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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?⁩ ⁨⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  The Bitwarden clients cache your data locally. So even if your Vaultwarden goes down, you’ll still be able to access your passwords. Just not sync new ones or make changes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d throw in option 3: use a KeePass2 database, sync it using whatever sync tool you like (SyncThing, iCloud, NextCloud, WebDAV, …) and use compatible apps (KeepassXC, Strongbox, etc.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you want some customisation, e.g. some repeating string over and over, you can use something like this:

  yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
  

  yes repeats the given string (followed by a line feed) indefinitely - originally meant to type “yes” + ENTER into prompts. tr then removes the line breaks again and head makes sure to only take 10GB and not have it run indefinitely.

  If you want to be really fancy, you can even add some HTML header and footer to some files like header and footer and then run it like this:

  yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | cat header - footer | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eSIM reccomendations (IOT - UK)⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going by this thread and this comment. Those other websites are mostly selling SIMs for industrial IoT or CCTV stuff and are either acting as a MVNO (where I don’t know how much influence they have on the network configuration) or probably selling foreign cards with free roaming or something like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eSIM reccomendations (IOT - UK)⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed IP might be a problem as basically all carriers use CGNAT. From what I could gathergoogle, Three seems to be the only one where you can manually change the APN to 3internet to get assigned a proper IP address.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know what happened to Babylon/GPAtHand/eMed?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You should now use the NHS App for viewing your medical records, viewing test results and documents, and requesting repeat prescriptions. Appointments can be booked using our website. We are no longer using the eMed app.

  www.gpathand.nhs.uk/nhs-app-update/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on lightweight platforms like gotosocial?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohh, SQLite isn’t “one” db. SQLite is file-based. I.e. a database in e.g. PostgreSQL (containing several tables, views, indexes, etc.) would translate to one SQLite file (e.g. mydatabase.db3 or myappdata.sqlite). And each app has its own file/database. If the file corrupts, then it’s only affecting that specific app. (However, SQLite is pretty robust.) And since these are just files, you can backup them together with the application. No need to export data or shutdown the database first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are smart valves. You can just unscrew/unclip the existing dumb ones and replace them with smart ones. They usually even report the temperature (well, near the radiator - so you might want to get extra temp sensors for the other end of the room).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you share the boiler’s output with someone, I’d be surprised if you didn’t have access.

  But still, if you don’t want to mess with the electrical connections, manipulating the radio waves works just fine. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on lightweight platforms like gotosocial?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever it is supported, yes. I’m a huge fan of SQLite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on lightweight platforms like gotosocial?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Very happy with it. I’m running it with an SQLite database, so no extra database server is needed. And I’m using Elk as a frontend for when I don’t feel like using an app.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Attacking My Landlord's Boiler - videah's blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the receiving end of this controller, there’s probably just a relay shorting 2 wires from the boiler together - like the Honeywell BDR91.

  So, you could just replace that by some Shelly switch and wouldn’t have to use the proprietary radio protocol.

  On a sidenote: Those room controllers usually “learn” how long it takes to reach the target temperature (as this can be vastly different between summer and winter) and move the starting time accordingly. So they reach the target temperature at the programmed time. At least the more expensive ones do. You’d have to do something similar in your automation if you want that comfort. (Unless HA already has some code for that…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I’ll replace my DS415+ with, too, once it dies. The TerraMasters are basically bog-standard Intel NUCs with a storage adapter. And there’s HDMI output and an internal USB drive which you can just replace (or overwrite) and install OMV or TrueNAS or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it useful to create your own Mastodon instance?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you spin up a Lemmy instance and subscribe to a community, all new posts and comments inside that community will be mirrored to your instance. As I’m subscribed to around 100 different communities, that was a LOT of traffic without me doing anything. That’s why I’ve given up on self-hosting Lemmy just for myself and went back to using lemmy.ml.

  However, I do self-host a GoToSocial server just for myself. It’s probably not necessary as mastodon.social isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, but if you’re on a smaller instance, it might be worth it. Also, you get to show off your own domain name. And, while other instances may block yours, your content stays online as long as YOU want it to. There’s no way for an external moderator to delete posts on your own server.

  People can find you via Boosts from others or by searching for your @username@domain.com.

