non_burglar
@non_burglar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (6 June 2025) 22 hours ago:
That YouTube strike for Jeff geerling scares me… Twice in 6 months? For just mentioning libreelec?
We are all being driven underground by the profiteers who are ruining what was at one time a great free platform. I hope we find a way to keep our freedoms alive.
Fuck the yt police, and fuck their moms.
- Comment on Backup for important files/pictures? 23 hours ago:
I rsync nightly to an old synology box. It’s in an out building, so if there’s a fire, it comes with me.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 1 day ago:
It is a bit of a different approach than proxmox, but well worth the small learning curve.
- Comment on Safest CalDAV/CardDAV server 1 day ago:
I’ve been using NC for about the same amount of time and I will say I’m no longer as happy with it as I once was, primarily because it’s a mess of PHP, gum and popsicle sticks held together by me going in there every 3 upgrades to fix ‘occ missing indices’, add a sql table or some such error.
The caldav integration did allow me to break free from google some more, and it works well, but I’ve since moved file sync to syncthing and I’m looking for a standalone caldav solution.
- Comment on What CLIP Machine Learning Model can I use for Immich? 1 day ago:
OpenVino is about your only option here. It is not super efficient and will increase system load during those jobs.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 1 day ago:
Really great. Passing through hardware is a lot easier, settings can be defined in profiles (containers that should start with boot, which should have uid/gid mapping, privileged, etc), and overall system memory usage is way lower.
- Comment on New server for the family, Proxmox or TrueNAS, LXC or Docker? 2 days ago:
I used to run proxmox, but I wasn’t using most of its functions. I now have migrated to a couple of low power Debian machines on zfs with lxc. I use incus and ansible to manage everything, including backups.
- Comment on My first seccam, now the Frigate mystery in LXC 2 days ago:
Docker seems to have gained more ground than LXC
They aren’t really competing in the same space. LXC is more comparable to jails or openvz in that they provide an os layer, Docker does not.
I recently saw docker described in a web comic where some poor dev was bemoaning that his software “worked on his machine”, and his teacher says “then we’ll ship your machine”, meaning Docker sets up a software environment for a project to work, nothing more.
Docker was at first based on lxc, but has since moved to its own libcontainer.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
What… Is everything profit to you?
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 4 days ago:
You’re saying law enforcement can easily fingerprint you?
Yes. The days of Maltego are behind us, law enforcement now just file requests directly with Google.
- Comment on My first seccam, now the Frigate mystery in LXC 4 days ago:
You have a few questions here, which ones do you want answered?
To configure the camera, you should have defined it in the config. That you don’t know this means you should go back to the docs and read the setup section start to end.
I write my frigate clips to an NFS share. I mount it on the host and bind Mount the path in my container. You can also mount NFS directly in a container, but it comes with extra steps.
LXC is not a proxmox-specific thing. You can run lxc containers on almost any Linux and you can manage multiple containers with other software (lxd, incus, etc). At one time, docker was based on lxc, but both docker and lxc have evolved significantly since then.
LXC and docker are indeed similar, but one aims to provide an OS-level environment and the other simply a software environment.
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 4 days ago:
Really? You think it’s the “last note taking app” comment in the description?
You don’t think maybe it’s the shoehorned AI into a project that has no real plan for how it is implemented?
Or maybe it’s not the ai implementation, maybe it’s the fact that “respects your privacy” is incompatible with openai’s terms of use (openai can train on your notes if you supply them)?
- Comment on The last note taking app you'll ever need 4 days ago:
I want to believe you have given this some thought, but for someone with as long a sea log as yours, you seem to have forgotten what happened when we “gave it time to sort itself out” for other services that are now completely entrenched in our lives and have made them worse for it.
- apps for everything
- not raising more complaint about the erosion of our privacy by private corporations
- not defending open standards like PDF and now PDFs are a security and compatibility nightmare
- "hey, maybe subscription models can be applied to printer ink"
- etc, ad nauseum
AI itself is fine, and its been used for good (solving protein folding).
But AI in just about everything else is awful. It wastes energy and water. It is actively making people dumber. I’m fighting a losing battle at work with fools who wholesale believe AI answers on any question and others who literally vibe code.
If you truly believe ai is going to be better in the long run, you have not been paying attention to the last 30 years of technology becoming trash.
- Comment on How can I contribute processing power to the community? 4 days ago:
Stop getting info from yt “infosec” channels.
No one uses single exit-entry gateways in tor anymore, and the widespread use of tor bridges, split exits and vpn (now that they’re quite fast) means it’s much easier for law enforcement to fingerprint traffic rather than sit and wait for someone to tilt their hand and reveal an exit node that will have moved in an hour anyway.
Think about it: if criminals were successfully moving illicit goods and hiding the comms, you think you would hear about it on YouTube, of all places?
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 5 days ago:
You don’t necessarily need coding skills to audit, you can get q sense of the general state of things by simply reading the docs.
The docs are a good starting point to understand if there will be any issues from weird licensing, whether the author cares enough to keep the project going, etc. Also serious, repeated or chronic issues should be noted in the docs if its something the author cares about.
