magic_smoke
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- Comment on Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID 2 days ago:
For webapp stuff for sure, but when you want to login as the same user with the same perms across all your VMS and baremetal servers at the os, it’s nice.
I use virtualization over containerization because i have the hardware resource so I might as well take advantage of improved isolation and security VMS provide. Plus I use Linux on my desktop/laptop, and have a separate dedicated storage host.
Its nice to have everything managed by one service with global accounts and permissions.
Looking at authentik it seems to provide some but not all of that. Def something to keep an eye on if freeipa decides to stop being so free.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 2 days ago:
Your router is an important security device that you should own and control your self if you want any semblence of ownership over your network.
Your modem is remotely controlled by the ISP even if you own it, and is mostly there to demodulate from the medium installed by your ISP (usually cable, or fiber but those are called ont’s not modems) to a standard cat. 6 Ethernet connection you can plug into most routers.
The main benefit of owning your own modem is not having one with a router built in and not having to pay an equipment fee.
- Comment on Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID 2 days ago:
Haven’t touched HA yet but I run FreeIPA, is there an LDAP option or will I have to get an open I’d solution go sit in front of it?
- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 2 days ago:
For inside the lan/lab, I have my pem chain looks like: cold storage root-ca -> offline vault qubes VM ca -> pfsense ca -> freeipa
I use letsencrypt for externally facing services.
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 days ago:
The XMPP ecosystem is a mess and matrix has a ton of security and metadata issues.
We shouldn’t be using discord-likes anymore, it was a bad idea the first time.
Personal IM/VoIP should be separate from game party chat should be separate from communitt IRC/forums
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 days ago:
Matrix has lots of metadata issues and signal requires a phone number which is a non-starter.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Alternatively if you’re tired of manual DNS configuration:
FreeIPA
Configures users, sudoer group, ssh keys, and DNS in one go.
Also lotta services can be integrated using LDAP auth too.
So far I’ve got proxmox, jellyfin, zoneminder, mediawiki, and forgejo authing against freeipa in top of my samba shares.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 1 week ago:
Can I just type ‘roxorz boxorz’ and be done with it.
- Comment on TrueNAS build system going closed source 1 week ago:
Been running my own storage boxes off of rocky for years simply for the ease of integration of samba + freeipa.
Especially being able to use ipasam.so to allow password authentication for shares on machines that aren’t easy/reasonable to use kerberos keytabs from (think android clients, and off domain boxes)
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 1 week ago:
I mean I’ve faked one or two conversations because I always thought chatbots where cute toys as a dev.
Treating it like a humie is a no go.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 2 weeks ago:
Lemme know when fairphone has a re-lockable bootloader to allow for choice of OS.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m capable of telling my doctor I’m trans, and if I feel like my country isn’t safe enough that should be my decision, not my governments.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.
Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it they start using it.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 weeks ago:
No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a soc with a DVD drive becomes a player.
Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.
Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 3 weeks ago:
Was thinking you know its bad when Linus thinks you’re too toxic…
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.
Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 3 weeks ago:
Do you guys just not have homelabs?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 4 weeks ago:
This is a comment chain in a post about the Epstein files in which the top comment is about a 30 year old fucking someone in their late teens.
Its entirely on topic, fuck off with your bad faith arguments.
- Comment on We live in the future! 4 weeks ago:
Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.
Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 4 weeks ago:
Why should it matter to society what the difference between the two is, if the better of the two is still bad enough they should be hung by their toenails and beaten to death with a sack of hammers?
After a certain amount of bad, there’s not much you can do to punish it.
What reason do we have to discuss the difference, unless you think a 30 year old fucking a 17 year old is redeemable?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 4 weeks ago:
I swear to god if fedi starts defending “ephebophilia” as if its meaningfully different enough to matter I’m going to start cutting dicks off lmao.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 4 weeks ago:
Both deserve jail time, and the only people who really care that much are usually from the former group distancing themselves from the latter.
Both are fucking gross.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
How much of that money goes into marketing, and executive pay checks?
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 4 weeks ago:
Yes but enterprise LTSC (and others) isos can be harder to obtain legally.
Massgrave has mirrors of retail and OEM isos, and the other site I provided has checksums to verify their integrity.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 4 weeks ago:
*won’t
I very seriously doubt most people are physically or mentally incapable of taking a quarter of an afternoon once to teach themselves how to preform a basic maintenance task on a machine they use daily.
Just as car owners should know how to put on a spare tire or replace a headlight.
- Comment on The most common bloatware we found on laptops and how to get rid of them 4 weeks ago:
No you should install your own OS like a grownup.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 5 weeks ago:
Mostly the ones about the age of consent.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 month ago:
No, my point was that people don’t need higher resolutions, they need good transcoded that don’t look like shit.
Streaming services run at bitrates/codecs that look like cookie compared to bd rips even on my shitty $100 sceptre 1080p Amazon special TV.
Who the fuck needs an 8K when no ones willing to conveniently provide content that looks good on it, especially legally?
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 1 month ago:
That’s because the answer isn’t higher resolutions, it was legally enforcing h.265 to be open source. Now the solution is AV1, but video codecs shouldn’t be locked down like that.
To act like that was ever in favor of “protecting the sciences” is a fucking joke.