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Is the book itself FOSS? I do see the issues repo, but thought I'd ask Also, I was straight-up surprised to see the spectrum from "this is a Folder" to "self h

Is the book itself FOSS? I do see the issues repo, but thought I'd ask Also, I was straight-up surprised to see the spectrum from "this is a Folder" to "self hosting with vpn and email". I would enjoy hearing your experiences from folks who have read it because that realm of pedagogy fascinates me

acidburnNSA 3y ago
Heh yeah that range is probably too large. I could have left the 'this is a folder' part out. I haven't uploaded the book source to the github but I guess I should so that it's easier to just send in PRs for typos and url updates.
- pbronez 3y ago
  Disagree. Explain folders. Lots of people have only experienced computing through mobile and tablet devices that try to hide the file system. They need to be taught the concept of a file. File types. Folders. Permissions. Drives. File transfer between computers.
fmajid 3y ago
Can’t say I approve of his endorsement of OpenVPN when Streisand and Algo exist, but I may be biased, having written my own self-hosted VPN script, Edgewalker (https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker). I’m not sure of the point of the book, generally people learn from doing, when they have a pressing need that provides the motivation, rather than learn new skills in advance “on spec”, so what’s really needed is a reference or wiki, or something like StackOverflow with better curation.
- acidburnNSA 3y ago
  I cut my teeth on OpenVPN when it was the only server readily available on DD-WRT routers, so you're right that it's out of date. Now openwrt has lots more options that are easy to configure on your home devices. As for the point of the book, it's mostly intending to be a FYI about some useful tools that are out there. How can one know that regular expression find/replace is even a thing if no one ever tells you? I've found that people just manually do their migrations tediously without always wondering if there's a better way.

acidburnNSA 3y ago

Heh yeah that range is probably too large. I could have left the 'this is a folder' part out. I haven't uploaded the book source to the github but I guess I should so that it's easier to just send in PRs for typos and url updates.

pbronez 3y ago
Disagree. Explain folders. Lots of people have only experienced computing through mobile and tablet devices that try to hide the file system. They need to be taught the concept of a file. File types. Folders. Permissions. Drives. File transfer between computers.

fmajid 3y ago

Can’t say I approve of his endorsement of OpenVPN when Streisand and Algo exist, but I may be biased, having written my own self-hosted VPN script, Edgewalker (https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker https://github.com/fazalmajid/edgewalker). I’m not sure of the point of the book, generally people learn from doing, when they have a pressing need that provides the motivation, rather than learn new skills in advance “on spec”, so what’s really needed is a reference or wiki, or something like StackOverflow with better curation.

acidburnNSA 3y ago
I cut my teeth on OpenVPN when it was the only server readily available on DD-WRT routers, so you're right that it's out of date. Now openwrt has lots more options that are easy to configure on your home devices. As for the point of the book, it's mostly intending to be a FYI about some useful tools that are out there. How can one know that regular expression find/replace is even a thing if no one ever tells you? I've found that people just manually do their migrations tediously without always wondering if there's a better way.