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Lol, easier to write an article theorizing the ways it can be done than to just show him a centered div.

Right?! I’m surprised that I haven’t just run out of internet yet, but here we are :D I’ll be sure to post about it when it happens ;p

I am fast and loose with blocking on all platforms. No regrets.

It’s often not even personal. Sometimes someone expresses a mild dislike of cats and I’m like “don’t need your noise”.

Repost a hilarious meme that I whole heatedly agree with, but with the word “fuck” poorly crossed out? “Algo-speak promoting motherfuckers”, roll of the dice on my mood, probably blocked.

My Guild Wars 2 ignore list is full of people labeled “says boiz too much”, “annoying fashion”, “made bad joke about bees”.

There are so many people on the Internet, it’s fine. I’ve taken this approach since MUDs were in fashion and I am pretty confident that it’s only served to improve my online experiences.

Well, I tried shovin’ a wiener in the warp drive, but it dinna do a bit of good. By the by, would ya have a wee bit of mustard up on the bridge?

Fuck I hate this.

I run into this most often on sites for TV shows and movies myself.

I understand that we exist under capitalism and that it costs money to host and distribute these videos.

I’m willing to pay for access to this service by letting an ad play (probably while I’m pouring a glass of water in another room and have my speakers off).

What gets me is a 3 minute ad on a 44 second video. Interrupting the middle of a sentence with an ad is also annoying. Placing a 30 second ad in the middle of a song can also fuck right off.

Find an appropriate spot for your ad, and make it’s length sensible with regards to the length of the content I’m watching. Or just don’t offer an ad supported tier of your service.

There are cases where forward and reverse DNS need to match, and you may not want to have any association between two domains. SMTP is something that comes to mind. If your HELO/EHLO domain doesn’t match up, there are many servers that just won’t deliver your mail. I host my own email, and I work with very technical people. I don’t want “fun-domain.com” and “domain-on-my-resume.com” resolving to the same IP address. But I can host them on the same server.

There’s still some software out there that does not support SNI.

While your post body focuses on VPS, your question doesn’t, so I’ll also mention self hosting your own VMs. You can do a lot with reverse proxies and funky port based traffic routers, but sometimes just giving the VM it’s own IP is way simpler. Especially if you don’t mind hosting the VM, but aren’t interested in managing the service. I host a VM for a MUD I used to play. I don’t run the MUD, I don’t want to. I want them to be able to do stuff on their website without me having to edit a reverse proxy config, or without having to give them access to the host server.

It can also be used to increase the number of connections you can have to a single interface.

Perhaps you’re hosting your own VPN and you want traffic to come out an entirely different interface than the one your other services are on, for segregation reasons.

A secondary IP can also allow for a bit of service redundancy. Probably not the most relevant thing in self-hosting land, but the ability to move an IP between two different VPSs (assuming they’re on different hypervisors anyway) is pretty handy.

I used to use prgmr, I still do but they call themselves TornadoVPS now. Haven’t had any issues.

Afaik the person who wrote winmx is now publishing fopnu and darkmx. So it’s still around, just in a modern iteration.

For a while now I’ve been using either haproxy or nginx depending on my needs. I’ve hit instances with both where the functionality I want is in the paid version.

Have you looked for providers that offer ETRN? Seems like that might fit your use case well.

I’ve hosted my own email for over a decade with very few issues. It’s low ram and CPU usage so a very cheap VM (or a pair in different locations if you wanna be leet) can be a viable way to avoid the ISP related issues people have trying to host it at home. If you really want it all ending up at home you can do ETRN as mentioned and while TCP/25 is often blocked at home, the submission port (TCP/587) rarely is.

I don’t watch a TON of these things, but I do enjoy them from time to time. The two bits I enjoy the most are vicarious rediscovery of something I enjoy, and getting a very different point of view on the same thing.

Generally when I watch these it’s stuff like “Classically trained musician listens to Megadeth for the first time”. I get reminded of some bits that I’ve grown accustomed to, and sometimes get a whole new perspective on something I’ve been enjoying for years.

I will say, I don’t get “Youtuber reacts to other youtubers reaction to some twitch streamer breakdancing” or “Gymrat listens to ABBA for the first time”.

I fell asleep during “A new hope” 3 times, and just stopped once out of boredom before I was finally able to make it through the whole movie. 100% feel you here. I respect it for what it is, and enjoy a lot of the stuff that has come after it, but man do I feel the original was just LIMP.

FWIW I’m using the downvote button as a “You didn’t explain”, “That’s a band not a movie”, “That’s a show not a movie”, “That’s a genre of animation, not a movie” button ;p I’m definitely clicking it far more often that I typically do =p

It’s wild how many people can write but not read.

I use a hardware password manager that connects over USB or bluetooth for most things. The few things that I use often I have a system for, and that system is popular culture.

Love “The Prisoner of Azkaban”? Initialize it, and add the publish date some where: HP&TPoA|1999

Starship troopers fan? Initialize a memorable quote. “The enemy can not push a button… if you disable his hand. Medic!”: Tecnpab…iydhh.M! Need numbers? Find a quote with numbers, or add the release year, or the number of times you watched it that one weekend where you and a friend watched it 32 times.

Like TV shows more? How about the fourth episode of family guy: S1-MindOverMuder-E4.

Metal Fan? I do love track three off of Metallica’s 1983 album: #3|Motorbreath-1983

Etc.

Microsoft pivoted to Skype. Saved you a click and reading about 1000 words.

I must have been way out of it late last night. I totally missed that you were asking why people do it and not looking for recommendations. Sorry for the spammy nonsense response to your OP.

To the latter question, I’ve seen devices that do OTP and FIDO in addition to basically storing arbitrary strings (e.g. your cc number).

I get harassment scolding me for using Lemmy to advertise when I mention any of the products by name, despite having no affiliation with any of them outside of being a user, but they’re not hard to find if you look.

I’m curious why your listed options are all software that runs on the internet as opposed to a piece of hardware that you connect to your devices.

Is that just because this is the self hosting community?

Why not a piece of hardware instead of self hosting, cloud hosting, etc?

“Is anyone else constantly getting logged out of slack?” - The last message I ever got from my favourite co-worker.