irmadlad

@irmadlad@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials?⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, I use them from time to time in my lab to spin up test runs. I also have a cheap VPS ($25/year) that I do the same on. You could also use VMWare Workstation Pro (free) or Oracle Virtual Box (free), on your desktop/laptop, to spin up a Ubuntu or other server, and test to your heart’s content. I would think the 1 gb spec on the RPi 3 might limit you somewhat on what you could test run, but I have surprised myself as to what I can jam into an RPi 3. PiMyLifeUP has a ton of tutorials for the RPi. Might want to take a glance to see what’s possible, but, for an initial investment of $25 seems like a doable opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote my first article about self-hosting and our Safebox project⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be publishing more pieces soon

  Awesome. I look forward to reading more. I had never heard of SafeBox until about a month or so ago. Seems like a great platform to go from zero to hero in no time flat. I keep hoping that offerings like SafeBox, et al, will gel with the general public and expose them to the world of self hosting and make it not as scary for beginners just striking out. Thanks for the article. Bookmarked, and will be shared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[beta] Scatola Magica⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a kind of personal, cute story to why I asked, in particular with the name Scatola Magica. You may or may not find it humorous. My lady friend is Italian and often refers to her naughty bits as ‘Scatola Magica’, or ‘the magic box’. She will smile at me and say, ‘Scatola Magica baby!’ In fact, she has modified Lil’ Kim / 50 cent’s ‘Magic Stick’ to include such lyrics. It’s kind of cute watching this 65 year old Italian lady sashay around the house singing ‘I got the magic box…I know if I can hit once I can hit twice…’. So there you go. Now that I’ve stained your brain…have a great day! LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve read, I believe it’s a combination of donations. sponsors, volunteer hosting from like minded organizations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve read, he primary concern with VPNs that do not support IPv6 is leakage. If a user’s device tries to access an IPv6 resource while connected to a VPN that only routes IPv4 traffic, the IPv6 packets can escape the VPN tunnel. This exposes the user’s real IP address to external servers, undermining the privacy that the VPN is supposed to provide. Some servers have moved to strictly IPv6. Some servers only accept IPv4.

  Some of you networking gods set me straight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, beyond organized legal avenues: national & local elections, writing your representatives, protesting, marching, I see no real recourse against a corrupted and compromised government, and my government is corrupted and compromised top to bottom, side to side. No one gets a pass. Not this administration, and none in the past. So, no matter who sits in the seat of authority, you will always feel the effects of a corrupt and compromised government.

  It is not I you have to convince. It is millions of apathetic citizens, blown around by blustering, deceptive political winds, without compass or direction. Beyond not feeding the machine more than you have to while still scratching out a life on this planet like everyone else is, it is hard to make inroads that stick. This machine turns slowly. You see, there are still a majority of people in my country that are comfortable. Comfortable people do not illicit change…uncomfortable people do, but here is no change without pain. Pain is something that the citizens in my country are unwilling to put up with to a better goal. They do not act with the long term in mind. Their future is tied to once every 4 years, never contemplating that the legislation passed today, will be with us for generations, if not longer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Excellent point! There are several in my locale, and they will play a ton of stuff that I am unfamiliar with, a lot of indie bands too which I have always had an affinity for. If I hear something that really resonates with me, I’ll go search it. Plus a lot of students that are in the broadcasting field of study, have their own shows which opens up so many avenues of exploration. I gave up on the commercial stations long ago. I just get tired of hearing the same repeat playlist every hour and they turn favorite songs into despised songs. Stairway To Heaven is a great Led Zep tune, but not every hour on the hour.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The reality is that you cannot escape consumerism in the modern world.

  Didn’t downvote you but, I guess what I was leaning heavily on was ‘striving to be as self sufficient as humanly possible’. Sure, even though I grow my own food, garden crops, beef, chickens, goats, et al, I still have to buy things. I didn’t mean it like I had transcended commercial consuming. But, do I really need a iPhone 17 pro max as much as AT&T says I do? Do I really need the cutting edge computer when the 14 year old one I built serves me just fine for what I do? That kind of stuff that people just seem to be compelled to purchase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the older generations reminisce about ye olde monoculture

  We old folks most often reminisce through very dark, rose colored glasses which often leave out important negative features of days past.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any VPNs that support dedicated IPv6 addresses?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  NordVPN I believe. Also AzireVPN owned by Malwarebytes. Some others do for a fee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘freeze peach’

  TIL. Never heard the phrase

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True. Most radio stations now get their playlists from corporate, like Clear Channel. So, both the radio station and the music industry are in cahoots. A pay to play scenario. Gone are the days of submitting an LP to a radio station for play consideration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I miss the days of people having their own bespoke collection of their favorite movies and shows

  I don’t miss the shelves to house all of it tho. Now, I have quite a collection of audio from my days of internet radio, that I ripped to flac a long time ago All of it sets on my shelf as a NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but I remember finding the songs for mixtapes on… the radio

  Back in the day, disk jockies would announce 'Alright, get your cassettes out, we’re going to play the entire Led Zep - Kashmir LP, usually late at night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  True. I remember the days of mixtapes, and then the advent of cd collections in your car of all the bootleg ‘mix tapes’. However, I still hold that if it weren’t for Shawn Fanning, among others, pushing the envelope, the music scene online would be quite different than it is now. Technology is like that…double edged sword and all that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only way to stop corporate greed is to stop consuming. Easy to say, hard to do, but not impossible. I’ve lived most of my life striving to be as self sufficient as humanly possible, and that has carried me over into self hosting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best way to browse and share files between hoarders?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a feeling I get, but open directories and hoarders are going to become more popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CopyParty is kind of a great file server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t forget about the one who never seems to get a chance (Noob Noob) All the bitches come around for (Noob Noob) His dick gets more visits than (YouTube)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conntrack question⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No shade bro. I just genuinely haven’t heard of PC Engine for quite some time. Didn’t do too well in North America as I remember, but had a solid following in Japan. For it’s time, it had advantages over other rivals, pretty cutting edge stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conntrack question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PC engine APU2C4

  Now there’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering if an Altair 8800 would be classified as a desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweet! Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conntrack question⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an OPNsense between the router and the nginx vm.

  Have you tried integrating opensense with Suricata or perhaps Snort as an IDS/IPS? Then use ntopng for observables and traffic analysis. Currently, there are several IP that have been hounding the pFsense firewall. Mostly from China, Romania, and Singapore, but they just get blocked by Suricata.

  I have no experience with conntrack tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I found it, however… it’s $5, which I don’t mind paying for software, then it says ‘in app purchases’. So my question is what are the ‘in app purchases’ after I lay down my $5? It does seem to have a lot of bells and whistles others don’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Server and infrastructure building for me, a dummy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  but you can use perplexity or Claude

  For things that are not super complicated, Grok is pretty fair but it has it’s limitations when you get into complexities. At the very least it gives you something to go on for further reading of a topic you don’t necessarily have a firm grip on. I’ve also found that if you ask a question, finish up with ‘explain it for a noob’ or ‘EILI5’. That seems to get the more accurate, step by step instructions, broken down into bite sized chunks, and doesn’t assume you know what to do in between steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On iOS, ply:sub was the best experience I found

  I’ll check out ply:sub. Thank you for the recommendation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quitting Spotify for Navidrome⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I chose Navidrome for my music collection. I basically use it when I’m outside working around the property. Put on my raggedy ass pair of Beats, I found in the thrift store for $5…had to do some repairs but they work, on a defunct old phone just for the wifi aspect. When I’m inside tho, I use Music Bee. Navadrome has everything I need, tho I am still searching for a mobile app that operates like I want it too. The app I’m currently using, Agin Music, is good, but there are a couple places in the operation flow that won’t let me backtrack to the previous page I was viewing. I’ll keep testing until I find one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  From the OP (emphasis mine):

  but I dream of a day when everyone’s wifi router meshes with all the other routers in the neighborhood which is connected to all the other neighborhoods in the city which is connected via repeaters to all the other cities and so on. Sure it would be slow, but we’d be communicating on our own system that only costs as much as the hardware you run it on.

  I already hook my uplink to a network called my ISP. It’s fast, it delivers everything I need, that’s why I pay for it. Why would I want to hook my uplink to BillyBob’s network a mile up or down the road either way? Now, I realize there is no ‘I’ in team, but there is a big ass ‘ME’, so the idea first has to pass the ‘me’ test as selfish as that may sound. Reduced speeds don’t sound like a selling point, at least to me. Communal communications doesn’t sound like a selling point, at least to me.

  Yes, I get it. At this point, 80%+ of 8.4 billion people are inexorably tied together via the internet, no matter what ISP you use. However, the current system delivers fast speeds and access to more data than I could consume in many lifetimes. So, I’m still left struggling with the ‘why’ part.

  So, if you would, help me out with the ‘why’ part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cloud is just someone else's computer, but the internet is just someone else's network⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of being a contrarian, why would I want to hook my uplink to someone else’s network, or vice versa?