And remember, even if you do have a background in the coding language, the project might not be built in a style you like or agree with.
I’m pretty proficient at bash scripting, and I found the proxmox helper scripts a spaghetti mess of interdependent scripts that were simply a nightmare to follow for any particular install.
I think the overall message is do your best within your abilities.
- Comment on Ansible Playbook - How do I reverse engineer a running system? 5 days ago:
I went through this about 6 months ago.
Just build playbooks from basic to specific. I did so in three parts:
- Container creation
- Basic settings common to all my hosts
- Specific service config & software
Ansible assumes you have a hierarchy of roles to apply for each service, so layering playbooks this way should help
- Comment on PeerTube crowdfunding to develop mobile app 5 days ago:
Pwas aren’t terrible. Chrome made pwas terrible.
- Comment on I have some questions about selfhosting 5 days ago:
Meh, I only have gigabit and my content lives on an NFS share. It’s been fine for streaming and everything else.
- Comment on Looking for a software suggestion 6 days ago:
Have you tried koreader?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Haha, yes I am. I think I’m on my 8th year moving on from pfsense, still rocking the rb4011.
Learning curve is something else, but mikrotik just sits there and works.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
That’s valid.
When I first got whiffs of Plex becoming not-so-great, (maybe 3 years ago?) I struggled to get jellyfin up and running. It felt less polished.
But as of last month when I recently installed JF in an incus container, it has come a long way. Very easy setup.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Well, I didn’t appreciate your “frankly I think you’re lying” comment, so I guess we’re even.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Sorry, I meant “Plex took away free remote streaming”.
You’re being really, really snippy. Either have a coffee or take a breather, but calling strangers liars is way offside.
I’m not lying, I can show you my Fw config. My son called me yesterday saying he couldn’t watch Plex, something about the Plex pass. WO I just changed the Fw rule DST nat mangle port and told him to use jellyfin. The user is local, so that’s dead easy. Done in 10 minutes.
And yes, most users don’t have this kind of experience, granted. But Plex comes with its own stupidities, like in 2020 when my wife had to pay $5 for the Plex app so she could access our library. Or the exercise of sharing libraries if you don’t have a Plex pass, which is a real pain.
But that wasn’t my point. I was trying to relay that jellyfin isn’t as buggy and difficult as a lot of self hosters claim.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
Yep. My son lives in another city and uses my jellyfin server. Actually since yesterday, because Plex stopped allowing him to watch remotely.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 1 week ago:
I don’t mean to diminish your comment, but I just went through the setup process for both Plex and jellyfin (moving to new hardware) and there was no significant difference between the setups.
Maybe this wasn’t the case a few years ago, but jellyfin is just a setup, point to libraries, and enable hardware accel.
- Comment on [Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite? 2 weeks ago:
Eleventy is my goto as well. It builds a really, really static site. Perfect for posting practice writing, photos, and notes from the steps I take doing my homelab.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 2 weeks ago:
That disk upgrade thing was a mountain out of a molehill. All they are doing is reserving some of their disk health features for synology branded disks because they’re the only ones they can verify meet their standards for their software.
Then explain why one can successfully use and old synology to “mark” drives as “authentic synology” and move them into a newer DSM model to use them. This means the mechanism amounts simply to marking disks and not binning disks or any kind of actual hardware selection. Which in turn means that “certified” Synology disks are nothing more than disks with a Synology signature. And not even in firmware, but on the platter.
And that is the “molehill” everyone is calling Synology out on.
As explained ad nauseum on various yt channels, having a hw compatibility list makes sense for users likely to buy support, like business users. It makes little sense in a home market where users are both more likely to buy 3rd party disks and will not likely invoke official Synology support.
But add on top of it that there is no functional hardware difference between certified and non-certified, and it becomes pretty clear that Synology is to be avoided.
- Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use? 2 weeks ago:
Do not promote these Synology jerks.
Synology’s software is awful. Simply controlling NFS shares is an exercise in insanity, and don’t get me started on ACLs.
Further, synology is a real bastard company currently trying to enshittify hardware (disk) upgrades, among other terrible practices:
reddit.com/…/can_we_still_trust_synology_users_ca…
tomshardware.com/…/synology-requires-self-branded…
Full disclosure, I myself am running an old ds211j for backups. It’s way out of updates, and there isn’t much of a 3rd party image collection for synology hardware, but it works fine and lives in its own locked down subnet.
- Comment on Logwatch 3 weeks ago:
Wow, you just gave me flashbacks to my first Linux/unix job in 2008. Tripwire and logwatch reports to review every morning.
- Comment on Video transcoding web interface (self hosted) 5 weeks ago:
I mean, you just keep asking different people whether a thing that does X exists. They’ve all said no, but you can use Y plus mods to do it. Doesn’t seem good enough for you.
Now you’ve risen to “VLC cant do that”. I’ve shown you it can, and you not only beak back at me about it being CLI, but downvote me as well. Thanks for that.
Regardless of any info you get here, you will still need to problem-solve. Good luck.