Zanathos
@Zanathos@lemmy.world
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 1 day ago:
They make profit off of that UI style and that’s all that really matters. Only a matter of time as I said.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 2 days ago:
It’s developed by a previous discord developer and looks exactly like Discord. Only a matter of time before they shut it down if it gains enough traction.
- Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 2 days ago:
Waiting for a C&D from Discord. I’m avoiding on that premise alone.
- Comment on Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. 4 days ago:
Vibe dev literally deleted the GitHub, the reddit and his accounts after being called out.
- Comment on Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. 4 days ago:
There was no reason for this in the first place in my opinion. The ONLY positive use I can see would be managing the whole arr stack from one place, but I imagine you would still need to manage individual shows\movies\whathaveyou if it wasn’t found in the first place.
I have my stacks set up to auto upgrade and find missing stuff already. It’s literally built into their programming. I manage them individually and anything that isn’t found on my indexers I typically go out and find manually as needed (old or very obscure media).
Not really sure what this bought anyone at all other than an extra layer of convenience?
- Comment on Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't. 4 days ago:
Holy shit you unlocked a hidden memory I forget existed. Thank you.
- Comment on The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions. 1 week ago:
I saw the Chris Hemsworth one on YouTube the day after the bowl. It really made no sense to me as a “buy Alexa” add because all of the outcomes are very possible at some point with misguided or badly deployed code.
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 1 week ago:
I was served grand jury duty at one time and my boss got me out of it. It’s even worse than regular duty based on the amount of time required to serve. If I recall, grand jury duty is required for 8-12 weeks and serves multiple cases because of that differentiation. Regular jury duty could go on that long too depending on the case, but your most likely serving for much less time than 2-4 months.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. Turns out I only spun up the web client. Explains why I wasn’t really “connecting” to my own server in my testing!
Going to give this and Stoat a try, but I did like the little I saw of Matrix in the public server.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
How can you do this? I just spun up an Element container but am still learning about Matrix as a whole.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 2 weeks ago:
It’s smarter to release them back outside because crushing them releases a pharamone that attract more stink bugs. Ants and bees do the same too.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 5 weeks ago:
I only grab movies in 4k anymore, and that’s even reserved for those worth of it (LotR or OG Marvel for example). I used to grab series in 4k but the size consumption is not worth it. The same goes for movies but you need to consider that one season of a series is equal to four to eight 4k movies in size depending on the episodes in the series. I used to grab 720p series for those not typically watched, but since H265 was introduced I find many releases where 1080p is similar and sometimes smaller in size to a 720p release.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 1 month ago:
I’ve installed aore recent version of Win11 without network and local account was still working. I also recent found that the IoT Enterprise version cuts out Copilot AND the Windows store in the base install. So IoT + Massgrave ftw.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
You too man, thanks!
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
I only played it for about 10 hours myself. The castle is awesome but I lost interest once I unlocked the broom. It took all the wonder out of the game. If I were to compare it to Witcher 3, at least on your horse you would find all these nooks and crannies to discover and investigate between point A and B. In HL you can zip around like nothing once flying is unlocked and there are more side markers than a full Assasins Creed map once unlocked. I dunno, it just killed it for me for some reason at that point.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
Same here man. I just bought paladin for D4 and am having fun, but having a hard time getting them to bite for even the base game. I’ve told them about other 2P games I own only to find they blow me off and play them in their own duo pairs. We’ve been friends a long time, but I have younger kids so the stars have to align for us all to be able to play together.
We are now playing Bellright over the holiday break but it’s a little slower than I’d like. Some others are playing LoL which is okay but still a bit too rage inducing at times for me.
The only reason I was able to play RVTY is because I had it through Family games.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
You just missed it for free on Epic last week.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is live. What patient games are you picking up? 2 months ago:
My friends and I played through RV There Yet just last month. Hilariously awesome game but very hard to solo. Definitely recommend with friends.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 months ago:
I was using Veeam when my stack was on VMware, but after moving to Proxmox I’ve been unable to get the Veeam agent working properly for VM recovery.
I tried Proxmox Backup at one point, and while it did work for base VM backup, the interface and capabilities of it just don’t stack up to Veeam in my opinion, and I’m more concerned about file backup than VM recovery as I can easily recreate anything in my stack through my documentation.
