Darkassassin07
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- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 19 hours ago:
Yeah, thermodynamics are a thing. I’m not trying to claim some free energy system saying you could power the whole data center; but if you could re-capture some of the waste heat and convert it back into electricity, putting that energy to work instead of just venting to atmosphere, it could potentially help offset some of the raw electrical needs. An efficiency improvement, that’s all.
- Comment on How do AI data centers manage to *consume* water, but when I cool my house, my A/C *makes* water? 1 day ago:
Collect and condense the hot water vapor, concentrate the heat until you’ve got steam; then pump it through a steam turbine recapturing that energy as electricity.
I’m sure there’s some difficulties and nuances I’m not seeing right away, but it would be nice to see some sort of system like this. Most power plants generate heat, then turn that into electricity. Data centers take electricity and turn it back into heat. There’s gotta be a way to combine the two concepts.
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 6 days ago:
Intentionally defacing/altering currency is a federal offence in itself. Though rarely enforced unless particularly egregious or you intend to defraud someone with it (like altering a 10 to be a 100 for example).
Aside from that, any business you attempted to spend it at could and likely would simply refuse to accept it.
At best you’d be left with a bunch of bills that can only really be exchanged for new ones at a bank. At worst you could face roughly $100 in fines+6mo in jail for each bill defaced.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 2 weeks ago:
You’ve always got the human element, bypassing security features; but extra little hurdles like a password manager refusing to autofill an unknown url is at least one more opportunity for the user to recognize that something’s wrong and back away.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
As someone that struggles to sleep in a room with any light; this sounds awful.
- Comment on Microwave Intensifies 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” 3 weeks ago:
Our new AI has dubbed itself ‘MechaHitler’, we should give it a body to control… (or a few thousand bodies)
- Comment on VERY simple web-based reliable file browser/hosting 3 weeks ago:
Note; that project is no longer being maintained.
github.com/filebrowser/filebrowser/…/4906
There is a fork working it’s way out of beta though.
- Comment on VERY simple web-based reliable file browser/hosting 3 weeks ago:
You have to explicitly enable directory indexing; but then it will automatically generate simple http pages listing directory contents.
- Comment on 7-Zip for Windows goes massively parallel with first ‘Threadripper Edition’ — five years after Threadripper debut, Version 25.00 the first to support more than 64 threads 4 weeks ago:
What in the fuck are you (un)packing that needs 64+ threads???
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 5 weeks ago:
An $11/yr domain pointed at my IP. Port 443 is open to nginx, which proxies to the desired service depending on subdomain. (and explicitly drops any connection that uses my raw ip or an unrecognized name to connect, without responding at all)
ACME.sh automatically refreshes my free ssl certificate every ~2months via DNS-01 verification and letsencrypt.
And finally, I’ve got a dynamic IP, so DDClient keeps my domain pointed at the correct IP when/if it changes.
There’s also pihole on the local network, replacing the WAN IP from external DNS, with the servers local IP, for LAN devices to use. But that’s very much optional, especially if your router performs NAT Hairpinning.
This setup covers all ~24 of the services/web applications I host, though most other services have some additional configuration to make them only accessible from LAN/VPN despite using the same ports and nginx service. I can go into that if there’s interest.
Only Emby/Jellyfin, Ombi, and Filebrowser are made accessible from WAN; so I can easily share those with friends/family.
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 5 weeks ago:
You can use cloudflares DNS and not use their WAF (the proxy bit) just fine. I have been for almost a decade.
- Comment on War Thunder player once again leaks classified military documents to win an argument 1 month ago:
- Comment on For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box. 1 month ago:
JFC when did we end up with that many???
It’s been a while since I paid attention obviously; but I thought there were like 5 AC games, maybe 6-7.
13??? How many ways can you make poking someone with a hidden blade interesting…
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 month ago:
The thing is, until someone actually faces any consequences in modern times for atrocities such as these; simply saying how bad they are has become meaningless.
- Comment on PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed 1 month ago:
I’m not sure whether this is specific to this project, docker, or YAML in general.
Looking through my other 20 or so compose files, I use the array notation for most of my environment variables, but I don’t have any double quotation marks elsewhere. Maybe they’re not supposed to work in this format, idk.
Good to keep in mind I guess.
- Comment on PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed 1 month ago:
Dev replied to my github discussion.
