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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • I have dynamic dns through cloudflare that provides a proxy ip address for me in addition to some protections.

    After that I use a reverse proxy to route specific domain names to services. My router is set up to forward only ports 80 and 443 to that reverse proxy, so there’s a good layer of safety there. There could be a weakness on the router, but at this point traffic is pretty limited.

    After that, at least for your service, if you can have some control or throttling of signings and be more selective about who you let in, then that could help.

    I say do it. Sure there’s risk someone could put something on there you don’t want, but I wouldn’t say it’s big enough to not do it.














    1. How do you live day to day, spend the hours, get food, hygiene, etc?

    I work office hours at US central time, so things don’t really change a whole lot there. I wake up, do breakfast if it’s offered, hop on the morning meeting, and optionally find a cafe to work at.

    Many places offer breakfast and lots of hostels have kitchens and refrigerators, so I’ll take one of those eco bags that I got for $0.50 in latin america and buy a few things for a meal, or I’ll eat out, which I do too much.

    Hygiene is fine. Every place has showers and toilets - just wear flip flops or shower shoes in shared showers.

    1. I’m currently in the US. My company’s policy of work abroad changed, so I’ll be back here for a while.

    2. problems

    I’ve learned to be more flexible. Sometimes places have flakey internet, but I have my phone as a hotspot. Your plans won’t always work out and its fine, there will be another way to make it happen. There’s another bus, plane, lodging around. It’ll be fine.

    1. What is a DN?

    Your moving long term and have a digitally oriented job.

    1. money

    I kept my job and I saved a ton of money in latin america. To give you an idea, the cost of my not out of the ordinary apartment plus utilities in Austin, TX came out to about $68 per day. My housing costs in latin america ranged from $10-$40 per day. It’s hard to spend there in a day what I was doing just for rent. And that’s eating out 2-3 times per day.

    So I have way more money now.

    1. Best/worst

    Best part is the adventure and seeing the world. Worst might be that connections are fleeting and you need to be ok with the finality of things. I think this is good overall, but what I do is I’ll travel for a while and then settle for a month or more at a CoLive arrangement. Those have the benefits of hostels in the social aspect, but you often have your own room, sometimes a dorm, and people stay for minimum amounts of time, which is often a month.

    The conveniences of home can be missed a bit, but then I can rent a private room or a hotel if I want. Also, sometimes I want my me time, but then I retreat too much, so the social aspects of hostels can pull me out of that.

    1. Transportation

    Buses in Latin America are great. I flew sometimes, but I have local transit passes for most places that I went to. Going between cities, I often took the bus.

    1. Sustainable

    I’ve been doing it for a year and a half and don’t see myself stopping. I know people that have been doing it for 7+ years. It’s whatever fits you. You don’t have to fit a mold. You can try it for short term and go back, you can do it on and off, whatever. It’s your life. Live it. haha