StrawberryPigtails
@StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ? 4 weeks ago:
I generally don’t worry about communities. Either the community is well run or not.
Users, though. I’ll block trolls all day long. If I notice I’m blocking a whole bunch of users from the same instance, I’ll block the instance. So far that has only happened twice. Lemmygrad and feddit.ro.
- Comment on Simple way to get emails for new Lemmy or Mastodon posts? 1 month ago:
Email notifications can be setup, but the option needs to be enabled by the instance administrator. Failing that, your phone app might support push notifications.
- Comment on World now has five times more PV than nuclear power 1 month ago:
Thank you. I was trying to figure this out as well.
- Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure? 2 months ago:
Tobacco. You?
- Comment on How can I keep my forwarded port secure? 2 months ago:
The simplest way to do this, is to put the server on a private vpn (I use Tailscale, there are others) and expose ports only to the vpn. Then you share access to the vpn with your friends.
With Tailscale, this is as simple as sending them a share link for the host. They will need to have an account at Tailscale, and have the client running, but they will then be able to access the host with a static ip address.
As a general rule of thumb, nothing should be exposed to the public internet unless you want that service to be public access and then you need to keep it up to date. If a vulnerability doesn’t currently exist for the service, one will sooner rather than later. SSH, especially password only ssh, can be broken into fairly easily. If you must expose ssh to the public internet for whatever reason, you need to be using IP white lists, password protected keys, change the default port, and turn off service advertisements and ping responses. I’m probably missing something. When someone scans your server randomly, they should see nothing. And if they fail login they should be ip blocked.
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- Comment on Silverblue or other immutable on remote VPS? 2 months ago:
I don’t know about Silverblue, but I know you can use NixOS on pretty much any VPS using the tool nixos-infect.
Not sure how it would reduce your attack surface though. That’s not really the problem that they are trying to solve.
- Comment on Is IONOS ok for a VPS? 2 months ago:
I’ve heard mixed things about them, never used them though. Personally I used Digital Ocean for my VPS needs till I had a spare computer available, at which point I moved everything in house.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Off course! Though I bought the CD and ripped it. Dangerous and Moving was a great album.
- Comment on Upgrading cheap/old computer 3 months ago:
With used hardware, it very much depends on what the hardware is and what you’re using it for. if you can find something from the last 10 years it’s probably worth it, but I wouldn’t get anything older than that. Power usage is the main concern, as systems have been plenty powerful enough for most applications for sometime. Hardware reliability would be another factor.
When I was looking a couple of months ago, it looked like $200 USD was the sweet spot for used hardware, but at that price point, you could get one of those NUC knockoffs brand new, such as the Beelink N100. It just depends on what you need.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Unfortunately, they appear to be shutting down soon. Looks like it is illegal to gamble on politics in the US, at least according to one multi national betting site I looked at last night.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Know of anywhere that will let you bet on political races?
- Comment on Best way to host Nextcloud with Collabora Office? 4 months ago:
I use AIO as well though I’ve heard the snap version is pretty painless, most of the time.
- Comment on Google’s Repair Policy Is Broken 4 months ago:
This is news? To anyone?
- Comment on Should I use a reverse proxy in a homelab? 4 months ago:
Personal preference.
Unless something has changed, Caddy isn’t a dns server. It’s a web server and reverse proxy. If you might expose something to the public internet, you will want it behind the reverse proxy.
If you want to access local network services (private vpn counts) via a domain name all you need is a DNS server and for you clients setup to query that dns server. I use PiHole for this. From what I understand Adguard may be similar to PiHole but I’ve never looked a it.
One thing to be wary of, there are no reserved private network domains. Depending on how you set things up your local network dns queries may go out onto the public internet. It’s best to go ahead and register a domain name that you want to use so that you can control it routing if that happens. They can be had cheap as $11 USD each.
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution? 4 months ago:
Of course they are a waste of money, and the plastic packaging is incredibly bad for the environment. And they are fun and I will buy them again next year.
- Comment on Sony won't phase out Blu-ray movie and game discs, only ceasing production on consumer BD-R 4 months ago:
Unless I’m mistaken, and I probably am, the patents on blueray should have expired by now. Software side might be covered under copyright right though. Not sure if software can be copyrighted though tbh.
- Comment on How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well. 4 months ago:
Didn’t know that. Thanks!
- Comment on How would I troubleshoot an AC unit that isn't working well. 4 months ago:
134a is for automotive ac units. Unless something has changed recently, household hvac systems use a different type. It used to be R22 for both, but that was a long time ago. Turned out freon (R22) was bad for the environment.
