talkingpumpkin
@talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Finding a new registrar/name server for .at 4 days ago:
I don’t remember them asking for any ID. Then again I gave them my real name/address and I payed with my credit card so… it’s not like they can’t confirm it’s me.
- Comment on Finding a new registrar/name server for .at 1 week ago:
I moved to infomaniak because registering domains come with a free mailbox (or at least they used to - IDK if it’s still like this).
It works fine with lego (as should any other supported one).
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
IDK where I’ve read that… should have double checked before posting, my bad.
Quick fact checking:
US police kills some 1,281 people last year (wikipedia).
1,281/340,110,988*100,000gives around 0.38 police killings/100,000 people, which is below homicide rate in EU.I couldn’t (be bothered to) find out what the overall European homicide rate actually is (it also depends on what you count as “Europe”), but Germany is at around 0.8, France at 1.8, Italy at 0.57, Spain at 0.9 and Poland at 0.8 (these are the five most populous countries). So… let’s guesstimate it at around 1? (numbers are from this random source).
So US policemen are only 38% as deadly as European criminals
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 1 week ago:
TLDR: Protesting or resisting privately inside your house does not lead to social change and is not the most rational way of protecting yourself if you feel threatened by your government.
Self-hosting is not “resistance”: at most, it’s prepping for nerds, with computers instead of guns.
Self-hosting is not even a rational/efficient way of making a statement. If that’s what you want, it’s far more efficient to follow the established tradition of declaring you are moving to Canada and not following up with actual actions.
Don’t get me wrong: I can relate to the nerdy way to cope with the ugliness around us (I say “us”, but thankfully I don’t live in the US), but the way I see it your society that needs change and self hosting won’t help in that.
Frankly, the shit you US people are putting up with is unreal.
It has always been (US police forces kill far more people than the overall homicide rate in Europe) and it’s just getting worse.
If you feel threatened you can essentially respond by fighting, fleeing, or cowering.
If you wanna FIGHT (this is what “resistance” is about), try to use whatever power you have and apply your energies to bring actual change. If you don’t feel comfortable acting outdoors, this could include lending your nerd skills to protesters or resistance groups. (Heck, even being a keyboard warrior is more useful to changing society than being a hobbyist sysadmin).
If you wanna FLEE, just leave the country. Honestly, there are better places to live than the US.
If you wanna COWER, then be a prepper or a self-hoster or whatever, but be aware that, while misrepresenting your reaction as “resistance” may make you feel more heroic than you are, spreading the misrepresentation can also lead others to cowering instead of fighting. Is that what you want?
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 2 weeks ago:
By that reasoning, backup isn’t redundancy because you’ll lose your data if the backup gets corrupted while restoring.
That said, there’s nothing wrong in redefining “redundant” to mean “having two or more duplicates”… you should however tell people if you do, to avoid misleading people that assume the dictionary definition.
- Comment on [Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server 2 weeks ago:
RAID (except RAID0) is data redundancy, it just isn’t backup (ie. it doesn’t help if you accidentally delete stuff, or if some bug corrupts it, or if you drop the computer while moving it).
- Comment on How do you get a certificate for an internal domain? 3 weeks ago:
is there an easier way to do self-signed certs besides spinning up your own certificate authority?
Letsencrypt works fine, just use a “real” domain and DNS challenge.
Your service will need to be on the “real” domain, but it won’t need to be accessible externally and you won’t need a public DNS entry for it (of course your VPS will still need to be able to resolve the backend’s name).
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 3 weeks ago:
In layman’s speech (my speech) raid 1 and mirroring are essentially the same thing.
Technically, IIUC RAID is only used for hardware raid controllers, ZFS calls their equivalent RAIDZ1 (and I think it stores data in one disk and parity in another?) and both LVM and btrfs call theirs mirroring (each with its nuances). Whichever you pick, it’s a mode where you use two disks at 50% efficiency and your data survives the loss of one disk.
