Xanza
@Xanza@lemm.ee
- Comment on getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban 2 hours ago:
Correct. Mine is ‘jelly.domain.com’ which bidirectionally forwards traffic between my domain and my home server.
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 10 hours ago:
If documentation is written in a readable and confluent way, RTFM isn’t such a big deal. The issue comes with overly draconian and non-confluent documentation.
- Comment on getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban 1 day ago:
I always advocate for HTTPS. I run a caddy proxy and sidestep cloudflare all-together.
- Comment on getting 522 error Cloudflaired + Jellyfin + fail2ban 1 day ago:
Port 8096 is the default HTTP protocol port, and you’re trying to access it via HTTPS. Do you have certificates installed and available for your jellyfin instance? If not, it’s very likely Cloudflare won’t route it correctly.
I’m not saying this is your specific issue, but it’ll be the one after you fix this one at least. You may need to mess with the cloudflare “current encryption mode” to get this to work.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (16 May 2025) 3 days ago:
Because there are hot self-hosts in your area.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 5 days ago:
Am I not allowed to tell people I like the beer I brew?
That’s not really what he’s doing though. It would be like if you pretended to be a customer and drink your own beer in front of actual customers and were like “WOW! This beer is super good! The guy who made it has a really big dick!”
It’s just shitty to do because it’s sheistery as fuck.
Plex employees totally have the right to review Plex in the store. But they should be expected to advertise that they work for Plex…
- Comment on DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
Hurricane Electric gets my vote.
- Comment on DNS Piracy Blocking Orders: Google, Cloudflare, and OpenDNS Respond Differently * TorrentFreak 1 week ago:
All the more reason to setup Adguard Home/Unbound.
- Comment on Using DVD slot for second 3.5" drive? 1 week ago:
Duct-tape that shit to the inside of your case. lol
- Comment on Disappointed in Plebbit : I Really Believed in the Vision, But It Was All Just Talk 1 week ago:
I mean, twitter sucked when it first launched, too. Doesn’t mean it won’t get better.
Not sure why everyone is so hellbent on FOSS software to be in its most usable and polished state on launch but will buy prereleased and/or beta games and put in 10,000 hours into half finished games without batting an eye. The double standard for FOSS developers is insane to me.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 1 week ago:
To put this into perspective for you, if your NAS sits at idle for 90% of the time (probably true) and an older CPU is 50w (kinda high, but maybe) and a newer CPU is 15w, over an entire year it will save you around 305.76 kWh. Average price per kWh in the USA is 12.89¢. So over a year a new CPU can reasonably save you around $39.41. So it’s not nothing, but it’s nothing crazy, but lower idle wattage = lower temp = components last longer, which is the real savings.
If an older CPU is only gonna last you 5 years, when a new might last 10, you’re going to save almost $400 in energy and generally a CPU today is going to be cheaper than a CPU in 10 years (probably^tm).
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 1 week ago:
I quickly got pissed at synology and QNAP and just started making my own shit.
It sucks, because I really like Synology’s ecosystem–but I don’t buy vendor lock-in devices. Luckly we have arc that lets you use SynologyOS on bare metal. If you get get it working with your hardware it’s badass.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 1 week ago:
I’ve tried TrueNAS, Rockstor, Openfiler (iSCSI), EasyNAS, and a few others and TrueNAS is easily the favorite. Running it alongside Proxmox is ideal if your server is beefy enough.
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 1 week ago:
gPing: github.com/orf/gping
It’s great!
- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 1 week ago:
This is mind-blowing to me. I’ve been using them for several months now and not had a single issue yet. I feel like a dick suggesting them as a provider when people are having issues with them, but I’ve not had a single one.
This is a ping graph over an hour directly connected to my VPS with them: x0.at/daqx.png
My uptime is 38 days since I last restarted my server because of a DDoS. The benchmarks were underwhelming, but considering I’m paying like, $2-3/mo for them, I’m okay with it. I even use this server to as a reverse_proxy for Jellyfin and it works just fine, no issues whatsoever. Transferred over 260GB in the past few days alone streaming HD content.
I’m looking hard for flaws but they’re no better, but no worse than any provider I’ve ever had. 🤷♂️
- Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls) 1 week ago:
In your experience, what is the best way to go about this?
RSS feeds are static files with formatted XML list items. When a feed is updated to include a new XML list item, the reader application notifies users who are subscribed that there’s been a change. There are actually no moving parts to RSS feeds, which is what makes them so popular. RSS feed applications simply loads an XML feed and counts the number of XML objects. When the application checks again, if there are new objects, then the feed has been updated and you get your little notification.
That’s it. It’s a static file (like HTML), and it works like magic. You don’t need any software or libraries to create an RSS feed over and above being able to serve static XML.
