If you’re getting a VPS I’d generally recommend getting pangolin. It’s basically like cloudflared tunnels, but self hosted (on the vps). It works the same, you use it to map your subdomains to IPs on the other end of the secure tunnel.

It has things like user access controls for each of the subdomains, the ability connect it to an identity provider, rules governing which paths need authentication and which don’t, etc.

It can optionally come preconfigured with crowedsec, but I had problems with it falsely classifying my normal traffic as an attack and banning my IPs.

Just be aware that even if your service has a login page, you first need to log into pangolin to be granted access to the service, and although that’s fine on the web (especially if you’re using an sso), some native apps don’t like the extra login. Homeassistant handles it better now, but I haven’t gotten jellyfin native android app working yet.

I agree except crowedsec. The apps I use were frequently phoning home, causing all my devices to get banned by crowedsec. Setting up rules around it was just too painful so I got rid of it.
Gonna look into if I can set up fail2ban with it instead

Becoming old

Sometimes I can be kinda pedantic

That’s the definition of an egg, not chicken egg.

There is no universally accepted definition, that defines it by the creature that laid it or the creature that hatches from it.
If there was, this dilemma wouldn’t exist and there wouldn’t be any debate.

The amazing thing about imagination is it doesn’t need to be consistent or based in reality. People can typically imagine such things.

For example, I can imagine an elephant disguised as a normal sized human in a trench coat, because within my imagination, hammerspace can exist.

As such, I can imagine an egg that has every single property of a chicken egg; look, flavour, size, smell, colour, etc, such that it was absolutely indistinguishable from a chicken egg until it miraculously hatched an alligator. I extremely strongly suspect that the overwhelming majority of people would have understood what was meant by the thought experiment.

And literally you’re just asserting you’re correct by fiat. The people on the other side make the exact same argument about their side. You seem to be missing that this entire dilemma hinges on the fact that there is no specific definition for “chicken egg”, so to claim you’re correct by definition is baseless afaict.

The best argument I’ve seen so far is that the entire dilemma doesn’t even make sense since the chicken is the egg; it’s the same animal just in different phases of its life, therefore one cannot come before the other; it’d be like saying “which came first, the chicken or the other chicken?”. But that comes dangerously close to the question of when life begins, so gonna try to avoid that.

Literally why I started off my comment talking about the difference between peaceful and fair.

Because many people would consider “peaceful” to mean “without physical violence” in this context - so I described what that could be. Something china is actually actively in the process of doing.

Idk how that means I have my head up my ass. One of us is using the wrong definition for that idiom.

You have a crazy definition of “advocate”.

Apparently if you describe it, that is considered “advocacy” even if you explicitly denounce it.

I honestly do not believe that when I said that, you not only didn’t but we’re unable to imagine an egg that by all properties confirmed to the expectations of a chicken egg until an alligator miraculously hatched out of it.

I do not believe you’re debating in good faith

Why are you conflating “peaceful” with either “act of peace” or “good”?
I explicitly said it wasn’t fair, eg that it’s unethical and I don’t support it.

All I’m saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.

So your framing this as though I’m a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.

It’s almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.

Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.
Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.

But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of “unifying” Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan’s value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.

I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn’t something I support obviously.

Peaceful or fair?

For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn’t depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they’re not a critical strategic national interest.
Then they just invade.

The world isn’t doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they’re not a critical strategic interest.

Naw, I think a few of the original members are still there

So, not “technically” at all (see my user name)

Oh get over yourself

Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.

Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.

I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

“you mean alligator egg”

No, I didn’t. And yet you still likely understand what I mean, or get close enough to what I mean that it doesn’t matter, unless you’re being intentionally obstinate.

And what do you think of the idea that the egg is simply a phase in the life of an animal, that the chicken is the egg it hatched from, not just the former inhabitant? In this case how can the egg be owned by the animal that laid it if it is itself an animal?
Like the caterpillar is the chrysalis is the butterfly, the chicken is the egg.

I’ll need to look into it a bit more, but I’m skeptical that this will work in practice:

How can they confirm that I’m the owner of the passport? How do you prevent them from selling the fields they requested, that have been uniquely linked to you? How do you prevent the government from keeping track of all the services you’re using?

I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.

The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”

This is the best argument I’ve heard yet.

Someone could argue that the egg isn’t part of the animal, the “egg stage” just applies to when the animals was growing in the egg. But it’s a pretty difficult argument to make.