Shimitar

@Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Wrong premise. There are lots of monarchies around the world, in all continents. Thailand, UK, Spain, Sweden, are only the first that come to my mind.

  USA is definitely not most of the world.

  Also, some dictators are the result of failed democracies, some dictators come from places that never had democracy in the first place (Russia, many African countries…) And some dictators have been put in power by democracies (see center and south Amerixa for examples).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is H9me Assistant recommended?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suggest to go with home assistant. I have been running it for couple of years now and I am very happy.

  I would also suggest to purchase a Home Assistant Green. While not needed, you can self install on a Pi or a standard pc, it’s a small price to support the project and the Green is a nice solid and super stable piece of hardware, I am very happy with it after using first an old laptop, and then a Pi. The green is a clear upgrade from both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest it’s mostly FUD. Self host email is perfectly doable provided that:

  • you don’t use your home IP
  • you do DNS records correctly
  • you do DKIM & DMARC correctly
  • you don’t send spam

  What happened to me over the years was having the subnet my ip was is being associated to spammers, and that was a problem. It took several iterations with blacklists and my provider to get it sorted. That’s why I recommend using a reputable service provider that take care of spammers in a timely manner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I migrated IP (from one provided to another) last year, and I recently added a new domain as well.

  The new domain on the new ip just works, and the old domain on the same ip just keep working.

  Both the old and new ip are not residential IPs, I rent a small dedicated server for this purpose on the major hoster of my country. I pay about 15€/month for that, but it’s not only used for email, for all my services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so cool… Didn’t know about it… And also european… Will try it for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Been running my own mailserve for last 20 years and never had big issues.

  Do dkim dmark stuff and DNS records properly and you will be fine. Also don’t spam and beware of spam-related subnets, and you should not have issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to play with database types, because apparently out of the box setup works only on SSDs (??) And do a bunch of other stuff to improve performance.

  End result was way worse than installing postfix+dovecot+dkim/dmark/etc stuff directly.

  Quite unusable, but the hardware was limited

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a good email server that can be run through Docker?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beware it’s very heavyweight. My dedicated oldish server with 8gb ram and spinning hdes couldn’t even handle one single domani and a few users…

  Was 6 months ago, tough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Waiting for my new glintet Ethernet kvm to arrive and connect to my server…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but this does interest me a lot, so… Will be keep a tab on this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Care to elaborate on the conserving mass principle? Is that your opinion, a physics principle, or an actual thing related to weight loss and mucle generation on the human body?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if a person proved in a lab they're gaining weight while in a verified calorie deficit?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is achievable…

  Work out while very fat.

  Fat loss brings less weight loss than acquired muscles, that are much more dense.

  And this can happen very well in a calorie deficit diet.

  Its a specific situation, but happens all the time when you start exercising, and people get confused, why I am gaining weight?

  Just converting fat to muscle (so to speak, ofc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its companies… Can we stop considering them as people already?

  A company don’t think. Maybe it’s CEO and board, as individual people, have opinions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollo 0.7.0: Advanced search, faster notifications, and improved client compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More engaging posts also means higher quality.

  A quality post don’t let me guess what Hollo even is, but use a few words to describe.

  Just posting links kills engagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich – A Self-Hosted, Open-Source Alternative to Google Photos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really

  Never ever heard of

  Thanks for quality post

  (Luckly immich is much better quality than this post)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help with understanding memory usage discrepancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You actually WANT to be with low free memory. Provided that most of it is used by cache.

  Free memory is a waste, when you could cache stuff for faster access.

  That’s how Linux memory management works, and it make sense if you relflect on it. Better cache that page or that file that is used often, since free memory is just wasted. Cache can be freed and memory reclaimed in a fraction of a millisecond when needed.

  So don’t bother too much. Unless your SWAP usage is high, don’t bother.

  Also consider that Linux kernel will use your swap a bit even if you have lots of cache, because the kernel knows better than you how to improve your performances. Swapping out never used stuff is better than killing cached items.

