thelittleblackbird
@thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world
- Comment on China’s Use of Fossil Fuels Is Falling While Power Demand Is Surging 1 week ago:
I really hope you are right.
Some days ago (and I cannot find the link now) I read an article from one of the ipccc saying that what we are seeing right now was expected in the 2035 to 2050 time frame for the 2°C increase.
So, It would mean that the 2° opportunity Window is over and now the realistic goal is 3.5° with the current development for the 2050 time frame.
It is not necessary to say that the 3.5 scenario is the worst with severe impact on the full planet and almost every ecosystem will be under very high pressure (if they are not now)
So, one again, I hope my despair is unjustified, but I will need a burning nail to grab with both hands
- Comment on China’s Use of Fossil Fuels Is Falling While Power Demand Is Surging 1 week ago:
Finally some good news.
I hope it is not too late
- Comment on Need help for setting up a VPN project 1 week ago:
I don’t have time now so I will sketch the solution
You need a proxy server in your vps that will redirect the traffic to your home. Caddy is usually recommended here and I am planning to migrate to it (current is nginx)
For your dns you need something is called zone name resolution, it will resolve different ip depending where the request came from
Good luck
- Comment on IPv6 & Opnsense & Not Exposing Machine-Specific IPv6s to Corpos 2 weeks ago:
Hi,
Welcome to the ipv6 fantastic hell and it’s sequel about dual stack and 6to4 and 4to6 half cooked solutions.
First of all, I would not care a lot the ip addresses, not even google can extract a lot of info from the ip and ipv6 will cycle the subnet work part (via your isp) making tracking extremely difficult. On to of that you can select your dhcp6 daemon to give an address validity as low as minutes (but not practical), 24h validity should be enough. 1h validity only in severe paranoia mode.
It is important to make sure that your lan track the Wan interface for correctly updating the prefix renewal.
Try not to make a nat for ipv6 but firewall most of the stuff you don’t like, ipv6 comes wit great advantages that will dissappear if you nat the connections. And a tip, there are a lot of ipv6 icmp messages that shouldn’t be blocked in your firewall because it really improves your performance. If you nat it they will be out.
- Comment on YSK - The new RTS Stormgate silently full released 2 weeks ago:
Certainly, I really miss a good rts game. Specially if set in the long future / sci-fi world
Right now there is nothing in the market to alliviate the necessity beyond the immortal age of empires 2
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
:)
I see, well, it it still serves you good, nothing to say here
- Comment on Trying to make a phone proxy 1 month ago:
Good point! I totally forgot that.
But if I am able to recall correctly the QoS for the VoLTE and just regular data is totally different and the antenna may refused to provide you enough data for a non-prior service
- Comment on Trying to make a phone proxy 1 month ago:
???
There are a lot of reputable VoIP companies, my employer right now uses them and we never faced a problem. But makes sure it is reputable ;)
And you could also port your number so to all effects it is your number.
I don’t know, I still believe it is the easiest way forward. But in the end it is your call
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
That much? Shit, then update the processor, probably spending 15€ is going to update the speed a lot!
- Comment on Question about storage 1 month ago:
Uh?!?
If that equipment is not able to get 60Mb/s there is something terrible wrong here…
- Comment on Trying to make a phone proxy 1 month ago:
What you need is a sip server / interface for making VoIP call through internet, there are many implementations and servers, selfhosted and paid. Pick up one you like.
Please, be aware that the quality of the voice call depends and a lot of the data rate. Keep this in mind uif you are in remote locations with poor coverage.
It is always recommended the asterisk + the freepbx for the gui. Please be aware that I don’t have experience with those systems
- Comment on Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box 1 month ago:
I think I didn’t get exactly what you want. Ant it keeps me wondering that perhaps there are a few concepts not so clear.
Do you want to receive streaming from a server? do you want to setup the server? Or something completely else?
If you want to receive the streaming from a server, the most compatible cost-effective solution is the Amazon fire. Works with remotes and you will be able to play every media you have because the server will transcode the file on the fly if the fire stick doesn’t support the format.
If you want something more open to tinker or to get more functionality then a raspberry pi will be enough, because once again, the heavy lifting is done by the servers (via plex server or moonlight server).
More powerful boxes exists but then you need to start thinking carefully what is your use case for not eating money.
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 1 month ago:
Precisely bitwarden movement proves my point. Bitwarden tried to degrade the features/compatibility of the solution and they couldn’t because of the vaultwarden implementation.
Can they always add new features after a pay wall? Sure! But once foss Sw is here it is simple impossible to remove functionality, at most, to get some coins for services not fully selfhosted.
If tailscale tries to do something similar is goint to be a shoot into their own leg, because all the sw already disclosed makes it impossible. Could they make the relay a paid one? Sure but then they will face the competence of a vps with the Headscale implementation.
