Ah man, my boss wants to get our department Meta glasses for taking pictures of parts we make, we literally get a bonus on our pay cheques for us having our phones on us an be reachable.
SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.
Why is 255 off limits? What is 127.0.0.0 used for?
Hypothetically you’re working on an application but you don’t want that application exposed to the internet, you would use localhost to either expose it to 1 machine on your network or network wide by opening a port and telling the application to listen on the private IP assigned by your router.
Advanced setup would include a reverse proxy to forward the requests from the applications port to the internet, the reverse proxy would use port 80:80 (http) & 443:433 (https), so the flow would look a little like this -
Internet > Reverse Proxy listening on 80:80 & 443:443 > Application listening on 8080:8080
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Why does it span to .254? Well this is another advanced setup but if you wanted to segregate two application on different subnets you can. I’m not sure if there is a security benefit by adding the extra hop but the option is there.
Yes, back up your stuff regularly, don’t be like me and break your partition table with a 4 month gap between backups. Accomplishing 4 months of work in 5 hours is not fun.
so they shouldn't be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?
Yes, they only provide country, province/state and city. As others mentioned if you’re worried about this information get yourself a reliable VPN provider and, route all your devices through said VPN provider, ideally through your router.
When picking a VPN provider it is highly recommended to read their Privacy Policy before signing up, ensure they don’t log data.
The other day my raspberry pi decided it didn’t want to boot up, I guess it didn’t like being hosted on an SD card anymore, so I backed up my compose folder and reinstalled Rasp Pi OS under a different username than my last install.
If I specified the full path on every container it would be annoying to have to redo them if I decided I want to move to another directory/drive or change my username.
This makes the files for SearXNG two folders away. I also store these in the /home/YourUser directory so docker avoids using sudoers access whenever possible.
I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.