  Again, don’t oberthink memory on Linux, the best alarm is when swap is constantly happening, then yes you need more ram (or to kill that broken process that keeps hogging due to a bug)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t get it: I am and will remain the only user of my instance…

  Do you even now how Lemmy works? Did I say I was going to let ICE people create users on my instance? I only said I don’t defederate any instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Greed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Display name? I see inimzi as posting user and its pretty clear to me this user is related to the posted website. Advertising means revenue, where is it? This seems self promoting to me.

  I am guilty if the same sin I guess with my self hosting wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wake up. Ice, being government, it’s already legitimized enough in real life.

  What difference would it make in the social media. Better if they are out in the open in social media instead, at least they get responsible for what they post, officially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t ban anyone or any instance in my own instance, so no they cannot be “parammanned” from Lemmy. That’s not how it works and why i like Lemmy and its principles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky just verified ICE⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Not American here)

  While i agree fediverse is then solution and i don’t use bluesky, i don’t see the issue is recognizing ICE as verified.

  After all ice is a government agency of the USA whether you like it or not, and should be verified if there is a procedure to do so.

  No i don’t like ice and i do not condone what they do, but that doesn’t change the above statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On Greed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And so what? To be honest, what’s wrong with self promotion?

  But is the article interesting? Maybe this is the important thing to consider and comment about.

  At least if they self promote they do it in the open and not hiding hypocritically

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? Wow… I assumes was USA LoL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I think there are a few… Indeed I know at least two italian instances, plus my private instance…

  But most of activity is currently on USA instances like world, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted coding assistant?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My recent experience regarding questions on documentation:

  • dovecot: shitty useless responses, totally made up
  • Gentoo linux: to be checked twice and mostly wrong or fake
  • godot: accurate and correct almost always, maybe examples not always 100% correct
  • C++ standard 17: correct, never had a wrong reply from llm, also the exact ples where on point and correct

  I think that’s all what I have used it for in the last six months.

  Note: I used only Google search AI llm, nothing else.

  So it seems that depends on what you ask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted coding assistant?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe you should check 5hat again. I never used llm before 2025, but proved itself useful for a few tasks. Yes check and verification still needed, but indeed made my life easier and got taken done faster. Quality was still a good as what I could do myself. Maybe that doesn’t speak well of myself I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosted coding assistant?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While you are correct, as all tools AI is not bad per se.

  If you use ai to replace more lengthy documentation searches and write your own code that works out pretty well and speed up your work without degrading your coding. Granted, I got plainly incorrect answers as well, but at least I managed to be much more efficient.

  Treat LLMs/ai as a glorified documentation aggregator and that’s how you correctly use that tool.

  Like, use a knife to cut and cook meat, not to cut another person body, and that’s how you correctly use that tool too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgrading storage to usb drives⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run a setup very similar for many years. Upgraded progressively from 2x120GB to 4x4Tb, from mechanicals to sdds.

  I can say don’t cheap out on the usb enclosures, the more you pay the better it is. I purchased a 4 bay JBOD usb3 box with a fan (150€+ nowadays) and that is the only enclosure that really worked out and still works (but retired) today. All single disk enclosures will fail sooner or later depending on how cheap they are, just take that onto consideration.

  The setup itself is pretty good and stable, I would suggest standard Linux MDRaid 1, and on top of that something simple like ext4. I wouldn’t put anything that adds to the disk workloads like zfs, but maybe I am wrong.

  Speed wise, I was able to stream movies without any hiccups, and that’s plenty I think.

  Do not cheap out on the enclosures. Cheap ones will last 1 month, I don’t kid you.

  And keep them cool… Fan… Air circulation… USB controllers will be killed faster than mechanical disks by heat. And 24/7 will generate heat… Those enclosures are not built for that…

  Again, it’s pretty doable and I did it for almost 2 decades. DONT BE CHEAP ON ENCLOSURES (did I say so already?) And you should be fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to use postgresql for some obscure reason use MariaDB real open source MySQL drop in replacement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This.

  That’s why temping obscurity for security is not a good idea. Doesn’t take much to be “safe”, at least reasonably safe. But that not much its good practice to be done :)