And just stop being depressed

Is there some way to self host what cloudflare does?

Your domain will always have to be rented through a 3rd party. Cloudflare is (or was?) one of the better choices for that.

Cloudflare does other things as well, most notably it can acts as a proxy: an inbetween between your server and the users. This inbetween can be useful against DOS attacks, blocking of bots, etc. But for most self hosters that part is not necessary. It’s a toggle in cloudflare’s DNS dashboard: I think you’d want it to say DNS only.

Another thing cloudflare can do is tunneling. It’s useful for when your server is behind a firewall or NAT or double NAT you can’t or don’t want to configure. You’d probably know if you use this, so I assume you don’t?

Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?

They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.

so that it might be useful for other people?

Even that isn’t necessary. I do it because I want to share cool things, even if they’re not useful. The world didn’t need another crossword puzzle creator, I just felt like writing one.

The problem has been noticed enough to the point that there are plenty of proposed solutions. I know of YUNOHOST, sandstorm, caprover, xsrv, runtipi.io, …

How does your solution compare to those?

I’ve personally tried yunohost and sandstorm, before giving up on tools like it.

Eventually something broke, and because I didn’t do the install, it was hidden behind a button, troubleshooting became so much harder.

For friends and family that want to self-host, without knowledge of linux, I usually recommend to purchase a synology product. It’s sadly proprietary, but it’s closest to a “point-and-click just works”.

Depending on 3rd parties is a pain in the ass

they are forced to use whatever OS their IT department provides.

It’s also the other way around: we have linux machines at work, controllers for specific devices. A lot of people don’t want to open a manual it seems. They just submit support tickets, angrily, as they can’t figure out that the menu is in a different place.

How is there any real difference to the end user?

For example many people can’t find their saved files anymore in windows, as it auto saves in some programs to onedrive. Yet some other programs can’t read from onedrive. That’s a real difference in usability. And ofcourse also in terms of invasion of privacy.

For example, my mother became unable to read her email, as outlook changed UI completely and unavoidably. Had she chosen to use better software that would not have happened. A real difference.

For example, when searching for a local program, microsoft now also serves ads in the search results. Many people fall for those ads, that also include scams. That’s a real problem you don’t have with better software.

The examples keep on going on. And the end users do complain about them, often. They pay so much money for a worse experience.

which will make no obvious difference to what they need to do.

It would make a whole lot of difference. But it’s like learning math, or basic finance indeed. Sooo useful, improves your life tremendously, yet most people can’t be bothered.

Tragedy of the commons.

People in large will keep using it because they’ve no clue what a computer is. They just recognise symbols and which order to click them.

The product keeps on getting worse.

People will get angry and look for political “solutions” to their own unwillingness to learn.

As a result all of networking and computing will be made worse, with lots of red tape, solidifying an oligarchy, penalizing the alternatives.

Just like how there were 1000s of car makers in the 20th century, but now only a handfull. Legislating cars to be shitty DRM-ed smartphones on wheels.

Decoration

Awesome selfhosted lists https://github.com/heyform/heyform as a possibility.

Especially in Java, it relies extremely heavy on the IDE, to make sense to me.

If you’re minimalist, like me, and prefer text editor to be seperate from linter, compiler, linker, it’s not pheasable. Because everything is so verbose, spread out, coupled based on convention.

So when I do work in Java, I reluctantly bring out Eclipse. It just doesn’t make any sense without.

Can I bring my own AbstractSingletonBeanFactoryManager? Perhaps through some at runtime dependency injection? Is there a RuntimePluginDiscoveryAndInjectorInterface I can implement for my AbstractSingletonBeanFactoryManager?

Yes OOP and all the patterns are more than often bullshit. Java is especially well known for that. “Enterprise Java” is a well known meme.

The patterns and principles aren’t useless. It’s just that in practice most of the time they’re used as hammers even when there’s no nail in sight.

Doesn’t have to be SQL. But most of the time that quote refers to a relational database.

Nowadays there are graphical tools that are alright, such that you don’t have to learn a query language. For example (1), (2) or more commercial (3).

But what’s still important is doing good relational database design. Learning to look at the world as entities and relationships between them. Constraints, keys, indices. There’s books and courses on that. While you’re at that, you’ll probably learn SQL along the way, as it’s so convenient.

if a tool exists which can easily and reliably detect AI generated content then they’d just be using that tool for their training

Generative Adversarial Networks are an example of that idea in action.

One of these projects might be of interest to you:

• https://github.com/Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

• https://github.com/mudler/LocalAI

Do note that CPU inference is quite a lot slower than GPU or the well known SAAS providers. I currently like the quantized deepseek models as the best balance between quality of replies and inference time when not using GPU.

Dude’s got both mommy and daddy issues

So fluffy!