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- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 days ago:
You can test it in a virtual machine like virtualbox or virt-manager. Then you can get a good feel for it.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 2 days ago:
c stands for community. I didn’t know on which server it is but it’s on lemmyworld !selfhosted@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
Yunohost is probably more secure than you figuring everything out yourself. More people have a vested interest in keeping it secure. They have a minimal page on security but they have fail2ban, unattended upgrades,and a secure SSH configuration. If something is discovered, you might be vulnerable but at least there will be knowledgeable people fixing it.
Security is always difficult and nothing is 100% secure. The three letter agencies around the world have been hacked and they are in the business of hacking others. Hackers themselves get hacked on the regular. Using yunohost as a noon probably reduces the chance of you getting hacked.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
256 GB of RAM? Wow. And game servers too? If that’s small, them I don’t know what you consider big…
Anyway, proxmox does fit your scenario well. Separating your hosted services into VMs or containers makes a lot of sense. And a few game servers also have installations specific to different distros, so instead of fumbling about with your specific distro, just creating a VM with the distro you need is way easier.
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 1 week ago:
I don’t understand this view either. What’s it to ya? You cant see what the person does anyway. There doesn’t seem to be a point behind it besides control.
Also, it simply is difficult to implement. You have to tell every server “do not show my posts and comments to these accounts”. Other servers can just choose to ignore that. It’s centralized thinking to believe the “feature” will work all the time.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
Depends on what you want to do. For a small server, if you want to host multiple things, hosting them straight on the metal without putting a VM in between would be more performant. If your server doesn’t have much RAM and CPU to give, then getting rid of the emulation layer makes sense.
Can you tell me why you want to use proxmox and what for?
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
Glad you like it! If it’s useful to you, don’t forget to donate or at least say thanks to the contributors once everything is up and running and stable.
Don’t forget backups! Restic is in yunohost and should be useful for that. Yunohost has a guide.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
Yunohost should be the software you’re looking for. Install stuff by clicking. Much less terminal stuff
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 4 weeks ago:
Telling the new slaves to stay put.
- Comment on Where is Immich going to be in 1 year? What's your prediction? 1 month ago:
It’ll be safe to host without extra software in front of it to make it read-only
- Comment on Fediverse Report – #131 1 month ago:
Crowdbucks sounds interesting, but is extremely light on details. How does it work? Are all payments going to go through Stripe? Is it going to support GnuTaler? Crypto maybe? Is it to be integrated into things like Mastodon, Peertube, and other fediverse services?
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 2 months ago:
And somehow there are people out there that think it’s OK for this to happen to games too to then spread misinformation about Stop Killing Games.
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 3 months ago:
The comparisons you’re making are off base and it feels like you’re mocking something you don’t understand, while doing so with a lot of confidence. I’d suggest you either read an article, watch a video, or read the ActivityPub spec’s intro. It isn’t long and should help you understand the basics. Then you can move on the ForgeFed spec which is the ActivityPub extension for source forges. And you can always ask an LLM to summarise it for you if you really don’t understand.
- Comment on GitLab abandons federation plans! 3 months ago:
Git is already inherently distributed and automagically mirroring to other remotes is generally like three lines in any CI syntax (and there is probably a precommit hook for it too).
Git is, but what about everything else? When you clone a project on gitlab or github, does it come with all the issues, discussions, MRs, and so on?
I can see a LOT of security issues with not having a centralized source of truth on what the commit hashes should be and so forth.
That’s what signed commits are for. Also, pull/merge requests and issues are sent to the origin instance, just like in the fediverse. Like now, you made a comment on a post on Fediverse@lemmy.world through your instance lemmy.zip. The same would happen with your comments, pull/merge requests, issue reports, and so on. There’s no need for a “central authority”.
- Comment on Meta Secures Bittersweet Fair Use Victory in AI 'Piracy' Case * TorrentFreak 3 months ago:
“As should now be clear, this ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one,” the ruling reads.
- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 3 months ago:
“That’s stupid”. Great argument. “This content doesn’t exist on $platform ergo $platform is stupid”. “Be the change you want to see is stupid because it’s stupid!”.