So unless you’re updating your feed several times per day, I would just do it by hand. Maybe write a little helper script to scratch out the formatted XML based on input.
Do I have to make them myself by hand and put them in an /rss/ directory in the root of my blog?
You can, but it’s really not necessary. If you check around github you can find a ton of projects that help you create RSS feeds.
- Comment on Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now 1 week ago:
I still fear that mistakes may slip through
Wikipedia is moderated by real people, so this is a non-issue. The fault tolerance for Wikipedia will be the same from AI vs People because it’s moderated by the same people regardless of where the content comes from.
- Comment on Wikipedia is using (some) generative AI now 1 week ago:
I also use it for this. Sometimes I can get pretty draconian with my speech, so I feed my long winded responses into AI, and pull out a more readable responses. I even have AI write pull requests sometimes. Works great.
- Comment on Kawasaki is developing a robot to be ridden like a horse - Asia Times 2 weeks ago:
I can’t wait to ride this shit into battle.
- Comment on Your favorite "one click" self hosted open source app installer/server manager? 2 weeks ago:
People seem to really like 1Panel.
- Comment on Introducing Waterfox Private Search (Beta) 2 weeks ago:
It’s meta-search. A decent idea, but still relies on other search engines. A bit misleading.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
I paid $100 to play Forza Horizon on my own device too - should that have been free?
This is a complete false equivalence and I feel that you know that. The idea of a console is to expand it by buying new games. That’s not unexpected.
Your entire argument seems to be that software should be free
I am a software developer. The argument isn’t that software should be free. The argument is that this is an exceptionally poor business model and as a developer I’m disgusted that people are defending it. The VC which owns Plex and other VCs will use this “logic” that you have to move the goal posts further, and further, and further, and further until there’s no such thing as free software anymore. And I think that’s fucked up.
At the end of the day you’re paying twice to avoid buying IP. Just fucking buy the IP if you’re going to be stupid. Movies are like $12. At $250 you’re paying $2.10/mo in addition to your hosting costs.
Just go buy 20 movies for the same price. It’s so dumb.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
VMs become really slow and laggy as soon as my SabNZBd starts downloading something
Because you’re saturating your connection. lol.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
No other solution exists that is as easy as Plex and as secure as Plex.
Entrenchment. This is a profoundly absurd statement.
I paid like $100 for a lifetime Plex Pass like 10 years ago.
You paid $100 to access software hosted on your own devices. That’s wonderful you think that’s a great idea. I’m sure the Plex devs love you and would kiss you right on the mouth.
They sign in and they can stream from everyones libraries. No VPNs needed, no other hoops.
Because you’re vendor locked in… lol.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
But paying for the ongoing maintenance of software isn’t some evil thing, even if I self host it.
But that’s not what you’re paying for. You’re paying for access to that software…
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Syncplay requires adequate hardware and network. Especially if you’re trans coding at the same time. You’re trans coding for 2 people at once, and depending on your setup sending to each person at different rates. It’s hard to coordinate that.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (May the 2nd, 2025) 2 weeks ago:
Cloudflare is a DNS provider, DDoS protection provider, tunnel provider, etc. They are not a hosting provider. How is using cloudflare somehow discounting the self-host experience?
It’s the #2 DNS domain registrar in the world right now. It’s not weird at all that most people would use it…luddite you may be.
- Comment on Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows) 2 weeks ago:
I started to follow a guide (& doing a bunch of googling + chatGPT) for setting Jellyfin remote access for my parents. And this is where I’m a bit out of my depth […] I have a dynamic IP […] duckDNS path
Stay away from DuckDNS. Used to be fabulous but now it’s incredibly overused and very unstable. Works, then just stops for a period of time. Check out HurricaneElectric. Any A record can be enabled as DDNS that you can update with just
curl. It’s great. I’ve been using them for about 10 years now without issues. They were down one time like… 5 years ago for several hours, and that was it.Also as a side note: I see people talk about Caddy as a reverse proxy for extra security, but what does it do?
This option is nice if you self-host a web server with no bandwidth restriction. You setup caddy, update your DNS to register your home IP on X domain. Point
jelly.x.domainto whatever your public IP is, with the port as a reverse proxy, then your IP is reachable viajelly.x.domainbut it’s not a great setup for you because of the dynamic IP unless you do a bunch of setup to ensure it routes.IMO the best option would be;
- Install jellyfin server
- Open port
8096on your router for your jellyfin server IP - Create a jellyfin user for your parents, and enable remote connection
- Setup DDNS (I highly suggest he.net) and point your domain to your IP
- Setup cron job to update your DDNS record with he.net every hour or so
- Setup jellyfin for your parents TV or whatever device they’ll use to watch it
- Login and enjoy
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Preach, brother! Preach!
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 2 weeks ago:
Weird. Never had an issue with syncplay… What’s your setup look like?
