Chewy7324
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- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 1 day ago:
I remember taking my first selfhosting/Linux steps a year or so after the launch of Let’s Encrypt with a Pi 3. At the time, most tutorials didn’t set up https at all, and if they did, they were self signed certificates (resulting in browser warnings).
Self-signed certificates are annoying and creating them was a series of copy pasting long, weird commands, usually using long exspiration dates (manual renewing sucks).
Not long after, guides started recommending certbot. Nowadays reverse proxys like caddy set up TLS automatically.
At least that’s how I remember it, given my complete lack of knowledge about Linux/networking at the time.
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, the restriction to a single VPN client is annoying.
Blocking ad/telemetry domains can be done by adding Adguards DNS servers in the OS settings. Sadly blocking apps Internet permissions completely is not possible (except on OS like LineageOS, CalyxOS or GrapheneOS).
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
Symphonium is a great Android music player which connects to a Subsonic or Jellyfin server (or any other protocol like SMB).
Navidrome is a music server which implements the Subsonic protocol. This means apps like Symphonium can connect to it.
Any old PC is enough, even a Raspberry Pi is fast enough for a music server.
- Install Navidrome on the server/pc
- Configure Navidrome (open ports, add your music library/folder)
- Connect a subsonic-compatible music app to to the server (I.e. type in IP or domain as well as the port).
Anything more like SSL (https) and a domain is optional for getting it working, and only a benefit if used outside of your home network. Using Tailscale makes a domain/SSL unnecessary and also no longer needs messing around with networking (e.g. no opening ports on the router).
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
The survey was originally sent out on reddit /r/selfhosted, so I expect most respondents are from there.
- Comment on Network Switch 1 month ago:
Thanks for the correction. It’s a shame that sysadmins balcklist middle nodes too, since they won’t see any TOR traffic originating from your IP address anyway.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey 1 month ago:
Make sure to not refresh the page, else it seems like all progress is lost.
- Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Network Switch 1 month ago:
There’s different types of relay, including exit relays, which are the legally problematic type. Middle, guard, and bridge relays don’t face the same issues with law enforcement and IP blocking.
- Comment on If I already have a VPN always on on my system, do I need to set up a gluetun container? 1 month ago:
Yes, there’s many ways to make programs unable to use other network interfaces. E.g. I’m creating a network namespace with a single wg0 interface, which I make services use through systemd NetworkNamespacePath.
That said, I’d argue gluetun is pretty much foolproof, especially with most people using docker which messes with iptables.
- Comment on Where can I access the Fediverse itself? 2 months ago:
Since most of the fediverse is run by volunteers, blocking ads isn’t much of a concern.
Though I do agree with the sentiment and I love Firefox + uBlock Origin on my phone.
- Submitted 3 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 44 comments
- Comment on 600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 42827 in two days 3 months ago:
The Lemmy equivalent to a Reddit subreddit is a community.
- Comment on PSA: GoDaddy gated their own API. DDNS users warned 4 months ago:
desec.io can be used with any domain registrar and has an API with support for various ddns clients (ddclient, lego).
deSEC is a free DNS hosting service, designed with security in mind.
Running on open-source software and supported by SSE, deSEC is free for everyone to use.
- Comment on Matrix on Raspberry Pi 4 months ago:
It might depend on the particular bridges, but all mautrix- bridges work great for me with conduit. In a way adding bridges to conduit was easier since it’s all eine through the admin room on conduit.
- Comment on Google is blocking RCS on rooted Android devices 8 months ago:
I guess it’s similar to how people use iMessage because it’s the pre-installed messaging app. Both fall back to of SMS/MMS if the other party isn’t using the same closed ecosystem. I.e. Google’s proprietary end-to-end encryption or iMessage.
- Comment on Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox 8 months ago:
I really don’t think there’s any viable business model for Mozilla. Browser development is too expensive and no one pays for a browser. Google finances itself through ads, Microsoft isn’t even developing their own engine anymore and sells it as part of their whole OS anyway.
Other browsers are irrelevant because they are mostly a new UI on top of Chromium.
Donations won’t ever be enough unless some billionaire sees internet freedom as important or countries start to see an open web as a part of public infrastructure. Both are highly unlikely, so hopefully the deal with Google doesn’t decrease too much with shrinking market share.
