hendrik

@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨netgoat reverse proxy – "seriously messed up code"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice! 💪👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decorative LEDs not working⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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:⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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.