Things happen magically with docker. Container needs PostgreSQL? Expose the port, define a volume, username and password, connect service to that port, forget PostgreSQL’s existence until data corruption.

Can claim negligence if that label is entirely removed prior to use, just say that it wasn’t there when you used it.

Glad to hear I could help you out!

I can totally verify that it’s restricted to Canada, had to switch VPN location to access the site. I’ll keep geo-restricting in mind if a sever supposedly won’t let me connect.

I did a little tinkering with my server and it should be globally accessible for now, I do want to keep this server some-what restricted so this may change, I got Anubis setup as the captcha/bot check. Hope it makes accessing it easier.

I found a security flaw in the setup I had, unfortunately had to revert to my previous setup.

Man 90% of Invidious instances are dead/not working for me, and of the few that do, they get mad at me for using an agent switcher

While true, Invidious instances were dropping like flies due to the amount of maintenance needed to keep it alive, Invidious admins shouldn’t be flagging you for using a user agent switcher.

I’m not sure of your nationality however, if you’re looking for an invidious instance I host one for folks with Canadian IP’s at https://inv.halstead.host/

Freetube is slightly better, but will also break every few days and either require VPN switching or waiting for a fix from the devs.

If I’m not mistaken Freetube can either use Invidious instances to proxy video playback or directly connect to YouTube servers, have you verified neither of these work?

Sidenote: LibRedirect users, are all LibReddit instances dead or is it just me?

Libreddit died when Reddit made the APi change a couple years back, RedLib which is a fork is maintained.

I also host a Redlib instance at https://lib.halstead.host/ again geo-restricted to Canadian IP’s.

Baffling

Nobody here has suggested switching to Invidious, we’re suppose to be promoting open source alternatives!

This is the Firefox extension I use, I would check the headers your browser passes with WhoAmI to verify your user-agent, alternatively you can use invidious to get around YouTube’s bullshit.

I host a public Invidious instance for folks with a Canadian IP - https://inv.halstead.host/

Ultimately this a political stunt from both major political parties, MAGA in the US started tariffing Canada, and at that time essentially only effected American citizens, then Canada’s liberals done did the exact same thing in “retaliation” only effecting Canadians.

Both sides are to blame for this mockery.

What’s the difference?

I have to use Chrome to access a couple of sites that don’t play nice with Firefox.

I bet those sites will play nice if you switch your user-agent to display as chrome.

Ah man, my boss wants to get our department Meta glasses for taking pictures of parts we make, we literally get a bonus on our pay cheques for us having our phones on us an be reachable.

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How is the art a positive?

While true, they still collect data on the results hosting your own instance can prevent you from hitting rate-limits as often.

• SearxNG (Google Privacy frontend)

SearXNG is more than just a front end for google search, it’s an aggregator, if configured properly can collect results from Bing, Startpage, Wikipedia, DuckDuckGo, Brave.

Why is 255 off limits? What is 127.0.0.0 used for?

Hypothetically you’re working on an application but you don’t want that application exposed to the internet, you would use localhost to either expose it to 1 machine on your network or network wide by opening a port and telling the application to listen on the private IP assigned by your router.

Advanced setup would include a reverse proxy to forward the requests from the applications port to the internet, the reverse proxy would use port 80:80 (http) & 443:433 (https), so the flow would look a little like this -

Internet > Reverse Proxy listening on 80:80 & 443:443 > Application listening on 8080:8080

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Why does it span to .254? Well this is another advanced setup but if you wanted to segregate two application on different subnets you can. I’m not sure if there is a security benefit by adding the extra hop but the option is there.

https://freetubeapp.io/ comes packed with DeArrow, Sponsorblock and natively uses Invidious or Piped API’s for playback.

Yes, back up your stuff regularly, don’t be like me and break your partition table with a 4 month gap between backups. Accomplishing 4 months of work in 5 hours is not fun.

To add to this - localhost spans 127.0.0.1-127.254.254.254

If they scrap the gun confiscation I might actually consider voting liberal in the future, don’t get me wrong here, I’m grateful we have a new PM with a different perspective but I’m very skeptical given that our current Public Safety Minister is unwilling to learn our laws and safety regulations In regard to firearm ownership.

so they shouldn’t be a risk like GPS that exposes precise locations?

Yes, they only provide country, province/state and city. As others mentioned if you’re worried about this information get yourself a reliable VPN provider and, route all your devices through said VPN provider, ideally through your router.

When picking a VPN provider it is highly recommended to read their Privacy Policy before signing up, ensure they don’t log data.