wizardSep 9, 2019
I'm not legally allowed to self host things without violating my ISP's AUP

https://www.xfinity.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpeedInternetAUP

The rest of it generally sucks too.
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@wizard
my laptop runs nginx

fuck the police

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@haskal I guess this is a compliant configuration, as long as I'm not running dedicated hardware I could still self-host for non commercial purposes

Unfortunately that defeats the whole purpose
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Imagine a bunch of 8 year old kids setting up a spare laptop to run a minecraft server to play together, then Comcast shutting their internet down because they violated their policy against running dedicated service hosting hardware. Any potential for them to learn about networking technology gets cut off right at the political level.
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Honestly I kind of hate that I posted this as a "think of the kids" post but it's more approachable, relatable, and simpler to understand than other examples.

Like if I wanted to setup a self-hosted way of sharing photos between me and my family, it's still against their terms. Not as many people want to do that though and it's much more niche than a minecraft server.
Sep 9, 2019 at 4:08amWeb