irmadlad

@irmadlad@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ve been communicating with pictures ever since the ancients scrawled pictographs on cave walls with a burnt piece of firewood.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Diversity? Choices? Personally I use Readeck for ‘read it later’, LinkWarden for actual links, and Karakeep for archiving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Now — what — would — make — you — say — a — thing — like — that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden v2.14 - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, I’ll have to admit that Linkwarden is one of my favorite and more often used app in my stack. It just works. And I really like the iOS app, Oh, and those emojis…I like them. They are relational to information, and helps me equate a picture with where to find certain information, since I am a visual person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  router modem combo devices and really cheap routers or access points.

  I’ve always thought that combo devices are probably good for the average, casual internet user, but not high end, extreme users. I want the best (within reason of course) delivery mechanism that I can get to route the signal from the street to my devices. It’s worth the extra $$ to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨swapping out the router maybe?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  $409.00 The firewalla is a heavily optimized amlogic based pi. it’s not special.

  Damn sure seems special. WOW! What features are/were you running on Opnsense?

  I looked for specs on the Firewalla Purple. However, to compare, I’m running pFsense on an Intel Celeron CPU J3160 @ 1.60GHz/4 core/32gb RAM with pfblockerng, suricata, ntopng, and Tailscale, unbound, with customized and publicly available DNSBL lists.

  Load average 0.80, 0.51, 0.45

  As @frongt@lemmy.zip said, the more ‘things’ you have running, the more load, and 800 Mbps is about what I can do even with a gigabit connection and CAT6 pulled for every connection. If I were try to run huge generic block lists, I will start peeking, which is why I run mostly slimmed down, targeted, custom lists. When you stop and think about it, the amount of list checking, resolving, etc, it’s really pretty amazing.

  I tried a while back to see if I could better the 800 Mbps, but nothing produced any thing much higher than the standard 800 Mbps which frustrated me. I just finally accepted the fact that getting as close to a gigabit connection would be the best I could do with what I’ve got. Being the type of person I am, I was rather verklempt I couldn’t squeeze that extra 200 Mbps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨metube: Self-hosted video downloader for YouTube and other sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for the screen shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you capture things quickly across devices in a self-hosted setup?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen anyone mention Readeck. I use Readeck for those ‘read it later’ articles, etc. It has a Firefox extension. I’ve found it works very well. You can highlight a paragraph of an article, and save that to Readeck as well. In fact, when I consult with AI, I’ll highlight the entire page and shoot it to my Readeck instance, otherwise it will just link the AI platform and not the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You bet. Best of luck with your project. The more the merrier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to crap all over your project OP, I think the idea is a good one. Maybe if we could have the choice of Telegram, or Slack, or some other service, or as @lelovsky@szmer.info said, just ssh in. Telegram is pretty neat and all, but I’ve never been convinced of it’s security. I did test it out once, and even though I only used it in the manner of which you are, to administrate containers, I got a lot of spam of the x-rated kind which are usually just scams.

  • great idea
  • might need some options
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONYX: self-hosted messenger with LAN mode and E2EE — an indie project story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
  spoiler

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youlag (v4.3.0) - YouTube viewing in FreshRSS: Improved browsing experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Supports Invidious

  As I was reading down the post, that’s what I was thinking. Would be great to pipe it through Invideous. I may have my next project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONYX: self-hosted messenger with LAN mode and E2EE — an indie project story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The future of validating if people are “real” or not is beginning to feel like fighting with ghosts.

  On the internet, no one knows I’m a horse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ONYX: self-hosted messenger with LAN mode and E2EE — an indie project story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  —

  In the future, I’d delete these…LOL. It’s like touching off a power keg in here. But, using AI for language translation is perfectly fine for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Before I get a job, I'm experimenting with a free VPS - Will it work? help?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My server is left on pending and no matter how I try to activate it, it doesn’t work.

  Not to throw shade on your efforts, but this is pretty much the experience I had long time ago when I explored ‘free’ VPS. I do hope you get it going tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Booklore Alternatives/Forks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure how trustworthy this fork is though.

