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- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 1 week ago:
They actually did at one point launch [VPNHub] (www.vpnhub.com) but its no longer active.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 weeks ago:
I pay for a tidal family account and im pretty sure im the only one actually downloading music, ill probably stop paying again once it hits $20/mo for the family plan but it was mainly a means to an end to get my other family members off Spotify.
Last i checked i was around 70k songs, my collection is also all shared on funkwhale and soulseek.
- Comment on How to manage docker compose apps? 2 weeks ago:
I use Dockge to manage everything.
- Comment on OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports 2 weeks ago:
By that logic, I could decide that movie studios have to opt out of me watching their movies for free, and if they don’t then it’s legal for me to pirate them. See how insane that sounds?
That sounds perfectly fine to me. This is now the official policy of all the serviced provided by gravitywell.xyz
- Comment on Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network? 3 weeks ago:
Funkwhale is the best option for replacing Spotify. It can be private or public and federated so you can follow users who want to share their playlists and such.
Navidrome is another good option although i don’t use it personally I hear nothing but good things.
Avoid subsonic directly but youll find funkwhale and other services support it as a protocol very well. Its just the subsonic server software itself and all of the forks seem to basically just be reinventing the same wheel over and over so they can charge for “premium” features.
- Comment on You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article) 4 weeks ago:
Is there ant way to try the app without having to use discord? I’d love to try this out but I cant do discord.
- Comment on I want to work at the Goldman Sachs 5 weeks ago:
Omg I remember when those bears tts videos where everywhere, simpler times.
- Comment on My wife wants a puppy 5 weeks ago:
Looks like You searched under housing
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 5 weeks ago:
I will preface this by saying I think it would be interesting to attempt but I think the end result would be disagreements of all kinds would lead to a lot of degeneration and splitting as we see with Lemmy and with how gab and parlor are in relation to mastodon and such.
There already are “forks” of wikipedia for conspiracy nuts and other sorts.
I think what could work though is similar to how some things are adding AP support that allows for following and sharing, and maybe commenting on articles, having those aspects be federated might not be so bad.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
yes most chromebooks if you own them you do what you want because google knows even if they did lock them down more someone out there would be waiting with a soldering iron to figure out how to mod them into running other things. But thats not the same thing as a company that buys devices for their employees and doesnt give said employees permission to open them (without risking their job anyway). The point being, the “demand” for such systems is already mostly met, normal PC users/ gamers wouldnt actually buy a product like that, because if they did it would just be a “Console”. You couldnt force it on users because there isn’t a monopoly of PCs like there is with phones or game consoles
Actually I should have said in my original post, Game Consoles also qualify, because the PS4/5 Xbox whatever, the last 2 generations they’re literally just locked down PCs with very specific hardware.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 month ago:
Such pcs already exist and are used by buinesses and schools all over… Mostly chromebooks and i suppose apple also fits that criteria.
But it would be very hard to stop a determined hacker who has physical access to a device and doesnt mind voiding any warranties or user agreements.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 1 month ago:
Yeah but really does that even matter when the top results are just ads anyway? The problem is advertising has taken over search engines and now AI makes it even less likely people “searching” for things will even bother to click off of the search website.
DMCA takedown abuse isn’t anything new, this article seems like it was just due to 404 media having to deal with it, onlyfans is tangentially related and clearly just used in the headline for clickbait purposes… I really expected better of 404 media, The issue is a valid and increasingly worse one, it shouldnt need a clickbait headline. “DMCA Automation is ruining the internet” or something to that effect would have been a lot better.
This whole thing is also a scam on content creators, people arent pirating content by searching for it on google, they’re finding out about websites by talking to people on discord (which itself is not searchable of course) and other such services. Anyone paying for these kind of takedown services is getting taken for a ride.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 1 month ago:
Oh interesting! Thank you.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 1 month ago:
Thanks but i meant the site in the original post cheapskatesguide.org/…/debian-netinstall-waf.html
It says
403 Error
Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 1 month ago:
I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn’t really a good way to identify bots.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 1 month ago:
Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.
Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 1 month ago:
Last time i checked “states rights” didn’t mean the right to impose your laws on people or businesses running out of other states.
