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Great Job!

I built something similar but different -- specifically just for tasks without voice -- https://asht.ar -- that might be worth checking out!

We are at 1000+ users and growing! ^^

Show HN: Ashtar Is a Task Interface (TI) for AI

https://asht.ar

Chat interfaces help to display the ability of LLMs, but by and large the best uses have been refined cases such as code editors among others.I believe that LLMs are a massively useful tool -- and the usefulness is unlocked by the power of the wielder/user.In order to help people unlock the best outcomes from LLM, I felt it was necessary to build a Task Interface that the LLM would output...

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Re:Private Cloud Compute Security Guide on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:35AM (#42064839)
To be fair, it's much easier than one can imagine (try ollama on macOS for example). In the end, Apple wrote a lot of longwinded text, but the summary is "you have to trust us."

I don't trust Apple - in fact, even the people we trust the most have told us soft lies here and there. Trust is a concept like an integral - you can only get to "almost" and almost is 0.

So you can only trust yourself. Period.

Re:Private Cloud Compute Security Guide on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @11:00AM (#42064293)
Exactly. You can only trust yourself [1] and should self host.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JyDvBbZ6Q

Re:Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @11:26AM (#41580950)
Great point!

We offer 5 because we're geared toward helping people host appliances as opposed to raw network setup! We also offer automatic RDNS with this as well as the Cloud Seeder appliance!

Thanks again for your comments and as well thoughts!

Re:Gentle Guide to Self-Hosting on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @10:08AM (#41579909)
I am part of a company that promotes self hosting and provides external routing for self hosting [1]

We made Cloud Seeder [2] an open source application that makes deploying and managing your self-hosted server a 1-click issue!

Hope this comes in handy for someone! :-)

[1] https://ipv6.rs

[2] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

Re:Coding on iPad using self-hosted VSCode, Caddy, and code-server on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:45PM (#41449089)
You can also do this with 1-click and no effort using Cloud Seeder [1]

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder </shameless>

Re:Server Setup Basics for Self Hosting on Monday August 26, 2024 @12:49AM (#41354109)
And for those of you that don't have an external IP, you can use services that provide egress for you like IPv6.rs. [1]

[1] I'm DevOps there! ;)

Re:Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:36PM (#41351161)
> if you have to reason about how the operator will handle legal threats, you shouldn't bother reasoning about the messenger at all.

That's true.

You need to run your own platform people. XMPP is plenty simple, plenty powerful, and plenty safe -- and even your metadata is in your control.

Just self host. There's no excuse in 2024.

Wake up people!

Why should the arrest of someone else affect YOU?

Re:Self-hosting workshop in Portland tomorrow on Friday August 02, 2024 @12:24PM (#41140168)
I for one am a fan of the short and sweet. I think it's very straight forward -- if someone follows the video they can do the same, with you, in real time and I think that's great.

Good job and good luck with your speech tomorrow. It's really good that you're promoting self hosting -- this really is the final line for the battle of the people vs big data on the internet.

I'm surprised that nobody suggested self hosting a GitLab or Gitea instance. [1]

[1] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder

Re:Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @10:12AM (#40986173)
While we haven't made a box, we made the software side in GoLang [1]

This lets you host the most popular self hosted apps with a click[2] and you get an IP from us. :-)

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjklYTxE8ks

Re:Libera IRC Channels Sorted by Number of Users on Wednesday July 17, 2024 @09:16AM (#40985577)
And you can self host it on your own computer with 1-click [1]

[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

Re:Awesome XMPP on Saturday July 06, 2024 @10:46AM (#40890748)
In light of the issues being uncovered about Signal (storing messages and media encrypted, but storing the key unencrypted on the same filesystem) among other things, I thought it might be worth making sure everyone on HN is aware that Jabber (XMPP) is doing very well.
Re:Proton launches its own version of Google Docs on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:45PM (#40867713)
We've been addressing this by taking all of this 'trust' out of the equation at IPv6.rs which is all in the open [1]

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[1] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/

Re:The future is self-hosted on Tuesday July 02, 2024 @10:25AM (#40857018)
We help people self host hands free [1] so different factors guide decisions for them. :)

[1] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder

Re:Cloudflare automatically fixes Polyfill.io for free sites on Wednesday June 26, 2024 @05:48PM (#40804980)
Cloudflare is definitely less trustworthy than a random outsourced IT guy - there are many random IT guys across the world at Cloudflare [1].

[1] https://blog.ipv6.rs/understanding-tls-mitm-and-privacy-poli...

