CompactFlax
@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
- Comment on NUC recommendations please 4 days ago:
My spinning rust is expensive. Man.
- Comment on Is POP email still a thing? 4 days ago:
POP isn’t sync; pop downloads all the messages locally and you tell the server what to do with them once they’re downloaded.
The result is that you have your messages on your device. But when you go to another device, it’s a different set of messages with different read status.
Unless something has changed, that’s how it worked last time I used POP and that’s why everyone used IMAP now that there’s multiple devices (phones, laptops) in play.
You’re right about self hosting email; it’s a pain.
- Comment on Microsoft offers a quarter of its global workforce voluntary buyouts as AI spending accelerates 1 week ago:
The RTO layoffs didn’t cut enough to pay for Satya’s headlong dive into AI.
This will certainly improve the quality that has been produced since they cut the testing teams, right? Senior employees only.
- Comment on PSA: eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise 2 weeks ago:
Jfc it’s patched in just about all of them now.
Unless for some reason they’ve overridden that capability, but nobody would be that stupid right?
- Comment on Recommendations for closed NAT bypass methods 3 weeks ago:
Tailscale also may be an option.
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 3 weeks ago:
I’m just using Dropbox now and replicating my 1Password everywhere and for some reason it makes me nervous to self host.
I think I’m just going to back up everyone’s vault to a USB and bring it to a second location twice a year. If storage ever gets affordable, I’ll send replication snapshots instead.
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 4 weeks ago:
Backups? In this economy?
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 4 weeks ago:
I notice something stopped working, or someone in the household notices.
Then I go fix it.
- Comment on Apples in the Commons 1 month ago:
That’s a lot of juice from a single tree. Makes me think.
My Italian neighbour just presses his grapes and puts it in the cellar, and it turns out (after many rackings). 16 litres though, not a lot to play with. I would add Camden and commercial yeast. My preference is just to add ale yeast treat it like any beer.
- Comment on Is Authelia enough without fail2ban or crowdsec? 1 month ago:
I am not a fan of geoblocking as a first line defense but when I blocked everything outside of my country, fail2ban stopped firing, entirely.
- Comment on Last week, I posted a pic of my Vevor setup. I just finished my first brew and these are my thoughts so far 1 month ago:
I’m working hard to convince myself I don’t need this, I won’t use it, and I don’t have space, and extract brewing is just fine for what I need. Since the original post, that is. Good luck with the fermentation, I’m following along.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 1 month ago:
I think coral is not current and hard to get but I don’t watch too closely. Seems to still work! Reolink on camera detection is decent enough for me.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 1 month ago:
I’ve had a good experience with Reolink PoE cameras. They do RTSP and ONVIF and integrate well with Homeassistant.
- Comment on Issues with https certs locally 1 month ago:
I am neither stating TLS termination is wrong, nor providing instructions to cert pinning.
- Comment on Issues with https certs locally 1 month ago:
Firstly, wildcards are convenient but they break your functionality of authenticating the server to which you are connecting. That may or may not be inportant to you.
Doesn’t work without TLS? Start there, making sure dns and reverse proxy works, works, then add the certificate.
- Comment on Bought a new setup 1 month ago:
I am pretty sure they’re a white label company.
- Comment on What is your weirdest self-hosting problem you've had to solve? For me: Mouse inside the server. 2 months ago:
I’ve got Pfsense installed on a device with 6 RJ45 ports. 0 is wan, 1 is lan0, 2 is lan1, etc up to 4. Why I have multiple lans is somewhat tangential.
One day it rebooted due to a power outage and WAN worked but lan1 and 2 and 3+ were messed up. I’m still not entirely sure what happened, but the second physical Ethernet port was non responsive at boot and Pfsense just assigned the ports as if it never existed. I moved all the cables over one except LAN and it worked just fine. Except that of course in the troubleshooting i had moved all the assignments around and broke it thoroughly, so it took a while.
- Comment on Sometimes, when I am all alpne i like to fantasize... 2 months ago:
It’s still pretty much 2x. I managed to get ram bought before it went silly but I’m really short on storage.
- Comment on White House plan for a ‘golden age’ of science ignores the structures that made the US a scientific superpower 2 months ago:
The USA has the world’s oldest constitution and is the third oldest government in the world. China is a relatively young country.
- Comment on Help Fixing my Dishwasher -- It won't drain and is stop on sanitize mode 2 months ago:
Failed drain pump seems the most likely scenario, if you’re absolutely proven the pipes are clear - the drain pipe runs through the dishwasher and then cabinetry to the sink drain, and it can be a circuitous path that traps grease.
- Comment on Do I need a relay or something else entirely? 4 months ago:
AC and DC are different, and 230V is nearly TWENTY TIMES the rated voltage for the switch (and possibly the lamp you’re using).
I’m all for DIY and experimentation, but this is headed rapidly towards a large incendiary event which insurance may decide they are not going to pay for. Mains voltage is not to be fucked with. There are rules and regulations around how things are built to be allowed on to the market for a reason. I suggest you get a 12V transformer (certified, not from aliexpress) and work from there.
- Comment on Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting? 9 months ago:
To me, docker is an abstraction layer I don’t need. VMs are good enough, and proxmox does a good job with LXCs so far.
Why would I spin up a VM and virtual network within that vm and then a container when I can just spin up a VM?
I’ve not spent time learning Docker or k8s; it seems very much a tool designed for a scale that most companies don’t operate at let alone my home lab.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 year ago:
Just want to add a note that flipping the main breaker de-energizes the rails but there will still be hot wires in the panel from the meter box. Exercise caution.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 year ago:
GFCI doesn’t change the fact that there is potentially no ground wire.
- Comment on Upgrading ungrounded two-prong outlets to grounded three-prong? 1 year ago:
The short answer is that there’s a really strong chance that you’ve got 2 conductor wire with no ground going to the receptacles if they’ve not installed electrical outlets with a third prong. Fixing that would require running a ground cable to every outlet so configured which means cutting a lot of holes. All things considered I’d probably do a re-wire at that point. It brings into question the type of wire used and the safety of the electrical panel etc. These things age, and standards change.
I would personally want to check the receptacles that have a ground to make sure that the ground is actually hooked up to something and that it is not simply connected to the neutral, which are both bad things.
Given the variables, you’d be best to consult a professional.