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  • Soooo you’re not actually arguing for cURL but for bash scripts and potentially something else.

    And now you come across all the issues that come with that, like portability, the inevitable messiness of Bash (and the fact that people actually need to learn it unlike a GUI tool that uses simple JS for scripting), and you lose all the convenience of a nice UX and stuff like validation that comes with it.

    In other words your argument is about as valid as people who argue that vim is the peak of IDEs and noone ever needs anything else. Which - I really hope - you realize is a bit crazy.








  • My point is that institutions like that simply should not exist. They are effectively lobbying groups (if it’s nonprofit / non-governmental organization) or propaganda machines (if established by the people in power).

    Neither has any place in democracy.

    We don’t need “purpose built” think tanks; we need people with actual experience, with jobs, etc. giving in their 10 cents of expertise when required.

    And they should be required only when the governmening bodies are implementing things they have been actually voted in to do. We shouldn’t havr good-for-nothing “government employees” fearing to be out of job creating busywork for themselves that only perpetuates and creates layers upon layers of useless bureaucracy that nakes the average person’s lives worse.



  • Ahh okay. Well then the issue becomes actually having this DNS server with all the records you need, and serving it to the correct clients - for example you’ll need a different set of records for your LAN and for your VPN.

    Although come to think of it since my DNS records are already kinds scripted I could probably fairly easily just script different URLs based on the DNS server I want to serve them from… Maybe worth a try.


  • I agree it’s a stupid hack, but there are good reasons to use public addresses in your local environment too: for example you’ll need it for any roaming device like a laptop or a phone. It also vastly simplifies certificate management where you can just use sour existing publicly valid certs to access your services.

    The only proper solution would probably be ipv6, but that’s not trivial either.