qaz

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I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as [email protected] until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in Linux, FOSS, technology, and several other subjects.

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qaz ,

How do you separate Nix programs from the rest of the system?

Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

I understand that people enter the world of self hosting for various reasons. I am trying to dip my toes in this ocean to try and get away from privacy-offending centralised services such as Google, Cloudflare, AWS, etc....

qaz ,

You can simply set up a VPN for your home network (e.g. Tailscale, Netbird, Headscale, etc.) and you won't have to worry about attacks. Public services require a little more work, you will need to rely on a service from a company, either a tunnel (e.g. Tailscale funnel) or a VPS.

qaz ,

You don't have to be successful to get hit by bots scanning for known vulnerabilities in common software (e.g. Wordpress), but OP won't have to worry about that if they keep everything up to date. However, this is also necessary when renting a VPN from said centralised services.

qaz , (edited )

he specified static website, which rules out WP

Oops missed that

EDIT: And I missed Immich too

qaz ,

No, I'm currently using Tailscale but have been considering switching to Netbird to not be reliant on Tailscale.

qaz ,

Yes, but it does expose your own IP address and thus where you live. Tunnels don't.

qaz ,

Wouldn't that be slow?

qaz , (edited )

Yes, but if you host a public site it might be a better option, the content is public anyway, and you won't get doxed if you publish something controversial.
It's a trade-off, between keeping traffic private or keeping your IP private.
Wireguard works best for private traffic, but you can't host a public site with that.

qaz , (edited )

This is false. Some ISP's change IP's often, but some don't and sometimes geoip lookups can be really accurate. My IP has remained the same since I moved in, and a geoip lookup results in a coordinate less than a kilometer away. It does matter.

qaz , (edited )

Ip address doesn’t expose where you live.

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=geoip+lookup

Tunnels stop you from opening a port so nothing is exposed openly to the internet^1^ but it does not keep your ip private^2^.

This is also incorrect.

  1. The entire purpose of CF tunnels is to expose sites on the internet
  2. CF tunnels (and services like it e.g. ngrok) rely on shared proxy servers that forward traffic based on HTTP host headers (which is why you can't forward arbitrary TCP traffic). The IP of the site will therefore have the shared IP of the company's proxy server instead of your own.
qaz ,

Yes, it seems to be a hit or a miss. I don't think I live near any central infrastructure or ISP, especially not this specific part of the city.

qaz ,

I thought ghost was for blogging only

qaz OP ,

I have rebooted it more than 10 times, and have checked literally every other connection but somehow forgot to check the actual SAS cable.

qaz ,

GIFS have terrible compression though, you should try converting it to WebP

qaz Mod , (edited )

Harris is on the left

qaz Mod ,

The title is about Kamala Harris, there are 3 people visible on the thumbnail, and you ask "who". I assumed you wanted to know who she was, therefore I pointed out which one was Kamala Harris in the thumbnail.

qaz ,

ARM = Advanced RISC Machine

However, RISC-V is specific type of RISC and ARM is not a derivative of RISC-V but of RISC.

qaz Mod , (edited )

I understand politics are a controversial topic, but I like to remind everyone to avoid name-calling and other uncivil behavior. Your comments will be removed.

Is there any significance to people using emojis that match their skin tone?

I'm asking because as a light-skinned male, I always use the standard Simpsons yellow. I don't really see other light-skinned people using an emoji that matches their skin tone, but often do see people of color use them. Maybe white people don't naturally realize a need to be explicit with emoji skin-tone or perhaps it's seen as...

qaz ,

What do you mean with autistic text stim?

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

qaz ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/310ec44a-29d4-4bf3-a33d-9735249e6e06.png

qaz OP Mod ,

The channel also has another video of AI singing Yandere dev's code.

Have you ever bough an external hardrive only to take the disk out of it?

