hendrik
@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well, previously we had LemmyNSFW. That one died, pretty much out of the blue. Now the second admin(?) of it launched FediNSFW as a successor. We have that - for now - I guess? They said they’re gonna try to make sure the same thing doesn’t happen again.
But I guess it’s still a single point of failure. If they don’t properly ensure there’s several people who own the domain and hosting infrastructure, can administer the contracts, server etc, it might still be down to one person and their ability to keep it up. And if there’s legal troubles, uncertainty, not enough donations, law changes or the hoster or Cloudflare pulls the trigger, that might be the end of it as well. A severe technical issue/mistake could also take down a singular instance.
I mean there’s nothing wrong with it? I just think it’s massively questionable to all bet on the same horse, and then call us the “Fediverse”, a decentral platform…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I think so as well. Porn is available in abundance. We don’t really need it here. What I think could be nice is people who like to write erotic fiction as a hobby and post their original content. Or people discuss erotic computer games. Or like relationship advice and NSFW questions in case some country abolishes sex ed. Maybe talking about piracy, mental issues, loss… all the things that are deemed “not advertiser friendly” on commercial platforms. That’d be something positive. But it’s not easy. And it often all gets lumped together under some big NSFW umbrella and 95% of people want to share pron clips anyway.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hehe. Yeah, I don’t think we need more content. There’s already some out there. What we really need is more admins run servers to host that stuff. And a bigger admin team for the already existing instance so it doesn’t just randomly go away along with all the content, as well.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Probably more NSFW instances? We barely have one.
- Comment on Buying a domain - WHOIS/PTR privacy? 1 week ago:
Latest changes in the EU are part of the NIS-2 directive. My private German domains don’t show a lot of detail and it’s been like that for many years.
- Comment on ONYX: self-hosted messenger with LAN mode and E2EE — an indie project story 1 week ago:
Not sure if you broke out of the Matrix here. OP’s reply contained an em-dash, started with an affirmation. Follows the rule of three. I’d say there’s still a high likelihood it’s an AI which “claims” the code went through review.
- Comment on Hosting Dockerized website on VPS with Apache 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, You’ll have to do a lot more troubleshooting than this. Did Docker successfully bind to port 8000? Can you
curlit from the VPS itself? Does the container and the things in it run properly? Are there any error messages? - Comment on I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama 2 weeks ago:
Did you build it, though, or did Claude code it?
- Comment on I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama 2 weeks ago:
Yes. I think determinism a misunderstood concept. In computing, it means exact same input leads to always the same output. Could be 100% wrong, though. As long as it stays the same. There’s some benefit in introducing randomness to AI. But it can be run in an entirely deterministic way as well. Just depends on the settings. (It’s called “temperature”.)
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting. Thanks for the info. I’ll re-think whether I recommend it to random people around the world, then.
In Germany it’s great. I’ve been using it for many years now. But we have some good hacker organizations, digital sovereignty and privacy groups, nonprofits and some generous IT companies. Maybe it’s random private individuals in other countries and they’re not that reliable.
Seems right now there’s something going wrong anyway. I don’t think the amount of “offline” servers is normal. And a good amount of them isn’t even offline, but still answers my DNS queries.
- Comment on netgoat reverse proxy – "seriously messed up code" 2 weeks ago:
After a few “Delete junk” commits, “Broken”, “PATCH: Hope this fixes it”, and “Basic Reverse-Proxy”, it’s now at version 1.0.1-alpha.1. Don’t know what they did to Git. But their “minor commit” touches almost the entire code in their repo.
100% wouldn’t use it.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you’re supposed to query Tier 1 servers as a client. I keep forgetting how DNS and recursive lookup works, but the Tier 2 servers would be what people connect to and who do the heavy lifting. The Tier 1 do the root, authoritative stuff and their custom TLDs.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it a global effort? According to what I see, they list a bunch of servers in all Europe, USA, Canada, Australia …Japan?
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
I did one DNS query and it took 22 msec with the nearest OpenNIC server and 24 msec with Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 So dunno… roughly same responsiveness? For a proper answer we’d need to do more measurements, though.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 weeks ago:
Even if you control your router/modem, they still control the other end, it connects to. So i think it depends a bit where you’re going with this. If you’re worried about them doing packet inspection, or logging IP numbers you connect to, I don’t think there’s a big difference. They could do it anywhere.
A router interfaces with your local network, though. So in theory a router can be used to connect to your internal devices and computers and maybe they have an open network share without password protection or something like that. But we’re talking violating your constitutional rights here. It’s highly illegal in most jurisdictions to enter your home and go through your stuff.
I’ll buy my own router because I can then configure it to my liking. And my ISP charges way too much for renting one. And what I also do is not use my ISP’s DNS service. That’d just send every domain name I open to their logfiles. Instead I use one from OpenNIC
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the link. As a short aside for the other people here: Try not to spam developers. That usually achieves the opposite and makes them miserable, when we want them to not burn out and write good software for us. A thumbs-up emoji is the correct reaction for the average person. Or a code-review highlighting specific issues in the code.
- Comment on Decorative LEDs not working 4 weeks ago:
Nice! 💪👍
- Comment on Decorative LEDs not working 4 weeks ago:
There’s some transparent varnish on these flimsy wires. That’s why they don’t short out. And probably also why they don’t make contact with your wires. You have to remove the coating at the ends. It’s usually done by temperature or sandpaper, I believe?
- Comment on New ntfy.sh v2.18.0 was written by AI 4 weeks ago:
Uh. I’d really prefer if people experimented with new technology a bit more cautiously and not directly jump to “the biggest release […] ever done”.
- Comment on It might be a good thing for the Internet to get intrinsic resistance to DDoS attacks 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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? 5 weeks 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 month 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 month 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…