I never knew. My version of Deluge is 1.3.5, and super seeding requires 2.0+. So that looks like the issue. lol
There’s a massive difference between the average Windows user and the average PHP developer. It’s a false equivalence.
Yeah, except I'm not equating developers to end-users. I'm equating the two situations at hand. Because they're equivalent situations...
Stating the fact that I've been in development for longer than most people I converse with have been alive isn't attacking anyone. If you feel attacked by someone because they have a difference of opinion, then you need to go outside.
You don’t even know who Joel is.
I know who Spolsky is. I just don't have an overabundant need to blow smoke up his ass like his word is that of Gods.
Joel addressed your argument that the code is misread throughout the entire essay.
Go get your reading glasses and go back to reread my previous post. It's not my argument that code is misread. I was literally directly quoting him. So if Joel says it, it's the word of God to you, but you misinterpret something I'm saying (which he's actually saying) and now all of a sudden you have an issue with it?
That's pretty telling that maybe your reverence for Joel is getting in the way of your brains thinky-thinky party.
It's entirely possible.
Just like everything else in life, it's not a binary situation. You can't say "either it is, or isn't stealing! Circumstance doesn't matter!" because circumstance always matter.
If you come at me with the intent to kill me, and I kill you in self defense, that's not murder. It would be wholly ignorant to say "well you tried to kill the guy who was trying to kill you, so it's murder! Circumstance doesn't matter!" That would be the answer of a child.
The argument of Piracy has never been one of "oh, well, it's not theft." Of course its theft. You'd have to be in deep denial to make that argument. It's not your IP. The argument of Piracy is that taking shit from corpos doesn't fucking matter--no one is getting hurt. As soon as you stop taking from corpos and taking from the little guy, like indie artists, you're just a fuckin' thief. And that's not moral.
There is absolutely zero truth to that statement whatsoever. There are a grand total of zero federal laws which require retailers, or anyone for that matter to round to the nearest nickel... There may be a state or two who do this, and that's great. But no one is required federally to do it. So saying that it's "by law" is not only misleading, but it's a boldface fucking lie.
There is. It's called VPN Split Tunneling.
If you want to proxify your connection between you and a service, you enable the split. If you don't care, or want to not use the VPN, then disable it for that application. So it's effectively "proxify all connections to this app," which is the same as your use case.
This is effectively the same damn thing with a single exception. If your VPN is down, there's no access to your server. If for whatever reason your firewall is down, there's unrestricted access to your server...
VPN is unquestionably the correct choice 100 times out of 100.
You may say that’s a good practice to separate things
You're missing the point. VPN isn't about separating anything... I'm not even sure what you mean by that. VPN is the accepted practice here. Unquestionably. You create private services, and for security you only expose them to the least amount of people possible. You authenticate via VPN connections. You only have to maintain a single database of users to access any number of services, even tens of thousands.
OP is specifically talking about hosting local content that they want to protect. VPN is the solution here.
Your use case, and OPs, are completely different scenarios. I can't tell if you're being purposefully disingenuous or just flippantly stupid.
I rather think you do.
There will come a point where working around Windows quirks takes up more time than it does to simply seek and learn something else. This is organically how most people seek to find alternatives to software and begin to jump ship.
This is why PHP, as a programming language was replaced. Despite its popularity it became increasingly inconvenient to use. As such, they created other languages to replace it. They took the time to create an entirely new development language to sidestep the inconvenience of using PHP...
The same will eventually happen to Windows. Unquestionably.
Only a hardware firewall would do this. If it's software, like implied in your post, no traffic is filtered and all connections are accepted.
VPN is the least amount of work for the most secure setup. There's nothing to even argue, its superior in every way.