non_burglar

@non_burglar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally figured out how to manually update book covers in CWA!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing, thank you! I’ve had the same issue, otherwise I love CWA. Especially with Kobo integration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the logistic problem Google “solved” in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.

  This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it’s beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF v1.16.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, thanks for taking the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF v1.16.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  With respect, help me out here…

  I process PDFs all the time, both assembling text and images into PDFs and extracting. My uses are mostly cleaning up metadata and unwanted elements so they render correctly in more environments. I use pdftk and imagemagick for this, generally.

  Is bentopdf just a nice GUI for tools like these?

  I’m struggling to understand what part of bentopdf is “self-hosted”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BentoPDF v1.16.0⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I don’t understand the use case for bentopdf, and considering how popular it is, that is likely true. However, I don’t get what this does…

  • it’s self-hosted, but the processing happens on the client? Is this just a local application?
  • it only works with PDF documents?
  • What advantage does bentopdf have over something like paperless ng?

  Again, if this is obvious to most ppl, forgive me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Alternatives to syncthing for syncing files with android⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Synching fork has been passed to a new maintainer for a couple months now. The new github is github.com/researchxxl/syncthing-android.

  If you were using the old catfriend1 version, update your fdroid version and the source will switch over.

  This is all out in the open and is resolved, there have been several app updates since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host any Docker image using Kamal⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is fine, but k8s is already a big ask for homelab and self hosting. And kamal requires a basic fluency in ruby, which is… not the most intuitive interpreter. I say this coming from years of managing chef.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When they bought Sun, they:

  • killed Solaris, effectively
  • tried to kill zfs too
  • nearly killed mysql with licensing audits
  • became borderline evil with licensing practices
  • acted like complete assholes in court, holding up cases for years
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#ShowerThought: Cybernetical Disobedience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling it “disobedience” is a clear indication that following the big corporations is considered “normal”.

  Stop thinking like that.

  It’s YOUR INFORMATION. You can be harmed by its abuse and you already know this.

  I do not “disobey” anyone by self-hosting. The information belongs to ME. I alone have rights to its access and control. If google doesn’t like it, they can fuck off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, well that’s one I don’t have any data on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the same way, and honestly, I’m happy to see others do too.

  I’m almost done my exit from google, just the actual email left. Calendar, map data, photos, everything in drive is gone to my private infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Looks kinda cool, but does anyone have any experience at vetting a project like this?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I used lastfm until about 2015, listenbrainz is better.

  Last.fm is complete trash now that it’s under new ownership. They will not listen to users who point out that artists with the same name are mixed into one artist.

  Biosphere is one example, check the shouts. No one wants to hear terrible chiptune music when they’re trying to listen to ambient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the response.

  I focus more on each trip and like to examine location data not by time, but but by excursion. I use another self-hosted service that does this well, but going back manually to find photos to attach to each trip is somewhat tedious.

  This function is what interested me in reitti; I thought I could set up immich integration an pull in photos from the time frame of each hike, flight, drive or ride.

  But this seems like a fundamentally different approach to GPS documentation, so I don’t think there is room for a shift of this magnitude in reitti.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks good.

  Is there any way to list and inspect individual tracks/trails, or is reitti meant for something else?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🖥 Best Used SAS Drives? (4TB) 🖥⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One is sas6gb/s and the other is sas12gb/s, as someone else pointed out.

  You will be hard-pressed to make those drives make use of sas12g. I have them and I’ve beaten them up with various workloads, but I could not justify their use beside sata3. Cost-for-cost, even accounting for the better SAS ncq and smart data, spinning rust at those transfer speeds only make sense if you have the demand of many hundred users or more, which homelab almost certainly isn’t.

  The reason not to get them is that they draw substantially more power per disk than sata3 disks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the time I made the comment, I didn’t realize this was building with in sanitized inputs and absolute paths.

  And I should know better, I use burp a couple times a month. My bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Unifi Dream Machine Pro's ad-blocking was doing more than I expected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, from your post I think you’ll be fine setting up a black hole manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true. So is my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...).⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many api implementations are bare http because security is expected to be handled / wrapped by another technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Unifi Dream Machine Pro's ad-blocking was doing more than I expected⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re comfortable with full-fat DNS, Technitium has all the controls of bind9 and can do ad blocking as well, but it isn’t as… esoteric to setup. Easy import/export, decent webui, other quality-of-life features. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where are you running your wireguard endpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Runs in an extra locked-down container on one of my servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I migrate my VPS out of Cloudflare?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no competition for ddos protection unless you enter into an arrangement with akamai or fastly, which won’t happen unless you have the traffic and the $$$ to support it.

  Cloudflare can soak up volumetric traffic at scale. Crowdsec cannot do this, because the “crowd” par of crowdsec is rulesets, you are still doing all the heavy lifting with your own infra.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🏳️(TrueNAS) Is my drive dying and should be replaced?🏳️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  zpool has very reasonable thresholds for disk failure being enough to kick it from the pool. I’ve seen pool members have a batch of bad blocks and ZFS still chugged along for a few years just avoiding those blocks before the disk finally failed.

  Heed truenas here, replace the disk if you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve tried it a few times, that kanban plugin sucks. It doesn’t even compete with Microsoft Planner in features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox with arr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not being antagonistic, I don’t known where you’re getting that.

  Do what you want, I don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox with arr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  in case you bork an unrelated service

  ??

  Why would borking another service break a bind mount?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proxmox with arr⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This absolutely overkill, just use bind mounts for the arr stack and keep the ZFS pool local.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, no… You need to find the geometry of your disk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you blame them?

  Yes. LLMs don’t make anyone not responsible for their output.

  If your dumb friend gave you bad advice and you followed it, you are ultimately still responsible for your decisions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT fried my drive!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  sg_format can restore your disk.

  You need to figure out the block layout of the drive and restore a sector map that aligns with the disk.

  Start here:

  forum.level1techs.com/t/…/133021

  And it bears repeating: LLMs do not think, they generate text from statistical output. If the the topic is advanced or uncommon, errors in output are far more likely.

  So don’t be tempted to ask chat gpt for further help on this, if that isn’t clear yet.