ijeffM to [email protected]English • 1 year agoI'm all aboard the Google Assistant with Bard hype train, and you should be too - Android Centralwww.androidcentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up180arrow-down157
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minus-squareChozolinkfedilink1•1 year agoWe’re talking about a service that intrinsically requires an internet connection, though.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoA self-hosted service requires local network, not internet
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYou don’t want the service to create arbitrary outbound connections, but you want your device to be able to communicate with the service. It’s been a while since I’ve done network stuff, but it sounds like a pretty simple textbook problem.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoYou can block a service from establishing outbound connections while allowing it to respond to inbound connections. It’s pretty common to do this because server software generally has no business calling out unprompted.
Okay, what can the average user do to ensure this, then?
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We’re talking about a service that intrinsically requires an internet connection, though.
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A self-hosted service requires local network, not internet
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You don’t want the service to create arbitrary outbound connections, but you want your device to be able to communicate with the service.
It’s been a while since I’ve done network stuff, but it sounds like a pretty simple textbook problem.
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You can block a service from establishing outbound connections while allowing it to respond to inbound connections. It’s pretty common to do this because server software generally has no business calling out unprompted.