hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It might be a good thing for the Internet to get intrinsic resistance to DDoS attacks⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel Anti-DDOS and Cloudflare as a web application firewall has traditionally been a lot of snake-oil as well. Sure there’s applications for it. Especially for the paid plans with all the enterprise functions. And all the way at the other end of the spectrum, where it serves as a means to circumvent NAT and replace DynDNS. But there’s a lot in-between where I (personally) don’t think it’s needed in any way. Especially before AI.

  From my own experience, personal blogs, websites of your local club, church, random smaller projects, small businesses… rarely need professional DDoS protection. I’ve been fine hosing it myself for decades now. And I’m not sure if people know what they’re paying with. I mean everytime we get a Cloudflare hiccup (or AWS…) we can see how the internet has become very centralised. Half of it just goes down for an hour or so, because we all rely on the same few, big tech services. And if you’re terminating SSL there, or use it to look inside of the packets to prevent attacks, you’re giving away all information about you and your audience/customers. They don’t just get all metadata, but also read all the transferred content/data.

  It all changed a bit with the AI crawlers. We definitely need countermeasures these days. I’m still fine without Anubis or Cloudflare, though. I blocking their IP ranges and that seems to do most of the job. I think we need to pay a bit more attention to what’s really happening, which tools we have instead of always going with the market leader with the biggest marketing budget, which problems we’re faced with in the first place and what tools are effective. I don’t think there’s a one size fits all solution. But there’s also way less intrusive and very effective means available aside from Cloudflare free tier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK About Ali Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure we didn’t. We just needed a lot of people to work underground in the coal mines and in the heavy industry, steel etc. And those were labor intensive jobs, so they needed to attract a lot of workforce. In a coordinated effort, sure. But out of economic motivation. These people ended up working hard jobs alongside each other. And they built and shaped the region. Made it rich. And I got born into that kind if place. With some history to it and a bit less ethnic uniform population.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK About Ali Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched too much Star Trek when I was young. I think 195 have to go. All humans should unite and reach for the stars, instead of some stupid in-fighting, killing each other, and burn down wealth because of bigotry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK About Ali Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I strongly doubt this war is about who’s on the board of some state owned financial institute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK About Ali Khamenei's fatwa against nuclear weapons⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmh. I’ve heard the argument before, that they’re better off almost having nuclear weapons. But it that really the case? I mean North Korea is kind of an outliar. Lots of other countries have nuclear weapons as well, France, China… and none of them is a pariah. So I’m not sure if that’s even true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What us the best way to add remote access to my servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmmh. I’m not entirely satisfied with any of them. Crowdsec is a bit too complex and involved for my taste. And oftentimes there’s no good application config floating around on the internet. Whereas fail2ban is old and eats up way too much resources for what it’s doing. And all of it is a bit too error-prone(?) As far as I remember I had several instances when I thought I had set it up correctly, but it didn’t match anything. Or it was looking for some logfile per default but my program wrote to the SystemD journal. So nowadays, I’ll double-check everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What us the best way to add remote access to my servers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just enable SSH, configure it to run on some non-standard port and enable Fail2ban… Make sure if use a certificate or secure password and also check if fail2ban is actually doing its job. Never had any issues with that setup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I follow a similar strategy. I back up my important stuff. And I’m gonna have to re-rip my DVD collection and redownload the Linux ISOs in the unlikely case the RAID falls apart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they often get quite warm. Some day I’ll be in the same situation as OP. And I can’t wait to throw out that supid modem. No clue, though what kind of SFP the fiber provider requires. I mean there’s quite a selection available…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mini PC to replace fiber modem and wifi router. How to proceed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe correct? Though my cable modem gobbles down some 15W… Without even doing the Wifi… So, I bet this isn’t a universal truth, as a Mini-PC will do less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should have all kinds of options on Lemmy… You can edit a post and change it to whatever you like. Or delete it and optionally post a new one…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just delete the post if it’s a mess-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Livekit can be used to build voice assistants. But it’s more a framework to program it yourself, not a ready-made solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And there’s another custom component, intrgrating all servers which offer an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint. That one also works well: https://github.com/jekalmin/extended_openai_conversation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any limit to the amount of instances to federate with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a lot of nuance here. I mean the Fediverse isn’t super efficient. But it manages to do what it’s supposed to do. And it really depends. Which Fediverse software. How many people are on those servers, how are they distributed. Do groups of people mingle on certain servers. Do they all subscribe to all the same content out there. Are there really big groups on servers with happen to have a slow internet connection… And then of course can we come up with improvements if we need to.
  I think we’re going to find out once (or if) the Fediverse grows substantially. Some design decisions of the Fediverse are indeed a bit of a challenge for unlimited growth. Oftentimes technical challenges can be overcome, though. With clever solutions. Or things turn ot differently than we anticipated. So I don’t think there’s a good practical and straightforward answer to the question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I get my oscilloscope to read voltage correctly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. First thing I’d do is question the 19.22V as well. Is it really 19.22V or is the power supply maybe outputting an arbitrary voltage up to 20V with no load?

  And I don’t really get what the divisions are supposed to be on the graph? Seems it always shows a line at 7.6 div, no matter what you configured? Except in one case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Star Trek Voyager] To me, "Retrospect" episode is not as bad as "Blood Fever"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Retrospect is kind of an episode about date rape. Implying something about false memories in assault victims. And it ends on: Maybe the main thing behind the story never happened. The End. Which are the endings that often feel very disappointing to me. And we don’t even learn if it was an illusion. I get why that episode isn’t cherished by people.

