IsoKiero

@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  RTT is just ‘a bit’ slower than via usual transfer channels.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  because it’s fun to gamble as to how many seconds it will take to pull up the start menu this time.

  I also like how it randomly brings up some random website first instead of an installed application I’m looking for. Corporate policy says windows, so I get paid to deal with it, but it helps only so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know raspberry supports that. Searching for ‘atv remote’ just brings up androind apps, so maybe I misunderstood. Neat thing, but the hardware I have doesn’t support it and seems like usb-cec adapters are more expensive than usb-hid remotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather have a physical remote which acts as a keyboard so it’ll support waking the system up from suspend. Plus I prefer a dedicated device for that instead of a phone as I’m not a only user for the thing. There’s plenty of those around, only problem is to find one that works reliably and local stores don’t seem to have a lot of options so I might need to dig one up on ebay even if it’s a bit of a PITA to order from China to EU today with customs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I installed Jellyfin on my server and threw kodi on a minipc I dug out of dumpster pile at work. Works pretty well, but my server needs more RAM and the minipc needs either a wireless keyboard or a USB-HID remote controller to finalize the setup. Also ran some wiring in the house and added two network sockets to a room where the whole kodi-tv-gamingpc-whatever-pile is going to live.

  On the server RAM I found some on ebay, but if anyone is interested on 64G DDR4 ECC DIMMs I have a few. I thought they were supported on my server motherboard when I took them out from a old server at work but it supports only up to 32G ECC dimms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Repair or not, electrical heater switching circuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t hurt to ask. Not related to anything electrical, but “a while” ago my office chair mechanism started to make really annoying noise, metal grinding on metal screech. It was at least 6 years old at that point and isn’t high-end model by any stretch. I sent email to manufacturer if they could point me to a retailer who sells spare parts but instead they just shipped me a new mechanism for free, no questions asked.

  Obviously if the model isn’t available anymore it might be a different story, but if it’s still on the market they might give a surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Self hosting is not just one thing. You are system adminstrator, network engineer, security specialist, service architect and many other things, specially if you expose anything to anyone outside your very private network. And to get anything even running on that complex mess requires some knowledge on a lot of things. Making them run securely with proper backups requires even more knowledge on things.

  Sure, you can just throw some docker images on your old desktop and be happy, even forward ports from the public internet to your things if you like. But that exposes your stuff to quite a lot of dangers and if you just click buttons without any understanding you’ll soon be a part of a botnet or lose your data or lose money if someone decides to mess around with your home automation or something else.

  I get what you’re saying, not all of us are very polite and answers can be pretty harsh, but more often than not the generic idea behind those answers is not trying to be an asshole or gatekeep anything. It’s just that there’s a skillset you need to build things safely and if it’s clear from the start that someone looking for answers is way over their head it’s better for everyone to get them take a step back and learn instead of trying to create a meaningful answer since there’s too many variables or it’d just take immense effort to write down comprehensive guide on what to do, why and how for everything from the ground up.

  I know for a fact that in my area there’s a bunch of surveillance cameras, home automation stuff and even some farm equipment directly open to the public network just because someone just plugged things in without any idea on the whole picture. Sometimes the correct answer is ‘stop shooting yourself on the foot and learn the basics first, then come back’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups of Backups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the sake of conversation, I recently did some crude math on this. I have few friends around who are well capable of running a backup server for me (hardware maintenance and stuff is always needed anyways) and at first it seemed like a good plan. Just get a 4TB SSD/NVME and throw that on a Raspberry Pi (or something small to keep electricity consumption low and setup silent), set up encryption, connect that to my network with wireguard or some other VPN and let it do it’s thing.

  But I’d need to purchase everything as setting up a remote location with old hardware is just asking for trouble. The drive alone is 300€ (give or take) and the rest is easily another 100€. Currently my storagebox costs ~10€/month for 5TB. Even if I scored a fantastic black week offer and got everything for -50% discount that hardware with multiple single point of failures would cost nearly 2 years worth of cloud backups. And I’d still owe at least few beers to the friend for the trouble.

  Your mileage may obviously vary, there’s a million different scenarios, but for me with my current setup it just makes sense to pick couple cloud providers and let them store my bits instead of getting more hardware to maintain and upgrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups of Backups⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With backups two is one and one is none, so you are very much in a right track. Personally I have my stuff running on proxmox VMs with a proxmox backup server (VM as well) storing backups to Hetzner Storagebox. I’m planning to set up a another host in garage to have “local” backups too, as mine is detached as well the risk of both going up in flames in event of fire is pretty low. However, a voltage spike due to lightning on the grid or something else might blow up both hosts so that’s a threat model to be aware of. Also if your connection to garage is over copper it can cause other problems, fibre or wireless is highly recommended.

  With backups it’s largely about the bandwidth available. I personally have enough so uploading to cloud is not an issue, but backing up a terabyte of data over 10Mbps connection might not work out at all.

  For more info search for 3-2-1 strategy, that should give you plenty of ideas what you need to think about and what are industry best practises about making sure backups are in order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I browse a piece of software from play store and click ‘install’ it’s “installing” and if I do the very same with F-droid it’s suddenly “sideloading”. Fundamentally every language is just made up, but on this occasion the newly coined term is used to obfuscate things and attempting to paint things something they are not.

