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  • Hi. I am a software engineer with a background in IT security. My girlfriend is a literal network security engineer.

    I showed her this thread and she said: don’t bother, just use http on your local network.

    Anyways, I am going to disengage from this thread now. Skepticism against things one doesn’t fully understand can be healthy, but this is an insane mix of paranoia and naïveté.

    You are not a target; the things you are afraid of will never happen; and if they did, they would not have the consequences you think they would.

    Your router will NOT magically expose your traffic to the internet (what would that even mean?? Like, if it spontaneously started port forwarding to your Jellyfin server (how? By just randomly guessing the port and IP???), someone would still need to actively request that traffic, AND know your login credentials, AND CARE).

    Your ISP does not give a shit about you owning or streaming copyrighted material over your local network. It has no stake in that.

    Graphene is not an ultimate arbiter of IT security, but the reason it “distrusts networks” is because you take your phone with you, constantly moving into actual untrusted networks (i.e. ones you do not own).

    Hosting Jellyfin on Graphene will not make it more secure, whatsoever.

    If every device is assumed compromised, and compromising devices with knowledge that you watch media is a threat in your model, then even putting an SD card with media in your phone and clicking play is dangerous. Which is stupid.

    If you actually assume your router is malicious, then please assume that when you initially downloaded your VPN client, it was also compromised and your VPN is not trustworthy.

    The way I see it, you have two options:

    1. educate yourself on network security to the point of being able to trust your network setup; or
    2. forget about hosting anything



  • This does not encrypt during transit, and my network is not a trusted party.

    Then honestly, you have other problems than setting up Jellyfin.

    For real though, if you think someone is (or might be) listening in on your local network, i.e. have physical access or compromised one of your machines, then the Jellyfin traffic is the least of your problems. Pick your battles. What’s the worst that could happen here - someone gets to know your favorite show?

    They do, because if ProtonVPN blocks LAN connections then the only other option is exposing the server to the WAN

    Ah, I see. On your PC you should just be able to set a static route over the physical interface for 192.168.0.0/24 (or whatever your local network is) which takes precedence over the VPN. For android… Oof, no idea. Probably need root.


  • What are you talking about. Please clarify if this is actually true:

    I don’t plan to access it anywhere but home.

    This would mean that you only want to access Jellyfin when you, and the device you are watching your show/movie on, are at home, where the Pi/server also is.

    Is this correct?

    If so, then questions about VPN, Certificates, DNS,… do not matter.

    1. host Jellyfin on the Pi, e.g. with IP 192.168.10.20 on your local network
    2. open the Jellyfin app on your TV/Phone/PC, connect to http://192.168.10.20:8096/
    3. done

    Now you can access it at home, and only at home. I honestly fail to see where a VPN would even come into the equation here (again, if you wish to ONLY watch when you are at home, as you’ve said).



  • Hm, I don’t have too many of those. The one large one I have was on Signal already, but that’s mostly luck.

    If it’s a >10 people group that has already been established on WA, you’re probably out of luck. If a group has not been established yet, your best bet is probably to be super proactive: “Yes, good idea, let’s do make a group! Here, I’ve set up the Singal group, just scan this QR code to join! Oh, you don’t have signal? Oh, nevermind, it’s super quick to set up, and then you can simply join via the QR! I’d really hate to see you not be part of the group chat, but of course it’s up to you if you want to join…”













  • I mean… “To fear”? No. But There are plenty legitimate to remove comments and posts that have nothing, and I mean absolutely nothing, to do with mod overreach or censorship.

    • removing derailing threads from heated discussions
    • removing the annoying “just asking questions” people from LGBTQ+ safe spaces
    • removing posts accidentally posted into the wrong community
    • removing troll posts
    • banning repeat troublemakers not willing to follow the rules
    • removing aggressive, sexist, racist,… posts

    On the other hand, anti-moderation people only ever seem to come up with “but I want to be able to post whatever I want!”

    “Free speech” in this context means: you can go create your own instance or community, with blackjack and hookers! And mods can use the tools at their disposal to enable the rest of us to not have to deal with bullshit.