  Maintaining my GoToSocial so far consisted of simply getting WatchTower to update the Docker container. Migration of data to a new version happens automatically. (Well, there was one accident where some pre-release version got released under the latest tag and I had to use the development branch for a few days … but that was an accident from the GtS-team and shouldn’t happen again.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In Paris, France, government officials went around the inner city area and forcefully removed all unofficial key safes from buildings. That’s how all cities should handle this.

  However, some years ago there was a news story going around about one person that owns various different places in Berlin, all listed under different names on AirBnB and that person barely visits those places as he has cleaning people do everything in between bookings. They only pocket the huge amounts of money while doing nothing. And the description to find the door key was like “find the public bicycle rack and look for the broken bike with a pink frame, the key will be under the saddle” and there were specific instructions to not talk to anyone in that building. So they definitely knew that this was kind of a grey area…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb will now show users the total cost of their stay right away⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, the one time I’ve tried to use AirBnB I had booked a nice place way in advance only to get it cancelled a few weeks later b/c the owner apparently needed it for something else. Or realised there was an event during that time where he could get more money.

  Contrary to that, when the hotel we had booked for some time during Covid realised they weren’t open for the public yet, they moved our booking to a nearby higher tier partner hotel and they then even upgraded us. You won’t get this with AirBnB, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Once my DS415+ (with the C2000 fix) finally dies, I’ll most probably go with a Terramaster F4-423. They have an internal USB-port with their OS which you can replace and install a custom OS to it. And it’s basically just an Intel NUC with a storage controller in a nice package. So, pretty much compatible with the usual OSes and NAS softwares.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Defender Anti-vitus Bypassed Using Direct Syscalls & XOR Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t there something a few months ago about Microsoft handing out secret API calls to developers of other antivirus products so they can quietly disable Defender during the installation of their product? Some guy had this reverse engineered from an installer…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good self-hosted webmail client?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The usual ones are RoundCube and SnappyMail (which is a fork of deprecated RainLoop). I’m hosting SnappyMail to access my Dovecot when no other mail client is handy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good self-hosted webmail client?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sogo seems to be a whole groupware, i.e. including a mail server, calendar, etc…

  I understand that OP is looking for a mail client only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - outerbase/studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was that an answer from ChatGPT?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To: Automate version update for your selfhosted Docker containers with Gitea, Renovate, and Komodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I’ve set WATCHTOWER_RUN_ONCE and run it manually (letting it download and automatically apply the updates) when I find time. In the rare case something breaks, I can fix it immediately or roll back the broken container by setting the label to the previous version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - outerbase/studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How does it compare to Adminer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How To: Automate version update for your selfhosted Docker containers with Gitea, Renovate, and Komodo⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve just set WatchTower to one-shot runs and whenever I have some time to fix eventual issues, I start the WatchTower container, it’ll pull any updates and stop again. No need to mess with my compose files (all set to latest) and no need for pull requests or similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend EU webhosting provider to replace DreamHost?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  UberSpace. Managed hosts, but you get SSH access and they have a manual for the basics as well as user-contributed guides for specifics.

  It’s ran by nerds and the only limit is your allotted disk space (10GB by default). Unlimited email accounts, unlimited aliases, etc.

  “Pay what you can afford” model starting at 5€/month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly! I add a random string to each email address, too, so you can’t just guess other addresses. So, it’s usually something similar to lemmy-r4nd0m@mydomain.me. And, whenever a breach happens, I’ll generate a new random part and set that as my email address and invalidate the old one. Until the next breach. (Looking at you, LinkedIn…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Be aware that some countries make you liable for what people post on your forum.

  Also, have you looked at Discourse? There are some nice apps that work with it and make the experience on mobile slightly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My email provider allows for unlimited aliases. So, while I have 600+ email addresses, emails to them all end up in the same mailbox.

  The accounts for all the websites and services (with their specific email address) are in a KeePass database and they all have random passwords, too.

  The only small issue is when you have to contact support of some service. Then, I have to configure the specific email address in my client so they can match that to my account with them. But most email clients allow multiple sender addresses without having to fiddle with the rest of the settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t remember whether it was some news article or a discussion thread. But other people also suggested this might help during therapy and/or rehab. And they had the same argument in that nobody gets harmed in creating these.

  As for uses outside of controlled therapy, I’d be afraid it might make people want the “real thing” at some point. And, as others already pointed out: Good luck proving to your local police that those photos on your laptop are all “fake”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This vulnerability made it possible to collect user data simply by knowing someone’s email address or phone number.

  Another example of where it pays off to have separate email addresses/aliases for every website/service you use.