Cyber
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- Submitted 2 days ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on swapping out the router maybe? 2 days ago:
I think you have enough people here stating their pfSense / OPNSense works fine, so I’d guess you have something unique with your setup - maybe it’s a dodgy cable, or you’re running both In & Out traffic over vlans on the same NIC on your PC and getting problems with unmanaged switches dealing with that…
I had an issue with my pfSense box not negotiating to 1Gb on a Cat6 cable to a switch. I tried all sorts of diagnostics and it turned out to be a problem with the wall socket crimping, so hardware issues do need to be checked… I’m obviously assuming you didn’t use the exact same cables as your firewalla…
Just some different angles to think about…
- Comment on How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup? 4 days ago:
Lowest common denominator: Plaintext / Markdown files?
They’ll work with Logseq, web browsers, notepad, your phone… and maybe sync it all via syncthing?
That’s what I use.
I also write up my system notes in Logseq with the intention that I’ll just sync in my ansible files too… one day…
- Comment on Typing into the abyss - need a service 5 days ago:
Massively offtopic and definitely over reaching, I know, but… from reading this post, as well as journalling, I’d recommend you also consider a counsellor if it’s heavy life issues.
Seeing one myself has helped me a hell of a lot… I only wake at 3am due to work stress now, rather than (all the other stuff)
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 6 days ago:
Mobile: Fossify Calendar with DavX5 as the interface (both from FDroid)
Laptop: Vivaldi’s built-in Calendar
Tablets around the house: Home Assitant’s calendar (I don’t recall the specific integration, but it was a HACS one from memory)
- Comment on NaiHe – lightweight E2E encrypted chat over any self-hosted MQTT broker 1 week ago:
Why the 1-off release with no further development?
Interestimg take though, using MQTT instead of XMPP
- Comment on What are your favorite low-footprint self-hosted services? 1 week ago:
Radicale - I ditched Nextcloud for it as no-one needed to see a calendar, it’s on their phone…
I also use it to sync a calendar for Home Assistant too
And it effectively backs up my Contacts too.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 1 week ago:
Correct.
That conversation has finished, the dust has settled and syncthing-fork is fine.
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 2 weeks ago:
Hmmm.
I’ve just noticed that FDroid FreeOTP (no “+”) is newer (updated 3 weeks ago) than FreeOTP+ (updated 2 years ago)… which I thought it was a fork of…
Ok, thanks, I might have to reassess…
- Comment on What’s the currently best way to manage TOTP tokens? 2 weeks ago:
+1 for FreeOTP+ - been using it for a while and it does everything I need.
- Comment on Do you stick to the same linux distro across your devices? 2 weeks ago:
I’m kinda with you, with a slight change: raspberrys that can’t run Arch Linux on Arm run Raspberry Pi OS, so, almost Debian.
Everything else: Arch.
(Oh… and pfSense on FreeBSD… but let’s not muddy the water)
- Comment on Popular self-hosting services worth running 2 weeks ago:
Radicale just implements CalDAV and CardDAV so use any clients you want.
I’m mostly using the Fossify from F-Droid - their calendar, contacts, all work with DAVx5 syncing to radicale and it works fine… no 3rd party tracking my dentist appointments.
I also have TrackerControl running on my phone, so I know that there’s no tracking.
- Comment on Popular self-hosting services worth running 2 weeks ago:
True… could be both… or perhaps copyparty.
I was thinking more along the colab side, where syncthing is working on your laptop and mine to sync our files, rather than central storage, but fair point.
- Comment on Popular self-hosting services worth running 2 weeks ago:
Or, just radicale and syncthing (if you don’t need a webUI)
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 2 weeks ago:
This EMQX?
Seems it’s no longer FOSS?
I’ve been using Gotify for a few notifications from Home Assistant and it doesn’t appear to be eating my battery.
It’s a little more responsive than ntfy - sometimes ntfy doesn’t alert for ages after the trigger (could be phone power saving the wifi…), but then I also get realerts from yesterday… not had that with Gotify.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 3 weeks ago:
Just looking at my NAS now…
I used to use Kopia to backup to a Backblaze B2 bucket, but I’ve moved to Restic as I can backup over ssh to a NAS at a family member’s home and to a Hetzner storage box.
- Comment on What's your self-hosting success of the week? 3 weeks ago:
Use the one that makes most sense to you for restores.
Backup a folder, then restore it somewhere else… if any of the applications causes you problems for your setup, move on.
- Comment on Simple inexpensive cloud backup? 3 weeks ago:
Another +1 for Hetzner.
I did an initial backup of my music (so I wasn’t concerned about encryption) with plain old
rsyncto get a feel for the system first, do a restore, etc. to feel comfortable with it all - and see if there were any hidden costs.Then I wiped all that and moved over to
rcloneto encrypt my data into different chunks (photos, music, work, etc)It all worked well and they even skipped charging me 1 month becuase I hadn’t exceeded their minimum charge (rolls up to the following month)
I’ve had proactive emails from them notifying me of work which might have reduced my ability to access their system, but ad it was outside the time of my backups, then no issue.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 3 weeks ago:
A post introducing a graphical web-based system would be remiss if an image of that graphical system was missing.
Of course you can block those posts (if that function is.enabled) , but you’d be missing out on many discussions.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 3 weeks ago:
No worries, I don’t have a time limit on responses 😉
But… I took somethong like ~3 days to get an initial baxkup done.
Then ~3 years later I was at a different provider doing the same thing.
What I did do differently was to split the data into different backup pools (ie photos, music, work, etc) rather than 1 monolithic pool… that’ll make a difference.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026) 4 weeks ago:
Hmmm… I have a spare Pi kicking about, I might give this a go.
Before I go looking for stuff, did you need a BT adapter to get better range, etc?
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (27 February 2026) 4 weeks ago:
And then after that command has run try
^update^upgrade - Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 4 weeks ago:
I used to put all my setup & config notes into tiddlywiki, and to some point I still update them, but it’s become difficult for others to update and maintain when I share them as you need a browser addin to be able to save updates properly.
The formatting is similar to markdown, but just a little different to make copying the original source that way too… but… I’d still consider it, esp. once you’ve really played with it and found all the things it’s capable of.
- Comment on My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution 4 weeks ago:
+1 for logseq… it literally saved my life when I changed jobs, nothing else came close.
However, the original markdown version has really slowed down development whilst the newer db version is slowly catching up, so, I’d rcommend the MD version for now, but people might want to hold for a little while…
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 4 weeks ago:
What’s your recovery needs?
It’s ok to take 6 months to backup to a cloud provider, but do you need all your data to be recovered in a short period of time? If so, cloud isn’t the solution, you’d need a duplicate set of drives nearby (but not close enough for the same flood, fire, etc.
But, if you’re ok waiting for the data to download again (and check the storage provider costs for that specific scenario), then your main factor is how much data changes after that initial 1st upload.
- Comment on How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS? 4 weeks ago:
In a different location
- Comment on LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back! 4 weeks ago:
Some new EU funding in the background?
- Comment on Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. 4 weeks ago:
You’re here, that’s a good start…
I tend to look at a project’s Issues tracker, that gives me a feel for how the author(s) deal with feedback… some projects have hundreds of open tickets with barely any interactions, yet code updates “2 days ago”.
Being here and reading about who’s using what will help remove the major outliers
All opensource needs more eyeballs, which is still the advantage over closed source.
- Comment on How do I access my services from outside? 4 weeks ago:
How’d you setup the port knocking? Is that something caddy does?
I’m using haproxy and was thinking of trying the same thing… not sure if haproxy supports it though, or whether I have to do something else …?
