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Believe it or not, I can be concerned about both.

The difference is, the place where I live has some data privacy regulations which actually get enforced, and I have some legal recourse against organizations which mishandle my data. China does not have such regulations and I do not have any recourse against organizations based there, so my risk from them is significantly higher.

Does anyone remember MSN WebTV?

It technically worked.

DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

Ah, another appeal to violence as the source of morality.

It’s very funny for you to accuse anyone else of being authoritarian.

No, that is not the point that was made in this comment:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

This comment makes very plain that the writer believes that a nation only achieves independence through military force.

We’re not talking about what is ‘widely acknowledged’, we are talking about what you have expressed as your personal belief. And you do have a morality problem:

Skill issue. If I wanted to have a recognized independent country I would simply win the civil war instead of losing and then hiding in America’s skirt like a coward.

You believe that in order to be independent from mainland China, Taiwan should have used military force - or again, that might makes right.

You made this statement. It is not about international law, or opinio juris, or any other deflection you want to attempt. It is about what you believe justifies a nation’s independence, and it is solely based on the exercise of military power.

No, you said:

I would simply win the civil war instead of losing

Which indicates quite clearly that you believe military power should decide whether a nation has the right to independence. You don’t get to try to deflect that ex post facto. You either admit that this is what you genuinely believe in spite of its obvious morality problem, or you admit that you were wrong to make such a statement and acknowledge that your ideas about national independence need changing.

I see, so “might makes right” for you then?

I appreciate you making your sense of morality - or lack thereof - so very clear.

Yes, an authoritarian government with a lot of economic and military power just made it a crime to even speak about their own country’s independence, so they have legitimate reason to be afraid.

Or just reinstalls it in the next update.

I’m having trouble understanding your point. What is the “quiet part”? That representatives from a foreign government visited Taipei?

Well, that’s what I mean though - they only included the original characters as nostalgia bait, and then wrote them out of the plot as quickly as they felt they could get away with. They certainly had no plans to continue writing stories with the original characters, and look, they disposed of Ackbar off-screen. It was literally just for trailer scenes so they could draw people into the theaters.

Of course, with the absolutely pointless sideplot they sent Finn on in The Last Jedi, and the batshit discombobulated plot of Rise of Skywalker, it’s not clear that Disney had any plans for writing stories with their new characters either.

Well maybe… I certainly wasn’t born rich like Harry.

But… I don’t have any ‘woke agenda’ complaints about Disney’s handling of Star Wars, and I’m not old enough to have seen the originals in theaters.

Lucas, for all his clumsiness in writing dialogue and characters, cared about what he was doing and it showed in his work. He got other people to care about it too, and they improved the work.

Disney doesn’t care, and it shows. All of my complaints about ‘new’ Star Wars stem from the money-grubbing corporatism and short-sighted fanbase exploitation that the new owners have demonstrated.

So, I don’t think I’m really like Peter in this comic… I’m not carrying that burden of nostalgia, and frankly with Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks as examples I think some ‘wokeness’ only improves old franchises.

You’re right, and many will choose to work holidays in order to make extra money, because minimum wage isn’t really enough to support anyone.

Still, the government should be doing everything in its power to make voting easy, accessible and penalty-free.

At the very least we could make voting day a national holiday, so it isn’t costing people money to vote.

Right now people are essentially being paid by their employers to not vote, and mostly just minimum wage.

Yeah, but at least it was high-effort schlock. Lucasfilm invented new filming technology and techniques to get the results they wanted. George Lucas had a story he wanted to tell and an experience he wanted to create for his audience.

Disney just wanted to dispose of the original characters as quickly and cheaply as possible so they could be replaced with new characters that they would have full control of (no established lore or fan base) and new actors that they wouldn’t have to pay as much.

Lucas shopped Star Wars out to make money, but it was mostly to enable his projects and support his filming technology addiction (greed with a purpose).

Disney just wants to make money from Star Wars. They don’t care about the story or the characters or the universe or the experience as long as people will keep buying it (greed with no purpose) and you can smell the low-effort coming off of their movies. You can feel it while you’re sitting in the theater watching for the first time, not sure exactly what’s wrong but sure that something is… even if you can’t explain it in specific terms, you can feel the lack of care .