Can’t wait for the content you’re going to contribute to peertube.
- Comment on PeerTube just reached its final goal for the mobile app fundraiser - 75k € - with a few hours to spare! 3 months ago:
Always ready to complain. All these things need to exist in order to gain traction. You need to have content and multiple ways to view it. Complaining that there’s an additional way to view it is just unnecessary negativity.
If you think there isn’t enough content, be the change you want to see: make it.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 months ago:
I’d say the problem is education. Porn is only an issue because people do not get proper sex ed. The reaction to seeing a dick sucked in front of a child shouldn’t be shame, disgust, or terror but allowing the inquisitive mind to ask what is happening.
Sex is a completely normal occurrence that is the reason we are all here. There shouldn’t be any shame or stigma in explaining to a child (or any person for that matter) what it is, what it involves, why it is done, how to safely do it, what consent is, why it is stigmatised.
Want to protect children? Educate them.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 4 months ago:
Hail TOR and I2P!
- Comment on Microsoft-Backed Builder.ai Set for Bankruptcy After Cash Seized 4 months ago:
Were these guys the OG vibe coders? It looks like they were allowing people to build mobile apps using AI since 2016!
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 months ago:
My problem isn’t the hardware, it’s that the place I’m moving to will have a bad internet connection. My current homeserver has stuff like a CI (currently being tested), a builder for software (compiling rust, C/C++, go, and whatever else), immich, nextcloud with an extension to download from youtube and other sources (basically to circumvent geoblocking of multiple friends and family), and it could be expanded to host other services e.g a seedbox. All that stuff needs good hardware and a good connection.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 months ago:
My problem is that I’m moving in the not so far future and I don’t know where to put my server. Physical security is important and if someone gets into my house, takes the computer and leaves, it’ll be worthless due to encryption. But if it’s in somebody’s datacenter (co-location or whatever), they could be forced to monitor my traffic, tamper with my system, and I’d have to entrust the key to somebody in order to boot the system and decrypt the drives should it restart for an update or for any other reason.
I’m considering asking a friend to host the homeserver and reimburse them for a better internet connection (fiber) + electricity costs. But I’m not sure they’d be up for it.
How would you solve the problem?
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's selfhosting Sunday again! 5 months ago:
Hey! Another nixos user 😁 What are you using for your VPS? nixos-infect? nixos-everywhere?
As for mini PCs, a friend bought one from Minis Forum and quite likes it. But if you want to support the opensource ecosystem, there are tuxedo computers and slimbook. There’s also starlabs byte.
Take your pick :)
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 5 months ago:
I bet this will be out into a military plane and it’ll brick while flying over China or close to it. The genius of these people cannot be understated. Imagine, if they’re saying this publicly, I bet you they have this in existing military equipment they are selling to partners. Anybody buying military equipment from the US is asking for trouble.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 5 months ago:
On one side, fuck google, on the other, the video is “whistleblowing” DEI practices. Not sure what there is to “whistlenlow” about. I thought quotas were mandated for a long time. How is that news?
- Comment on peertube recomendation algo alpha build 5 months ago:
What is this? It jumps in explaining features and details about other stuff, but doesn’t explain the basic goal. There are also no screenshots except of some table. It’s not clear how to use this thing.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification 5 months ago:
Is this how they plan to make money too? Demand 15 bucks to be verified, 2k/year to be a verification issuer? This is going to be fun to watch.
- Comment on BlogOnLemmy - I made my Blog using Lemmy's API 6 months ago:
A blog entry on how it works and what it does at a high level could be nice. I’m not sure what I’m looking at, but there must be some API call to Lemmy and it’s probably happening on the server due to CORS; not sure how this would work just in the browser if the Lemmy instance has CORS setup…
- Comment on Your next phone could have a 10km Bluetooth connection 6 months ago:
Bluetooth barely works when my phone is in my pocket and my headset on my head. Make that work first before imagining users with a 10km long neck.
- Comment on Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash 6 months ago:
And yet, Adobe keeps making money. Someone’s paying for it and it isn’t non artists…