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- Comment on Moving servers and rack equipment 57 minutes ago:
I would just not dismantle the rack. Ensure that everything inside its securely strapped down and nothing can move freely, not even cables. Ensure that all plugs are safely screwed in the socket or tape them for non screwable ones to prevent to come loose and bang around.
Then fill voids and gaps with bubble wrap or anything light and non scratchy. Wrap everything from the outside with bubble wrap layer to prevent damage from hit or scratch.
Then find or build a big enough cardboard box to fit the rack and call it a day.
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives 14 hours ago:
Cool! We just released 22.2 for surya ;)
Glad to see you here too!
- Comment on Cloudflare Tunnel Alternatives 15 hours ago:
Rent any low cost vps and setup wireguard tunnel or ssh tunnel to it with port forward, done.
Check wiki.gardiol.org where I detail my setup which is exactly this.
- Comment on Plex/Jellyfin - YouTube content 17 hours ago:
Tube archivist + jellyfin plugin.
Works wonders.
Here my setup guide: wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Atubearchi…
- Comment on How to send backups on multiple location? 5 days ago:
The same way you back it up, using ssh remotely for example
- Comment on How to send backups on multiple location? 6 days ago:
Just run backrest backup on each server three times, one for each remote backup tepository. Easy enough.
- Comment on I don't get the love for Nextcloud - alternative for just files? 6 days ago:
Agreed, nextcloud is a beast with lots of whistles, if you don’t need them you can have simpler solutions
This my approach here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=selfhost%3Afileserve…
And I stated using AList which is a funny piece of software that has great potential. See here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Aalist
- Comment on Need help with SearXNG installation 6 days ago:
From somebody who prefer to run stuff not in containers… Don’t bother and run SearXNG in container. I suggest rootless podman instead of docker.
See my notes/guide here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Asearxng
- Comment on Sharing Jellyfin 6 days ago:
You can share jellyfin on the net. I do.
The issues shared wide and large are mostly moot points, where the attacker needs to already have access to the jellyfin itself to have any surface.
Its FUD and I am convinced spread by Plex people in an effort to cover up their fuckup and enshittyfication.
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 1 week ago:
Deep level packet inspection, they detect patterns or whatever in encrypted traffic (and the lack of thereof) and ban the destination ip china-wide.
How they do I have no idea, but they do, on my direct first hand experience. Its not based on domain names, directly straight and total ip ban. All ports, all domains on that ip get banned forever just because you started using a VPN (OpenVPN in my case, it was a few years ago).
- Comment on Can I self host a VPN that sneakies through the China firewall? 1 week ago:
It will work for a bit, then they will detect VPN traffic and just block the destination ip for good. Any ip you will use will be shortly unreachable for you, so be prepared to that.
- Comment on Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts? 1 week ago:
LOL you madre me laugh…
Anyway being security conscious is important, and better be safe than sorry…
- Comment on does captain Picard snore in Star Trek tng? 1 week ago:
I would expect that in such an advanced society snoring has been “fixed” for good…
- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 1 week ago:
The issue here is the USB stick, not the router. Use WiFi no problem but self hosting on a 32gb stick is a disaster waiting to happen, specially with a write intensive task as lemmy.
- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 1 week ago:
He just want you to use your brain and try out stuff by yourself. Go on!
- Comment on I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use? 1 week ago:
Get a switch, a cheap 5 ports gigabit one is only like 10 bucks or 20 if you want a reputable brand (not needed).
Or just use WiFi…
- Comment on How can I create a Lemmy instance without coding or the use of Ethernet/router wiring? 1 week ago:
See here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=services%3Alemmy for specific lemmy instructions and here wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=networking%3Aexterna… for how to remote access stuff.
While Ethernet is recommended, WiFi will work as well.
The above links are my personal experience only and indeed YEMV.
- Comment on Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts? 1 week ago:
100% agree.
One point: use an SSO like authelia or authentic. Way better than basic auth and you get the fancy login form too preserving all the benefits, and you can also use OIDC with those services that require more complex setup for proper auth
- Comment on Is it normal to not have any malicious login attempts? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. The fearmongering of the security freaks is not necessarily true. We selfhosters are not big targets and nobody cares about our files or our devices.
Of course, until you get hacked.
But beside SMTP and ssh and known services like WordPress or PrestaShop there is little actual brute force bots trying hard.
- Comment on Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel! 2 weeks ago:
Thank you! This is exactly why I do my wiki, so that people can use and benefit from the work I did before.
Mmm as for the admin console, I will add that, it had slipped from my wiki it seems!
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
Would it make a difference?
Its not an English speaking country and its in Europe.
My point stand true for all major European languages like French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and many more.
My native language is directly derived from Latin and we have a very interleaved history with all Eu countries.
I am using English here because this is an English community.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
This thread is full of people who think English is the only language in the world. Its not, every language calls places with their own fashion, often different from how they are called natively. Its just how stuff works when in a country people simply don’t speak the “other” language and don’t share the same sounds either.
Calling the places with their original spelling will only create confusion because in that language, that place has a different name.
Its called translations and its how languages work, get over it.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want no English telling me what I need to call a country or a city, thank you, I already have that in my native language, ah! :)
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
Its not respect or lack of it.
Its just human culture and how it works. If a place is so common that its names very often, it gets a local name, or it got it in the past.
Changing that would bear no consequence on how we see that country/culture/place at all.
- Comment on Why do Americanized names of places etc exist? 2 weeks ago:
What?
In myanguage we use our names for places. Like London or Paris, we have local language names. For less known places we use the original name, like New York or Birsbane.
Most important is when the name has historical importance for our culture, we most probably have a localized name for it, otherwise we don’t.
And no, we don’t use the “american” names at all
Its cultural, nothing regarding respect.
- Comment on Best approach to selfhosting Synapse (Matrix)? 2 weeks ago:
My personal experience with conduwuit is very positive.
Everything worked including sliding sync for Element X.
Bridges works fine. Threads too (limited to client support ofc), session verification works fine, element call never tried, you need to install a dedicated server anyway, but that’s true also for synapse.
- Comment on Who needs a lawn? 2 weeks ago:
I have 2000mq of “lawn”. Its actually native grass that I need to keep trimming 6 months per year. I only water some flowers and plants I added to a specific area for the wife, and only like two months every year if it doesn’t rain.
- Comment on Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel! 2 weeks ago:
I was replying to the links post, must have got it wrong :)
So yes, I ended up thanking myself. Well, I always thanks myself anyway for not having screwed up too badly anyway so… ;)
- Comment on Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel! 2 weeks ago:
Currently just setup conduwuit, tuwunel will require some more time to be up and ready, but they promised full compatibility upgrade.
See my wiki wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=matrix%3Aconduwuit
There are also instructions for all main bridges.
- Comment on Conduwuit is dead, long live Tuwunnel! 2 weeks ago:
Synapse is meant for heavy duty and is a pretty resource intensive python implementation.
Conduwuit and derivate is in rust and blazing fast on small footprint.