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  • No it must not lol what? The RFC says “may”.

    And more importantly the devices don’t, it’s very noticeable via wireshark. The only multicast traffic comes from Android, every other OS does not bother, ironically not even Mac OS, whom is responsible for the whole Avahi/Bonjour nonsense to start with.

    That would make the names much longer but would protect me against some asshat buying .lan as a new gTLD.

    Another user pointed out that .home.arpa seems to be reserved, thus hopefully protected from TLD hijack which is what I’m worried about as well. I’d make it .homelab. I wonder if one can restrict recursion on certain domains?

    If one server is marked as authoritative, but to recurse for other things, will it recurse for it’s authoritative domain, or give NXDOMAIN?

    I do own a domain name via cloudflare so I might just utilize that, but I don’t like it.


  • It’s assigned in my local DNS server, cheers.

    My devices should not be going around making assumptions about what is and isn’t assigned by someone else somewhere when the only thing that should concern them is what the DNS server tells them is the case.

    Also NAT does literally nothing other than being a massive PITA, so… yeah, I don’t think there’s much I can agree with in your rant.

    Only true if you don’t know what you’re doing. The only reason any network is safe at all is NAT and Firewalls that come with it.

    I don’t have to worry about devices on a local network in as far as firewalls go, I can expose anything I want, in fact I delete iptables at first sight on any new distro install or VM, so long as none of it is port forwarded and everything is behind NAT it’s all okay. My network is my castle. Thanks technology! Thanks smart people for figuring this out!

    Once you wrap your head around the fact your computer has IPs assigned statically or by DHCP per interface per network, not like a MAC address per device as IPv6 wants it to be which is the wrong way to think, you won’t have any more trouble with NAT.

    Like, oh no, fully functional point to point connectivity across the internet, how terrible

    Yes when you start out you may think so, but as you get into it you realise that actually complexity exists because it serves a purpose. IPv6 has to bolt on privacy extensions and then also still include NAT and actual tons of space for loopback because it’s fundamentally incompatible with how the internet works otherwise.

    And yes, practically it’s a security nightmare to have any IP of any computer accessible from the internet. If you go around configuring firewalls forever you might get it right but oh boy one mistake and you’re done for. Instead, consider NAT, the solution to all problems. I’m writing this behind quadruple NAT rn and it’s honestly fairly easy to manage, I’ve been too lazy to change it, not that I’d advise anything more than 1 necessarily.

    Edit: .home.arpa is actually designated as local TLD, and is what I use for a crappy old tablet that doesn’t support mDNS

    Yikes! That’s a lot to type to hammer in a nail that sticks out (Android). Thanks but no thanks. I’ll find some way to cripple mDNS on the non-compliant device instead.

    So are you saying you run some sort of mDNS server(not sure what the word would be there)/provider? Why? How?


  • So why does Google enforce mDNS when it leads to this confusion?

    Everywhere else, Windows, Linux, iOS, etc etc. as far as I can tell mDNS doesn’t happen with .local as the default, nevermind only option.

    Only the android devices throw a fit because of Google enforcing bizarre legacy technology of use to no one.

    Maybe there’s a way to hint to the problematic android devices that it’s a no-no by restricting all multicast traffic of any kind on network level? Is that even possible?




  • It’s called sample bias. You’re only talking about the artists you’ve personally met, not the statistics of artists as a whole.

    I know what sample bias is.

    If you read my linked comment carefully, I’m not talking about just people I’d met IRL personally, I genuinely don’t know of any actually struggling contemporary artbros.

    Statistics lie, like I said, they may earn less on paper as a wage, but they are raking it in otherwise or have QoL far superior to even the top wagies, if they couldn’t, they’d be working at a factory.

    And when I am talking about artists, I’m not talking about the small fraction that are in “high” arts with museums n shit.

    And did I mention or imply I meant anything of the sort? No by artbros I just meant (like in the linked comment) people who are professionally doing things like animating, drawing, 3D modeling/CGI, writing, film or music.

    What relevance does this section of your comment pose? Is it just an attempt at strawmanning me as some ignoramus who thinks arts are just in museums or something? It’s not very nice of you.

    also think you’ve got a bias in favor of tech bros because you see them as hard workers, and see artists as lazy elites.

    Prove me wrong then.

    It sounds to me that you you don’t really know a lot of artists and don’t really know a lot about this whole situation but still managed to form an opinion.

    If that were the case I’d still know way more than you it seems.

    Or do you have an actual counterpoint, like an example?




  • Already have. If you want to limit the exposure to e.g. not damage any future career opportunities then just make it expensive. I did it for £12.99 a month, no free page, no PPV, no RP etc.

    Converted from existing audience of older men I had on YT (3k subs back then), minimal marketing, mostly 1-2 GIFs a week spammed to various subs for it that didn’t have too much effect (ig i was being downvoted by bots/other women?) and had about 5-6 users total across a few months so I ended up having close to ~£100 total which was good groceries money (pre the mid-2022 price inflation) for the month or so I was out of a job, not enough to live on on its own but a good bonus, meant I could eat something other than bread and beans once in a while.

    Fwiw it was fun and a great ego boost ngl, kinda almost makes me wanna do it again even though I def don’t have to.