ExLisper

What about roads? ducks

Proxmox with VMs running Docker using Cosmos.

Pros: backups, easy VM management, easy disk management.

I tried hosting the bridge and it was hard to set up and unreliable. Right now I have WhatsApp installed on Graphene OS in a work profile so it doesn’t get access to all my contacts, only the ones I had to specifically add in this profile. In theory you can restrict it even more using labels but managing this was a pain in the ass.

WhatApp will still know who are you talking to and you still have to run their app somewhere so in my opinion setting up the bridge just so I don’t have their app on my phone is simply not worth the hassle.

Ok, the article says it was ‘probably’ a Greek mercenary. They say the helmet was probably from Greece because of the decorations. They say he also had some jewelry with Egyptian goddess Sekhmet and inscription in hieroglyphs talking about Necao I. And the son of Necao I was the first pharaoh that started hiring Greek mercenaries. So it’s possible it was a Greek warrior that fought with Egyptians and later Phoenicians. Interesting life for VI century B.C.

So that was a Greek mercenary that served in Phoenician army and he was using Greek armor. Interesting.

Is that Phoenician? This is in a museum in my town: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumba_del_guerrero

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They have entire grave of a Phoenician mercenary there.

What are the pros and cons of each one of those?

You’re right but the meme always looks to me like they are just following each other.

I’m always so confused by this meme. They are driving in the opposite directions but facing the same side.

Fun story: when Robert I died he asked one of his knights to take his heart on a crusade (apparently people did things like that back then). So the knight, Sir James Douglas, took king’s heart, put in a box and went looking for a fight with Muslims. It was 1330 and Alfonso XI of Castile was preparing a war against kingdom of Granada. Douglas sailed to Seville, join Spanish forces and died in battle of Teba.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Douglas,_Lord_of_Douglas#Final_campaign

I find the idea of Scottish knights fighting Muslims with Spaniards fascinating. Even today there are big cultural differences between European countries. What was it like 700 years ago?

“I just want to cross to Portugal, don’t worry.”

Also, vaultwarden requires HTTPS?? Ah drat, that’s not good :/ I don’t have experience with that.

Yes, the clients work only over HTTPS. Caddy can handle that:

vaultwarden.cosmos.internal {
        tls /opt/caddy/certificate.crt /opt/caddy/private.key
        handle /* {
                reverse_proxy http://localhost:8081/
        }
}

The certs need to be generated for this specific domain:

openssl req   -x509   -newkey rsa:4096   -keyout key.pem   -out cert.pem   -sha256   -days 36500   -nodes   -subj "/C=XX/ST=StateName/L=CityName/O=CompanyName/OU=CompanySectionName/CN=cosmos.internal"

Some more details are here: bitwarden.com/help/certificates/ under “Using a self-signed Certificate”

Oh yes, the whitewashing of Islamic slavery people engage in daily…

How are you accessing all of it? Custom URLs? Reverse proxy?

Forgejo is for private projects only? Are you syncing them with some other git providers? If now how are you baking it up?

Vaultwarden for passwords

This one was the most tricky for me due to HTTPS but I finally got it working on desktop and android.

Yes, there are other ways but the grid is built to rely on gas turbines for regulation and you can’t change that in a year. Even in countries that invest heavily in solar there are issues with expanding the grid fast enough.

I’m not an expert but maybe the grid is not uniform in the whole country and you can’t simply inject more power in one place and less in another for everything to even out nicely? You know what I mean? Maybe it matters where the power plant is, not just how much power it generates? But I don’t know, just thinking.

In my case I wanted to separate my services between the ones accessible from the internet (git. lemmy) and not (bitwarden, *arr). To do this I need 3-4 VMs. I went with proxmox for the backups: you just define retention policy and that’s it. Promox drops backups of VMs automatically keeping the right amount of old versions. If you don’t want to split your services and you’re fine with just one VM I think you can easily go with pure debian. I did have some issues with proxmox (like failing network card, it required some fiddling) so it’s not “free”. There’s some extra work to get the benefits.

And I think having everything in one VM is also fine. I’m only splitting it because I want to have some things accessible from the internet. If not I would just use docker for everything.

I tried just using WIreguard and I struggled with with setup. When it fails to connect it’s really hard to figure out what the issue is (port forwarding on one of the routers? firewall on the server? something else?). WIth my netbird setup I’m also relying on DNS, groups and exit node setup. I think it’s just easier with a clear dashboard like the commercial tool have. Netbird is also free and I’m planning on selfhosting netmaker.

Interesting.

BTW, who’s your favorite classical composer?

In the town I live in we have Iberian house, Roman church, Visigoth buildings and some Muslim remains all under the same main square. Some kind of a village was in the same place for ~10 thousand years. In the town nearby they started building new metro line and hit Roman cemetery with ~500 graves.

Oh yes, they would be brought back to the capital to serve the empire. I thought you meant recruited for fighting which I don’t think happened. They were great at using all the skilled tradesmen. I think they even brought some miners back from Europe to open mines in Mongolia.

I by “recruit” you mean enslave thousands of people and force them to work on building siege machines and digging tranches than yes :)

Seriously, I’ve read that each Mongol warrior was supposed to catch like 10 people as they moved through the invaded lands and they would move all those people like cattle with the army. When they finally reached the main objective they would force all those people to cut down trees and build siege machines. People from smaller towns would flee the incoming army to bigger forts which meant that before Mongols got there the cities were already overcrowded and had troubles to withstand the siege. It was methodical and brutal and worked perfectly.

No, I wasn’t invited.

Mongols: kill everyone and keep riding

I remember one incident wherein a Celtic tribe’s swords bent

How old are you?

I would organize a group bandits to raid small local communities.