Re:You can help Anna's Archive by seeding torrents on Thursday June 13, 2024 @01:49PM (#40672533)
We made a simple way to lock QBittorrent into a VPN in a container [1]. It's probably simple enough to follow what we did in the config script to set it up for your use case (all open source [2]).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrH6Ci_4eig

[2] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

Show HN: Using the djb2 hash to map IP addresses to readable words for the lulz

Hi HN,This is more or less a fun experiment that I thought was worth sharing.Using Daniel J. Bernstein's [1] djb2 hash that he made when he was only 20 years old in 1991, we map names to hashes and provide reverse mappings using an english word list from dwyl [2].You can see it here: https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/hamonHamon (ハモン not 刃文) is derived from HAsh MOdulo Name.I hope you like it...

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Re:Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins on Thursday June 06, 2024 @08:45PM (#40604144)
There are definitely easier ways to get IPv6 if you don't want to deal with the networking.

I feel like I'm doing a lot of plugging of IPv6.rs [1], but I guess that's a testament to just how much demand there is for IPv6.

[1] https://ipv6.rs

Re:Online Privacy and Overfishing on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @09:48AM (#40584710)
You should never use an LLM/AI Chatbot with a third party service for anything that could be confidential, private in nature, or may have to do with your security.

All of the LLM/AI providers can read your contents. The only thing between them and your chats is "trust," and we've all had promises broken on us before.

Trust is not security.

Shameless plug: You can definitely use IPv6.rs and Cloud Seeder [1][2] to run Ollama and OpenWebUI on your own computer (confidentially) and access it via TLS remotely (via phone, etc.).

[1] https://ipv6.rs/cloudseeder https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/cloudseeder

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JyDvBbZ6Q

Re:Encryption at Rest: Whose Threat Model Is It Anyway? on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @09:19AM (#40574307)
> Then, if your server’s hard drive grows legs and walks out of the data center, your users’ most sensitive data will remain confidential.

> Unfortunately, for the server-side encryption at rest use case, that’s basically all that Disk Encryption protects against.

If you aren't able to self host, then encryption at rest is a real use case and the next best thing to actually controlling your data. That being said, obviously self hosting with FDE@Rest is the best.

Or you can end up like the people who lost their data [1][2].

[1] https://spectrum.ieee.org/thousands-of-bitcoins-stolen-in-a-...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_JyDvBbZ6Q

You can literally just self host and run open source software and it will be the same experience or even better since you won't have your meta data spied on at the same time.
Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:26PM (#40493778)
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you Seth for all of the work you did to create LetsEncrypt.

You've made the internet safer for all of us.

I believe that IPv6 [1] is without a doubt coming in the future. Even with carrier grade NAT'ing and the likes, there are too many major providers who have already switched to single stack IPv6 natively.

That said, I agree that 240/4 is necessary to assist with the transition. Due to the fact that most network operators aren't even dealing with /24's, it becomes increasingly hard to facilitate bridges between the legacy IP and IPv6 so more IPv4 space is always appreciated (until the day we don't need to bridge at all).

[1] I may have a bias due to affiliation with https://IPv6.rs

Re:Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4 on Monday May 27, 2024 @03:16PM (#40493699)
We do backwards and forwards compatibility between v4 and v6 using NAT64+DNS64 between IPv6 -> IPv4[1] and a reverse proxy (delorean) for IPv4 -> IPv6 [2]. To ensure reachability to IPv4 endpoints without a domain, we use visibleip.com [3].

For our users, it doesn't matter if it's IPv4 or IPv6 - they can reach it, and it can reach them.

[1] https://blog.ipv6.rs/ipv4-activated-via-nat64/

[2] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/delorean

[3] https://github.com/ipv6rslimited/legacydns

Re:Project Honeypot: Introducing Cloudflare (2009) on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:13PM (#40484600)
That's unfortunate. Thanks for the heads up.
Re:Project Honeypot: Introducing Cloudflare (2009) on Sunday May 26, 2024 @10:08AM (#40482309)
Thanks for posting this. Given the alleged racketeering issues Cloudflare may have been engaged in [1], it does seem quite important people know the background of CF. Someone appears to have flagged it, but I wrote a post covering some of the issues with CF as a MITM [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481808

[2] https://blog.ipv6.rs/understanding-tls-mitm-and-privacy-poli...

Again, none of this explains why they asked for 120k/year and shut it down after they didn't pay.

It doesn't matter the reasoning - its the execution wherein lies the issue - this is an extortionary business practice plain and simple.

By the way, it appears gambling sites are fine on CF [1].

[1] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/using-the-services-for-on...

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