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Only problem here is that the repos in question are all hosted on a corporate service beholden to these ridiculous laws.

Like, I'm sure there are other places hosting emulators, but in this particular case.

True, these do sound like the best solutions honestly. I wanted to avoid something like Tailscale, since it just becomes another point for me to support/troubleshoot on the user end, but maybe I should reconsider. It's a tradeoff, but it would also simplify a lot on my end.

Sorry, yeah, "broadcasting" was a bad word choice. What I meant was that if I port-forward, it exposes that socket to potential bad actors searching for exposed services.

Thanks, I'm only very vaguely familiar with NGINX, so I appreciate the clarification.

Thank you for such an in-depth reply!

There's a lot to take in here, but it sounds like I've got some work to do - not necessarily a bad thing. It's honestly about time I took my network more seriously and set up some proper routing / firewalls.

Each "letter" is the topological representation of the corresponding letter of the English alphabet.

So A becomes O because it has one closed loop, B becomes 8 because it has 2 loops, C becomes because it has no loops, etc.

I'm a millennial, but I don't necessarily care if the person I'm watching exists or not.

That's not to say there aren't a bunch of other factors involved that would generally steer me away from artificial people (general corporate BS being the obvious one), but all else being equal, I'm totally fine with it.

There are ways around it, but yeah, I think they pretty much get forced on most users afaik.

Oof, yeah, thats pretty bad. As an Albertan, I definitely feel the pain of ignorant voters.

I'm jealous. Here in Canada, our current PM's entire election campaign was based on the promise of scrapping FPTP. Then he reversed course pretty much day 1 after getting elected.

Yeah, thats definitely something I need to look into setting up.

Wouldn't this require any user to connect to the VPN though? I'm looking for something more publicly accessible - say like a website.

Ahh okay, thanks for the clarification. Honestly I should use NGINX just for the sake of learning it, if nothing else.

I messed with pfsense a bit at my old job, but never really thought to use it in my home network - might just give that a shot, thanks!

Just in terms of broadcasting my home IP directly vs having a middleman, essentially.

Thanks for the reply!

So the NGINX server hosted outside your network, then? And then reverse-proxy that into your home server?

Honestly, I feel like NGINX is a bit overkill for my situation, since I'm not expecting to have a lot of traffic. I could be wrong, though.

It sucks that we can't just have nice things any more, there always has to be some executive somewhere that just totally ruins everything for everyone all the time.

If they told people it was just to add more "telemetry" and ads, they wouldn't install it.

On the internet, any time you're about to call someone out for saying/doing something wrong, I suggest first checking that it isn't just a cultural thing. Those undersea cables stretch pretty far.

Haha I like that line. Like, it's obvious, but I've never seen it phrased like that.