There are configurations that use more disks with higher efficiency than 50%, but I would avoid them in a homelab because the more disks you have, the higher the power drain and the higher the chance that at least one of them will fail, and in a homelab scenario you really want to minimize the change of needing to perform maintenance (replacing a drive in a RAID and restoring from a backup are both a hassle).
In your shoes (and in mine, whenever I’ll need to redo my RAID1 NAS), I’d skip RAID altogether and use the extra disk for extra backups of the data I care about.
Most of my NAS is filled with movies I’ve ripped, and I honestly wouldn’t really care much if I were to lose them: the movies I may want to re-watch are really few and I can just rip them again (or even buy them again) if the need arises.
Backups are enormously more important than RAID (will RAID do anything for you if you accidentally delete your family photos? what if the NAS floods or gets dropped on the floor?): you should really direct your time/resources/effort towards setting up automatic and monitored backups before worrying about RAID.
- Comment on NAS decision paralysis 3 weeks ago:
A NAS is any computer with space/connectors for drives and an ethernet port… besides the drives, it doesn’t need to be powerful or state-of-the-art, and there’s really no reason it should be expensive.
Of course companies will be more than happy to sell you an outdated J4125-based computer with 4 disk bays for over 500EUR, but that doesn’t mean you have to bite.
As for RAID, if you want to use it, just setup mirrored drives (ZFS, BTRFS or even LVM) and be done with it: you’ll need backups anyway so don’t overthink it. Unless you want to avoid downtime (which isn’t probably a big issue for most of your data?), you can do without RAID and just restore from backup if a drive happens to break.
If you don’t want to build your own PC, I’ve heard good things about these: aoostar.com/collections/nas-series (beware: I didn’t try any of them - my N3150-based NAS is not old enough to need replacement yet)
- Comment on Suggestions for Community Organizing 4 weeks ago:
Leverage whatsapp and hang good old posters around the neighborhood?
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are you using n8n for? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Did you ask an AI to do the list for you? (no need to answer)
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 1 month ago:
Intriguing.
What’s the mechanism for dealing with spammers?
In lemmy there’s a clear escalation path that will lead to either the spammer’s instance dealing with the issue or the instance itself being de-federated.
How would that work in a p2p system?
Each user having to individually block every spammer will work as well as it did for email back in the day.
- Comment on Any experience of Diode? 2 months ago:
- Comment on I'm "use NFS forfilesharing old." what's the current optimal solution for shared drives if I have like 3 linux machines in the house? 4 months ago:
If it’s for backup, zfs and btrfs can send incremental diffs quite efficiently (but of course you’ll have to use those on both ends).
Otherwise, both NFS and SMB are certainly viable.
I tried both but TBH I ended up just using SSHFS because I don’t care about becoming and NFS/SMB admin.
NFS and SMB are easy enough to setup, but then when you try to do user-level authentication… they aren’t as easy anymore.
Since I’m already managing SSH keys all over my machines, I feel like SSHFS makes much more sense for me.
- Comment on Second set of eyes - DNS Nameservers 4 months ago:
AFAIU bluehost does not support the acme protocol, so you’ll either have to manage your certificate manually or (recommended!) move to a different dns registrar.
If you are wondering which provider you should switch to, basically all the serious ones will work… IDK if this is relevant for nginx, but here’s a list of the supported ones for the client I use go-acme.github.io/lego/dns/
If you are unsure and want to experiment before touching your current setup, you could register a new cheap domain (less than 1$, see tld-list.com), use it for your tests, and then not renew it.
- Comment on Turn linux server into a router? 5 months ago:
Not sure if others already said this (I seem to see mostly comments explaining how to do it, but didn’t read them all), but, while it’s certainly feasible, you may not want to do that.
A router is the cornerstone of your network (if it goes down, so does the network) and if you are a self-hoster you’ll probably fiddle endlessly with your home server, and of course break it from time to time… the two things just don’t go well together.
Personally, I’d recommend getting some second-hand router appliance that can run openwrt and use that (make sure to check the flashing procedure before deciding what to buy - some are easier than others). Or you could get a dedicated x86 machine… probably overkill though.