Typically to have a node app everywhere you have to open up ports (80, 25) that will then be continuously assaulted from the outside.
Erm. You like assaults Bro?
What I’m doing is to have my TW run in a docker container which then connects to Tailscale.
Is Tailscale a friend?
… in theory, anyone who does get in will be stuck inside the docker container.
I remember that. Am I still there?
… consider routing your domain name through cloudflare instead of sending it directly from your name provider. That provides some protection from the less sophisticated bots.
I didn’t say it was a good idea. It’s just what I found in a lot of the self-hosting lit.
Hope so. They make some great YT videos. The guy’s got a great accent. Basically it is an easy-to-use VPN service that also provides you with an SSL-protected domain name. If you have a website or service that you only want to share with your own devices anywhere you go, or a couple close friends, then this might be the ticket.
Cloudflare is a web service that serves up your web site. (This is un-intuitively called a reverse-proxy). This has many advantages in terms of security and performance.
When someone attempts to go to your CF-protected website, the address they first see is cloudflare. CF detects and mitigates bot activity and denial of service activity. It serves up activity from your site so the user doesn’t see your actual IP address. If your users are far away from your server it can cache material at servers closer to them for faster uptake.
When a website asks if you are human, it might be coming from cloudflare. Depending on which statistics you see, as much as 40% of the top websites use Cloudflare.
This is called a " Grand bi ", like every cycle model with a great diameter difference between wheels, as far as I can tell. There might be some slight differences between look-alike models, but I don’t know any other name for these.
Before they figured out gears, the Penny Farthing was the way you could achieve “high” (pun!) speeds on a bike. One imagines that in a time of unpaved and brick roads that the large diameter wheel also helped smooth out the bumps.
The type of bicycle we ride today was originally called a “safety bike” because the alternative was the towering Penny Farthing.
Apparently they made (and make) different front wheel sizes depending on the calibre of the rider. As they say, the bike chooses the rider.
The fact that people are still making and buying Penny Farthings confirms one of the core principles of What Technology Wants – that no technology ever goes extinct.
I’ve seen the explanations of British currency values many times, but it never really sinks in. When I read something that uses it, I have only the vaguest sense of the worth and relationships. “Wait, how many guineas in a sovereign?!”
That’s because the entire country was using l.s.d… or pounds shillings and pence.
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The reason we used ‘d’ for pence is that ‘d’ stood for denarius. Of course ‘s’ can stand for shilling or solidus and ‘l’ stands for ‘libra’, the Roman pound. So 12 denarii (‘d’) made one solidus (‘s’) and twenty solidii made one pound (‘l’).
