Readit NewsNot sure which of these tools is currently the best but they are clearly needed.
I am testing MetaMCP to expose internal MCP servers to the cloud version of Claude, enabling me to use Home Assistant and some other internal services in verbal conversations with Claude app on the phone.
I think 3rd party MCP server use is available in other AI assistants as well but Claude is the only one who allows using them in Europe.
I can only wish that this would become a standard approach with any AI assistants, including the built in phone assistants like Siri, but Apple is so so far behind and always trying to squeeze every bit of money wherever they can, I doubt they will ever do that.
This approach enables better integrations with local services specific to different regions, and I would somewhat compare this to RSS feeds which were popular 15 years ago. Would be nice if most e-commerce sites would provide their own MCP servers for managing carts, placing and tracking orders, etc. I don't want to see a world where single monopoly grabs this market and makes things shit again (like it happened with social media), especially for those who live outside of USA.
After some fine-tuning and eliminating false positives, it is running smoothly. It logs all the temporarily banned and reported IPs (to Crowdsec) and logging them to a Discord channel. On average it blocks a few dozen different IPs each day.
From what I see, there are far more American IPs trying to access non-public resources and attempting to exploit CVEs than there are Chinese ones.
I don't really mind anyone scraping publicly accessible content and the rest is either gated by SSO or located in intranet.
For me personally there is no need to block a specific country, I think that trying to block exploit or flooding attempts is a better approach.
https://community.cloudflare.com/t/restrict-scope-api-tokens...
The traefik box can have the single Cloudflare tunnel , and tailscsle can hang out behind the scenes.
This way tailscale funnel doesn’t need to be public.
There is the self hosted Cloudflare alternative that’s escaping my mind right now too.
Tailscale warns you about how enabling it will issue an HTTPS certificate which will be in a public ledger. But I wasn't expecting it to be this quick.
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /@vite/env HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /actuator/env HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:34] "GET /server HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] "GET /.vscode/sftp.json HTTP/1.1" 404 -
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:35] code 404, message File not found
127.0.0.1 - - [10/Aug/2025 00:11:39] "GET /s/7333e2433323e20343e2538313/_/;/META-INF/maven/com.atlassian.jira/jira-webapp-dist/pom.properties HTTP/1.1" 404 -In order to avoid exposing something unnecessarily in the certificate transparency logs, I use a single wildcard certificate, so all the subdomains are not listed anywhere automatically.
I use the same approach for services hosted in the internal subdomain, because I don't want everyone to know what exactly I'm running in my homelab.
But those who hadn't started using better auth more. And now I guess its crazy how I felt as if this would be just a small project like lucia in the sense of its just created for the passion and the art, but now it has raised 5 mill$ , I wonder if the community wanted this to be an artisanal like project like lucia before its end or what the community thinks of this move. Since VC and open source have some inherent compromises with each other and I guess I just wanted to write this to hear more about people who are using better auth in prod and what they think of what this VC funding.