markstos
@markstos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 17 hours ago:
The opposite of VPS is more like “home lab”.
Managing a VPS yourself still counts as self-hosting.
- Comment on Uline turned to Mexico to staff warehouses, but paid them a fraction of US workers, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Wow, from the same company that sent me a 500-page catalog unsolicited.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
What’s an example of a place with conflicting names in different countries that handled differently?
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
There are other big players for maps that are less visible to end users.
Esri is a GIS firm hired by governments at many levels for map tech.
- Comment on Google officially changes the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America on Maps 2 weeks ago:
From the article:
“When official names vary between countries, Maps users see their official local name. Everyone in the rest of the world sees both names. That applies here too,” Google said.
Nothing exceptional is happening on Google’s end. They are following their policy on names as they have before.
- Comment on Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives 3 weeks ago:
The requirements asked for a web UI. You are right though, except for that, other kind of shared folder solutions might work.
- Comment on Ghost blog adding activitypub 3 weeks ago:
Wordpress has become an all-purpose CMS known security vulnerabilities via unsafe plugins.
Ghost has APIs instead of plugins for nearly everything, so it eliminated a lot of security and maintenance headache that way.
Ghost focuses on just a few features centered around independent content creators: blogging, email newsletters and subscriptions.
So features for sending bulk emails and accepting payments are built in, but you won’t find native support for other things like podcasts or recipe markup.
Ghost meets my need, and I love not dealing with 30 plugins at risk of being exploited if I don’t upgrade them promptly.
- Comment on Self host websites 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s not just downtime to worry about, either. It’s disks filling up. It’s hardware failure. It’s DNS outages. It’s random DDoS attacks. It’s automated scans of the internet targeting WordPress. It’s OS, php and database upgrades. It’s setting up graphing, monitoring, alerting and being on-call 24/7 to deal with the issues that come up.
If these businesses are at all serious, pay for professional hosting and spend your time running the business.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 1 month ago:
Ironically, when I tried to load Wired’s story about this travesty, Wired quickly hid the content with pop-over asking me to subscribe.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 2 months ago:
Looks like it might have been dark and foggy. The government failed to block the extremely dangerous situation— a standard practice when a bridge is put in other places.
- Comment on Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 3 months ago:
At one time there were browser extensions that allowed you to comment on any web page and allowed other extension users to see your comments.
The comments were hosted through the extension and not on the pages themselves.
Something like that would be possible but I don’t know anyone offering it now. I presume no one wants to moderate that.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 4 months ago:
- Comment on WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts 4 months ago:
Is this deshittification?
- Comment on Honey 4 months ago:
We do need bees, but that doesn’t mean the honey industry is sustainable.
- Comment on In Arkansas can my brother sue the public defender for pressing him to take a deal and was told don't tell the judge you were pressed into this plea because I will jail you mom? 4 months ago:
You could likely have a free initial meeting with a lawyer to confirm a law had been broken and get a general idea of their fees and your odds of success.
Sounds like it would be your brother’s word against the public defenders. Sounds tough.
Yes, you could file paperwork for a lawsuit. Affording the legal help and winning the suit are different matters.
- Comment on The purpose of podman quadlets? 4 months ago:
I like to manage services maximally with systemd so it was a natural fit for me.
It did not seem difficult to set up web and database quadlets so they are properly networked.
- Comment on Recommend a KVM or Switch 5 months ago:
I tried a USB KVM switcher. I only recall there were serious issues and it didn’t last long.
Now I use a high quality USB dock and physically unplug/re-replug a work and personal laptop. That’s been a simple and reliable solution.
For my home server, I ssh into it.
- Comment on Are there any visualisations for hd-idle log files? 5 months ago:
There aren’t log visualizers for every artisanal log file format. But there’s a movement towards supporting JSON format logs for more services, and lots tools that can understand JSON logs making generating graphs and metrics from arbitrary logs fairly efficient.
If this tool is making the logs harder to parse by using a custom format, that’s something the tool could improve.
Some apps support both plaintext logs for humans and JSON logs for tools.
- Comment on Are there any visualisations for hd-idle log files? 5 months ago:
I recommend generating some metrics from the logs and graphing them yourself.
Perhaps the free Grafana plan would have what you need to parse the log files and visualize the metrics you want.
- Comment on Installing Solar Over Fish Farms Is a Climate-Friendly Twofer 6 months ago:
Right. Only overlap appears to be dual land-use.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 7 months ago:
Look at how Dynamic DNS supported. Does it require full access to the account-- dangerous-- by using your login credentials or an API token with full read/write access? Or does it over a very limited scope access that gives the Dynamic DNS tool precisely the access it needs to update a single DNS record-- much safer! The latter is what CloudDNS does.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 7 months ago:
There are two services involved. Domain registration and DNS. Most domain registrars now provide some free DNS service, with basic features. I monitor dozens of domains, and I can tell you that these free DNS services with registrars are most likely to have short DNS outages as well.
ClouDNS is a professional, high-quality DNS service and that does one thing well. As far as I can tell, they don’t do domain registration, so that will always be a separate service. One of the things that ClouDNS does well is making Dynamic DNS easier.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 7 months ago:
Domain.com sounds like a domain registrar. You would keep that service and point your name servers for the domain to the ClouDNS name servers.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 7 months ago:
ClouDNS makes DDNS easy for a low cost for 1-5 domains.
- Comment on When transmission lines fell, 16 electric vehicles fed power into the grid. It showed electric vehicles can provide the backup Australia needs 7 months ago:
The article says the intent was to discharge for only 10 minutes. That’s perhaps long enough for the grid to failover to another source and re-balance.
I would love the idea of using the car battery to power my house temporarily during an outage and would readily donate 10 minutes of battery to the grid.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 8 months ago:
DDoSing cost the attacker some time and resources so there has to something in it for them.
Random servers on the internet are subject to lots of drive-by vuln scans and brute force login attempts, but not DDoS, which are most costly to execute.
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 8 months ago:
Other efficiency benchmarks place Apple Silicon and AMD chips ahead of Intel chips:
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 8 months ago:
Google: trust us, we can’t see your VPN traffic. Most users: No.
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 8 months ago:
I’ve donated to marcan to work on Asahi Linux, which gets upstreamed. That’s direct.
What has better performance per watt than M1 at a better price?
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 8 months ago:
I didn’t pay a premium, I got a great deal.
The reverse engineering work was already complete, and all the containers I needed for ARM were available.
These have great performance per watt.
