hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LGA1155 motherboard - no USB ports work⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab hardware choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries. Your post was well-written. And I’m glad people could offer some advice. Not even the proficient Lemmy users get all of this right all the time. I just figured I’d drop you a comment in case the mods take action, to spare you the effort to also learn about the modlog and how to look up their note… But seems it wasn’t necessary 😄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab hardware choices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I don’t have an answer to your question, but two other communities that would fit: !homelab@lemmy.world and homelab@selfhosted.forum

  They’re both not really active, though. And someone asked about OpenSense hardware before and didn’t get any answers…

  Just writing this so you have some other places to look up, in case your post gets deleted, I think you’re technically in the wrong community here. As per rule 3 in the sidebar, this community isn’t about hardware questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨`continuwuity` vs `tuwunel`: where to go from `conduwuit`?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry, I’m not not able to help with that. Maybe there’s a limit how many old messages your server or client syncs.

  I suppose it’s old drama by now. And I didn’t check if there’s new one in the meantime. As of now, both projects are active. Both have a userbase. It’s still the case that Tuwunel is a one-man-show and Continuwuity is a community project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CasaOS/ZimaOS (or similar) vs just Debian experience?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think whether you do closed source software is a personal choice. Based on considerations of your application. Like money, of if you want to rely on a company and how well they do their job, if it’s still gonna be around in 7 years. If you can customize it enough to suit your needs. Or you base the decision on ideology.

  I’ve been using Yunohost on the NAS. And it’s simple, works well and is pretty reliable, I didn’t get any major issues for many years now.

  Downsides as a proficient Linux user are: You can’t just mess with the config while the automatic scripts also mess with the config. You need to learn how they’re set up and work around that. Hope software has a config.d or overrides directory and put your customizations there. Or something will get messed up eventually. And you can’t just change arbitrary things. The mailserver or SSO and a few components are tightly integrated and you’re never gonna be able to switch from postfix to stalwart or something like that. Or retrofit a more modern authentication solution. It is a limiting factor. And YunoHost doesn’t do containers, so I doubt it’s what you’re looking for anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need advice for buying first hardware⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that processor almost 15 years old? Nor sure what kind of price is alright for that. 250 seems a bit much but I don’t really know. I mean it’d probably work fine and 24GB is plenty of RAM for a few selfhosted services. I don’t think you need a graphics card for most services. Jellyfin can make use of it. Or use the encoder that comes with the iGPU in the processor. And maybe the machine learning features in Immich…

  No idea about power consumption. I don’t know where you live, some countries have really cheap electricity. Some don’t and you maybe don’t want to run a random (old) gaming pc, because some waste a lot of power and some don’t and there is no good way to tell except measure it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, surely. I mean we’re a bit in a different situation in a digital place. Votes are way easier here (than in real life) and we can easily automate it into bigger processes.

  For example I could envision something like a jury to make judiciary decisions. Not sure if that counts as direct democracy… But we don’t have to ask everyone about every moderation decision. Maybe just grant everyone the ability to report stuff and then the software goes ahead and samples 15 random people from the community (who arent part of the drama) and makes them decide. I believe that could help with fatigue. And speeds it up, we can just set the software to take people who are online right now, and discard and replace them if they don’t get at it asap.

  Or make it not entirely direct, but at least do away with the hierarchies in a representative democracy. Instead of appointing moderators, we’d form a web of trust. I’m completely free to delegate power to arbitrary people and if 3 people in my web of trust say it’s spam, it is spam for me. And someone else could have a different perspective on the network. That’d help with all the coordination as well, because I can just not care, and the platform automatically delegates the power. And once I do care, I’m free to vote and that spares other people the effort to do the same.

  Of course democracy is a trade-off. And there’s a million edge cases, and we need some other things which go along with it. Accountability and transparency. We’d need an appeal process, for example with my first example if the jury doesn’t do a good job.

  I’m probably not at a 100% perfect solution with these ideas. But I’m fairly sure we’d be able to do way more in a software-driven platform than the analogies we can take from countries and their approach at decision making. Especially regarding hierarchies within the system.

  2) PieFed did a public poll to form a roadmap for 2025. I think it turned out very well. PeerTube also does that. The open-source tool that looks like GOG’s website is called Fider

  I love it as well. Though, from a software developers perspective, it rarely goes all the way. There’s just so many technical decisions to be made, limitations, vague requirements, contradictions. Sometimes users think they want something but they really need the opposite of it… And they always want wildly different things and more often than not it’s not healthy for the projects to approach it that way. They’d instead do it in order as mandated by the technical design, have more pressing issues and all of that is buried beneath layers of technical complexity. So the users hardly know what’s appropriate to do. I believe that’s why we often gravitate to the “benevolent dictator” model in Free Software. Or why some regular (paid) software projects fail or exceed budged and time planning. It should be that way, though. If software is meant for users, the developers should probably listen to them, so I love what these projects do, to at least augment their development process with some participation and guidance by the target audience. And some people are really good at it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the most obvious one is moderation. What gets deleted, who gets kicked out. Then for example community rules, what’s the topic and rules of discussion… Maybe we could do some more structural and organizationional decisions.

