NarrativeBear
@NarrativeBear@lemmy.world
- Comment on AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant 12 hours ago:
To shreds, you say?
- Comment on How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? 4 days ago:
I wish there were some viable “fully cooked” alternatives. I won’t touch apple products with a 10 foot poll, and I owned the first and second iPhone.
As for Linux phone i have tinkered with it but its nowhere close to being a daily driver, yet.
Strangely sometimes I wish the Microsoft phone was not a total flop…
I guess the only thing left if a completely dumb phone, but that does not help if you use your phone more as a “pocket computer” then a phone at all.
- Comment on How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? 4 days ago:
I’m in the same boat as well, for some reason my music apps can’t seem to see my Google smart speakers, but strangely they can see my Nvidia shield and cast to that.
Looked through my app permissions I honestly can’t see anything out of the ordinary or plainly obvious. Both my speakers and android TV (shield) are on separate segment VLAN.
As for granting the permission, I generally like to grant on a app by app basis, lots of apps ask for internet access as a example but don’t actually require it to function. All my game apps for example are completely offline.
- Comment on How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? 4 days ago:
Hey can you let me know where I can find more info on this? I am running GrapheneOS as I was having this exact same issue as OP a few day back.
On my browsers I have network access, but nearby devices was disabled.
I checked my private dns settings and granted nearby devices access to my browsers, which allowed me to hit my local self-hosted services.
Just wondering if there is a better way to achieve the same.
- Comment on How is everyone dealing with Android 17's "Nearby Devices" change? 4 days ago:
Ran into this issue a few days ago, exactly the same way you described.
I am on GrapheneOS and figured it was something to do with a a setting where it’s blocking network access for my specific browser app. After reading your post I see it’s a android 17 feature.
Checked all the settings in my browsers related to DNS at first and was stumped for a bit, until I flipped on the nearby device setting and everything worked.
I also looked into the DNS settings under Network & Internet > Private DNS. Make sure your phone is using your local networks DNS server. Just make sure to understand the implications of changing this (especially when you disconnect from you’re home networks DNS). Also making sure your home DNS is not defaulting to your ISP DNS.
- Comment on Update: I turned my old Motorola E5 Play into an actual WordPress server 6 days ago:
What brand of keyboard is that in the background, looks comfortable. Also interesting project.
- Comment on Tired of expensive disposable batteries and rechargeable AA suck. So I made a 10k mAh pack for my deadbolt. 6 days ago:
This is great, so far I have only seen hardwired options, never seen someone do a expanded battery mod for their smart lock.
Battery eliminators are the way I hardwired my smart locks. You can find these on amazon in various battery sizes and combinations. Combining this with a Voltmeter Adjustable Boost Modul, doing some wireing, and plugging all this into the wall means no battery changes every 3-4 months.
- Comment on Looking to move from Caddy 1 week ago:
HAProxy seems like it’s always overlooked. I have been using it for years myself, pretty solid and just works.
If you run pfSense you can also use HAProxy with a GUI.
- Comment on AI bot hacking/scraping Home Assistant 3 weeks ago:
Where’s this banging you speak of?
- Comment on Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963 5 weeks ago:
No worries, not sure how I misunderstood the question, but hopefully it helps someone else out who’s self-hosting.
- Comment on Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963 5 weeks ago:
When you host something on LAN only you are not exposing the service to the wider internet.
This means someone would need access to your LAN or local area network first (such as your WiFi password) before being able to reach said service.
Now when you expose something directly to the internet, in a way that it displays a publicly accessible webpage it makes it easier for anyone to reach that webpage and potentially figure out your login and password information through brute force. Or some type exploit that allows full bypass of the login credentials.
Some self-hosters choose to keep their more sensitive services on the LAN only and then use a VPN (that’s hosted privately) to access their LAN remotely from anywhere in the world.
With a VPN hosted on your LAN it provides a good layer of security as someone would first need to have access to your VPN to then potentially try and get access into your services.
- Comment on Unofficial "collection" torrents 1 month ago:
Glad I could help!
- Comment on Unofficial "collection" torrents 1 month ago:
Correct. Your manual added torrents only.
But to be clear your downloads folder should ideally have subdirectories in it, or at least that’s what I have.
*Completed Downloads", with subdirectories for movies, series, audio, books, blackhole_movies, blackhole_series, and any other category you have.
In your download client you then make sure to set it up that all downloads get a category that then dumps the completed download into the corresponding folder.
So when a movie gets added by radarr its assigned a category of movies in your download client, and when it finishes downloading it goes to the completed/movies folder. And similar if a series gets added by sonarr a category of series gets assigned and moved to the completed/series folder.
Any torrent you add manually you would then assign either blackhole movies or series and your download client would then move it to that completed folder. Radarr would then see new files appear and try and import them as it regularly will now scan that blackhole folder.
- Comment on Unofficial "collection" torrents 1 month ago:
What you are looking for is under Settings > Download Clients > Torrent Blackhole
This helps create a “blackhole” folder that monitored for any completed files. Radar or Sonarr will then try and import these files if the naming matches anything in your library that’s missing.
- Comment on Dying of prosperity, 14TB HDD left unused 1 month ago:
I can take some of those off your hands arrh
- Comment on How much do you secure a home server that's only accessible with VPN? 2 months ago:
Could you provide some more information on how you perform a vuln scan, or what services/softwares you use to perform the scan?
- Comment on Using a NAS to redirect to another NAS for streaming ? 2 months ago:
What you may want to do is use something like Tailscale (or a VPN) to connect the two sites (homes) together.
Run your Tailscale setup in home A, and then in home B connected to your tailnet. You can install Tailscale on the home router of home B, or install it on any device that needs to connect to home A.
Then in home B you just connect to your Jellyfin server like you normally would if you were in home A. This could be a android box or smart tv for example or accessing it through a browser on a pc. (If those devices have Tailscale installed and are connected to your tailnet in home A)
Using a VPN like Tailscale would also mean you don’t expose your Jellyfin to the internet.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 year ago:
What’s a Next Cloud, what came before it? /s
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 year ago:
Can a link be provided to this consent page?
- Comment on Beelink ME mini is a NAS with an Intel N200 processor and support for up to 6 SSDs 1 year ago:
This would be perfect if I could fit 24th NVMe devices in this, but not looking to pay more then 500-600 in a device with no hdd/ssd