ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 4 days ago:
I’ve been a user of GOG for a while principally because of the no-drm ability to download a copy of what you bought. When the library starts getting past a certain size though you start to wonder about those things like what if the producer has a falling out and wants to yank it from the platform, does it vanish from my library then too? Are there contracts that say ‘forever’ when they offer it? Would love to find some ‘download all’ option to take a full copy offline of the bought items at once but it’d probably overrun the monthly ISP limits even if they had one.
Seen too many things on Netflix or Spotify that I liked vanish because ‘fuck off, we can’ and although I never anticipated it being ‘bought’ in those cases it does give a lot of justification to find alternate means to reestablish that access.
- Comment on the struggle 2 weeks ago:
As one who both tested as and very much sees the description of the INTJ in themselves, can confirm as being an obnoxiously over-analytical fool.
In some ways if you take them in a certain light the M/B, astrology, and even tarot cards play a similar role. They provide a thought prompt to explore from.
- Comment on neptune 2 weeks ago:
Bunch of diamonds tossed around in 1000 mph winds, what could be the worst that happens…
- Comment on what's your fav recipe manager? 3 weeks ago:
Mealie previously, now Homechart. Mealie is probably better suited to the specific purpose, but Homechart includes a mess of other functions.
- Comment on Traveling personal cloud options? 4 weeks ago:
If you don’t have concerns about it being private I’ve used one of these for similar purposes in the past. Just a little portable DLNA server. The original project stopped but there are forks or the last version of the original out there.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 1 month ago:
Can’t think where I’ve seen any there, some software but not even really games since those have largely gone for distribution via Steam or similar.
- Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood 2 months ago:
He had access to some public Minecraft server for a while and initially I was like “this is fine”, but it was like 5 days before he was telling people to kill themselves in the chat and yelling ethnic slurs into his headset… he’s 7.
The battle is real, I’ve heard and seen things out of my kid the same age that left me speechless. Kids think that because it was on the screen or in their headset 100x that this must mean it’s ok, and with the number of people who just give it a pass by not paying the least attention…
Formative years are no place for such anarchistic environments, particularly when they’re used as an unmonitored substitute for actual engagement.
- Comment on Is there a way to preserve my comments before closing my instance? 2 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it would still work, but images for media content would have broken links. I’m not sure the refresh policy as far as remote media goes but local stuff could be re-uploaded and it should be able to retain things like the user names and comment data even without pictures.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 2 months ago:
Given I’m not sure if you mean ‘the problem of rampant consumerism’ or ‘not solving the problem via rampent consumerism’ I’ll put up thoughts on either front.
On the first, a sizable part of that could be reduced by returning to a ‘buy it for life’ mindset in our society. I always like to use an example of Grandma’s kitchen table. Some people have the nice oak piece that’s been passed through a few generations, scuffed and stained maybe, but as solid as ever. Many now though obtain the cheapest particle-board garbage they can from the local Walmart and see it as normal to have to replace it after a couple years. That disposable lifestyle doesn’t help anyone other than the retailers and producers of cheap useless junk, nobody is going to be looking to build family memories at some glorified card table.
On the second, no, people buying for the sake of buying isn’t going to solve things, but at least we can make the choices available less destructive overall. In some cases 1000 small actions are just what’s needed of no one thing can do it all.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 2 months ago:
Every damn time, ‘we just need a few more years, don’t force us yet though, we’re not ready…’ this forever planning stage is going to kill the planet before anyone is ready to act.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 2 months ago:
Can’t remember the name but I recall one of what you’re talking about, botnet that actually made it impossible for their competitors to retake the host. In theory the 'good guy’s could do that too, but still better to just find a way to fix it without leaving anything behind.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 2 months ago:
Unless the boxes actually where to get patches, which the article notes them as end of life, those is a largely pointless endeavor and the boxes will be reinfected shortly. We really need some kind of comprehensive education and notification system to let these owners know that their systems are vulnerable and have been actively exploited. Maybe take some portion of the military budget to create a fund and help people get new gear while they’re at it. A sizable chunk of people just want a box to work and once it’s set up the extent of any maintaining is to unplug it when the WiFi gets funky.
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 2 months ago:
A lot of it is buzzword marketing. Most of these small device boxes with ‘AI’ are undoubtedly just simple else/if trees giving a pre-determined output for a set on environmental conditions.
It’s like in food, for a while everything was gluten free, now it must list protein content, whatever’s next will get pasted on everything until it becomes meaningless.
- Comment on Installing a hardware firewall/DHCP/Wireguard Server 2 months ago:
It works so long as you’re not trying to create separate networks. When/if you decide to start with some vlan madness and such the AP likely won’t work for that, unless it’s fancy and can do multiple SSID on separate clans, but most WiFi/router combos don’t go that far.
