Install Nginx, add autoindex on; to the default site config, throw the files into /var/www/html or whatever default folder it uses, and delete the default index.html file. If you need to do it via Docker then use the official Nginx image https://hub.docker.com/_/nginx

You could also just share the files via SMB. Easy to use on a PC - you could configure their computers to mount the share as a network drive on boot (e.g. R:, for recipes). Not sure about other phones but the built-in files app on my Galaxy S25 Ultra supports SMB too.

I use Plex for music just because they currently have the best app (Plexamp). My Plex server is mostly just music, and TV shows I record off an antenna using HDHomeRun.

CGIProxy / PHProxy were definitely very popular when I was in school. Some of the more tech-savvy kids would get free hosting accounts and install a proxy in them and share the URL.

If you have issues with IP blocks, get the AWS equivalent of a VPS (Lightsail). It’s expensive compared to other VPS services - $5/month for only 512MB RAM, 20GB disk and 1TB monthly transfer, whereas good deals usually have at least 8GB RAM for that price - but it’s difficult for anyone to block Amazon/AWS IPs because so many services use them :)

Only commercial VPNs? So HTTP proxying, Tor, SSH tunneling, SOCKS tunneling, running your own VPN node, etc are all allowed? There’s plenty of VPS hosting companies that don’t need ID or proof of age to sign up. Even if the UK requires this, you can just sign up for a server outside the UK.

There’s also weird approaches that work but not many systems catch, like tunneling stateless data (like HTTP responses) over DNS TXT lookups.

When I was in high school in the 2000s, kids figured out how to bypass the internet filtering at school. Kids these days have way more resources available to them, making it even easier to do.

+1 It’s not a real news site unless it has RSS :)

my state seems to be functioning at a better level than the federal government

As someone who lives in California, this just seems like a normal thing.

MacOS only has ~10-15% market share (depending on which stats you read) so something breaking in MacOS has much less impact compared to Windows. Apple also control the hardware, so there’s fewer things that can go wrong.

I use KDE at 150% and it looks great. I’m glad Wayland and KDE have gotten fractional scaling to the point where it’s working well. The last major bug I was following was https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479891 but that was fixed in KDE Frameworks 6.9.

Thanks Steve.

No, but law firms generally subscribe to these databases.

At least where I live, lawyers can also go to the local law library to use LexisNexis for free.

I’m amazed that these lawyers are using things like ChatGPT, when better solutions exist for the legal industry. The big legal databases (like LexisNexis) have their own AI tools that will give you actual useful results, since they’re trained on caselaw from the database rather than just using a generic model, and link to the relevant cases so you can verify them yourself.

What is a spring-loaded folder?

Especially younger people. They’re used to files just… being there on their phone. Photo albums? Nah, just scroll though every photo you’ve ever taken to find the right one.

That, and having powerful search functionality + tagging has made perfect folder structures less of a requirement. I’ve never had trouble finding documents in paperless-ngx just by searching, for example.

Interesting site, thanks for the link!