  I think the pon farr episodes are weird as well. And I don’t think I particularly enjoyed that episode. But at least some of the good guys are trying to do the right thing? And even if the Vulkan gets away unpunished, I don’t think he’s portrayed in a positive way. As far as I remember the crew unanimously thinks sex is unacceptable. Minus the people who are out of their mind. And Tuvok. But he has kind of a weird role with arguing logic in that situation. And the episode ends on a happy end. They’ve averted danger and death for the moment, and nobody had to have sex. And as a viewer I’m glad it turned out they didn’t need to follow through with Tuvok’s “logical” plan, either. That feels a bit more right to me.

  But the entire set up of pon farr and biology or tradition just causing violence, is a bit rapey. I guess from a storywriting perspective it’s a bit difficult to bring up that topic in a creative way. But movie or TV is a lot about violence and sex. So I can see how storywriters make it part of stories.

  Some Voyager episodes were just a bit weird in my opinion. I think it’s okay if it provokes thought. And less so, if it makes the audience start to confuse right and wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that if you hesitate between Ketchup and Mustard, you should pick Mustard. It's healthier.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That kind of ketchup is unacceptable anyway. I mean what would you use it for? It just tastes of sweetened, cooked tomatos. Just buy curry ketchup. And put mayo on the fries. Or Joopie sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To those who think that you should experience everything in the world at least once:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said. And I believe those diverse experiences will be what makes you less likely to endulge in blind consumerism… I mean if you just eat the standard stuff, buy the standard things, live the standard life… That’s likely gonna be what society will push down on you. And we live in a consumerist society… So the one way out of it is to explore things beyond… Find out what you want, and not what people want to sell to you… And many of the really good experiences come for free, anyway. Having friends, enjoying a day… That’s not necessarily about money. And you’re also allowed to once and again not have french fries like any other day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To those who think that you should experience everything in the world at least once:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what kind of conclusion to draw from this deep philosophy… Do not eat? Happiness and starvation are just an illusion? Or force food into oneself, it’s for feeding purposes and not supposed to taste good?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is H9me Assistant recommended?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  HA isn’t the only option. I think there’s two other open source smarthome solutions out there(?) And you could probably do with just an MQTT broker and a Python script, or something like that…

  But HA isn’t a bad choice. They’re doing a phenomenal job. And related projects like ESPHome make it really easy to integrate microcontrollers. And if you want to do more smarthome stuff, it has a plethora of features, integrations…

  Extra hardware isn’t absolutely necessary. I have one server at home which does NAS, and I use 4GB if it’s RAM to run a virtual machine with Home Assistant. That’s enough for the entire thing including a bunch of Addons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could try to debug the permission issue… Like take a note of the current permissions, chmod the certificates to 666 and the parent directories to 777 and see if that works. Then progressively cut them down again and see when it fails. And/or give caddy all the group permissions ssl, acme, certwarden… and then check which one makes it fail or work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server ROI Calculator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of the reason why I quit Netflix. For once it got more expensive each year. And at some point there was less and less of my favorite shows on there, so I’d need to subscribe to a second service for Star Trek… then a third one for all the good stuff that’s Disney… And I don’t even watch that much TV. So instead, I just quit. Maybe one day I’m gonna read a book on a Friday evening 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server ROI Calculator⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Puh, ziemlich fokussiert auf Video. Ich ersetze damit mehr meinen Chat, Cloud-Office, Social Media… Aber der Return of Investment ist da weniger die Abo-Gebühr 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. I’m not entirely sure how PCIE works these days. But in it good old days we had methods to read pretty much arbitrary memory regions via PCIE or early Thunderbolt(?).

  I just figured it’d be massively complicated to wait for the user to pull something on the screen, do computationally expensive OCR, some AI image detection to puzzle documents back together, and then you’d only get a fraction of what’s really stored on the computer and you’d still need a way to send that information home… When you could just pick a plethora of easy options like read all the files from the harddisk and send just them somewhere. I think it’s far more likely they do some easy and straightforward solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eric Schmidt: ‘Europe doesn’t have an AI strategy. If it doesn’t invest heavily, it will end up using Chinese models’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Open-weight AND Open-Source??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I wouldn’t focus on someone being able to tell which map you’re playing, and which color your car has in Need For Speed. It’s way more unsettling what’s in networking equipment. Or inside an Intel Management Engine, and the firmware blobs of all the computer chips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You could plug in some USB fan, light, … and see if there’s power on there. Maybe prepare a harddisk on another computer, boot Linux and look at the debug logs. See if the USB chip gets recognized. And maybe learn something about the topology… If it’s just a single controller or multiple ones in there.

  First thing I’d do is reset the BIOS. Maybe the previous owner disabled all USB ports for security reasons. Or they threw it out because they don’t work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I’m not very educated on the Worpress side of things… Kinda necessary, though, to keep compatibility with the Fediverse AND the No-AI people in my opinion. I mean that’s kind of the place for people to go if they don’t want algorithms and bots to dominate the place?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for federated CMS alternatives to Wordpress?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if no single software fits your bill, maybe go for a combination of them? Post your blog posts in a Ghost installation, your podcasts in Castopod and have your community on a NodeBB forum? The Fediverse kinda includes the idea it’s all one big network anyway. So you don’t have to squeeze everything on a single server and one CMS.

  Other than that: Wordpress is open-source. You could also wait for the enshittification to happen. We’re fairly sure someone is going to fork it and maybe they’ll provide a seemless migration. So if you’re patient enough, you might be able to stick with your current setup. Just that you Wordpress will some day have a different name and developer community. These things happen all the time. I’ll just switch from Firefox to LibreWolf once I’m unhappy with Mozilla’s decisions.