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What token provider you could suggest?
I have a bunch of personal projects that I'm working on. They all need some for sort of authentication. I think it'd be easier to have a dedicated service to manage tokens instead of implementing it again and again for each service. Amazon, Google and Microsoft provide something like that, but I'm looking for a self-hosted solution. Any suggestions?
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From their FAQ:

Pre-installed means that the game is already installed for you, so you don’t have to. This means all you need to do is download the .zip file, extract it, and run the game. That’s it! Easy, right?



Unless it’s a 10-man startup, a typical company doesn’t employ exclusively architects and senior engineers.

By the way, I think it’s quite arrogant to think about this in terms of outsourcing and “we”. “We” might not outsource everything, but there’s a huge market with a lot of potential beyond borders where “we” are located. That’s why I explicitly said:

I don’t think that Java is going to wither away anytime soon, at least on a global scale.


I think that India will be a major factor and there are many Java developers. C-level guys don’t care about programming languages, they do care about cheap labor. So I don’t think that Java is going to wither away anytime soon, at least on a global scale.


If you click on the link:

Use case: I run a single user instance where I don’t create any of my own communities but I subscribe to and interact with a variety of communities on other instances. By making my instance non-private, everyone on the Internet can browse to it and see every remote community I’ve looked at which seems pretty bad for privacy.


I have to spend time looking at all files, figuring out which keys i haven’t added there

It sounds like a simple bash script could do that for you. Take keys from the English language file, compare against other language files, find missing keys for each language.


Why move from Reddit to a forum?

Sadly, I don’t see the answer to this question. While reddit shares some features with classic forums, these platforms are different. Moving to XenForo, which also requires a quite expensive license, is not the best choice as a reddit replacement.


Can’t ctrl+f a video. People don’t often have good presenting skills, talk slowly or with defects. Text is much easier to navigate, faster to read.


You’d probably need to configure your router if you want to access your laptop when you’re outside of your home network (e.g. from a mobile phone). If there’s an incoming connection to port 443 (https), your router doesn’t even know which device in the network could handle it. Port forwarding should be easy to set up on any modern router using their web interface. Same applies to some VPS providers like AWS Lightsail, they might have firewalls.

Like with every big task, take it step by step. You can’t learn everything overnight, start with something small. Set up a web server (e.g. nginx) what will act as a reverse proxy. Make it accessible from the internet. Then try to set up one of the services from your list and focus on it.

Learn one thing at a time, don’t rush and avoid context switching.


I enjoy ProtonVPN and other services that come with the premium subscription. Proton Pass with email aliases is a very good addition.



It’s extremely easy to do if both the server and client are using wireguard. Just add FwMark = 42 to both interfaces (the exact numeric value doesn’t matter). This way, internet requests will go through the paid VPN provider and local requests will be working too.

If not, good luck with iptables.


People online also say it’s used to detect which controller is in use.

I don’t get it. Any modern game can detect when you connect or disconnect a controller on the fly, in the actual game.




One database for many different services could pose a security risk, though it should be extremely low if each service can access only its own database. However, it’d be harder to distribute services across different hosts if you ever decided to do that. Also, different services could require or work better with different database types. I prefer to use separate database containers.


Is there a place, where I could find articles from media like WSJ, NYT, WP and other text content hidden behind paywalls?


At least it’s open-source, so it’s hard for them to destroy the product completely.