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Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

That's true, and i'm not trying to say that Ubisoft is a good actor here, I just think that the example of BattleCore Arena quite unusual and ironic here.

That being said, that's probably because the game did not receive a lot of attention from the higher ups at Ubisoft, so the devs could make decisions that are respectful towards the players.

What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Good point, I did not check if my router has already some built-in system that could let me connect to my home network with trusted devices from outside

What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Tailscale is very tempting, on one hand it should provide a pretty good layer of security without too much thinking and it is "free", and on another hand, it's a business solution, so it is probably not really free...

Thanks for the answer anyway confirming that Tailscale is pretty easy to setup !

What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Okay, so that's pretty much the setup I had in mind. Good to know there is not much need for an extra step for security, thanks for the answer !

Well, I guess that would still be vulnerable to DDOS attacks, but that would just prevent me from accessing my cinnamon apple-pie recipe from my self hosted recipe manager for some time. A bit mean, but not catastrophic.

I wondered if there would be some other attacks that could compromise my machine with only a wireguard setup, but that's a good sign if there is nothing obvious.

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What are your VPN recommendations for accessing self-hosted applications from the outside? (sh.itjust.works)
 

Hello,

Some time ago, I started self-hosting applications, but only on my local network. So far, it's working fine, but I can't access them as soon as I go outside (which is completely normal).

For the past few days I've been looking for a relatively secure way of accessing my applications from outside.

I don't need anyone but myself to have access to my applications, so from what I've understood, it's not necessarily useful to set up a reverse-proxy in that case and it would be simpler to set up a VPN.

From what I've seen, Wireguard seems to be a good option. At first glance, I'd have to install it on the machine containing my applications, port-forward the Wireguard listening port and configure my other devices to access this machine through Wireguard

However, I don't have enough hindsight to know whether this is a sufficient layer of security to at least prevent bots from accessing my data or compromising my machine.

I've also seen Wireguard-based solutions like Tailscale or Netbird that seem to make configuration easier, but I have a hard time knowing if it would really be useful in my case (and I don't really get what else they are doing despite simplifying the setup).

Do you have any opinions on this? Are there any obvious security holes in what I've said? Is setting up a VPN really the solution in my case?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ironically, I think Ubisoft has a good example of a multiplayer game with a good end-of-life despite not reaching its sales expectations with BattleCore Arena, where the last update allowed P2P play after the servers went down. Meaning that the game wasn't totally killed off, even if it was thought as yet another service game, which is always appreciated.

That said, given the lack of marketing that was done around the game, it was perhaps a "not too expensive game that could maybe work on a fluke", where Ubisoft's lack of attention potentially left the devs quite free with their game. Devs who thankfully respected their players and made good end-of-life decisions.

Terminal DAW Does It In Style in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] waterproof@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

that looks funny, i might give it a try, thanks for sharing !