today's lucky 10,000:

Agencies must remove password policies that require special characters and regular password rotation from all systems

and yet companies still put that nonsense into their security policies.

except its not. VPNs provide no real protection for a network. its literally undercut by any network connection that reaches beyond the wall it provides.

VPNs are a routing simplification and privacy measure not a security measure. idiots try and use them as a security layer thinking they're safer.

thats, like, your opinion man. frankly slapping a VPN on top of everything else doesnt improve your security posture unless you have the skills to manage that system on top of everything, including ongoing validation that its configuration is restricting what you want it to.

a robust authn/authz at the application layer is what secures your environment. VPNs are just slapping a wall around your network that is trivially penetrated by the browsers (and their extensions) within your network.

stop spouting dogma seriously doesnt make you look intelligent. personally the only reason I bother with a VPN is so I can leverage my local networks dns to access services anywhere. its not for security.