  It gets a bit tricky with technology. I mean ideally we want to do things like democratically decide to have a voice chat (if that’s what people want) and somehow 3 months later the platform has a voice chat…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What principles you wish to see social networks (or the fediverse) adopt in their design?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, I’d love someone to have a try at full-blown direct democracy. Most aspects being controlled (and ideally owned) by the very same people who use the platform. Not sure if that’s good or feasible, though.

  And what I always love is to see design principles that foster a nice, amicable atmosphere. Some online communities, games etc have aspects of that. It’s somewhat more rare on modern social media. I sometimes wish hanging out on the internet was a bit less about politics, trolling and memes, getting agitated amonst random anonymous people. And a bit more like an evening at the Irish Pub with friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Culture Workers in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d expect at least the authors who do talks about the Fediverse to be here: Cory Doctorow… Marc-Uwe Kling… There are some webcomic authors as well. And probably quite some Japanese people sharing drawings. I think they homed in on Misskey or some of its forks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if I get your point. Abstraction is a concept used by IT people to deal with complexity. You’ll use Docker containers in order not to have 200 very specific problems and learn about the intricate details of all of them. And then do very repetitive things. Or use a turnkey solution because a working day has a finite amount of hours and you can just not care and have somebody else set the XY value of Postgres to 128 because that’s somehow needed for software M on python x.xx… Of course you’re then not going to learn about these things. It is not “bad”, though, in itself to abstract these issues away from you. Same for the other things I mentioned, networking, virtualization. Abstraction there allows to swap out complex things, do things once and in a clean way because it’s easy to miss things without abstraction and you always need to pay attention to a bazillion of specifics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wondering if running a single user Lemmy is an overkill⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe try something like YunoHost. That’s a web server Linux distribution. And it’s supposed to take care of the set up and come with somewhat safe/secure defaults. You’d need some kind of server, though. Or run it in a VM to isolate it from your home services. They have PeerTube, Lemmy, PieFed installable with a few clicks. (There are other projects as well, Yunohost isn’t the only option to help with the set up.)

  But yes, some kind of isolation is probably nice with web services. Also from the home network, and the storage with personal data on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I tested putting my printsheet in the dishwasher⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if it’s really gritty. Seems it is to a degree. But more like table salt. I stirred it for a bit and it was pretty scratchy for a while but dissolved entirely after about 2min. I think it’s more water pressure and chemicals doing that job. It sure seems abrasive to coated surfaces, though. I used to put my non-stick pan into the dishwasher. And it wrecked the surface over the course of several months or a year or so. Now I’m not doing that any more and the pan after that lasted me longer. Just my anecdotal evidence, not science… But I’m positive that’s why we’re not supposed to put these things in there. I guess putting a non-stick pan in 5 or 10 times wouldn’t make a noticeable difference, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you get a certificate for an internal domain?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If that traffic is going through an encrypted Wireguard tunnel, I don’t see a reason to encrypt it a second time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well known in the industry how you don’t assess programmers by lines of code. You kind of want them to be efficient and clean. Spend their day thinking and design clever solutions… Not pump out lots of unmaintainable low quality stuff. But yeah, guess every aspect of this aligns well. You should be using Linux by now. Or at least do the swich in the near future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm. I think the main damage is done by other factors. I mean even before AI, everything turned into subscriptions and services. We use Office365 these days and the documents are in the cloud. There isn’t much need for Free Software Office Suites or mail clients anymore. Operating systems have less impact because honestly only old people use computers. Everyone else does their stuff on a phone. And then we finally crossed the barrier into a post-privacy world and people don’t care. And sure, on top of that large companies take the nice database projects, libraries etc and monetize products with that. Or they train AI and sell that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting with a seven year old⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think educational activities work best once they have some application to someones life. So it’d be something within the realm of a 7yo. And it’s not fun unless there’s a sense of achievement every now and then, along with all the stuff to learn. So probably not too steep of a learning curve.

  Sadly they discontinued Lego Mindstorms. I think robotics is a great hands-on topic. People can grasp what they’re currently doing, why they do it, and what it’s good for. It has a tactile aspect, so you’ll train dexterity as well and gently connect the physical realm with the maths.

  But other than that, I bet there’s a lot of things you can try. Design a website (and deploy a small webserver). Maybe some easy to use photo gallery if they have a tablet or camera. Maybe a Wordpress for them to write a Blog? Kids love Minecraft, so maybe a Luanti server if you’re into Free Software. But learn how to add NPCs and animals, that is (or used to be?) a complicated process in Luanti and the world feels boring and empty without. A chat server to their loved ones could motivate them to read and write text (messages). Or skip the selfhosting aspect and do the kids games available for Linux. Paint, LibreOffice…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A comprehensive absolut beginner's guide⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe @WhiteHotaru@feddit.org would like to do that for us?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make a random list of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors? And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I watch the first Star Trek Discovery episode, I didn't like it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.

  By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed during season 2. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But I’m personally split on this. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sesame Seeds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Roasted sesame oil ftw!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know it uses the B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol. On a channel within the regular 2.4GHz wifi spectrum. All people communicating to each other obviously need to agree on a channel. It comes with some hierarchy where I’m at. There are local chapters who make up some config and who also operate nodes and exit nodes into the internet. These are necessary because Germany has stupid laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s Freifunk as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you handle junk email?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I think several clients have open feature requests. The Stalwart documentation has a list of projects. There is on command line client as of now. But I’m not switching to a cli mail client or proprietary software, so I’ve postponed it. We’ll see where this is going.