Software engineer here who works on web services. Most production-critical things in our workplace aren’t managed by GUI’s, or command lines… but by code. There are usually some infrastructure-as-code tools involved, like Terraform, CDK or Pulumi.

GUI’s are often reserved for quick fixes and trying out things on staging servers (derisively called “click-ops”).

Honestly I’ve been wondering why AI porn is so… predictably unusual? Like I would have imagined having AI means we’ll have absurd pterodactyl porn, but instead it’s just nude photography but AI

Thanks for the tip! Tailscale was so easy to get into and is worth it like you said.

thank you so much for all the suggestions!

My biggest takeaway from all this is managed VPN solutions like Tailscale are cheap ($0), easy to set up, and lets me not expose ports to the outside world.

Mostly a convenience thing, since I only need it on-demand and I usually use SSH for things anyway. As this post suggests I’m obviously rethinking that now :)