Yes, plain text was more of an analogy

It’s E2EE therefore you can’t just use an IMAP server that works with “plaintext” data.

I was trying to argue that candidates that aren’t from the Republican or Democratic party haven’t been elected from a long time. I looked up the last independent candidate, somehow forgetting that there were more parties. That said, the other candidates are still from more than a century ago.

This is my reasoning:

1. America has first-past-the-post voting
2. That means the party with the most votes wins it all
3. The republican (41.7%) and democrat party poll high, nothing comes close (40.4%) (next up is Kennedy at 9.1%) and the last candidate that wasn’t from either party was George Washington (1789 - 1797), therefore a vote for another party is essentially meaningless.
4. Therefore, either the Republican or Democratic Party win
5. The candidates for both parties have been determined at this point and are highly unlikely to change unless any of them die, therefore either Trump or Biden wins.
6. Therefore, all actions come down to 2 things: Increase the chance of Biden winning instead of Trump or don’t

In my opinion, the only way to avoid each election coming down to damage control is to get rid of FPTP voting.

EDIT: The last candidate that wasn’t from either party was not George Washington as [email protected] pointed out. It was Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853).

He has some interesting points, but because of america’s voting system every vote for him is de facto a vote for Trump.

Yes, it seems to be a hit or a miss. I don’t think I live near any central infrastructure or ISP, especially not this specific part of the city.

No, I’m currently using Tailscale but have been considering switching to Netbird to not be reliant on Tailscale.

he specified static website, which rules out WP

Oops missed that

EDIT: And I missed Immich too

You don’t have to be successful to get hit by bots scanning for known vulnerabilities in common software (e.g. Wordpress), but OP won’t have to worry about that if they keep everything up to date. However, this is also necessary when renting a VPN from said centralised services.

You can simply set up a VPN for your home network (e.g. Tailscale, Netbird, Headscale, etc.) and you won’t have to worry about attacks. Public services require a little more work, you will need to rely on a service from a company, either a tunnel (e.g. Tailscale funnel) or a VPS.

Ip address doesn’t expose where you live.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=geoip+lookup

Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet¹ but it does not keep your ip private².

This is also incorrect.

1. The entire purpose of CF tunnels is to expose sites on the internet
2. CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on shared proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers (which is why you can’t forward arbitrary TCP traffic). The IP of the site will therefore have the shared IP of the company’s proxy server instead of your own.

This is false. Some ISP’s change IP’s often, but some don’t and sometimes geoip lookups can be really accurate. My IP has remained the same since I moved in, and a geoip lookup results in a coordinate less than a kilometer away. It does matter.

Yes, but if you host a public site it might be a better option, the content is public anyway, and you won’t get doxed if you publish something controversial. It’s a trade-off, between keeping traffic private or keeping your IP private. Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can’t host a public site with that.

I thought ghost was for blogging only

Wouldn’t that be slow?

Yes, but it does expose your own IP address and thus where you live. Tunnels don’t.

It’s easy to compile something for a certain infrastructure if you can compile it yourself and won’t have to beg another party to do so.

LanguageTool also has a libreoffice extension

Most dependencies are bundled in the “runtime” images, and it uses file deduplication to reduce the size of the dependencies, but it’s still a little more than a normal package manager.

The reverse exists, there is the DeArrow extension which removes thumbnails like this and replaces it with a crowdsourced frame of the video.