You’re welcome. I tried to do basically the same thing a few years back (run a WordPress site from a RPi on my home network - and also a Minecraft server) and so I tried to write up the problems I ran into - I probably forgot some, but those are the major hurdles. I learned a lot along the way.

I should also point out that if you rent hosting space (from linode or inmotion or digitalocean or many other options) then problems 1 & 4 become much easier, and 2 & 3 go away entirely (most people don’t host public websites on their home networks because of these and other issues).

Happy to help. If you’re interested in learning networking more thoroughly, I want to point you to Professor Messer especially the Network+ content. He has far more complete explanations than I could write (and it’s free!). Even if you’re not interested in getting any certs, the explanations will be helpful.

So your goal is to host a publicly accessible static website from a computer in your home. There are a few problems you need to overcome before even worrying about configuring any software. You need some more basic networking knowledge first.

0. Basic Networking Theory - you should read a brief explanation of the OSI 7-layer network model. You don’t have to try to memorize this and you won’t really understand it until you start actually doing stuff, but you should read it for some basic terminology and to understand that there are distinct steps through which communication between computers happens.

   When you start running into problems (“why can’t I access the server? I did all the tutorial steps”), figuring out which layer the problem is in will help guide you to the solution:

   • is there a bad cable? -> 1. Physical
   • do I have the right IP address? -> 3. Network
   • is the firewall port closed? -> 4. Transport

1. Privacy/Security/Safety - don’t host a publicly accessible website from your personal computer. Just don’t. To make this happen you will have to open a hole in your network security that makes your computer accessible from the public internet. Don’t do this on your daily driver computer. Don’t do this with any device that has any files on it that you care about or any access to any personal information. Don’t.

   Set up your web server/learning environment on a clean, dedicated system. This could be an old laptop or a Raspberry Pi (an older 3B model will work just fine for this) or whatever cheap computer hardware you have, as long as it can run Linux and has a physical network port (using WiFi will give you extra headaches for getting this working). If you think you might want to expand your projects in the future, you can get a used Dell server for very little money, and add more hard drives as needed. Wipe the hard drive and install Debian or Ubuntu server as a base, there’s lots of resources out there for setting up web services on either.

2. Restricted Ports - you are most likely on a residential internet connection. Most residential ISPs close ports for security reasons, especially 80. For example, here is Cox’s list of restricted ports. You will need to find your ISP’s equivalent list and understand what you can and can’t do with your connection.

   There are workarounds, primarily through port forwarding. You will need admin access to your router to set this up. I recommend that you read that entire article because it probably applies directly to your situation.

3. Dynamic IP Address - most people still find it easier to work with IPv4 addresses - I won’t go into IPv6 right now, but you should read a little about it just for awareness. Your residential internet most likely has a dynamic IPv4 address, which means you can’t rely on that address staying the same forever (or even until next week), which means that you can’t configure your Cloudflare domain name to point to a single IPv4 address.

   Dynamic DNS is the solution for this, and again you’ll need admin access to your router to set it up.

4. HTTPS/TLS/SSL - if you get through all those issues then you probably have a working website, but now you’re seeing something like this when you try to view it in your browser:

   This doesn’t mean that you can’t get to your website - it just means that you can only do it via HTTP and not HTTPS, which the browser is warning you (and anyone else trying to view your website) is not secure. You can either just accept that this alert will always come up, and that you have to click through it, or you can learn about TLS and getting an SSL/TLS certificate. This is a later topic - it doesn’t matter and probably won’t make sense until after you’ve got your web server online.

I think the tricky part is getting a virtual network interface from pihole that can be properly configured in the Android Settings > Connection & sharing > Private DNS > Specified DNS.

For this to work on the mobile device, you don’t want pihole to make itself accessible on the external network interface, but rather an internal (virtual) interface that Android sees as a valid DNS server so that it can be permanently configured (otherwise you would have to reset the private DNS IP address every time you connected to a new WiFi network, and it would be tricky to get it working on the cell network at all).

I’m not sure if this is possible without running a more complete virtual machine that creates a virtual network adapter. Maybe a VPN app could be abused to redirect Android’s outbound DNS requests to localhost?

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