Yesterday morning somebody on a Discord server I was on tried to take down my site for basically no reason. Not the site here on the tilde but my other site. I guess they didn't like that I was hosting copyrighted content or something? Regardless they took time out of their day to send an abuse report to the server provider I was using as a proxy for my server at home. I took down the proxy and was back online with almost no downtime but still it's frustrating. It's lead to a bit of an unreasonable depressive spiral where I find myself losing confidence in what I'm doing. This combined with new technical issues on my server are causing me to really lose motivation. Computers can quickly become tools of frustration when all you're doing is fixing problems only for 3 more problems to appear immediately after...And that's before even having to deal with people online trying to take down your hobby project just to screw with you.

I half-broke my home server today. Somehow it's online and serving its purposes as intended but it's unable to access anything online other than the services it is hosting! I was testing something in Wireguard that SEEMED easily reversable (since it was just modifying a config file) but after what I was trying didn't work and I went to go reverse my changes, this issue has appeared. I'm kind of at a loss for what to do. I shouldn't just reinstall but sometimes I feel left with no other choice. At least it's all Docker containers so it's not that bad. Sometimes I wonder what sysadmins do in situations like these where they are just at a complete loss for what to do and reinstalling is not an option. It makes me feel very incompetent.

I gotta get an SSG set up for this site, I'm already getting sick of copy-pasting HTML for each page.