More technically there’s two ways to move data between two separate services. You can either pull or push the data.

Assume for both scenarios that the client is your phone and the server is some machine in the cloud.

With pulls the client calls an API and the server returns a response. Generally the www works this way. You ask a server for a wab page and you effectively pull the source down to your browser.

Pushes work the opposite, in that a server has data for the client and needs to push or otherwise give it to you. Pulls are relatively strait forward because every server has a well known name (the domain name and url). But your phone’s IP address changes constantly. So how does a server know how to contact your device? There’s generally two ways:

1. Your device can poll (make repeated pulls to a server checking for new data)
2. Or you can register some identifier and your IP address with some central server every time it changes. And then the server can essentially call a URL on your device directly. This is essentially what Google and Apple are doing as it doesn’t waste CPU resources and your battery.

You could in theory implement either of these yourself but because of the way the OSes work on both Android and iOS there’s no guarantee that you can keep a process running in the background forever. As the OS can kill your process if the OS needs more free ram, etc … The built in notification APIs are exempt from this because they are part of the OS.

If you’re worried about your IoT devices on your LAN the problem isn’t necessarily that they can access WAN but rather that there’s a security vulnerability and that they can be accessed by the WAN. Once a device is compromised and attacker can then use it as a “beachhead” to access other devices on your network.

So for example, with my setup every IoT device is on a separate VLAN (the guest network acts similarly) which can’t get access to WAN, can’t be accessed from the WAN and can’t initiate any network calls to any other VLAN. Now my primary VLAN can talk to my IoT VLAN, and IoT can talk back, it just can’t start the communication.

This does pose a problem for TVs though that need to talk to Jellyfin as hinted at in the original post. So what you could do is create a specific firewall rule that allows the TVs to at least initiate communication to Jellyfin but not any other device on your primary VLAN. This will probably require a more sophisticated router though than most of the consumer ones out there. Just be mindful that if n IoT device is compromised they can then try to attack the jellyfin server to jump to your other VLAN and then the rest of your network.

Just wanted to add… After reading your initial post I did some more digging on adding tracking headers, etc… especially by T-Mobile.

While it’s definitely a thing, it only applies to HTTP traffic. Even HTTPS blocks their ability to add those headers. So any traffic that’s using any other protocol (DNS, email, ssh, or just gaming, etc…) would be safe from your ISP from at least trying to add these tracking headers.

Yes but while the service is targeted for home use there still is remote work which generally requires a VPN back to the company network. They wouldn’t be able to block this. Now sure they might be more inclined to block Mullvad but they’d impact too many businesses by blocking wireguard as a whole.

And assuming they did block Mullvad but not wireguard… Just rent a VPS and install a wireguard server and client there to bridge back to Mullvad.

I know this doesn’t help much but I use T-Mobile cell towers with an always on VPN with no issue. But I don’t see why they’d block Mullvad. (I’d be more concerned that they’d block them than wireguard in general). But there’s completely legitimate reasons to use both so I don’t see them really bothering to block either.

If it was a certificate issue I’d expect youd just get an error from your browser saying the cert is invalid or expired.

If I had to guess though you’re running into a nat reflection issue: https://nordvpn.com/cybersecurity/glossary/nat-loopback/

Read up on that. But you may need to provide different DNS entries if you’re inside or outside your LAN or add a NAT hairpin rule to your router. But this is only applicable if you’re exposing the same service to the WWW.

Some other things to try though:

• Have you tried just pinging the address? Is the DNS resolution returning the address you expect?
• Whats in your nginx logs? Do you see anything when you try and connect?
• Within your nginx container can you ping your service directly? Is something blocking nginx from accessing the site?

I’ve tried commenting out the ports in the compose file, which should make them only available on the internal network, I thought. But when I do that, the containers can no longer connect to each other.

Did you create an explicit network for them to talk on? Otherwise the default docker network doesn’t support internal DNS queries.

https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/#container-networks

Specifically you need a network using the bridge driver: https://docs.docker.com/engine/network/drivers/bridge/

Can you share the Home Assistant automation / setup that you have for Uptime Kuma notifications? As I’m in the same boat as you. I just got a webhook setup but I’m getting flooded with notifications, especially after services update.

My hope is I just want to be notified when a particular service is down for say 5 minutes but all I care about is knowing the node name. I don’t necessarily care to get notified if the service comes back up.

Jury nullification is the term for when a jury declines to convict a defendant despite overwhelming evidence of guilt.

Jury refers to the twelve. If any one could nullify them it would say juror.

If they can’t all agree, this is called a hung jury, and the Judge will have to declare a mistrial. A mistrial does not mean that the case is over. After a mistrial, the prosecutor can choose to try the case again.

I assume you read the last word of that sentence? If there’s a hung jury then prosecutors can just bring it to trial again, as there was no jeopardy with the first case, as the jury never reached a unanimous decision.

