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Cloudflare is a DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, tunnel provider, etc. They are not a hosting provider. How is using cloudflare somehow discounting the self-host experience?

It's the #2 DNS domain registrar in the world right now. It's not weird at all that most people would use it...luddite you may be.

I started to follow a guide (& doing a bunch of googling + chatGPT) for setting Jellyfin remote access for my parents. And this is where I’m a bit out of my depth [...] I have a dynamic IP [...] duckDNS path

Stay away from DuckDNS. Used to be fabulous but now it's incredibly overused and very unstable. Works, then just stops for a period of time. Check out HurricaneElectric. Any A record can be enabled as DDNS that you can update with just curl. It's great. I've been using them for about 10 years now without issues. They were down one time like... 5 years ago for several hours, and that was it.

Also as a side note: I see people talk about Caddy as a reverse proxy for extra security, but what does it do?

This option is nice if you self-host a web server with no bandwidth restriction. You setup caddy, update your DNS to register your home IP on X domain. Point jelly.x.domain to whatever your public IP is, with the port as a reverse proxy, then your IP is reachable via jelly.x.domain but it's not a great setup for you because of the dynamic IP unless you do a bunch of setup to ensure it routes.

IMO the best option would be;

1. Install jellyfin server
2. Open port 8096 on your router for your jellyfin server IP
3. Create a jellyfin user for your parents, and enable remote connection
4. Setup DDNS (I highly suggest he.net) and point your domain to your IP
5. Setup cron job to update your DDNS record with he.net every hour or so using curl
6. Setup jellyfin for your parents TV or whatever device they'll use to watch it
7. Login and enjoy

Preach, brother! Preach!

Weird. Never had an issue with syncplay... What's your setup look like?

Seems like it was only a matter of time.

20% more will jump to Jellyfin. The other 80% will entrench and talk even more about how great Plex is. I mean Jesus, $250 to watch pirated movies. lol wtf It's also fucking wild to me that people are defending a monetization model that is on self hosted hardware. Like, I gotta pay for my server and then a license to avoid buying DVDs. Fuck it, at this point just buy the fucking movie.

Ya'll are brain dead. Plex loves you tho.

Depends on how much room you have and what your budget is. In my server room, with no cooling it gets up to 90F pretty quickly. A standing AC unit with a dehumidifier rectifies the situation and keeps the room at 70F without issue. It's an inverter unit on a separate electrical line, so it's pretty energy efficient (especially because I'm shooting for 70F and not 60F), and there's no chance of failed power because the AC tripped a breaker.

Low tech solutions sometimes are the best. Cut open your wall and install a box fan. 🤷‍♂️ Cheap and effective. lol

Nice! I was unaware that you could do this. Cheers.

They've only very recently begun to change their public opinion on it. Last year this time Bernie was catching heat for refusing to support a permanent ceasefire;

Senator Bernie Sanders's refusal to call for a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas has put him at odds with many of the same progressives [...] ^1

Additionally, this is AOCs stance on Israel: https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/ocasio-cortez-statement-first-anniversary-october-7th

As you can see, she strongly condemns Hamas, which is great. She strongly condemns Israel, and Netanyahu, which is great. And I totally agree with the entire statement all the way down until the last paragraph;

None of this was inevitable. And it can still be stopped. Hamas, Israel, and Hezbollah should agree to a lasting ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon.

Hamas is a terrorist organization which was quite literally created by Israel by their systematic abuse of an entire group of people. There's nothing about this entire situation that wasn't inevitable. You can't abuse a people for decades, encroach on their lives, livelihood, murder them, strongly police them, continually treat them like shit and sub-human and expect them not to retaliate. Much like the US is directly responsible for the situations leading to terrorist attacks against the US, Israel is also directly responsible for Hamas.

Even aside from all of this, her views on Israel again, just like Sanders are relatively new. Just last year she was about to be censured by other party members for being too soft on Israel ^1.

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference." -- Elie Wiesel

So yeah, it's great that they're just now coming around to the plight of Gaza and the Palestinians it's not like they actually believe it. It's all politically motivated. They're beginning to understand that unless they condemn Israel they won't be elected--which is pretty fucked up IMO.

I mean, support for genocide is wholly evil, I don't care what your other policies are. lol Evil is evil lil bro. There's no such thing as a lesser degree of evil.

It would be the same if like, Donald Trump was a perfect candidate, but he's also a sexual predator. That should immediately disqualify him, otherwise you're supporting that behavior.

Bernie and AOC most closely align with my political viewpoints, but they're also supporting genocide... If I support them, then I'm also supporting genocide. Is what it is.

If that pisses you off, then maybe talk to Bernie and/or AOC about their stance on Israel.

No. https://github.com/lz4/lz4

LZ4 already has a caddy layer which interprets and compresses data streams for caddy: https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4

It's also very impressive.

The idea of generative AI isn't accuracy, so that's pretty expected.

Generative AI is designed to be used with a content base and expand on information, not to create new information. You can feed generative AI with the entirety of the current Wikipedia text source and have it expand on subjects which need it, and curtail and simplify other subjects which need it.

You don't ask generative AI to come up with new information--that's how you get inaccurate information.

text AI generators making up believable lies if it doesnt have enough information

Let's not anthropomorphize AI. It doesn't lie. It uses available data to expand on a subject to make it conversationally complete when it lacks sufficient information on a subject, regardless of whether or not the context is correct. That's completely different, and you can specifically prohibit an AI from doing that...

AI is great when used appropriately. The issue is that people are using AI as a Google replacement, something it's not designed to do. AI isn't a fact engine. LLMs are designed to as closely resemble human speech as possible, not to give correct information to questions. People's issue with AI is that they're fucking using it wrong.

This is an exceptionally great usage of AI because you already have the required factual background knowledge. You can simply feed it to your AI telling it not to fill in any gaps and to rewrite articles to be more uniform and to have direct and easy to consume verbiage. This instance is quite literally what generative AI was designed for....to use factual knowledge and to generate context around the existing data.

Issues arise when you use AI for things other than what it was intended, and you don't give it enough information and it has to generate information to complete datasets. AI will do what you ask, you just have to know how to ask it. That's why AI prompt engineers are a thing.

Why they are so threatened by AOC and Sanders, and the calls for the old guard to GTFO

Both Sanders and AOC both support Israel. The progressive base may like them better than "the old guard" but they're not exactly in love with these two. It's a begrudging vote, not a happy one.