yeah silly me for supporting artists with my money but also downloading drm-free copies of things so I can actually exercise a semblance of ownership. but sure, keelhaul me so you can keep your sense of smug superiority.

AI is a tool that is fundamentally based on the concept of theft and plagiarism. The LLM training data comes from artists and creators that did not consent to their work being plagiarized by a hallucinating machine.

SMS is literally the bottom of the barrel though

no, and that’s be a pretty bad idea, you’re opening up all your internal hosts to the public internet.

a VPN is specifically designed to keep all your internal hosts off the public internet. When you authenticate with the VPN server the remote device you are using effectively “joins” the internal network, using the VPN to act like a tunnel between you and your network.

it has the benefits of better security as well as the fact that once you set it up, you can access any services you host, not just HTTP ones.