So gist of this is, of they are not some random people hiding, but there’s a real company to -presumably- reap in some ad money or subscription money for their StalkerPlus product.or something, it takes a single determined EU citizen to fuck them up.

Fun fact, the GDPR applies to entities outside the EU, if they sell to EU, or they handle EU citizen data.

What is FUTO?

FUTO is an organization dedicated to developing, both through in-house engineering and investment, technologies that frustrate centralization and industry consolidation.

https://futo.org/

News from September 2023, rehashed with a current date

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/archaeologists-find-largest-cemetery-discovered-in-gaza-and-rare-lead-sarcophogi-1530549.html

Yeah porkbun is good.

To see how the glue records work, you can run dig +trace example.com

This answer goes into detail how it works behind the scenes.

https://superuser.com/questions/715632/how-does-dig-trace-actually-work

RFC 2606 is your friend ;⁠-⁠)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2606

Their own doc, sure why not.

Any other context where there’s a giant with the same name. No, please at least write it out expanded once.

Two wrongs don’t make a right. I was scratching my head for a few seconds looking at the thumbnail and the title. And even the post body didn’t clarify things. 🤷🏻

I use porkbun.com for my domains, which is excellent, and also has glue record support.

https://kb.porkbun.com/article/112-how-to-host-your-own-nameservers-with-glue-records

The thing you want is “glue records” the upper level server would serve ns1.example.com (this is an approved domain for example use, better to use example.com than making your own example up) as the authoritative name server. Then provide the glue record which says “ns1.example.com is at IP address X”.

It should ask for IP addresses as well as hostname. Otherwise they only assumed people will “host” their domain in another hosted, as opposed to self-hosting.

In that case (and in any other case) change your registrar to someone else who supports glue records.

Lots of people contributed really good answers, so I don’t have anything valuable to add to their answers. But I wanted to point out for your detailed question, you include what you have done, what is your understanding and what are your shortcomings clearly. As opposed to a lot of posts with vague, detail-challenged narratives, that’s a top notch post.

And the community delivered by giving good answers, so go community!

Also, you didn’t just ghost after the initial post and interacted.with the people who graciously donated their time, so another bonus point there, as well.

it seems antennapod recently got the play state sync feature using gpoddersync.

CRISPR to the rescue!

Random idea, continuously ping the router from the laptop so it doesn’t “forget” that the laptop exists on the WLAN?

(I know you mention the laptop can still reach out when you try, but maybe the trick is to keep having traffic to-from the laptop continuously)