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OMG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

In security engineering, security through obscurity is the practice of concealing the details or mechanisms of a system to enhance its security. This approach relies on the principle of hiding something in plain sight, akin to a magician’s sleight of hand or the use of camouflage. It diverges from traditional security methods, such as physical locks, and is more about obscuring information or characteristics to deter potential threats. Examples of this practice include disguising sensitive information within commonplace items, like a piece of paper in a book, or altering digital footprints, such as spoofing a web browser’s version number. While not a standalone solution, security through obscurity can complement other security measures in certain scenarios.

You don’t know what you’re talking about - please stop. It’s embarrassing. It’s a long-standing industry term not some weird phrase I just made up. Nobody is saying “Linux is obscure”.

Enjoy your “security”. 🙄

Sorry - which part of your comment added anything of value? “can help to minimize the attack surface”? 99% of the time a proxy just passes traffic through. Unless you’re talking about a WAF which is a) a different thing and b) NOT what any home gamers are talking about when they recommend nginx, traefik, etc. to newbs.

Just google the term next time rather than embarrassing yourself.

See what I mean?

As if a proxy blindly passing traffic directly to a backend server “reduces attack surface” in any meaningful way. 🙄

Edit: Guy edits his post with a bunch of stuff and assumes I’ve read it later. I can’t eyeroll enough…

1. You’ve increased your “attack surface” by adding a second application to the stack. Proxies aren’t magic, they are also targets.
2. Sure - you can do those things on a proxy. How many people here are? And why are those things never suggested when people here say “use a reverse proxy”? Because they think the proxy is the security.

The self-hosted crowd thinks reverse proxies protect you from the Internet. Don’t expect too much of them.

You could have just said that you don’t know what “security through obscurity” is.

It goes right to the top!

2.5’ hdd but besides running tight on space

No wonder - that’s huge! (sorry - couldn’t resist)

While I don’t exactly intend to run RAID

At these sizes you may want to consider it - at least a mirror (RAID1). That’s a lot of data to lose and/or have to fetch from backups. Being able to limp along until you get a replacement is an enormous time-saver.

Underrated comment.

A “howto” that just gives you scripts and commands to run is pointless. You need to understand the technology, and networking in particular.

No?

2Gig on S3 (in us-east-1) is like $0.05/mo. and is enough for either Nextcloud or Immich. Your data is going to be the largest consumer of space.

Things like Immich or Nextcloud are far too much for what I need, I basically just need a password-protected upload interface and the ability to grab the direct links to the images to embed them.

Why do you care that they do things you don’t need if they also do what you need?

Because these do just what you need and do it well.

Reverse proxies do not give you security.

Agree - critical infrastructure should have as few dependencies as possible.

So - I setup that model according to the docs and gave it this prompt:

Write me a highly optimized n-queens solver in go. It should take advantage of parallelism (what little there is) and output only the solution and how long it took.

After 10 minutes it gave me code that didn’t compile.

It took another 3 mins to fix the compile error and the output is not correct.

As I said - LLMs on 8Gig VRAM just aren’t worth it.

It’s called “traceroute” on Linux and Mac because there was never a 8.3 filename limitation on them.

Yeah - I’ve been playing around more with the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct MoE model and it’s still quite… Meh. I’ve been using llama.cpp and I’ve tried a bunch of tuning. It works and performs well enough (15t/s) but the output is just garbage. I can do some simple coding but I’m finding I’m fighting with it more than if I just wrote the code myself. Maybe I just have standards that are too high. Claude Opus 3.7 is just in an entirely different league…

Does… It matter?

Energy use is energy use no?

The energy required to do inference (i.e. amount it questions and the like) is no worse than doing some gaming for a short period of time.

That said it’s probably less efficient to run locally since anthropic and openai have been getting more efficient data center hardware from nvidia compared to consumer desktop gpus.