Ok, friends. Suppose you want to host some sites at your home as either .onion or .i2p sites so that basically you can connect to them via a secure and anonymous connection from anywhere in the world. Use Firefox, install Foxy Proxy add on, and then put it in pattern matching mode. you can run both i2pd and tor on your laptop and proxy only .onion or .i2p sites through those daemons by wildcard pattern matching... voila! #infosec #linux #networking
To make it work, set up the wildcard ://*.onion/* to use the tor daemon's SOCKS5 proxy. and set up the ://*.i2p/* wildcard to use the i2pd http proxy.
It works well, and I am able to access my homeassistant that way using the tor add-on.
Boy, you seem to really caught the networking bug lately. 
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
Deep dive in networking started around 2000 ish when I got a business class DSL connection. Went from 56k modem to 1.5 megabit download with 5 ipv4 addresses! Built out a hierarchical queueing system for speed sharing with the family and custom ipchains firewall. Ran my own DNS and email server... Good times.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @dlakelan Testify, @GhostOnTheHalfShell. Good times indeed.
I had a startup in 1995. Our main idea was not working out quickly enough and we were running out of money. We had to keep the lights on while we figured out the path forward. Sky Dayton started EarthLink literally down the street and was making money hand over fist, we said, let’s do that! Building a basic ISP was not that hard and within a few months we had all kinds of dial-up, ADSL, and T1 network customers with all the infrastructure offsite in a couple racks next to Earthlink at the main LA Internet exchange. It paid the bills. When our main product matured a few years later, we sold the ISP and moved on. Fun, surprisingly easy (technically), but not a sustainable business.
@meltedcheese
Since you're a JPL guy I'm hoping you're gonna show up at my Altadena Library Bytes Not Bombs meetups, once I get that organized. Keep an eye out.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
@dlakelan @GhostOnTheHalfShell Sounds great. Chances are slim however; I moved away from the area in 2006. Several job-related moves later, I’m retired now in Wisconsin.
@meltedcheese
Oh well, excuse granted
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