markstos
@markstos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there any front end YouTube that can allow me to still comment? 4 days 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 weeks ago:
- Comment on WhatsApp is making a massive change to the way it saves your contacts 4 weeks ago:
Is this deshittification?
- Comment on Honey 4 weeks 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 2 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? 2 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? 2 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 2 months ago:
Right. Only overlap appears to be dual land-use.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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? 4 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? 4 months ago:
Other efficiency benchmarks place Apple Silicon and AMD chips ahead of Intel chips:
- Comment on VPN by Google One shuts down 4 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? 4 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? 4 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.
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 4 months ago:
I host using an M1 Mac Mini using Fedora Asahi Linux. Installed easily, no problems. Fast and quiet!
I ran a Minecraft server for a while. Worked fine.
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 4 months ago:
There are plenty of Linux containers available for ARM in part because a lot of developers want to run Linux containers within macOS on Apple Silicon.
That has had the effect improving the experience of running Linux directly on ARM servers.
- Comment on Anyone self hosting on Mac mini M1/M2? 4 months ago:
All the hardware support for the Mac Mini is complete and working.
I’ve had no problems running Asahi Linux on an M1 Mac Mini.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 6 months ago:
My wife was recently in a forest with a random bear. The bear walked away.
My mother and sister told a story of meeting a bear on a trail. The bear walked away.
A large percentage of women I have met have a story about a problem with an aggressive man at some point.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Wow. Sounds like she wasn’t helping herself or her cause.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
Has someone ever tossed your lunch out?
- Comment on am I allowed to open a french speaking community here? 6 months ago:
If you can’t find clear docs about it, try contacting the mods.
- Comment on Do you encrypt your data drives? 7 months ago:
It’s defense in depth. If I encrypt a rarely used file, capturing my keystrokes will eventually work, but it might be weeks or months before I return to decrypt that file. In the meantime, I might have realized I was hacked and restore the system.
- Comment on Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server 7 months ago:
In the issue I linked, the msmtp author makes a distinction with changing the envelope recipient, which msmtp can do, with rewriting the email headers like “To”, which msmtp does not do.
- Comment on Recommendation for outgoing-only SMTP server 7 months ago:
The one problem with msmtp is that it doesn’t rewrite headers, like “From: root / To: root”. These are not required for SMTP, but they are required by some mail providers who will reject email that doesn’t have an “@” sign in these headers. The author or msmtp has said he does not plan to add this feature.
I worked around the issue with my own sendmail wrapper that rewrites local addresses in From and To headers before passing the message to msmtp. Someone else posted such a script in this bug report:
