markstos
@markstos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Simple Blog options? 1 week ago:
Simple means different things to different people.
I self-host Ghost and find it pleasant to use and low maintenance. It is a single Docker container plus MySQL. I recommend a reverse proxy in front of it like Nginx. There are importers from many other blog formats.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 2 weeks ago:
Snorting tea, coffee and broccoli would be less popular too.
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 3 weeks ago:
Years ago there was a voice to text transcription service sold as automated that worked by people listening to your voicemails and typing them out.
- Comment on Alternatives to MZLA Pocket? 4 weeks ago:
For bookmarking: raindrop.io
But it’s not self-hosted and I’m not sure it supports offline reading.
- Comment on Your favorite "one click" self hosted open source app installer/server manager? 1 month ago:
It isn’t hard when every works perfectly but there is a tremendous amount of complexity in some of these apps and a huge range of quality, documentation and required env vars and mounts.
And so, so many ways for things to break.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 1 month ago:
You still have manage upgrades due security vulns in all the features you are ignoring.
- Comment on Selfhosting static site behind two routers? 1 month ago:
Yes. DMZ on router 1 exposes router 2 IP to internet.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 1 month ago:
By the life of the party by bringing crossover cable, allowing you run ethernet directly from one laptop to the other for some intimate social networking. Keeps the LAN uncongested for everyone else.
Nice ethernet hardware will detect if you cable is not a crossover cable in this situation and reverse the pin mappings for you.
- Comment on Hosting files on the LAN to trusted folks at a LAN party -- FTP? 1 month ago:
It’s all fun and games until someone brings a USB 2.0 thumb drive.
The file could transferred over the LAN and the network de-saturated faster the file could be copied off a USB 2 drive.
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 1 month ago:
Solar panels are popular with progressive Indiana churches too, who don’t mind saying they help address climate change.
In either case, a reality is that churches are a big buildings with big power needs, and the panels can pay for themselves over their life.
And if the panels get fully or partially funded by donations, that ROI can come much sooner.
- Comment on In Indiana, Putting Up Solar Panels Is Doing God’s Work 1 month ago:
I helped my Indiana church get 304 solar panels installed. It was the most panels for a church in the state at the time.
They save about $500/month in electricity.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 2 months ago:
No, this is all happening in the browser, there are no other image manipulation tools being called.
- Comment on MAZANOKE v1.1.0: Self-hosted local image optimizer in your browser — now supports HEIC, clipboard paste, and more 2 months ago:
I just tested the new release. Consider defaulting PNGs to convert to JPEGs unless they have a PNG-specific feature like transparency. Lots of screenshots are initially PNGs, but not because they need any PNG-specific features. Consider: In a test screenshot, it compressed 3.4% with the default 80% setting and PNG->PNG, but for PNG->JPG, it compressed 84.6%. Image
- Comment on Postiz v1.39.2 - Open-source social media scheduling tool, Introducing MCP. 2 months ago:
MCP sounds like a standardized way for AI clients to connect to data sources, the Model Context Protocol.
www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol
It sounds like it may compete some with Google’s A2A protocol, which is for AI agent to agent communication.
Both share the same goal of making services easier for AI to consume.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 months ago:
Do you have a source to cite for the literal 99%?
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 months ago:
The top-rated answer to this question on the Security StackExhange is “not really”. …stackexchange.com/…/does-it-improve-security-to-…
On Serverfault, the top answer is that random SSH ports provide “no serious defense” serverfault.com/…/does-changing-default-port-numb…
Or the answer here, highlight that scanners check a whole range ports and all the pitfalls of changing the port. Concluding: “Often times it is simply easier to just configure your firewall to only allow access to 22 from specific hosts, as opposed to the whole Internet.” …stackexchange.com/…/should-i-change-the-default-…
- Comment on Wind/solar motorcycle [with 50 km solar/wind range] looks like an April Fools' joke ... but it's legit 2 months ago:
Coming soon to FortNite?
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 2 months ago:
Using a nonstandard port doesn’t get you much, especially popular nonstandard ports like 2222.
I used that port once and just as much junk traffic and ultimately regretted bothering.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 months ago:
I’m glad to have some competition for the Frost Oven Squoosh, which is being lightly maintained. I opened some issues in the Mazanoke issue tracker for some features to consider.
One feature I started on for that project but got stuck on was implementing a STDIN / STDOUT CLI workflow.
github.com/frostoven/Squoosh-with-CLI/issues/10
As I said there, the goal was a workflow where I take a screenshot, annotate it, optimize it, copy it and paste it into my blog… without creating any intermediate temp files.
At least on Linux, all the the steps of the pipeline are solved, except for a CLI image compressor that could accept an image STDIN and produce a compressed image on STDOUT.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 months ago:
Sounds like an oversight. Consider filing a bug with them.
- Comment on MAZANOKE update (image optimizer via browser): Batch upload and download 2 months ago:
Nice. I use Squoosh for this, which is also free and runs in the browser.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 2 months ago:
Https give you encryption in transit. The files you view will be accesible to the host.
Same idea with email.
- Comment on On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider? 2 months ago:
Not true that most incoming email will plaintext. It’s the opposite:
“Most of today’s email services, including Gmail, employ transport layer security (TLS) to protect emails in transit”
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 2 months ago:
It uses layers, the same way a phone keyboard has a separate layer for numbers and symbols. Holding down one of the three thumb keys on either side activates a new layer. Since you can use your thumb and fingers at the same time, there’s no lose in typing speed. Indeed, the layout puts numbers and symbols closer to the home row on a layer than using a physical number number.
For all symbols, you would have needed a shift-modifier to access those before. With this design, the symbols are closer but use a layer switch key instead of a shift key to access them.
Everyone who uses a phone keyboard has learned a new compact keyboard layout. It’s not so hard.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 3 months ago:
To your list add that new Tesla sales are also competing against an increasing number of Tesla owners who now want to divest themselves of the brand.
More used Teslas on the market will only push down the market rates and thus profits of new Teslas even further.
- Comment on Are there any self hosted news aggregators? 3 months ago:
You could self-host Lemmy and use RSS to Lemmy services to post to your personal communities.
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.