So jury nullification is equal to a not guilty verdict. It’s just that the jury has deemed that while technically guilty they shouldn’t be punished for what they did. With jury nullification the defendant can’t be tried again, compared to a mistrial where they can.

What phone do you have? I just upgraded last night and everything appears to be working like normal. But I did notice that you appear to have a smaller screen size than I do. First I’d try adjusting the display size and see if that helps. You can find that setting (on a pixel) under: Settings -> Display -> Display Size and Text.

You can also try adjusting the accessibility settings and increase or decrease the font size to see if that helps. Which you can find in the same menu above.

Lastly, you might try enabling developer settings and adjusting the smallest width:

Edit: none of these should be final solutions but to help troubleshoot what’s wrong. You can then use what you find with these three options to raise a ticket and hopefully the developers can then narrow down the actual root cause.

Yes it would. In my case though I know all of the users that should have remote access snd I’m more concerned about unauthorized access than ease of use.

If I wanted to host a website for the general public to use though, I’d buy a VPS and host it there. Then use SSH with private key authentication for remote management. This way, again, if someone hacks that server they can’t get access to my home lan.

Their setup sounds similar to mine. But no, only a single service is exposed to the internet: wireguard.

The idea is that you can have any number of servers running on your lan, etc… but in order to access them remotely you first need to VPN into your home network. This way the only thing you need to worry about security wise is wireguard. If there’s a security hole / vulnerability in one of the services you’re running on your network or in nginx, etc… attackers would still need to get past wireguard first before they could access your network.

But here is exactly what I’ve done:

1. Bought a domain so that I don’t have to remember my IP address.
2. Setup DDNS so that the A record for my domain always points to my home ip.
3. Run a wireguard server on my lan.
4. Port forwarded the wireguard port to the wireguard server.
5. Created client configs for all remote devices that should have access to my lan.

Now I can just turn on my phone’s VPN whenever I need to access any one of the services that would normally only be accessible from home.

P.s. there’s additional steps I did to ensure that the masquerade of the VPN was disabled, that all VPN clients use my pihole, and that I can still get decent internet speeds while on the VPN. But that’s slightly beyond the original ask here.

A couple of options in my opinion, as I just did this myself:

You can use the CLI tool to “upload” them. You can even do this from the server itself. So upload times would be as fast as your network card can process or however fast your server is, whichever is slower. It does require that you create an API key for the user in question though.

Otherwise you can create an external library and link that to your account. Now Immich will still index this library but it won’t move or manage the actual files. I’m not sure though if it looks at those files for duplicates (i.e. if you try and upload the same photo from your phone to the server). This external library will also prevent deleting photos as well, FYI.

There might be other options that I’m not aware of, as I’ve only been using Immich for about a month now.

Edit: link to the CLI documentation: https://immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/

Fair enough. Sometimes you can’t help but go down these rabbit holes though.

How do you account for the duplicate Riker in TNG? Who’s the real one and where did the extra matter come from then to assemble William vs Tom?

(It’s been a long time since I’ve seen that episode so I don’t remember if they covered that but on-screen)

A similar question could be raised for the Rascals episode…

I’m also running Ubuntu as my main machine at home. (I have a Mac and do Android development for my day job).

But at home, I do a lot of website and backend dev.

1. Code in VSCode
2. Build using docker buildx
3. Test using a local container on my machine
4. Upload the tested code to a feature brach on git (self hosted server)
5. Download that same feature branch on a RaspberryPi for QA testing.
6. Merge that same code to develop 6a. That kicks off a CI build that deploys a set of docker images to DockerHub.
7. Merge that to main/master.
8. That kicks off another CI build.
9. SSH into my prod machine and run docker compose up -d

That looks like 8.8.8.8 actually responded. The ::1 is ipv6’s localhost which seems odd. As for the wong ipv4 I’m not sure.

I normally see something like requested 8.8.8.8 but 1.2.3.4 responded if the router was forcing traffic to their DNS servers.

You can also specify the DNS server to use when using nslookup like: nslookup www.google.com 1.1.1.1. And you can see if you get and different answers from there. But what you posted doesn’t seem out of the ordinary other than the ::1.

Edit just for shits and giggles also try nslookup xx.xx.xx.xx where xx.xx… is the wrong up from the other side of the world and see what domain it returns.

Another thing that can be happening is that the router or firewall is redirecting all port 53 traffic to their internal DNS servers. (I do the same thing at home to prevent certain devices from ignoring my router’s DNS settings cough Android cough)

One way you can check for this is to run “nslookup some.domain” from a terminal and see where the response comes from.

Thank for sharing the results.

I can say one of the most requested features I keep getting requests for is a global search as well. I’m just blocked by a bug in Lemmy at the moment.

A tool to see better recommendations on who to follow could be interesting as well. I’ve recently added a new feature that allows for users to search communities (on Lemmy and Kbin) about what posts are actually talking about. I wonder if something similar could be built for users…

But again thanks for sharing.

Problem is finding the difference between repost bots and bots that are helpful like automod and link redirectors.