- Comment on Twitter front-end Nitter dies as Musk wins war against third-party services 8 months ago:
I’ve enabled auto redirect from twitter to nitter and never bothered to disable the no longer working redirect. Hopefully people switch to some platform with open API access (or rather, a federated platform)
- Comment on 13 Best Open Source ChatGPT Alternatives 10 months ago:
I feel like most of these “10 alternatives to xyz”-articles are basically a summary of alternativeto.net. Or they’ve just listed all projects they’ve found with a quick search. I’m almost certain they didn’t install them most of the time.
This also applies to “comparison” sites, which usually are a list of Amazon affiliate links. At this point, I don’t trust websites with affiliate links anymore, as they’ve never actually tried the products. Sadly those spam sites make it difficult to find actually good reasearched tests.
Back to itsfoss, they write many articles, and some are good, but they still are blog spam.
- Comment on Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140k for sending 80M+ spams | Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people 10 months ago:
If I’m cooking, I make enough for a few meals. Takes a similar amount of time and it can be stored for a while in the fridge. I don’t think hello fresh is able to have lower prices than supermarkets, and it’s easy to find recipes online. I won’t be surprised if those services go bankrupt in a few years.
- Comment on Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. 10 months ago:
ff2mpv is awesome. It supports many video sites (I believe everything youtube-dl does) and opens the video on a page/link in an external mpv window.
This helped me mirror a video without downloading to read the embedded subtitles (why uploads a mirrored video with subtitles?). Also playback speed and all other advanced features mpv supports are really useful
- Attack of the week: Airdrop tracing – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineeringblog.cryptographyengineering.com ↗Submitted 10 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on What CardDav and CalDav server do you use? 10 months ago:
Or simply set up wireguard.
At least I suffered from terrible battery life with Tailscale, while 24/7 wireguard isn’t even showing on the battery stats.
- Comment on Nextcloud zero day security 10 months ago:
Wireguard is awesome and doesn’t even show up on the battery usage statistics of my phone.
With such a small attack surface I don’t have to worry about zero days for vaultwarden and immich.
- Comment on What's the point of a reverse proxy and does cloudflare give all the benefits of one? 10 months ago:
The DNS-01 challenge [1] allows for issuing SSL certificates without a publicly routable IP address. It needs API support from your DNS provider to automate it, but e.g. lego [2] supports many services.
I personally leave my Wireguard VPN always on, but as its only routing the local subnet with my services, it doesn’t even appear in my battery statistics.
- Comment on Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse | The head of Instagram says a full integration with the fediverse could take ‘the better part of a year.’ 11 months ago:
It would be difficult to connect you to a Meta account to serve ads to because they only have your user name, profile pic, server IP, and server domain name. In most cases it’d be impossible. You’re pretty well protected because Mastodon servers treat all remote servers as untrustworthy and don’t give them any info.
Facebook already creates “shadow profiles” for people not on Facebook and stores data about them. This means Meta won’t directly monetize the fediverse, but use the data available for their ad business anyway. (Maybe even connect other accounts through posts, but I don’t know how well this works with the info and amount of a users posts.)
Nothing stopping them from doing it now, anyone posting to the fediverse has to accept that their posts can and probably will be used to train someone elses LLM. It’s public afterall.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 11 months ago:
I’d love it if Discord federated with Matrix. Then I wouldn’t have to try to convince my friends to use matrix. Which I don’t, which is why I seldomly use matrix.
- Comment on Immich is awesome 11 months ago:
Unless the container follows semver and only auto update minor versions.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 11 months ago:
Never used Plex, but if being open source is a feature Jellyfin is better than Plex.
Not requiring an external authentication server is the biggest drawback of Plex. I don’t want Plex to have my watch history and info about my media library.
With Findroid supporting the intro skip plugin I’m fine since I don’t need many platforms.
- Comment on Useful apps to self-host 11 months ago:
As long as it’s set to keep copies. Else it’s just a way to sync your accidental file deletions.
- Comment on Threads is making moves for Mastodon integration 11 months ago:
It’s always an arms race, and I fear it’s near impossible to detect LLMs from just a few sentences. Longer texts, sure, but how often are the same few words written in a short social media commen?