Hiya, so am looking to buy more storage and while browsing am seeing some external harddisks, such as Western Digital My Book and Seagate Expansion Desktop for cheaper than the internal harddisks themselves. Have seen this one video from KTZ Systems where he bought up multiple of these external ones just to open them up and use...

qaz ,

Do keep in mind that you need a SAS controller for that, which can cost between $50-200

qaz ,

There are also refurbished drives available on Amazon

qaz ,

Have you tried using the linuxserver.io Docker image? It has the latest drivers for hardware encoding included. I couldn't get HW encoding with the official image to work but this one worked without any manual setup. You still have to forward devices to the Docker container though.

qaz ,

Weird

qaz ,

I've also used this and it solved some performance issues with a game.

kde , to KDE
@kde@floss.social avatar

If you don't use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.

https://www.tomsguide.com/computing/windows-operating-systems/microsoft-now-says-your-pc-is-in-need-of-repair-if-youre-not-using-bing-with-edge

They are not wrong.

To mend your machine:

  1. Ditch Windows
  2. Install Plasma
  3. Your computer is ready.

https://kde.org/plasma-desktop/

@kde

A laptop running the laters version of Plasma, Plasma 6.

qaz ,

Compared to Windows? Because then it's probably not plasma but the underlying distribution.

Rant: vanilla local app search is ridiculously bad

For a search company I can't believe how terrible the Android app search is. I can't even search "bank" for my banking apps, and there doesn't really seem to be any metadata except for the title that goes into the search. Which is absolutely ridiculous given how many companies name their apps something cReAtIvE like "home" or...

qaz ,

Kvaesitso search is pretty bad. It's unable to find the F-droid app when searching "fdroid".

qaz ,

Instances can see who downvotes who. You can see all of that if you run your own instance that federates with the relevant instances.

qaz , (edited )

Stork seems like a great choice considering the fact that it's replicated over several regions by default. I might start using it myself.

qaz ,

Doors usually have something on the other side.

What's a good NAS and server system under CAD$900 (USD$658)?

I am currently using an old laptop (circa 2015) with a 250GB SSD in it, and 4GB of RAM. It runs Fedora 39 Server, and only hosts a Jellyfin instance through Docker right now (though I want to use Nextcloud later too). There is only 15GB of storage left on it, and the CPU is constantly overloaded (due to forced transcoding). I...

qaz , (edited )

You could get one of those cheap N100 boards and a couple refurbished enterprise HDD's. Board costs about 150, case & PSU another 150, which leaves you with enough to buy 2 10ish TB drives, a boot drive and some additional RAM. Power usage should be pretty decent.

Another option is going with a second hand Mini PC and a DAS. I went with this myself because it's the cheapest and easiest option. It cost me about €150 combined (excluding the cost of the 2 drives I had laying around), and it has served me well for the past year. The CPU is a bit weak (i5-6500T) and it doesn't have a lot of RAM (8GiB), but it handles the 30ish docker containers and video transcoding (single stream) well.

I've also bought an old proliant micro server and I wouldn't really recommend it. It uses a lot of power and it was kind of a pain to get running. I'm planning on installing a HBA adapter and using it as a backup system.

What's your go-to "Bang for your Buck" filament brand?

As I'm graduating college in a few weeks, I'll be losing access to my university's free printers and filament. I'm going to build up a home lab with a couple printers where I can make goofy little mechanical projects as well as some components for my cars and stuff....

qaz ,

Clickable link: https://www.tangledfilament.com/

qaz ,

I'm in the EU and have been buying filament from https://www.123-3d.nl/ so far. They also have an English shop https://www.123-3d.co.uk/.

qaz ,

And the subtext "Wij komen altijd" means we always come and has a double meaning.

qaz ,

I think ignoring newlines is normal for markdown and GitHub flavoured markdown is the one deviating from the standard.

qaz , (edited )

is the 2014 "Fascist coup" you're referring to the Euromaidan?

qaz Mod ,

The new link seems to be broken

qaz Mod ,

Yes, it does now

qaz ,

Thanks for the reminder to check my backups

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