- Comment on Looking for a music server 4 months ago:
Me too! Not much to look at but it’s a great player on iOS. On Linux, I like SonixD.
- Comment on Looking for a music server 4 months ago:
I use Jellyfin. I think in your use case, each user would be setup have their own collection. You can enable or disable collections on a per user basis as will as a per client basis.
Downside is that the default web interface isn’t great as a music player. It does the job but it’s not great.
Other hand, multiple music-first clients exist for a lot of different platforms. Odds are good you can find a client that suits how you listen to music. - Comment on Is possible to run a LLM on a mini-pc like the GMKtec K8 and K9? 4 months ago:
It’s doable. Stick to the 7b models and it should work for the most part, but don’t expect anything remotely approaching what might be called reasonable performance. It’s going to be slow. But it can work.
To get a somewhat usable experience you kinda need an Nvidia graphics card or an AI accelerator.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 5 months ago:
That’s a site I haven’t heard of in a while.
- Comment on Could I get an autopsy done on myself while I'm alive? 5 months ago:
I think that the Nazis or Japanese did experiments in that vain, but don’t quote me on it. They did quite a lot that makes my stomach roil. As to how far they could get, no clue.
Either way, once organs start to be removed, you won’t be around for long. Under most circumstances anyways. We do have the ability to sub in machines for failed organs, such as heart, kidneys or lungs, but I don’t know of any cases where all of them have been replaced with machines at the same time with the “patient” still awake during.
Full life support tends to be a “Buddy, your fucked!” sort of thing and if you’re not already in a coma, they will likely put you in one.
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
Heads up on the copyright thing. Copyright is different nation to nation. @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world seems to be out of the UK or EU. Not sure what the copyright situation is like there but here in the US, anything you write is already protected under US copyright laws from the moment it’s !published (such as when I hit “post” here), subject to any applicable agreements you’ve entered into, of course.
You don’t HAVE to register your work for it to be under copyright protection, but to doing so would give you a stronger case if you ever decided to go to court over copyright. To register a work in the US you would do so through the Copyright Office.
In general though, @ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world is right though, you should assume anything you put out in the wild will be used in a manner you never intended, and that you may not like.
For examples of how helpful copyright protection is in a practical sense, might want to check out c/piracy.
- Comment on Self-hosted website for posting web novel/fiction 6 months ago:
For something like this, I think I would use Hugo to generate a static site. You write the post using markdown then tell Hugo to regenerate the site.
If you want to publish and receive comments or feedback via the fediverse, you might take a look at WriteFreely. Simpler to use but more complicated to setup.
Wordpress is also an option, but I personally don’t like it much. I spend all my time playing with all the knobs and never actually publish anything.
- Comment on How to manage contact information between Android and Linux without any Big Tech software? 6 months ago:
Well, I use NextCloud (via Nextcloud AIO) as my cloud backend for almost everything. If all you want is contact syncing, that is anlmost certainly overkill. It’s a Big project that does just about everything.
If I remember correctly, there were a few more focused project listed in the Awesome-Selfhosted repo that may be useful to you.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 6 months ago:
The logistics issue is not that big of one. We’re a warehouse that runs our own trucks. We could get it there with only a bit of extra fuel burn. HOS might cause issues though. Additionally, the need is great enough that many food banks and shelters would be willing to come pick it up if we weren’t all (Grocery industry and food banks) afraid of getting sued to death by some person that got sick after eating something that was a day after it’s arbitrarily set use by date.
We at the warehouse salve our consciences some by donating fresh products directly to some food banks local to our warehouse, and a few of our stores order a little extra to donate locally, but it’s nowhere near the amount that gets tossed by the stores.
- Comment on How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food? 6 months ago:
I work in the grocery industry. For us it’s a liability thing. If you get sick and sue, it winds up costing us even if we win. Given the razor thin margins we operate on, we would have to increase prices to cover the extra cost.
The result is most grocery stores toss anything that doesn’t sell and lock the dumpster.
Some is donated, to be sure, but most is just tossed out.
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 6 months ago:
I haven’t really followed most protests in a while, but I do recall more than a few occasions where there was a particularly hot-button issue being protested by two separate groups in close proximity and the police were there solely to keep the different protesting groups away from each other. I seem to remember that they (the protesting groups) had gotten a bit rowdy but that not much came of it.
The riot squads committing war crimes against civilians stick out in part because of the brutality but also because of the relative rarity of it.