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- Comment on fail2ban behind reverse proxy (nom) 3 days ago:
I did not, it seemed complicated and rabbit-hole-y.
- Comment on fail2ban behind reverse proxy (nom) 3 days ago:
I used fail2ban as an anti-scraper strategy for a few months. It helped with the really basic scrapers that only use one or a few IP addresses.
But then they adapted and started using hundreds or thousands of different IP addresses, each one only making a couple of requests. fail2ban became counter-productive as it slowed my server down - the log files it was monitoring became massive under high load and it needs to scan the log files often to check if an IP has been seen before.
I’m not saying don’t try it, I’m saying it’s only effective in some situations.
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 4 days ago:
It’s always dns at least half the time
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 4 days ago:
haha looks like you’re aaalmost at the point where water cooling is compulsory.
Is it a Threadripper? I built a couple of those for rendering, such absolute beasts.
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 4 days ago:
Nice chonky heatsink, goddam
- Comment on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? 1 week ago:
check this out!
- Comment on I measured the idle RAM of 19 self-hosted apps on identical hardware so you can size a VPS without guessing 1 week ago:
Completely useless…
- Comment on I measured the idle RAM of 19 self-hosted apps on identical hardware so you can size a VPS without guessing 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on Ancient Colombians built huge water system without centralized rule, archaeologists say 1 week ago:
Possibly similar to what they do in Bali
- Comment on Finally happish with my all-in-one homelab (20+ services and way too much tinkering) 3 weeks ago:
Hey @organicpu@lemmy.organic-server.org did you use a LLM like Ollama to write your post?
- Comment on What's a good weather website 3 weeks ago:
Multiple people have recommended https://yr.no to me recently. It’s Norwegian but effective everywhere.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to astronomy@mander.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Due to pressure from ultra-left crybaby luddites, Codeberg has updated their TOS to exclude projects that incorporate LLMs in their development tool set 3 weeks ago:
No, only projects that are primarily vibe coded.
- Comment on I built a PDF invoice generator that runs entirely in your browser — $9 one-time, no subscription 5 weeks ago:
Fuck off Jack
- Comment on Thoughts on crowdsec 5 weeks ago:
Ahh so bots are finding subdomains by scraping SSL certificates?
- Comment on TUXEDO OS drops Ubuntu to rebase on Debian Testing 5 weeks ago:
TUXEDO OS will use Btrfs by default, rather than EXT4. This will be paired with a SUSE-developed Snapper to take automatic snapshots after package updates, enabling easy rollback.
That is very appealing. I went with OpenSuse recently because I wanted BTRFS and Snapper but then had to suffer through the godawful Yast all the time. With Tuxedo you get apt instead.
- Comment on "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners 1 month ago:
Good question.
A GUI will be easier to get into - you can use a gui file browser app to learn the layout of the file system, you can use a GUI text editor to change config files, that sort of thing. It’ll mean you can do a few basic things intuitively which will be less intimidating. So from a maintaining momentum and morale point of view it might be best to have a GUI initially even though you have to learn all the cli stuff eventually anyway and you’ll most likely be running a headless server on real hardware eventually.
- Comment on "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners 1 month ago:
Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn’t really one guide that covers everything.
Anyway, as a general road map:
Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.
Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.
In the VM, try some docker containers until you’re comfortable-ish with docker.
Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.
Get hardware suitable for your goals.
Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.
- Comment on Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release 1 month ago:
Replying to this post with an AI slop comment takes some balls, mate
- Comment on Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release 1 month ago:
No obvious signs, nope. It wasn’t until I started using it in earnest that I got suspicious and then when trying to work on the code it became very clear.
- Comment on Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release 1 month ago:
Well, yeah. There are lots of reasons. But basic self-interest is something we can all agree on.
- Comment on Most slopcode projects are abandoned and deleted within months of release 1 month ago:
I made the mistake of installing Starling recently, not realizing how it was made. I contributed a PR to it, write a few issues describing the bugs, and since then there’s been absolutely no activity from the creator.
That’s fine, they are under no obligation to work for free. But I wouldn’t have installed it if I knew it was abandonware.
- Submitted 1 month ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 149 comments
- Comment on Help! I need a really simple image hosting solution 1 month ago:
You could use apache to create a webdav share. I bet there’s a pre built container for it.
Webdav is really underrated, imo.
- Comment on Authoritarianism acts as a psychological bridge for dark personalities, study finds 1 month ago:
[They] use disciplined rule-following and punitive authoritarian beliefs as a socially acceptable way to express their hostility.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’m rollicking through Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Die Nazis, die.
$5 on steam, works on Linux.
- Comment on Suggestions for running a mailing list (listmonk) 1 month ago:
I’d hook up https://easydmarc.com/ for a couple of months to monitor deliverability, just while you’re bedding it in.
- Comment on How To Parse JSON Data To A Human Readable Format 2 months ago:
In the Homarr docs, there is this: https://homarr.dev/docs/widgets/iframe/
Towards the end there is a link to https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes which contains many examples of some content formatted nicely to fit within Homarr iframes and a docker container you can use to make a url that the iframe widget can consume. They used Go which is only a little harder than Python to read.
Seems like this one - https://github.com/diogovalentte/homarr-iframes/tree/main/src/sources/changedetectionio - makes a request to a JSON api, for example.
- Comment on Email ownership, I give up. 2 months ago:
Fair enough - I got it working recently but it was the hardest self-hosting install I’ve done. No way most people would succeed. Email is 50(?) years of questionable design decisions piled on top of each other so it’s become a whole world of weird stuff. Doing email should be it’s own tech specialty, like ‘devops’ or ‘db admin’ is. There’s enough depth to it.
There are a ton of email providers who are not Google, though. e.g. https://proton.me/mail. You don’t need to run it on your own hardware.
- Comment on Can I promote my Delta Chat groups in lemmy and piefed ? 2 months ago:
No, those are for promoting communities.