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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any nice playbook or tutorial to host a static website from home?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is something that doesn’t really need to be self hosted unless you’re wanting the experience. You just need:

  1. Static website builder. I use hugo but there’s a few others like jekyll, astro
  2. Use a git forge (github, gitlab, codeberg).
  3. Use your forges Pages feature, there’s also cloudflare pages. Stay away from netlify imo. Each of these you can set up to use your own domain

  So for my website i just write new content, push to my forge, and then a pipeline builds and releases the update on my website.

  Where self hosting comes into play is that it could make some things with static websites easier, like some comment systems, contact forms, etc. But you can still do all of this without self hosting. Comments can be handled through git issues (utteranc.es) and for a contact form i use ‘hero tofu’ free tier. In the end i don’t have to worry about opening access to my ports and can still have a static website with a contact form.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich: opinion revised⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Im not familiar with doku wiki but here’s a few thoughts

  • privacy policy is good to have regardless of what you do with rest of my comments
  • your site is creating a cookie “dokuwiki” for user tracking.
  • cookie is created regardless of user agreement, rather than waiting for acceptance (implied or explicit agreement). As in i visit the page, i click nothing and i already have the dokuwiki cookie.
  • i like umami analytics for a cookieless google analytics alternative. They have a generous free cloud option for hobby users and umami is also self hostable. Then you can get rid of any banner.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does the 3-2-1 rule look like for you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Main workstation
  2. Local NAS (sync w/ #1, backup to #3)
  3. Cloud backup w/ commercial provider
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had the same experience. Have used all three at some point but mostly use nginx for new servers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be much more customer and developer friendly to allow linking a service portal instead of a phone number. I would go insane if a user called me directly every time one of my projects had a bug or some perceived (non)issue. No, that’s not how this works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I’ll add that to my list to check out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you only ever keep your repository private, then you are fine. Full stop.

  If you ever fork the repo and make a “INTERNAL” private fork but move the main project public then anything you commit to the private fork will be discoverable through the public project.

  Basically you should assume if you make a repo public then the repo and all of its forks will be public-- even if the forks are “private” the commit data can be found through the main repo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim | Cybernews⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original report: trufflesecurity.com/…/anyone-can-access-deleted-a…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TriliumNext Notes - The last note taking app you should ever need⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well to speak of the obvious- open source. I’ve heard good things about obsidian but i am not trusting a closed source app with my notes/ mind-maps

  This project looks pretty promising, and is open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  tldr - lesson learned. buy a new domain and move over to it.

  but for those who want to learn something new - you are only renting your domains. If you fail to pay by the registration date then you generally get a grace period to pay more money to renew it. If you fail to pay before that period expires then the domain will be released. Some companies like godaddy will automatically buy the domain for another year (or more). But even if Godaddy doesn’t then it still goes up on a list of expiring domains and there are backorder services that will try to buy the domain or auction them off.

  So in the end it doesn’t really matter what registrar you use. If you do not pay, it goes back to a list where people can see it is expiring and then you’ll get some people who either want to legitimately use that domain or more likely they are wanting to try to sell it to you or someone else for more than they buy it for.

  And I saw someone mention file a complaint. I’m sorry to say that if you did not have money to renew the domain then you aren’t going to be able to do that either. This is called Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) and the fee is between $1500-4000 for 1 to 5 domains.. Additionally, just because you file a complaint does not mean the issue will be resolved favorably or timely. These complaints can last years, and there is no guarantee you will get the domain back.

  This is why you should always pay your domain rental fee. And if you don’t, then you need to either be willing to pay a ton of money to get it back or you will need to move on. Sorry its a tough lesson to learn but if you’re just a student then you probably weren’t using this to run a business or anything so in the end you are quite fortunate.