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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • However I don’t have a guaranteed number of hours. Some months it’s only a few :(

    I need to get a 9–5 again I’m running out of money 🤷‍♀️

    Damn, I feel you there. After 5 months of job hunting while unemployed, I took a part-time job (it was all I could find) which has slowed down for the winter. I’m lucky to get 13hrs in a week.

    Struggling :(



  • This reminds me;

    5-6 years ago, I was scrolling through reddit and stumbled across a link to a website that was just a generic white page with hundreds of hyperlinks on it. No other formatting or images, just row after row of links on a plain white background.

    Each one was a direct link to an IP security camera somewhere in the world. Presumably these either used default logins, had no login, or the credentials were stolen somehow. There were private residences, public buildings, the interior and exterior of stores, what looked like public security cameras (like pole mounted traffic cams), some spa resort type places, even a few elevator cams. Some of them even had working PTZ controls (tho I only came across 2-3 of those in the few dozen I played with).

    I wasn’t entirely sure they were even real; until I spotted a phone number in one of them and gave it a call. Took a bit of convincing, but the lady that answered finally believed me when I told her how many fingers she was holding up.

    I wish I’d have saved it, just to see if anyone did anything about it. I really should have fired off an email to the domain registrar or something; but… naivety 🤷





  • I only bring it up because you explicitly said you have no idea why it doesn’t work.

    Take things at a comfortable pace; there’s no sense overwhelming yourself. Then you just forget what you’ve done and end up lost in your own maze.

    I started with Plex myself, almost 10 years ago. Moved to Emby, where I learned about buying a domain, setting up ssl through a reverse proxy, and just continued to explore from there. Today I run ~26 containers/projects across three systems and I’m always keeping my eye out for interesting new things.

    Best of luck with your journey m8.


  • Sounds like you’re behind cgNAT, which essentially means there’s another router owned by your ISP that’s between yours and the open internet, which also requires port forwarding, but your ISP will never do that for you.

    It complicates things, but the solution(s) are tools like tailscale, cloudflare Tunnels, or to rent a VPS just to host a proxy/vpn.

    Plex solves this by using their own public servers as a proxy for you, but this is part of how they have control over your users/server/data, such as blocking remote streaming… That makes more than a few people uncomfortable.



  • Plex has an automatic proxy service hosted by their public servers. If you haven’t or can’t configure port forwarding correctly, plex will route the connection through their own servers.

    The problem is, that also means Plex co has total control over your server and the data sent between it and clients if they so choose. Anything from quietly logging the data sent back and fourth, to controlling who can connect and what they can do while they are.

    Jellyfin has to be correctly exposed to the internet via port forwarding or tools like tailscale/a vpn; but it’s entirely your server under your control. You have ultimate control over how your server can be accessed, but that also means you’re responsible for actually setting that up.