Passerby6497
@Passerby6497@lemmy.world
- Comment on Encrypting without full disk encryption question 2 days ago:
On my TODO list I also have to implement some sort of notification to get an alert when the decryption key is fetched from internet.
Why is it fetchable by arbitrary IPs from the internet? I’d think you’d lock it down to an IP/only make it available locally.
- Comment on passage of time 2 days ago:
What about adults without hands?
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 2 days ago:
Where did the coin come from? Unless you mined it yourself, you’ve left a trail that may eventually lead to you. Even using crypto ATMs, you’re still on surveillance and hoping the tapes/drives roll over before someone comes knocking (which is a very likely bet to win), and even then, you still have a real world location to tie the wallet to because of where the transaction originated.
Anything that interacts with the real world can anchor your identity to your wallet. Travelling out of state can help obfuscate that to an extent, but a high level adversary will be able to correlate travel with that transaction as well.
- Comment on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp 2 days ago:
The clone comment likely refers to the underlying architecture, as WhatsApp is using the signal protocol for its ‘secured’ messaging. Of the two, signal is the far superior choice for anyone not forced to live in Zucco’s World. It’s the more private option, and is secure by default unlike a lot of apps (namely, telegram).
WhatsApp (thankfully) is secure by default now according to Google, but it took them a hot minute to get to that point. That being said, you’re still giving metadata to Zucc no matter what, which is still really bad to give the guy working on military AI…
- Comment on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp 2 days ago:
Signal is a much better choice and its basically a whatsapp clone.
Must be why signal runs on the WhatsApp protocol
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
Fucking phone systems! That’s what these are, and we have to snap them any time they’re rebooted because sometimes they just shut the bed randomly, but the client doesn’t want to buy a new system…
But, it’s their wallet and they’re willing to pay the “fuck you pay me” legacy surcharge.
- Comment on What exactly is a self-hosted small LLM actually good for (<= 3B) 3 days ago:
What are you using for voice integration? I really don’t want to buy and assemble their solution if I don’t have to
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
Hahahahahaha, I still periodically see win2k/2k3 on the network at some clients, with SMBv1 enabled across the domain to make the CISO’s eye twitch
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 3 days ago:
We have a machine at work which is beefy and works as a server and backups for many many years on windows 10. Why the hell should I upgrade my buisness critical system ??
Because you should be using a server grade os instead of janking things together with desktop OS installs that just make everything so much harder (and aren’t supported for as long).
Sorry, I have to clean up installs like this at least once a year when we take on clients from internal IT that just made things work instead of making something that works right, so I’ve got opinions.
- Comment on getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban 4 weeks ago:
Don’t get too excited, it took a fucking long ass time for them to start pulling down neonazi content. For years I heard Patrick Grey (risky.biz) bitch about how Cloudflare refused to take down Nazi content they were hosting.
- Comment on This Printer company served you malware for months, called them false positives 4 weeks ago:
I don’t watch tiktok
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 1 month ago:
- Comment on AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law 4 months ago:
Correction, hundreds of *billions" of dollars. >$400bn as of 11 years ago.
- Comment on AT&T pulls its 5G internet service in NY over new affordable internet law 4 months ago:
Not only that, they took the money to build out and pocketed it.
- Comment on Me when my parents told me they first met in the summer of 1999 & started dating the following year and I did the math (dad - 1959, mom - 1984) 5 months ago:
Your brother was half your dad? Man, that’s crazy.
- Comment on What are your Homelab goals for 2025? 5 months ago:
I docker’d all of my systems a few years ago, and I’m so glad I did. So much easier to manage, and when I lost a system I was able to get most of my services back up and running with minimal configuration on a VM same day.
