Yeah, I’m sure it’s for auditing and being able to respond to freedom of information requests etc

I’ve used Thorium in the past and thought it was decent. But given Google’s updates to the chromium project I’ve moved away from chromium based browsers.

I don’t have a static IP at home

Host on your home server with a Cloudflare tunnel. Cloudflare has a free tier that would suit your needs. It doesn’t rely on static IP addresses, deals with all of the ssh certs, and won’t expose your home IP address from incoming requests.

I don’t want to expose it to the internet

The backend workers make requests to other servers which would expose the IP address of those requests. You could use a VPN for the backend workers to protect those requests. But it’s this really a concern? What risk vector are you protecting yourself from? Don’t rely on security by obscurity. And even if a bad actor did get your IP address, you could just reboot your home router and get a new one.

I think you’re over engineering a solution for unlikely risk vectors.

And why would I even need Tailscale?

If you were using a hybrid approach you would need a solid networking solution between your VPS and home server. Tailscale makes that easy. The shared resources like reddis, postgres, S3 hosting, etc can all be on servers running Tailscale and will appear as local servers. You can solve this with your own VPN but Tailscale is solid and deals with non static IP addresses.

Tl;Dr, host at home, use Cloudflare, and don’t worry about using a VPS (unless you need a high level of up time and have flaky Internet or power at home).

There are tutorials for setting up Mastodon, docker, and Tailscale. Do you have any specific questions?

I have a hybrid hosting approach. I’m running the web workers, reddis, and postgres on a vps and then running the background workers on a server in my basement. I use Tailscale to connect them

Telegram holds the keys, Signal doesn’t

I can commit crime via sms, whatsapp, signal or mail.

But you’re not allowed to

Now do Zuckerberg and Musk

Wingers both left and right need to get out of their bubbles. Wingers have no idea what their opposition believe. And attacking centrists is an silly approach to further you’re cause. They’re literally the people you should be engaging with instead of producing bubbled memes like this.

It could also be that Berliners are apparently collecting them 😂

I’m surprised that Tailscale can’t get through, cleaver routing is one of Tailsacle’s features. Though I do sometimes have connection issues with Tailscale when running DNS-over-HTTPS on my laptop.

Why is US based one of your requirements?

It’s not an ideal solution but you can save your Google takeouts to Dropbox. It might be worth signing up for Dropbox for one month and use Dropbox’s sync features. I haven’t used Dropbox in years but they used to have quite solid syncing.

Signal has account pins now so I don’t think the attack vector is as large as it used to be

The magazine capacity is an issue though. The standard 30 round mag is far to large for any realistic hunting purposes (you can also get up to 100 round drum mags). While you can hunt with an AR-15, it’s not the best rifle for the task.
I live in Canada and the government is in the process of banning semi-automatic centre fire rifles capable of holding more than 5 rounds. Given that 3D printers exist, this pretty much bans all rifles with interchangeable mags. I’m a gun owner on a rural property and I think that’s a reasonable compromise. I can still own a decent bolt action hunting rifle and a semi-automatic rim fire rifle with no mag limit.
It does suck for people who’s rifles are getting banned though.

This happened to me when I was younger and more silly.
Fuzz: “What’s your name?”
Me: “I know my rights, I don’t have to tell you my name unless I’m under arrest”
Fuzz: “OK, you’re under arrest”
I spent 2 hours in a cell and ended up on the opposite side of town 😅 I 100% deserved it.

The purpose of these kinds of aliases is to disassociate the human’s email address from the service. Alias services like this aren’t designed to enable multiple signups for a single service. Otherwise it would quickly be a tool abused by spammers, blocked by services, and useless for people.

Fun fact, DEDSEC is a type of memory used in Soviet era mainframes.

That’s 128GB RAM, the GPU has 24GB VRAM. Ollama has gotten pretty smart with resource allocation. Smaller models can fit soley on my VRAM but I can still run larger models on RAM.

I’ve installed Ollama on my Gaming Rig (RTX4090 with 128GB ram), M3 MacBook Pro, and M2 MacBook Air. I’m running Open WebUI on my server which can connect to multiple Ollama instances. Open WebUI has it’s own Ollama compatible API which I use for projects. I’ll only boot up my gaming rig if I need to use larger models, otherwise the M3 MacBook Pro can handle most tasks.