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A long long time ago, I bought a domain or two, and a shared hosting plan from Dreamhost w/ unlimited bandwidth/storage. I don't have root access, and can't do containers on this. It's been useful for a Piwigo instance to share scanned family photos. The problem I have is the limited resources really limit Piwigo's ability to handle the large TIF files involved in the archival scans. There are ways around this, but they all add time to the workflow that already eats into my free time enough. I'm looking at moving Piwigo to my local server that has plenty of available resources. That leaves me with little reason to keep the Dreamhost space. So what's a decent use case for cheap, shared hosting space anymore?

To be clear, I'm not looking for suggestions to move to a cheap VPS. I've looked into them, and might use one in the future, but don't need it right now. The shared hosting costs about $10.99/month at the moment. If there was a way I could leverage the unlimited bandwidth/storage as an offsite backup, that would be amazing, but I'm not sure it would be a great idea backing up stuff to a webserver where there best security I can add it via an .htaccess file.

Was in DC at the end of September staying at the Waldorf (Trump’s old hotel), and saw a bunch of black SUVs with this flag in the windshield parked on the curb by an entrance not open to regular traffic. Also saw press there and some folks walking around in military uniforms. An image search suggested it might be Gabon, but that flag didn’t include the seal in the middle.

Given the state of the GOP, and who would be beating the "liberal" candidate, this makes a lot of sense. Probably some decent reading for anyone still thinking they just won't vote because Harris isn't progressive enough. She might not be your cup of tea, but I'm betting the other guy is way less so.

I currently have my home services set up in a way I like, and think I understand. I have an S12 pro w/ *arr, Overseerr, Immich, paperless, etc running. The only things exposed are immich, paperless, and overseerr. This is via swag/dockerproxy over a cloudflare tunnel. This makes it so I don't have to do anything on the cloudflare end or my router to add a new service. DockerProxy picks up a new container, swag configures a reverse proxy automatically (assuming it recognizes the container, but it also supports custom configs) using the container_id as the subdomain.

I'm looking at setting up a VPS to host authentik and uptima kuma (to start - maybe ntfy in the future). What I'd like to do is have the public interface on these containers use the same cloudflare tunnel I'm currently using... or a second one, if necessary. For the interface back to my home server, I'd like to use Tailscale. I already have it running on my home server, and I expect I'll install it on my VPS. The goal here is the "public" connection uses the cloudflare tunnel, and the backend connection is over tailscale.

I've tested that I can spin up swag/dockerproxy on a second box in my lab and it will connect to cloudflare. I have not yet tested standing up a container on that box to see if the proxy works as expected.

So, questions:

• Tailscale on VPS: container or no? Obviously, if I can't install it locally, I'll put it in a container
• How to I configure a container to use these 2 networks? I'm fairily good on getting the cloudflare part working. The TS part is new to me, and all the documentation I've seen doesn't really cover other containers using the tailnet.
• Am I overthinking this? If I put these services on tailnet alone, will the cloudflare tunnel... tunnel back and forth to/from clients not on tailnet?

The last half of the Mizzou game reminded me so much of the most frustrating aspects of the Tubberville years. Auburn would establish a lead, and then play "not to lose." Sometimes, they would squeak out a win against an overmatched team. Far too many times, that overmatched team would come back and tie it up or take the lead!

For sure, there were plenty of player mistakes on Saturday, but those are always going to happen. There are plenty of underclassmen on this team, and they're going to make mistakes. Going to the "Run-Run-(Incomplete)Pass" offense just because it was a 2-score game is plain old shitty play-calling. I know there was a general call to focus more on the run game going into Saturday, but that doesn't mean the pass game should be forsaken! Thorne dropped a perfect dime for a TD earlier in the game. Yes, that was blown coverage along with a well-run route, but Auburn is not bereft of passers and receivers! Looking at Auburn's possessions in the 4th quarter reflect play calling that was blindly sticking to a predetermined plan while the game slipped away from the team. Auburn's play calling in the 4th quarter was so predictable, it was painful. Seeing Freeze watch Mizzou win the game looked like a man who realized how much he had screwed that win.

Back in the Tubberville years, a much younger me realized an important thing: if you're not playing to win (or playing to "protect" a win), you're playing to lose. If you were able to score twice in a quarter, you must assume your opponent can do the same. The only time you take your foot off the gas is when the game's end is a foregone conclusion. That's rarely the case at the start of the 4th quarter, and it's never the case in the third quarter. A big reason over matched teams can beat their opponents is because they play like they have nothing to lose. They don't play recklessly, but they take risks early and often. Put simply, they never stop playing to win.

… But Vandy just knocked Bama off, and that makes things a tiny bit better.

… And I think Hugh Freeze is going to start next year on the hot seat. This is of course unless he finds a way to right the ship and coach these kids to where they should be.

Something to consider: At this rate, Auburn’s going to be a home underdog against Vandy.

Seen in my email this morning. Obviously spam, but really!?

Always nice to see the appreciation. Hope the Auburn fanbase never forgets who we are. Sorry about the link to, ahem, that other site.

Can only think this is a good thing. Either Hank sucks, and the benching is the jab in the gut Thorne needs to rememebr how to play the position, or Hank rocks it and Thorne moves to back-up. Don't want to think about the third, probably more likely, possibility...

TBH, I kind of get his point, and respect him for his candor. That said, I think he's also aware that he will more than likely be disappointed by his decision. He probably also knows it's only a matter of time before the party completely rejects him.

Throughout our 90-minute interview, Cox rejected the “MAGA” label, called Trump and his running mate, J. D. Vance, “antithetical” to his brand of Republicanism, and at various points seemed even to quibble with the idea that he’d endorsed Trump at all. “I said I’m going to vote for him,” Cox told me. “I didn’t say I support everything he does. I’m not even telling you that you need to vote for him.”

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When Cox addressed the state Republican convention in May, he was loudly booed by Trumpists. Finally, in a fit of exasperation, he spat, “Maybe you just hate that I don’t hate enough.” The race seemed to rattle his faith in Utah exceptionalism. “It only reinforced my concern that there’s kind of been a breach in the stronghold,” he told me.

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“When we talk about disagreeing better and the work of depolarization, there’s this weird thing that happens to people,” Cox told me. “You start to criticize the people who are polarizing us … and then they become your enemies.” If you’re not careful, he said, you risk becoming a mirror image of the thing you’re working to defeat.

“That ‘Love your enemies’ stuff—it sucks. I hate it. I wish Jesus had never said that,” Cox told me. But if he was serious about injecting decency and compassion back into politics, he explained, he needed to find a way to work with his political enemies. And within his own party, at least, he could think of few figures who qualified as enemies more than Trump. “To me, this is kind of the ultimate test.”