Apparently it’s an issue with array style env variable layout.
environment: key:"value"
Instead of
environment: - key=value
- Comment on PSA: filebrowser is no longer being actively developed 1 month ago:
Trying to set that up to try out, but I can’t get it to see/use my config.yaml.
/srv/filebrowser-new/data/config.yaml
volumes:
- /srv/filebrowser-new/data:/config environment:
- FILEBROWSER_CONFIG=“/config/config.yaml”
Says ‘config.yaml’ doesn’t exist and will not start. Same thing if I mount the config file directly, instead of just its folder.
If I remove the env var, it changes to “could not open config file ‘config.yaml’, using default settings” and starts at least. From there I can ‘ls -l’ through docker exec and see that my config is mounted exactly where it’s supposed to be ‘/config/config.yaml’ and has 777 perms, but filebrowser insists it doesn’t exist…
My config is just the example for now.
I don’t understand what I could possibly be doing wrong.
- Comment on Syncthing alternatives 2 months ago:
FolderSync selectively syncs files/folders from my phone back to my server via ssh. Some folders are on a schedule, some monitor for changes and sync immediately; most are just one-way, some are two-way (files added to the server will sync back to the phone as well as uploading data to the server). There’s even one that automatically drops files into paperless-ngx’ consume folder for automatic document importing.
From there BorgBackup makes a daily backup of the data, keeping historical backups for years with absolutely incredible efficiency. I currently have 21 backups of about ~550gb each. Borg stores this in 447gb of total disc space.
- Comment on YSK how to unclog a toilet 2 months ago:
That’s another option. Sometimes there is no valve immediately beside the toilet, sometimes it’s crusty af and won’t turn or seal. This can be quicker.
- Comment on If I donate my testicles as a donor for whatever reason, and they have a child, is that child mine? 2 months ago:
Genetically, yes technically.
Legally and Morally, no; and you’d be a complete asshole for trying to insert yourself into the childs life in any way. You gave up that ‘right’ when you donated your sperm/testicles.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That’s why we gave them minecraft.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
Can’t say I disagree.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
Yeah; Emby was originally called MediaBrowser and was a free open source project. ‘MediaBrowsers’ developers decided to move to a closed source paid model to establish some more consistent income and support the dedicated developers they have. Thus Emby was born.
Some users were really unhappy with this decision and forked MediaBrowsers last release to create Jellyfin. Their development has been quite a bit slower, but they’ve made some significant strides in recent years. It’s a more and more attractive option.
One of my biggest reasons for sticking with Emby (besides already having a lifetime premier license) is the dedicated clients available on more platforms. Xbone is my primary streaming device, besides android: Emby has a dedicated xbox client you can install, where as Jellyfin you’ve gotta use the web browser.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
In the case of plex, it’s not 100% selfhosted. There’s a dependence on plexs public infrastructure for user management/authentication. They also help bypass NAT by proxying connections through their servers so you don’t have to setup port forwarding and can even easily escape double NAT situations.
I can understand paying for that convenience, but cost keeps rising while previously free features continue to get locked behind paywalls.
Tbh, having users required to authenticate with plex.tv was enough for me to look elsewhere. The biggest reason to self host for me is to remove dependency on public services.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 months ago:
I got the same email.
I haven’t had plex installed for over 7 years, and I’ve NEVER used the shared libraries feature.
We noticed that you’ve accessed libraries from friends and family in the past
They’ve apparently noticed activity that’s never occurred.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 2 months ago:
I would just setup a user account like the share you’re describing. There’s a setting to prevent the user from changing their password.
Just pass out those credentials to anyone you want to collaborate with; they don’t need their own individual accounts.
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 2 months ago:
I use filebrowser.org for this.
Nice lightweight filebrowsing/sharing with user management. Users can have their own dedicated directories, or share.
You can also creat share links that allow anyone with the link to view/download files. Optionally password protected.
- Comment on Totally understandable have a nice day 3 months ago:
Sometimes I wish people were that direct, lol. At least I’m not guessing.
- Comment on Fully self-hosted password manager options 3 months ago:
Most of my web services are behind my vpn, but there are a couple I expose publicly for friends/family to use. Things like emby, ombi, and some generic file sharing with file browser.
One of these has a long custom path setup in nginx which, instead of proxying to the named service, will instead ask for http basic auth credentials. Use the correct host+path, then provide the correct user+pass, and you’ll be served an openvpn configuration file which includes an encrypted private key. Decrypt that and you’ve got backdoor vpn access.
