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Others already have good recommendations for the provider so I will add some other notes.

First, please note that with the way DNS works, your home IP will now be recognizable as "the IP this domain points to" so make sure the chain of networking devices are secure, starting at your router. At minimum make sure the router firmware is up to date. The only way to avoid this kind of thing is to have a VPS as an intermediary, essentially a tunnel, though there are fancy new ways of making tunnels more powerful, like self-hosting tailscale-like services. But that has its own security downside, which is trusting the VPS provider. I think a DNS entry for your own home IP is generally better in terms of security vs. time invested but the VPS can be made theoretically superior by being careful with cryptographic strategy.

Second, yes you can, generally speaking, forward external requests on a given port to a local network IP and port. This is a decent way to slightly obfuscate ssh. By default it is port 22, so instead of opening 22 externally, you make some high-number (like 55342) port externally route to a server on port 22 locally. When sshing externally you just specify the high number port. Your router firmware may limit how well this works.

Third, yes the IP changing can cause DNS problems. You can set up a dynamic DNS service that changes your DNS records if your router external IP changes. If you run router firmware like OpenWRT the router itself can run this service. But you can also run dynamic DNS on a local server and have it do the same thing. Using a provider with a good API like porkbun makes this easier.

Hi! I'm at the cafe, thanks for meeting up with me to discuas the new round of funding. Look for me under the guy just jorkin' it.

There was fog in so many places. You don't even know.

"The waters" is still a common way among Christian nerds to refer to the deluge, i.e. God's most famous genocide. But only among the worst nerds.

So muddy it makes you think of dinosaurs.

I'm a good writer.

Sucks for the students but I am hype for the US brain drain

Andor makes her look like an idiot so good job Andor

I know a Maoist "anti-imperialist" group that shows up "in solidarity" with US weapons contractor workers when they go on strike. They just show up and say, "unions are great" and then go home.

Maybe. It will be years and years of time. That's a big layout to do pro bono.

He could sue and possibly even win but it would be a 5 year lawsuit and his opponents have infinite money. It's a substantial personal sacrifice to go after imperialist goons via the legal system.

I think regular education about mutual aid would be helpful. For example, while anonymity does mean capacity for harm and then reacting meta posts, look at what happens when donating to, e.g., charities: you end up mostly paying for PMC paychecks and tax breaks for corpos. Edit: maybe adding an explainer comment pinned in every mutual aid post would be a good way to implement this.

I do think that having a vouching system is the best way and my understanding is that this is basically the status quo to some extent. You may want to define some kind of unvouching process in cases where there are verifiable issues. I think this will actually increase trust and donations if communication and messaging are on-point.

So re: meta posts, I think there needs to be more process, not just allowing meta posts and comments. This requires more mod intervention, so I'm sorry to be basically volunteering others' time, but I do think it will be beneficial to have meta posts go through a filter and deliberative process and with clear results and strategic messaging. The alternative, i.e. status quo, is likely to be ad hoc discouragement. The coupling of "this is why you should keep helping our comrades" to any meta posts is very important.

Israeli spokespeople were calling it antisemitic before anyone had heard of a manifesto. It's a knee-jerk hasbara.