  I can claim all day that grass is blue and sky is green, but no one will take me seriously. Same thing should happen with ‘sideloading’ vs 'installing. Or if you really insist, sideloading might be something like injecting code to a system in a way which is not normally possible, like how some rootkits for devices work. But ‘sideloading’ is very different from ‘installing’ and installing anything on a general purpose computer doesn’t include any particular tool (like play store). I can install things on my workstation with ‘apt-get install’ or from source via ‘make install’, but the end result is still that a piece of software was installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the question is ‘vehicle’: Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Give users that choice

  That’s the one thing they want to get rid of. Security and other bullshit is just a theater around it to get validation for even bigger walls for their garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole thing is well worth a read, but just from the title alone I was ready to write a long rant about the term ‘sideloading’. Gladly that’s covered on the text too:

  It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where in the FUCK in Outlook currently is an option to use preformatted text? It’s not a style I could pick nor I could find an option to make my own. I send copy-paste from terminal every now and then and if it’s formatted like normal text it’s nearly useless. It used to be a text style I could pick, but this new-new-new-classic-new outlook doesn’t have it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess it is safe to assume you are an enthusiastic murderer.

  As it happens, I am. I wander around doing all the murdering I want to. It just happens to be none at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not try someone a bit more relevant than Hans Reiser, there’s plenty to choose from. Like Eric Raymond whose work, at least indirectly, influences more or less everyone using a computer on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely agree with your statement. Hell, even the GNU project (RMS mostly) had their own scandal a while ago, so if you really insist on being pedantic about this matter feel free on removing practically every piece of open source software from your systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "Learn to Code" Backfired on a Whole Generation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees

  My sister, who’s been an occupational therapist, personal assistant and on other ‘soft’ jobs recently got hired as a helpdesk employee just for that reason. Apparently it’s easier to teach a humanist to reset M365 passwords and do simple troubleshooting than teach a techie on how to deal with humans (which is a major part of being an on-call support for anything).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually did something for quite a while. Finished long overdue wiring for outdoor access point and one more camera, replaced a main switch since the old one started to behave unreliably, installed frigate (which still needs some work), cleaned up some wiring while messing around, updated a bunch of firmwares, replaced switch in garage to managed one and made some changes on my workstation and some other minor stuff.

  Next would be to move cameras into their own VLAN and harden that setup a bit. And I really should get around on better backups for my VPS. But it’s a new week coming up, if the work isn’t too busy I might get something more done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I watch Iron Man or Batman talking to a computer, I don’t see some pinnacle of efficiency, I see inefficiency.

  Things like Jarvis from Iron Man are far beyond of just translating speech to computer commands. Like in the first Iron Man where Jarvis pretty much manages the whole process on manufacturing the suit and can autonomically manage a fleet of them. I could see benefit if some kind of AI could just listen on a engineers discussion and update CAD models based on that, taking care of that the assemblies work as they should, keeping everything in spec and managing all the documents accordingly. But that’s pretty much human-level AI at that point and specially the current LLM hype is fundamentally very different from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Snap Controversy

  Just today at work other team wrote a bunch of ready-made images on their SBCs. In about 10% of them snap shat the bed by corrupting one json file which rendered their environment unusable. They did it in a pretty stupid way by writing an sd card, inserting it into SBC, booting up and disconnecting power after very short visual confirmation that system gave some signs of life. And snap was doing whatever it’s doing in the background. So I had the pleasure of removing said json-file and reinstalling all their crap manually on those failed units.

  So, maybe not strictly speaking fault of snapd, but yet another problem it caused for me without any practical reason other than the environment they chose just uses snap instead of something more robust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In here it’s mostly not, but it’s currently +5 degrees celsius outside so I’m keeping my clothes. And whatever little is left of my privacy too, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can wait until someone else than Zuck® offers something better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The wristband is what he called a “neural interface” – in a genuinely remarkable feat of technology, it allows you to type through minimal hand gestures, picking up on the electrical signals going through your muscles.

  That would be genuinely a piece of hardware I might adopt if it’s actually working as well as normal keyboard with touch typing. And obviously it has to work locally like any HID without sending everything I type to Zuck or someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where to move for cheap VPS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another happy Hetzner customer here. ~10 years so far, both for business and for personal use. 1€/month won’t happen, but they’re not that expensive either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are ‘customers’ not ‘civilians’. Totally different thing, pinky swear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for Selfhosted mail server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS PTR records belong to the entity who owns the IP addresses, you can’t make reverse records for arbitary addresses like you can with forward zones. I haven’t heard about any residential ISP which would give access to PTR records and even on business lines that’s usually a premium.

  What you could do is to get a VPN service which gives you these options, if there is one, I don’t know. Most likely you’re looking for a VPS for that and tunnel traffic with some kind of VPN-setup to your local instance. And at that point you might as well run the whole thing on VPS unless you happen to need a ton of storage or some other reason makes pure VPS server too expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted family archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends heavily on what you need/want. My current installation doesn’t have anything extra, mail and calendar with “standard” file storage (with sync agents on desktop/laptop) is well enough on what I use it for as my photos are in Immich instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted family archive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nextcloud offers practically everything you ask for besides the family tree and even that might be available as a plugin (or “App” as Nextcloud calls tem). Or if you’re willing to split photos in a different app, Immich works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know your place⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaning that if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from edge to edge.

  It’s just highly improbable to cross the galaxy in less than 100 000 years. You just need a device which generates infinite improbability and that’ll pass you trough every single point in the universe simultaneously and you can just stop where needed. Side effects may apply.