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early_riser

@ early_riser @lemmy.world

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  • reverse proxy over vpn without docker?

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  • Well I have the vpn working but the connection seems to close after 2-5 minutes unless the client keeps talking to the server, at which point I have to ping the server from the client to re-open the tunnel. Is there a way to keep the tunnel open?

  • reverse proxy over vpn without docker?

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  • You are correct, I want the VPs's IP to be what people see, not my home IP.

  • reverse proxy over vpn without docker?

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  • You mean nginx the regular web server, not nginx proxy manager, correct?

  • Offline TTS in 2026?

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  • I'm fairly confident espeak is all you're going to get that's FOSS, local, and with any non English support. Yes every espeak language sounds like a Brittish guy badly pronouncing that language, and this includes the American English voice as well.

  • What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

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  • How’s this for an “I’m getting old” moment: sonic 1 was released on the Genesis in 1991. Sonic Adventure 2 Battle was released on the GameCube in 2001. Sonic has been on Nintendo consoles for over twice the time he’s been a Sega exclusive.

  • What activity or pastime of yours is barrels of fun?

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  • If you haven't already done so, check out !worldbuilding@lemmy.world. I enjoy conlanging and worldbuilding for similar reasons. One thing I miss from Reddit is the worldbuilding sub. It was orders of magnitude more active so there was always something to dig into.

     
        
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and strong conlanging-3D inexpensive-DOG
And conlanging is really cheap

  • If you were dropped into a pool of people's spit and prevented from getting out, would you melt to death?

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  • I don't think you would melt, considering your own mouth is full of saliva and does fine. You would be at huge risk of infection though.

  • What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

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  • Shmups are fun and should be revived as a genre. I've been saying for years that Nintendo should make Star Fox into a 2D scrolling shooter.

    Though playing Megabonk earlier today made me realize that it and other clones of Vampire Survivors are like shmups in many ways. You gain powerups that you lose when you die, you have little to do other than move, and maneuvering around the level is a big part of the gameplay.

  • Who is an artist or public figure you still enjoy despite them being cancelled for bad behaviour?

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  • This is going to get buried, but I miss Bill Cosby, or rather my mental model of him before all that nastiness came out.

  • What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

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  • Mega man is comfort food. I don’t expect it to do anything new. I just want it to be decent.

  • What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom?

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  • I blame Minecraft for the lack of tutorials in survival games. Notch never added one before the game got popular enough to generate clones.

  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

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  • Try viewing it locally. It does appear empty from your instance.

  • What are your favourite non-political Lemmy communities?

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  • Why does Lemmy feel ephemeral?

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  • Lemmy is ephemeral in part because the redditlike format is designed to be ephemeral. You have a topic, you discuss it for a few days, then it drops off the front page never to be seen again.

    Then you layer on all the issues listed in the OP and they combine to make something very impermanent indeed. Server flakiness in particular is something I don't see ever going away. It's part and parcel of the fediverse. The folks hosting the server aren't a big company, they're a small group of volunteers running off donations. They don't have the means to guarantee five nines of uptime in the same way a big corporation can.

  • Offline TTS in 2026?

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  • None of this may be relevant, but I'm curious what your use case is. I use TTS very extensively to consume media and have my preferences. None of them are open source, but as far as I know all operate locally, though they're baked into other programs like screen readers and ebook readers.

    I prefer older more robotic voices because they remain intelligible at high speed. Eloquence is a favorite, as are the older Apple voices like Fred and Ralph. I think it has gone by other names but TruVoice (spacing and capitalization may vary) is also up there. It was semi popular during the surreal meme era. Another memetic synth that's a little before my time but I quite enjoy is DECTalk (AKA the Moonbase Alpha voice). I believe Vocalizer was responsible for the OG Siri voice Samantha and that one's a more human voice that's still serviceable at high speeds.

  • They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet.

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  • I saw it when it first aired. Like Spielberg's other cartoons a lot of the humor went over my head as a kid and isn't quite my preferred style of humor as an adult, but I nevertheless remember it fondly simply for the childhood nostalgia.

  • They should make a reboot of Freakazoid where he gets his powers from the 2025 internet instead of the 1995 internet.

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  • Push it back a few years and he would just be trollface

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • How much traffic before the sales team comes knocking?

  • In what way am I the product when using CloudFlare's free tier?

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  • In my experience even a site with low legitimate traffic will eventually buckle under the torrent of bots and scrapers if it's up long enough to get indexed by search engines, so the longer my stuff is out there the more I anticipate I will need DDoS protection.