If that traffic is going through an encrypted Wireguard tunnel, I don’t see a reason to encrypt it a second time. Judging by your description, it’s already encrypted on transport between the router and VPS. HTTPS would add nothing there. It will however add encryption within your DMZ, if you expect something nefarious going on within your DMZ.

You need to jump through several hoops to have privacy while ordering online. I mean per default they need your address to deliver the thing to you, need some bank details to get the money, you’ll be motivated to create an account (for example for warranty/returns…). And there’s always some things running in the background with your IP address and bank details because there’s fraud and shops have to mitigate for that. So… I’m sure it is possible to order online with varying degrees of privacy. But it loses all the convenience that online shopping is supposed to provide.

I like shopping offline. And maybe my small contribution is going to help some real-world stores stay afloat in our modern world. I have GrapheneOS on my phone, I don’t think Google Pay works on my phone. And even if it did, I wouldn’t provide my credit card number to Google. I’ll just pay with my card in the usual supermarket or at the gas station for convenience, or use cash if I don’t want to leave a trail. And I don’t do all the discount programs. They’re mostly there to keep track of my shopping behaviour. I’m going to need at least some 10 or 15% discount for me to start with that shit.

At least that’s how I do it. It’s not 100% privacy, by any means. But my dislike of Amazon etc at least makes me order few things there. So they only know about a small chunk of my life. Not what kind of washing detergent or phone or computer I use, what size of clothes fit my body. I buy all of that in offline stores. And I’ll keep doing that as long as there’s still some around. And the only thing they know about me is whatever number an EC terminal leaves when I swipe my card. Unfortunately they’re all being displaced by online shopping. I hope my government regulates what kind of things proper German stores can do with my credit card numbers.

Nothing really. We have all necessary productivity tools in Linux and the Android phone is on my desk anyway. I mean don’t get me wrong, Waydroid is nice. And I tinkered around some. But there isn’t anything I’d use it for. Maybe if my bank had some weird companion apps or I needed some other proprietary app or messenger.

Hmm. I think the main damage is done by other factors. I mean even before AI, everything turned into subscriptions and services. We use Office365 these days and the documents are in the cloud. There isn’t much need for Free Software Office Suites or mail clients anymore. Operating systems have less impact because honestly only old people use computers. Everyone else does their stuff on a phone. And then we finally crossed the barrier into a post-privacy world and people don’t care. And on top of that large companies take the nice database projects, libraries etc and monetize products with that. Without caring too much if that’s sustainable. And AI is one negative factor amongst many.

I think educational activities work best once they have some application to someones life. So it’d be something within the realm of a 7yo. And it’s not fun unless there’s a sense of achievement every now and then, along with all the stuff to learn. So probably not too steep of a learning curve.

Sadly they discontinued Lego Mindstorms. I think robotics is a great hands-on topic. People can grasp what they’re currently doing, why they do it, and what it’s good for. It has a tactile aspect, so you’ll train dexterity as well and gently connect the physical realm with the maths.

But other than that, I bet there’s a lot of things you can try. Design a website (and deploy a small webserver). Maybe some easy to use photo gallery if they have a tablet or camera. Maybe a Wordpress for them to write a Blog? They should be familiar with the concept of a diary. Kids love Minecraft, so maybe a Luanti server if you’re into Free Software. But learn how to add NPCs and animals, that is (or used to be?) a complicated process in Luanti and the world feels boring and empty without. A chat server to their loved ones could motivate them to read and write text (messages). Or skip the selfhosting aspect and do the kids games available for Linux. Paint, LibreOffice…

I like the recommendations from other people as well. Sadly I don’t know which kids programming language works best. I think I heard you can just go straight for Python as well. Not sure if that’s true or what age group that applies to. It’s a bit more involved to learn the syntax and why you need brackets around certain things etc but at least they get to learn the real deal and something properly useful. 7 might be a bit young, though. And there might be a language barrier. But that applies to all the computer stuff behind the scenes, unless you’re a native English speaker.

https://kdenlive.org/

It’s the default open-source video editor and pretty much an allrounder.

If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.

Or maybe @WhiteHotaru@feddit.org would like to do that for us?

This article is missing the point. Government should protect people’s rights. This isn’t a private matter. And companies are for-profit entities. They care for money. Less so for ethics and morality. And why is only sharing information with the government bad? Isn’t the real issue how they collect all the data about everyone in the first place? Is sharing that with privately owned entities okay? Like other people, your health insurance company, targeted advertising companies, hackers? I hope not.

Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. Or something concerned with household or businesses. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make random lists of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report in the meantime: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors are? And Gitea is listed twice. And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation? Also I think a few projects I use are missing. Why isn’t the most common content management system there? The second most common password manager? The reverse proxy everyone uses? And who on earth needs customer live chat and a lot of business-scale website analytics, webshop systems and CRM and ERP in their homelab?? I’m sorry but this looks like slop.

Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.

By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed later on. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time with new seasons. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.

I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But personally - I’m split on this question. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that, and because of it. Those people would be working some office job today if it wasn’t to Youtube. And I (and the world) would miss out… On the other hand we got MrBeast, a lot of fake cooking videos…

One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home. Some internet service providers don’t provide proper IPv4 addresses any more so IPv6 is the most convenient way to connect. This doesn’t require a VPN provider, though.

Yes. And best don’t turn any setting off or change things around unless someone knows what they’re doing. Power off the entire computer and unplug the storage device physically. (And subsequently, take it as an invitation to learn more about automated backups.)

As far as I know it uses the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol. On a channel within the regular 2.4GHz wifi spectrum. So no license needed unless it collides with laws for point-to-point beams. All people communicating to each other obviously need to agree on a channel. It comes with some hierarchy where I’m at. There are local chapters who make up some config and who also operate nodes and exit nodes into the internet. These are necessary because Germany has stupid laws.

There’s Freifunk as well!

They’re fairly transparent with everything. You could call it open-source. And it’s supposed to be the first large model which complies with the EU AI regulations. They try to make an effort not to include too much material from people who objected to AI use, and there is a way to opt out. They did not deliberately pirate books like Meta did. But with that said, it’s still AI. Training needs a lot of water and energy. Though I think this Alps supercomputing center tries to be carbon-neutral and use Swiss hydropower. Whatever that means in practice. Opt-out is probably the best thing we can do but it’s not exactly consent from the authors of the training material. And I don’t think there is a way to compensate them. And AI can of course be problematic once used, so that depends on what people do with it.

I’d call it more ethical (than other models). But I don’t see how it’d be strictly ethical in absolute terms. Looks to me like an effort to improve, maybe substantially on what other people did. But there’s still a lot of problematic aspects of AI which scientists and society hasn’t addressed yet.

Yes. I think several clients have open feature requests. The Stalwart documentation has a list of projects. There is one command line client as of now. But I’m not switching to a cli mail client or proprietary software, so I’ve postponed it. We’ll see where this is going.

I welcome these modernization attempts. Though in theory I’d love to see someone revamp email in its entirety, add encryption, signatures, chat and crack down on spam and phishing. Not sure if that’s ever going to happen, but that’d be great, too.

Unfortunately JMAP isn’t supported (yet) by a lot of email clients. I don’t think there’s a good open-source email suite for computers available… But I’ve tried Stalwart as well and it’s really sleek and seems to come with good defaults.