I’m actually glad you mentioned that because I do need to revisit it. The few times I did have to recover the VM from backup I was able to do so when my backup process was working, but I’ve thankfully not had any recovery situations in the past 2 or so years since moving to Proxmox. And recovery doesn’t help in situations where your cert is expired which is usually my issue historically.
As for past email recovery, Mailcow does have documentation on recovering from a failed server\database, but I consider my personal deployment volatile since I’m only using it for alerting and mostly internal only services.
I would fully switch over to it if I had more personal time, and if I knew I could make my family comfortable with accessing it. But right now I feel the risk is too great to move anything personally or financially important over. In the event something bad were to happen to me, I’m the only one with knowledge on how to recover the environment and I don’t need my family to take on that burden if I were to become incapacitated or forbid, pass away suddenly.
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 months ago:
Mailcow internal on Debian VM. SMTP2Go free external relay.
Have had the occasional issue after an upgrade or reboot can’t find my LetsEncrypt cert and will bork the system until I manually fix it. Perhaps my latest script update finally resolved that.
Otherwise, not that bad. Been running my own email for about 5 years or so. I don’t sign up for many outside services with it. It’s mainly for internal alerting or testing purposes but still works very well.
- Comment on U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday 2 months ago:
The only BNPL service I ever use is PayPal. The math shows no interest and it will literally take out 1\4 of the total cost over a two month period which works great for me as I’m paid no weekly. Any other BNPL service is stupid because of the extra credit cost your paying on top of your carts price.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
One such app I can think of would be a client side issue. If the public cert doesnt match the back end private cert it will sever the connection and mark it as insecure. Hopefully I won’t need to deal with it much longer though.
I just heard back from my other team that “this project sounds great for your team” even though they manage many of their own apps and certificates. Perhaps I should just let them burn then!
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
Unfortunately some apps require the certificate be bound to the internal application, and need to be done so through cli or other methods not easily automated. We could front load over reverse proxy but we would still need to take the proxy cert and bind to the internal service for communication to work properly. Thankfully that’s for my other team to figure out as I already have a migration plan for systems I manage.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
They are going down to 200 day expiration in March 2026. You can still buy 5 year certificates today but you still need to reissue them in 365 day cadence.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
I’m in the same boat here. I keep sounding the alarm and am making moves so that MY systems won’t be impacted, but it’s not holding water with the other people I work with and the systems they manage. I’m torn between manual intervention to get it started or just letting them deal with it themselves once we hit 45 day renewal periods.
- Comment on Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days 2 months ago:
While I agree for my personal use, it’s not so easy in an enterprise environment. I’m currently working to get services migrated OFF my servers that utilize public certificates to avoid the headache of manual intervention every 45 days.
While this is possible for servers and services I manage, it’s not so easy for other software stacks we have in our environment. Thankfully I don’t manage them, but I’m sure I’ll be pulled into them at some point or another to help figure out the best path forward.
The easy path is obviously a load balanced front-end to load the certificate, but many of these services are specialized and have very elaborate ways to bind certificates to services outside of IIS or Apache, which would need to trust the newly issued load balancer CA certificate every 47 days.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Welcoming the incoming dowvotes for correcting your comment just like the many similar comments and posts I’ve seen on Reddit, but this is purely a configuration issue.
Transcoding on local network is allowed without a subscription. If you are running your own DNS server (like pihole or unbound) you need to configure an internal “plex.direct” record. You also need to uncheck an option to “treat your WAN IP as internal” option which corrects double NAT issues.
I have yet to see a need to move away from Plex. I paid for the cheap lifetime sub over a decade ago at this point and everyone I invite has no complaints and has not had to pay Plex a dime. I will check out Jellyfin at some point if Plex makes things more difficult in time, but for now these articles are literally just rage bait in the homelab ecosystem. They enacted this back in April of 2025 already!
- Comment on !@$& Homelab Networking 2 months ago:
It’s always DNS
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 months ago:
I’ve already found recent emails in my gmail account for right-leaning news sources I’ve had to opt out of. I’ve been lax on my gmail management until last year I went on a major cleanup spree, so I know these new emails were automatically added somehow, and this article likely explains it.
- Comment on People who say 'the rich get richer, the lazy live for free, and the middle class pays for it all' don't realize how expensive it is to be rich and how close middle class is to being below the poverty line. 3 months ago:
Yeah, both are on the list but kids take a lot of time away! We have a hefty life insurance policy right now at least. I know trust needs established for at least 5 years to be considered enforceable.