  If the ruckus was about AI code, it would seem to me that the fork would contain some, or all of the code, perhaps modified. I’ve been using Calibre Web for quite a while now and it’s stable, ticks all the boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and it never required

  That’s cool. I was thinking one of the free tiers like Amazon, Google required a CC to open one. Side question: What do you run on Oracle, and how fastidious do you have to be about controlling resource consumption? I’ve read about people on one of the free tiers getting socked a big bill, in fact it’s a meme now.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stupid question, but are there free VPS/VM instances for a jobless girl who wants to run her own instance?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know of a few VPS that are ‘free’, and I use that word quite loosely. Long time back I explored a few, and I can tell you that they are not the time of day. Very cheap VPS can be had. I had one that ran me $25 USD per year. It wasn’t the most thread rippin’ VPS you could have, but it certainly was cheap, and at one time I had about 25 different containers running on it with out much trouble. A good place to look for cheap VPS is at lowendbox.com.

  Oracle offers a free tier, but you really have to watch your consumption of resources, and I believe they require a credit card to open an account. There are horror stories of people who went over the limit and ended up with a good size bill

  I realize $25 USD is not free and does not fit withing your request, and I empathize. As far as using your own computer with something like Docker, and shutting it down each evening…I shut my server down every evening via a cron job. I am the only user, and I just couldn’t justify letting it run while I slept. So I guess you’d say it’s an intermittent service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because that’s just the way I do. LOL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I prompt injected my CONTRIBUTING.md – 50% of PRs are bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s commerial setup to get your dependent on it

  Honest question: How is it different than anything else we are dependent on? The ‘dependent on’ list is quite long and includes things like transportation, infrastructure, power grid, fuel, food supply, water supply, industry, internet communications, et al. We are very dependent upon these things. Are they ‘enshitifications’ as well? I’ve tried to construct my life to be as independent as possible. I grow my own food, pump my water from several wells on my property, employ solar power while still connected to the grid. Try as I may, I am still dependent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ETA = Edit To Add

  Kind of like P.S.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And that opens the door to making your setup a netbot.

  …then you learn. That’s pretty much how I did it. First Linux server I every deployed on a VPS, got taken over almost immediately. So you drop back to your trick bag, and spool up on security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Watchtower replacement recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never used it, but TugTainer. I use the fork of Watchtower and run it with ‘–run-once’ ‘–cleanup’. You can run it and let it update your containers as soon as an update is available, but I just like to run it manually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  …aaaaaand away we go! qwerty!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Homelabinator, the easiest way to self-host.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OP, I took a cursory run through of the site. Looks good. Could really have potential for those just dipping their toes in the self hosting pool. I haven’t tested the ISO created tho. One thing, Tailscale client id & secret. I’m not sure I would want to disclose that on an unknown website, because of privacy issues. I understand why you included it, but it seems like an brief explanation as to how to do that manually, once the ISO is deployed, for those who might have some of the same reservations. Perhaps I overlooked that if it exists. Otherwise it looks like it would be a great introductory to self hosting.

  Onward and upward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I built a local AI movie recommender for Radarr using Ollama⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The effects on the environment

  Didn’t down vote you. I hear this line of complaint in conjunction with AI, especially if the person saying it is anti-AI. Without even calculating in AI, some 25 million metric tons of CO2 emissions annually from streaming and content consumption. Computers, smartphones, and tablets can emit around 200 million metric tons CO2 per year in electrical consumption. Take data centers for instance. If they are powered by fossil fuels, this can add about 100 million metric tons of CO2 emissions. Infrastructure contributes around 50 million metric tons of CO2 per year.

  Now…who wants to turn off their servers and computers? Volunteers? While it is true that AI does contribute, we’re already pumping out some significant CO2 without it. Until we start switching to renewable energy globally, this will continue to climb with or without AI. It seems tho, that we will have to deplete the fossil fuel supply globally before renewables become the de facto standard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly (20 March 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run quite a few containers, and I just can’t find anything I’d like to add that would be functional. I’m always tinkering tho, and learning. The learning part is my favorite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly (20 March 2026)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time this comes out, it’s like I was a kid waiting for my Pop Sci & Mech mags to arrive in the mail, and later on Byte magazine. The downside is, after you get your server setup and functioning, there’s not much to add to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luck is not a Disaster Recovery Plan⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  storing backups on the host being backed up is ill advised

  I’ve had this notion for a long time. I do store backups on a separate drive on the server, but those are replicated almost immediately, elsewhere. I learned my backup lesson quite a while ago and I do not wish to repeat that disaster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never tasted myself.