As for hardware, you might check and see if you’ve got a local reseller of retired business equipment. Before I moved, I had a place I went to from my work that accepted shit we were getting rid of that disposed of stuff and resold at a bargin the stuff that was still good. I got more than one hp tower from a few years previous that ran (and still runs) like a champ. Felt like night and day when I upgraded to that from my Pi setup.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
My ideal is something more like a netboot-able image that I can modify/recreate and have it pull on next boot. But those options aren’t a bad thought either. I’d just need to have the bootable image configured with the info needed to bootstrap it. I’ve got another VM that’s got a different automation platform running (Powershell Universal), but it would give me an excuse to learn another well known automation platform.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
I might be able to hook it up to a usb NVMe reader, but when I initially tried I barely got any recognition of the drive from the OS. My primary system is windows, so I might get more info from one of my linux systems, just haven’t had the fucks to give to the dead drive. As for a replacement drive, funds are scarce and time/learning is (comparatively) free. Someone else suggested kubernetes, so I might look into that to see if that can accomplish what I’m looking for.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
I’m leery about using a USB for long term persistent OS storage due to lifespan issues I’ve seen when just running a hypervisor from one. A ‘real’ usermode OS is probably going to have a worse lifespan than what I was seeing at work.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
I don’t want to use a USB for storage, because those aren’t going to have a great lifespan in my experience. I’ve used them as the install media for something like ESX, but I’d rather not run a ‘real’ OS from a disk because I wasn’t impressed with overall lifespan on some of the systems we managed at work.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
Realistically, I just want to have a system that can act as the hardware end point for a coral processor to do image recognition. I don’t need to write a lot on demand, and what was being written previously was all to the NAS (other than the app’s database)
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
I’m actually not 100% what killed the drive. It could have been an issue with the drive wearing out, but my services didn’t write much locally and it wasn’t super old so I assume its a heat issue with a fanless micro system. I try to write everything important to my NASs so I don’t have to worry about random hardware failures, but this one didn’t have backups configured before it failed. Other than the drive issue its been solid for 1.5-2 years of near constant uptime.
- Comment on Is it possible to run a docker host that has no harddrive? 5 months ago:
So I amend to you don’t need it to be stateful, you could have an image like you talked about that is loaded every time (that’s essentially what kubernetes does), but you will still need space somewhere as scratch drive. A place docker will places images and temporary file systems while it’s running.
Putting the image somewhere is easy. I’ve got TBs of space available on my NAS drives, especially right now with not acquiring any additional linux ISOs.
For state, check out docker’s volume backings here: docs.docker.com/engine/storage/volumes/. You could use nfs to another server as an example for your volumes. Your volumes would never need to be on your “app server”, but instead could be loaded via nfs from your storage server.
I’ll check that out. If that allows me to actually write databases to disk on the nfs backing volume, that would be amazing. That’s the biggest issue I run into (regularly).
This is all nearing into kubernetes territory though. If you’re thinking about netboot and automatically starting containers, and handling stateless volumes and storing volumes in a way that are synced with a storage server… it might be time for kubernetes.
I don’t think I’ve ever looked into kubernetes. I’ll have to look into that at some point… Any good beginner resources?
- Submitted 5 months ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Comment on I saw Free Willy in theaters: AMA 5 months ago:
What was it like watching a movie with Paul Reubens?
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 6 months ago:
News papers are a physical item, not bits hidden behind a boolean set to true. Plus, I can go read a newspaper at the store if I want to.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 6 months ago:
I’ve tried to use the playlist feature on my device a couple of times, but I still had to manually start the next episode. I might try again and see if I can figure it out.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 6 months ago:
Yes, the android app is my preferred method of accessing my server. It works great, other than on rare occasions when it gets killed in the background for some reason, and my complaint about playlists from the previous comment is a much bigger irritation, but a very minor complaint.
- Comment on What are some self hosted services that you think are essential? 6 months ago:
Podcasts are my primary use case (my partner uses audiobooks exclusively), and while it works rather well, I want to put in the caveat that there’s no working playlist functionality in the app, and IME headset controls don’t work from FF for Android.
That’s not a deal breaker for me, but it was a massive disappointment when I switched over. But the lack of playlist functionality in the app only annoys me when I want to follow one of the shorter news feeds, since I have to stop and select the next track every 5 min as the episode ends. No issue with that feed from the browser, so meh.
Works great through my reverse proxy/cloudflare tunnel setup, so not too many actual complaints.
- Comment on In the American class warfare, there seem to be an awful lot of parallels between typical Republican voters and Uncle Tom, a negro who was exceedingly subservient to his slave masters. 6 months ago:
Accelerationist arguments always show that the speaker isn’t nearly as smart as they think they are.