This and only this is because in your home lab only foss Sw should be allowed, even if you need to pay some money from time to time
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 1 month ago:
Honestly, this seems more than your assumptions and fears than anything else.
Clients are open source and foss, the moment something strange is in, Headscale could adapt.
If they finally goes to full close source, then the community will fork (emby - jellyfinn drama).
Your arguments don’t hold together, for the good of the community
- Comment on Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform 1 month ago:
I really don’t see how the enshitification could work when we have the fee version of the central servers Headscale
So yes, it could be a pay wall for some advance featuresike funnels and so on. But the primary use is secured…
- Comment on Reevaluating my password management 1 month ago:
I have more than 120 electronic identities, impossible to track the counter or to remember the tld of all websites I visit.
The concepts is only useful in a very small and defined scenario.
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 2 months ago:
Honestly I totally disagree, this community is about avoiding SaaS and controlling the important part of the stack to keep your own data under control.
If the service you need is just a provider of vm for your own business, is not a contradiction and it is still selfhosted as long as you control it.
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 2 months ago:
Check it again, I used it for years before switching to something with more features
- Comment on ELI5: How to put several servers on one external IP? 2 months ago:
If you have a prosumer router I suggest you to use the ddns in the router plus a reverse proxy. This would be the cleanest solution.
If you can not, once everything is working with your external access to the synology, the dsm has a built-in reverse proxy so it can redirect http requests to another server. Although this proxy is really simple and limited it can get the work done if you setup is simple enough.
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 2 months ago:
Got it.
But looking that the question has been posted in a selfhosted thread I don’t see the recomendation of the cloud solution :)
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 2 months ago:
Why?
There are not benefits in the cloud solution over the hosted server. It could even be more expensive on the long run…
And yes, kasm has a cloud solution in its web page
- Comment on VPN server on router or within home network? 2 months ago:
Tailscale too if you use the fee implementation Headscale
And in both cases you need a vps fully reachable from anywhere
- Comment on Encrypting without full disk encryption question 2 months ago:
Check Mandos , if you are able to secure enough the server (inside a safe box?) then you are good
- Comment on Hosting virtualbox for my students 2 months ago:
Explore kasm, it is fucking amazing Kasm
- Comment on Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console 2 months ago:
Performance wise AMD and Intel run circles around the m4, there is not any compititiom here.
Performance Watt per instruction is where the m4 really shines and still I have my reservations
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 2 months ago:
Plenty of ipv4 only in 2025?? Really?? Without a possibility to activate dual stack or just the dslite-crap?
I honestly didn’t think this could be a real issue in those years.
- Comment on Best way to get IPv4 connectivity to my self-hosted services 2 months ago:
Small and stupid question.
Why don’t use a ddns client to update your ipv6 evytime it changes? With a ttl of a minute your shouldn’t be able to see any downtime…
I (genuinely) thinks you are trying to solve a small problem in the complicated and hard way… M
- Comment on I have some questions about selfhosting 2 months ago:
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It depends of what you want as future proof (expansion capabilities). Usually home user nases come with low power cpu, a high power cpu usually is a enterprise grade nas, really costly for a home user. So having it separated makes the cpu upgrade easy but now you have 2 boxes. But if your terramaster comes with a decent cpu I don’t see any problem.
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True nas scale is really a behemoth able of almost everything. I would start with something more reduced like omv or unraid. You really don’t need the advance enterprise features of that and it will add only complexity to the setup.
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If you use NFS for exporting folders from your nas, the “computing box” will see this as a local folder, so no need to have 2 copies of the same file.
Hope it helps
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- Comment on ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services 2 months ago:
Huh???
Honestly I don’t see your problem, a nuance? Sure! An unsolvable problem? For sure not.
If you want to have your system reachable from the Wan then you will need a domain name. If you have a domain name then it is needed to be resolved by a dns server.
If there is a dns resolver then you would able to update it dynamically every time your ip changes.
True that the time alive of the dns records must be low enough to ensure that an ip change does not let your system down for an unacceptable amount of time.
- Comment on Over Synology, and looking to build my first home lab. Could use some advice on parts... 3 months ago:
Honestly, I have the impression your setup is oversized (knowing nothing about what you want to run)
NAS systems set on idle like 90% of the time unless your are doing really crazy things with de duplication and distributed iscsi for super big volumes, that I have the impression your are not going to do.
You can probably cut the performance/specs to the half and still being good for the following 10 years and the extra that you will save on electricity too.
As a comparison I checked this built against your synology and in the multicore setup is x10 more powerful (cpu-monkey.com/…/compare_cpu-intel_celeron_j4025-…)
Just my two cents