Readit NewsDoes anyone have any experience with CF tunnels on free account? Is it actually free for smaller apps with less than 1TB of traffic per month? I was wondering about switching to CF tunnel which would mean I could also close 80 and 443 ports and block China (because I read somewhere that most of DDOS attacks come from Chinese locale botnets).
It was good to question systemd, but given its performance, transparency, and general ability to mostly stay out of the way, I wouldn't bring it up re: "minimalism," in the way the rest of the list is pretty minimalist.
For example, to run the Stable Diffusion webui (which defaults to port 7860), it would be something not too far off from:
$ ssh -p1234 -L7860:127.0.0.1:7860 assigned.dns.at.startup.ngrok.io
(IIRC ngrok free-tier will allocate you a random port on the public side every time you start the service)
Then, can just browse localhost:7860 from the remote field machine.
I got bit by the AI bug a few days ago, and I already rent some lightsail instances, one of which has a static IP reserved and one of my domain names pointing to it. So, I set up something a little more convoluted and perhaps unnecessarily complex, turning that lightsail VM into a jumpbox/bastion host. Anywho:
AutoSSH from server to my lightsail instance, with two remote port forwards (not local port forwards): SSH and SD webui. Then, connect from the field machine anywhere in the world to the jumpbox with matching local port forwards. (I set up both ports, so I can shell back into the original machine, but this isn't strictly required.)
Then, fire up localhost:7860 in the web browser. Make sure this isn't being served on 0.0.0.0 or un-firewalled.
(e: I re-read original question after posting and realized GP was merely asking for over the LAN, but hey, now they know how to do this over the 'net :)
That said, I have found that there has been a rash of companies / recruiters reaching out to relatively senior people making offers that wouldn't have been acceptable a decade ago, much less in 2023. I recently had one reach out to me (I'm in Colorado, so they're legally obligated to provide a salary range) about a job that required a very specialized skillset at a senior level that I happen to have (although it's nothing to do with what I do /now/), and the top of the salary range was $20k/yr less than what I was making doing that same work in 2014, almost a decade ago and more than $100k/yr less than I make now. There's a HUGE disconnect between management at most companies, especially in HR roles, and the actual market for specialized technical labor. At least in the US, I attribute this to HR roles treating Department of Labor stats like the gospel, when job categories in DoL aren't modernized and therefore cover such a broad range of subjobs that they are diluted and meaningless, while at the same time average salary is heavily skewed by the fact that largest employer in the US across almost all job categories is the federal government, which has a notoriously low payscale for skilled labor (which attracts exactly the sort of toads on a log you'd expect).
I am not currently in the market for a new job, but I switched roles at the beginning of 2022 and I made it a point of starting my conversations with recruiters by telling them rather directly "I have no concerns about my ability to do whatever is necessary within the job, my only question is are you willing to pay me what I'm worth?" The company I eventually accepted a position at had to go through a lot of internal bureaucracy to make my offer, but only put me through one round of interviewing before they did the legwork to make sure they could make it worth my while before running me through their entire process. I think it's especially rich that HR people think you're wasting /their/ time when they make you an insultingly low offer after extensive interviewing, especially considering there's a massive skills gap between tech workers and HR folks (who are a dime a dozen).