Yes. DMZ on router 1 exposes router 2 IP to internet.

No, this is all happening in the browser, there are no other image manipulation tools being called.

I just tested the new release. Consider defaulting PNGs to convert to JPEGs unless they have a PNG-specific feature like transparency. Lots of screenshots are initially PNGs, but not because they need any PNG-specific features. Consider: In a test screenshot, it compressed 3.4% with the default 80% setting and PNG->PNG, but for PNG->JPG, it compressed 84.6%.

MCP sounds like a standardized way for AI clients to connect to data sources, the Model Context Protocol.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol

It sounds like it may compete some with Google’s A2A protocol, which is for AI agent to agent communication.

Both share the same goal of making services easier for AI to consume.

Do you have a source to cite for the literal 99%?

The top-rated answer to this question on the Security StackExhange is “not really”. https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/189726/does-it-improve-security-to-use-obscure-port-numbers

On Serverfault, the top answer is that random SSH ports provide “no serious defense” https://serverfault.com/questions/316516/does-changing-default-port-number-actually-increase-security

Or the answer here, highlighting that scanners check a whole range ports and all the pitfalls of changing the port. Concluding: “Often times it is simply easier to just configure your firewall to only allow access to 22 from specific hosts, as opposed to the whole Internet.” https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32308/should-i-change-the-default-ssh-port-on-linux-servers

Using a nonstandard port doesn’t get you much, especially popular nonstandard ports like 2222.

I used that port once and just as much junk traffic and ultimately regretted bothering.

I’m glad to have some competition for the Frost Oven Squoosh, which is being lightly maintained. I opened some issues in the Mazanoke issue tracker for some features to consider.

One feature I started on for that project but got stuck on was implementing a STDIN / STDOUT CLI workflow.

https://github.com/frostoven/Squoosh-with-CLI/issues/10

As I said there, the goal was a workflow where I take a screenshot, annotate it, optimize it, copy it and paste it into my blog… without creating any intermediate temp files.

At least on Linux, all the the steps of the pipeline are solved, except for a CLI image compressor that could accept an image STDIN and produce a compressed image on STDOUT.

Sounds like an oversight. Consider filing a bug with them.

https://github.com/frostoven/Squoosh-with-CLI

Nice. I use Squoosh for this, which is also free and runs in the browser.

https://squoosh.frostoven.com/

Https give you encryption in transit. The files you view will be accesible to the host.

Same idea with email.

Not true that most incoming email will plaintext. It’s the opposite:

“Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit”

Ref: https://umatechnology.org/gmails-new-encryption-can-make-email-safer-heres-why-you-should-use-it/

nobody should have to deal with kubernetes when it comes to vehicle maintenance.

Modern web services are served on port 443 over HTTPS with secure certificates, not on port 80 over HTTP.

Make sure you have a cert issued and installed for your server, that port 443 is not blocked by any firewall and that curl is explicitly connecting to https.

There’s no indication that running caddy in a container was a problem here.

For a high security context, you would want to figure out private inter-pod networking.

For what you describe, host networking sounds OK.

Did you consider other options besides Authentik and what do you like about it?

You could self-host Lemmy and use RSS to Lemmy services to post to your personal communities.

The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.

Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.

The requirements asked for a web UI. You are right though, except for that, other kind of shared folder solutions might work.