Basically the new firewall/router box becomes the boss of everything done ng DHCP, likely DNS relaying, and all the monitoring. Simple and efficient, just wouldn’t go hosting public services with the setup since there’s no ‘DMZ’ to keep it separate from you personal devices.
- Comment on Installing a hardware firewall/DHCP/Wireguard Server 2 months ago:
If I’m picturing the gear right, putting the TP into AP mode would just make it a client of the network that would then serve as your WiFi and the new box could be set up as the router/gateway for both the TP and the other clients formerly plugged into the TP.
Usually, changing the mode from router to AP would keep the LAN side active as an unmanaged switch, and may even add the wan port to it. So if all above holds true go modem, Celeron (opnsense), TP (LAN to LAN) and then plug the remaining Ethernet either into the TP or the other LAN ports on the Celeron box, both should be the same local network.
- Comment on Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? 2 months ago:
No, currently univention corporate server (UCS), but I’ll give those a look since I’ve been eyeing a replacement for a while due tobsome long standing vulns that I’m keen to be rid of.
- Comment on What is a good, healthy, unhurtful, socially positive way to express anger? 2 months ago:
uq.edu.au/…/head-banging-tunes-can-have-same-effe…
There have been a few similar studies that support this. Largely that it has a catharsis effect to let someone else be angry for you.
- Comment on What is easiest solution to automatically resolve missing mounts due to e.g. a power outage? 2 months ago:
The other options of making the containers dependent on mounts or similar are all really better, but a simple enough one is to use SMB/CIFS rather than NFS. It’s a lot more transactional in design so the drive vanishing for a bit will just come back when the drive is available. It’s also a fair bit heavier on the overhead.
Using NFSv4 seems to work in similar fashion without the overhead though I haven’t dug into the exact back and forth of the system to know how it differs from the v3 to accomplish that.
- Comment on Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? 2 months ago:
It has all the needed parts plus an interesting plug in app ecosystem if you like that like and of thing. My only real gripe with it though is a pile of high sev vulnerabilities that are picked up by a scanning engine that haven’t been fixed for a long time, so I’m reluctant to recommend it unless you have a solid security/segmentation setup in place.
- Comment on Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor 2 months ago:
I have altered the deal…
- Comment on Broadcom terminates VMware's free ESXi hypervisor 2 months ago:
XCP-NG, which I think was split off from an old Citrix branch oray be a clone, but it has a pretty solid set of features. Costs nothing unless you buy support or use their paid management appliance, but there’s an open version of that available as well.
- Comment on Anybody here running AD on-prem in your homelab? 2 months ago:
Not AD proper but a compatible controller Linux distro to tie the desktops to, plus common credentials across several services. Just simplifies things not having a dozen different logins.
- Comment on 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." 2 months ago:
Something like that’s possible, but since taking an antenna after the fact won’t undo the broadcast, and still leaves the option of internet transmission it seems like a lot of risk for little reward. That’s why the first thing that came to mind for me was scrap salvage. Plenty of people on both the lawful and unlawful side of things making relatively untraceable income that way.
- Comment on 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." 3 months ago:
First it was copper wiring and plumbing, now people taking the radio towers. You ever stop to think maybe if someone had a bit more hope for having enough to live on stupid shit like this would stop?
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 3 months ago:
They should really try banning car theft, it’s a lot more direct and to the point.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 3 months ago:
Well by all reporting the whole of Q-Anon started with some fool on 4Chan claiming to have top level gov clearance and knowing all the dirt. Once enough people repeat something as fact the people who might have been skeptical at first start to jump on board because ‘how could that many people be wrong?’.
Massive group think from the very independent researching crowd letting things go out of control.
- Comment on 4chan daily challenge sparked deluge of explicit AI Taylor Swift images 3 months ago:
Of course as we all know, the Superbowl is the only place and time internationally known celebrities are able to express their political preferences.
- Comment on Why does it seem that people dislike recordings of their voice more than photos of themselves? 3 months ago:
Might make for an interesting experiment to take picture of someone in a mirror and through the mirror (pinhole or two-way mirror) and then awk people which of the two is real and which is the doctored one. Neither are edited of cource but one would look wrong for anyone whoet the person I’m the photos.
- Comment on Why does it seem that people dislike recordings of their voice more than photos of themselves? 3 months ago:
I suspect it’s because we see accurate representations of ourselves in every mirror. With voice though what we heat normally is distorted by the resonence ofnour jawbone, so hearing the version everyone else does when it’s played back from a recording is alien and weird.
- Comment on Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead. Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web. 3 months ago:
I haven’t used Google directly other than at work for a while, but this is actually a welcome thing for those charged with filtering the web. Those cache links are so often used as a way around web content filters and with how closely the entire Google ecosystem is integrated it’s a pain to slice them apart from the live web.