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 1 month ago:
Id love to be wrong, but much like how meta patched threads into AP, i see this primarily as a performative gesture to allow them to take credit for “federating” when they have no intention of allowing it to get out of there control.
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 1 month ago:
Sure, and the 14b he gave was with no strings attached.
Its not like Jay Garber is any better
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 1 month ago:
So how many people are doing that? I doubt more then 5% of their users are actually using a pds.
How many times do we have to watch venture capitalists enshittify services before people learn. Do you really think bluesky doesnt have plans to extract every drop of ad revenue and data harvesting at some point, decentralization doesnt work with that business model, sure its fine now in the honeymoon phase but wait till Jack decides ita time to cash out.
- Comment on Bounce launches a service for moving accounts between Bluesky and Mastodon 1 month ago:
Must be nice to start a centrally controlled social network call it decentralized and then just let other people not on the company payroll do all the work for you.
Fuckin corpos
- Comment on localhosting: selfhosting to the min 1 month ago:
Great idea, i really hope we see more of that type of local/selfhosting for average folks, its really the only way to save the internet from just being another corporate censorship heavy advertising platform.
- Comment on What should I call the cable I need? 1 month ago:
There is no way they connected fiber to router with a freaking phone cord.
Either you misunderstood or they lied but what you need is a standard ethernet cable with the same connection on both ends.
Also if someone is professionally installing hardware they shouldn’t be reusing your existing cables anyway.
You have an XY problem. If what you need is to connect your phillips hue hub then just say that instead.
- Comment on Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server? 1 month ago:
I setup navidrome but never got around to using it much personally. It seems like a good option for a private collection, but im more about sharing mine these days.
I setup jellyfin with feishin and use finamp on mobile for music.
Im running the latest alpha of funkwhale which i recommend checking out the stable version for a better impression but the alpha is functional if a bit ugly at the moment.
I discovered mstream fairly recently and really like its simplicity.
I have MPD setup to stream as a radio on my homepage.
Overall i mainly just use jellyfin out of convenience because i already use it for shows and movies.
I think if you already have jellyfin working navidrome isnt really as useful unless you dont like the way jellyfin handles music (wich objectively jellyfin isnt the best interface for music). Its not really that much extra overhead though tbh so you shouldnt hesitate to give it a try if you want to. Really anything thats just focused on audio streaming isnt going to add much overhead.
- Comment on Need help for setting up a VPN project 1 month ago:
In that case you would need to add the peers to the wireguard node you have running in the home lab as well. Wireguard can route peer to peer and will take the shortest path available to it.
That said, i highly recommend first getting things working in a “spoke and wheel” style wireguard configuration with either your homelab or the vps as a central peer, then add peers as endpoints after you have everyone with working connections to the central peer. Its just a heck of a lot easier to trouble shoot and get your head around thatway.
- Comment on Need help for setting up a VPN project 1 month ago:
A central wireguard peer on your vps, connect from home to vps and direct the wireguard. Add friends as peers on the VPS like such:
[Interface] Address = 10.0.0.1/24 ListenPort = 51820 PrivateKey = <VPS_PRIVKEY> # Home [Peer] PublicKey = <HOME_PUBKEY> AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.2/32 # Friend [Peer] PublicKey = <CLIENT_PUBKEY> AllowedIPs = 10.0.0.3/32
Use iptables to Split tunnel traffic
For the home network ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 1. 0.2 dev wg0
And for the vpn To route google a .d such
Enable NAT for clients
iptables -t natw POSTROUTING -s 10.0.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE
You can set the iptables rules to run wjen
- Comment on Securing a 'public' service for family 2 months ago:
It sounds like you’ve got the right plan. I use Anubis and fail2ban along with some manual rules on nginx to block AI bots. In my experience Anubis helps a lot, and you can monitor nginx logs over time to for scans and such to make additional ban rules on.
- Comment on Spotify to raise prices in September 2 months ago:
Can your watch play mp3s? Most podcasts are available for download that way too.
- Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System 2 months ago:
I’m pretty happy with Debian as my server’s OS. I recently gave in to temptation and switched from stable to testing, on my home systems I run Arch because i like to have the most up to date stuff, but with my servers that’s a bit less important, even so debian testing is usually pretty stable itself anyway so I’m not worried much about things breaking because of it.
- Comment on Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui? 2 months ago: