I can still see you Mr. Mouse pointer.

One aspect is how interesting you are as a target. What would a possible attacker gain by getting access to your services or hosts?

The danger to get hacked is there but you are not Microsoft, amazon or PayPal. Expect login attempts and port scans from actors who map out the internets. But I doubt someone would spend much effort to break into your hosts if you do not make it easy (like scripted automatic exploits and known passwords login attempts easy) .

DDOS protection isn’t something a tiny self hosted instance would need (at least in my experience).

Firewall your hosts, maybe use a reverse proxy and only expose the necessary services. Use secure passwords (different for each service), add fail2ban or the like if you’re paranoid. Maybe look into MFA. Use a DMZ (yes, VLANs could be involved here). Keep your software updated so that exploits don’t work. Have backups if something breaks or gets broken.

In my experience the biggest danger to my services is my laziness. It takes steady low level effort to keep the instances updated and running. (Yes there are automated update mechanisms - unattended upgrades i.e. -, but also downwards compatibility breaking changes in the software which will require manual interactions by me.)

horse for my bed

Godfather says: be careful what you wish for.

Mindfulness and meditation? As far as I understand it, it’s about controlling your thoughts and what to think (and feel). I know it exists, can’t say if it actually helps - it looks promising but requires training and persistence. Ahem… :)

Also the Bose NC700 are recommendable.

(Hint: Half the noise cancelling happens passively within the cushion foam, so - it turned out that third party cushions sometimes are not be as good as the original replacement kit.)

Your tent? It’s Kyras tent for the time being. I’m sorry.

You might be confusing public IP addresses with ports?

I mean publicly addressable address like in: not in a private network where SNAT/ masquerading is in place between the torrent-client’s host and the Internet.

It was mentioned, that no port forwarding is in place.

Not sure why you would sometimes see your status as fully connectable

One side of the connection needs a public address, not both. When both parties don’t have a publicly addressable IP, the status is firewalled. I guess.

Just a few more fingers and tadaa… spider hands.

Must be one of those rare arctic forest dolphins. I’m almost certain.

Let the patch be part of the code for one or two minor releases. Then revert the changes of the patch.

I’m not sure if this counts as a comic strip. I would say no if pressed for an answer.

Thanks. :)

The problem was: learning self acceptance started to make sense to me after the first few steps. It didn’t make sense to me at the beginning even though I thought that I get it.
… if that makes sense.

Yes, this. Magic, wizardry, witchcraft, sorcery, spellworking and maybe… enchantment. : )

Thaumaturge. You mean a “wizzard” or sorcerer?

These things come to mind at the moment:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_reversal How would I judge a situation from another person’s perspective? It helped me to understand why others react strange to me.

Learning to really accept myself and to stop judging myself helped me to build some confidence. Which in turn helps to handle (or survive) situations which ask to much from me.

Learning to listen to myself. If I feel, that I don’t want to do something, I don’t have to. Not now, maybe later, OK?

And of course: Trial and error. It worked fine before. Maybe it can be useful in the future. :)

Oooh.

He looks like he’s pondering about whether to take that business deal or not.

Top-left guy looks strangely content. Just saying.