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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, that’s great to hear!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Again for Germany, it’s handled by a single provider, and they absolutely do utilize CoCo tech. (Source: I work at one of the involved companies, sorry, not going to be more specific)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In the case of Germany: confidential computing tech ensures all data is encrypted in storage and in memory, shielded even against data center employees / hosting providers. I imagine that’s become the standard for most countries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Make sure you choose a proper open source one, else the app might collect data as well…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When we need to know each others location, we share it via element / matrix. Our own server, so no third party.

  Happens maybe four times a year.

  (Also, do you just always have location services enabled?? IMO it’s a battery drain, I pretty much only enable it for this and while I need to navigate)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, nice. In that case just beware to move /var/lib/private/conduwuit to /var/lib/private/continuwuity, not /var/lib/conduwuit to its counterpart

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah crap, forgot to ping you! Sorry!!

  Yep, easy decision now. Migration went smoothly, just had to move the state dir and chown it to continuwuity:continuwuity. Might be different on docker though, no idea, sorry 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Update: seems to me tuwunel is drama waiting to happen. See updated post for details.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything is a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, even QR I can only accept as an option, as in completely optionally. I’m out and about without a phone quite frequently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, completely agree. It seems that the matrix foundation could easily take a different path to allow the community to flourish and third-party servers to have a much easier time. Since I’m not federated, I wouldn’t even mind if whatever fork I’ll end up on eventually says “fuck this, we’re not following synapse specs any more”.

  But yeah, I am sure selling premium accounts on matrix.org is what will save the matrix ecosystem… 🤦🏼‍♀️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, fair enough, I actually have very little experience with XMPP. (Only through prosody, which I personally am on a war footing with.) From a cursory glance, I also couldn’t find an Android lient I’d really want to use, but of course that is subjective.

  In any case: I have a matrix server up and running, and it has been a pain to get friends and family on there; I do not want to do all of that again with a new protocol/clients. As long as it’s sustainable, I want to stay with the same server installation, and that means choosing a conduwuit for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing technically wrong with it, it’s just a glacial development speed. I tried contributing there myself when I wanted a specific feature (which had been requested years prior by someone else and was deemed a good idea), it took months before I even got a single comment back.

  In the meantime, I had switched to conduwuit because it was a much, MUCH more active project. However, conduwuit has diverged substantially from conduit, including irreconcilable database changes, so it is not possible to migrate back, that would require starting from a fresh slate and loosing all user data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Understandable. Funny thing is, I’m not even federated; I think that keeps me away from a lot of drama.

  But yeah. The drama sucks, and so does the Matrix Foundation. So many dumb decisions, so many years old issues that could easily boost acceptance and usability, but… Nah. No better alternatives around though if you want to own your data, have proper multi-client support, and at least the option to federate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, how’s it been going?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roger, will do.

  Yeah, community driven sounds like unless there’s new drama. But yeah, currently tending towards continuwuity. Purely vibes based from snooping around both repos.

• `continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We have NixOS, Proxmox and TrueNAS in use.

  • TrueNAS on a dedicated NAS host. It’s great for that, and has been super stable. The snapshotting works great, and all the little tasks associated with a NAS are taken care of without needing to spare a thought.
  • Proxmox as VMS host. You haven’t mentioned it above, so I’ll leave it at this: also works really well for its purpose.
  • NixOS: acouple dozen NixOS VMs runnign on the Proxmox hosts. I like the separation (i.e.: one VM <-> one task/service), but it’s not necessary, esp. if you plan on using a stable branch. I absolutely love NixOS, and would never run server applications on anything else ever again. The documentation thing is trueish. There’s not even close to the same documentation as with e.g. Arch and the Arch Wiki, but that makes sense when you think about it: instead of hundreds of lines of documentation, you hide that complexity behind an option, e.g. graphics.nvidia.enable = true; which then becomes pretty self-explanatory, at least if you are somewhat familiar with the ecosystem already. The way I’d recommend going about documentation with nix is this:
    • go to search.nixos.org/options, search for the service you would like to host. 90% of the time, the options and descriptions shown are all you need.
    • if an option is unclear, click on its “declared in” link. You’ll be taken to the module source in nixpkgs. Look at what they are doing there/the comments explaining why. Often, this resolves any ambiguity, or helps you out with your goal.
    • if that did not help, check the NixOS wiki; often, common pitfalls are documented there, together with the nix expression to fix them.
    • another great way is to search GitHub for language:nix <thing you need want do>. As a random example: I recently wasn’t sure how to configuring scaling in hyprland on NixOS, but searching for an appropriate term will quickly show you how other people have solved the same problem. It’s not really documentation, but the declarative nature of nix means it’s easy to find TONS of working examples via a github search.
    • all else failing, ask on discourse.nixos.org. Youńll usually get useful help very quickly there.

  So, what’s my advice?

  If you are unfamiliar with NixOS, it’s probably a bit of a headache getting a NAS to run satisfactory. Truenas works so well, there isn’t really a need for nix. But running your services in nix is great, totally recommend!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone use Hetzner Storage Box to backup their Synology NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure, but they also support Borg, which definitely does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Btw, nice read OP. Always great to see more Nix “in the wild”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t believe noone mentioned this yet:

  Any good password manager encrypts and decrypts your password file client side. The server should not even have the ability to read your passwords.

  Even in the case of a leak of all of the server’s data, as long as your password for the manager was good, you’ve got nothing to worry about.

  I’d say pick a PW manager where both client and server are open source. Pick a strong passphrase. Enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but no dark magic involved.

  • build image
  • copy to proxmox ISO store
  • import, resize disk
  • start, wait to come online
  • read ssh pubkey, save it
  • rekey secrets
  • rebuild VM

  The only “magic” parts are two nix modules for handling proper networking and hardware setup, and exposing required attributes to the script.

  Works really well, zero manual config (beyond the services you want to run…) required on nix or proxmox side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just created my own zero trust network!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing. People fearmonger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Ultimate Self-hosting Setup⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny - same thing here. Got 3 proxmox hosts running, all virtual machines are NixOS though.

  I’d love to go full Nix, but between my GF and I, we kinda split the responsibilities: hardware is hers, applications are mine. And there’s not a chance she’ll give up her Proxmox hosts 😄

  Got it automated to a single “provision” command though that will spin up any of my nix VMS unanttended, so I’m happy with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dik Piks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There so much misogyny oozing out of your comment, I think I’ll go disinfect my screen now.

  Hope your friend gets convicted for sending unsolicited explicit content 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a goddamn stochastic parrot, starting from zero on each invocation and spitting out something passing for coherence according to its training set.

  “Not understanding what is happening” in regards to AI is NOT “we don’t jniw how it works mechanically” it’s “yeah there are so many parameters, it’s just not possible to make sense of / keep track of them all”.

  There’s no awareness or thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now THAT is something I wouldn’t ever trust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Without the precursor of Spirituality and Religion, there can be no morality.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Either your argument is that morality is somehow “god given” through religion, in which case I have to ask, which god? Which religion? There’s a lot of those around or no longer around, with different nuances of morality, contradicting that idea.

  Or each civilization developed religion and incorporated their respectove ideas about morality, but then morality necessarily precedes religiosity.

  Either way, doesn’t make sense.

  Besides, the idea that a fear of god is necessary to make people “moral” is ridiculous. If you would commit immoral atrocities if you didn’t believe in god, then I’m sorry, that makes you a bad person; but don’t project that unto other people.

  Empathy is sufficient for morality, while god, arguably, is an amoral monster.

  Cheers, a moral atheist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hans Wurst

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Better open a package request (or pull request :D) then 😄