irmadlad

@irmadlad@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  github.com/linuxserver/docker-obsidian

  It uses the Kasm VNC. Takes a little to get used to, but it rocks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m somewhat of a chemist too, tho, it was back in the 60s…and in my basement…but yeah.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  without developing at least some actual understanding of the concepts underlying what you’re doing

  I realize lemmy hates AI, but I use Grok a lot to explain commands, command sequences, etc. Those go in my notes as well, after I’ve refined them, and conformed them to my application. Of course, all the precautions one should take with any online tut in place, and pulling knowledge from multiple sources helps verify. Grok helps me out a ton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which guides to trust for novice / normie getting started?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to reiterate the importance of taking notes. As a younger man, I never felt the need thinking, ‘I can remember all that’. Wrong! So as a elderly man, taking profuse notes is paramount. So it’s a good idea to get in the practice of taking notes while you are young.

  I use NotePad++ locally, then transfer the notes to an encrypted Obsidian vault on my server. I can actually stand up a server, implement all the security necessary, install 30 or so apps, and be in production within hours just from notes. They house all my Docker compose files and everything. So it’s kind of like painting by numbers.

  Get in the habit of taking notes and refine them as well, as you galong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  mostly just for when I’d search for instructions on something an a YT vid was my only option.

  That was basically what I wanted to use it for. There are several fairly reliable Invidious instances still left. yewtu.be comes to mind and inv.nadeko.net. But it’s hit and miss, and it gets pretty janky having to refresh the instance, then pick a new instance, then Anubis weighs your soul to see if you are allowed to view content. But, like you say, if that’s the only video tut you can find… I usually just download the video and when done, delete it. Trying to jump through YouTube’s hoops is a futile endeavor. They’ve made it so painful to watch content on their platform while still trying to retain as much of your data as possible. Screw 'em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Invidious

  How do you keep Invidious running? I’ve tried all the alternatives like Piped, etc. I can’t keep them running for more than a week before it gets banhammered by Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome SelfHosted is a great place to start looking: github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What else should I self-host?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What else should I self-host, aside from HA (I don’t have a smart home), Calibre (physical books are my jam), and Jellyfin (I don’t watch too many movies + don’t have a significant DVD/Blu-ray collection)?

  You sound kind of like me, but physical books are not my jam. I host a lot of things I use all the time. The most used app I selfhost is SearxNG. When you get it all set up, in your browser settings you can substitute DDG for your private SearxNG instance.

  I host Obsidian which is a note taking app. It houses all my compose files, step by step tuts I’ve written to myself, interesting code snippets, etc. There are several encryption plugins for Obsidian that allow you to encrypt the document itself to keep it away from nosy people.

  I host Readeck and Karakeep. These are bookmark type apps. I use Readeck for ‘read it later’ type articles I find are interesting. Karakeep I use for data preservation. Both can be used for both bookmarks and data preservation, I just keep 'em separated.

  I host a lot more but that might get the juices flowing as it were.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Keeping track of different targets in terminal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m on WIndows, I use MobaXterm. If I’m on Linux, I use tmux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m always excited to try new stuff. You never know. A use case might develop that you didn’t think of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use UVR for vocal isolation. It just works, but that shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll check it out. At the worst, I’ll learn something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a last resort, whistleblowing like app that requires a password on a timer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bookmarked. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that’s an interesting angle. I am a mediocre musician on my best day, but sometimes I incorporate phrases and lyric snippits in a piece. I wonder if I could use WhisperX to find those words or phrases from a stack of songs. For instance, I did a piece that used a line from Jimi Hendrix’s ‘If 6 were 9’ where he says ‘I’m the one who’s gotta die when it’s time for me to die. So let me live my life the way I want to.’ I wonder if WhisperX could pick that out of a stack of Jimi Hendrix songs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Docker with Ansible to k3s: I don't get it...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve thought about k8s, but there is so much about Docker that I still don’t fully know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What kind of stupid-ass question is that? LOL All kidding aside, she’s a good soul. We’re not married, we’ve just know each other for 45+ years. It just kind of clicked. She lives in her house, and I in mine, and we get together as often as possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess that’s why I am having difficulty coming up with a use case. I mean, I walk around the lab talking to myself all day long, but I think it’d be a bad idea to have a record of all those conversations. lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a lady friend that does quite a good enough job of that. LOL

  ‘You remember back in 1979…it was a Friday at 2:11 PM, and you said…’ ‘Babe, I don’t remember what I had for breakfast yesterday.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhisperX — Automated Transcripts w/ Timestamps and Speaker Tagging⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What would be some use cases for WhisperX? I’m struggling to envision how I would use that in a selfhosting/homelabbing environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, for the average consumer of the internet, they have no real concept what’s going on behind the webpage with the fancy graphics they happen to be looking at. When I try to explain to them that bots comprise conservatively 40-50% of all internet traffic which is about ~2 zettabytes per 24 hour period, they still don’t get it. And really, they don’t have to, that’s the job of sysadmin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VERY simple web-based reliable file browser/hosting⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not know Caddy could do that. TIL

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Meh. I know everyone is giving OP the piss, but I used to fret about this type of stuff long time ago. LOL That became a job. Then I learned a little more and realized I wasn’t being targeted specifically by some hooded specter in a dimly lit basement emphatically announcing ‘I’m in!’, but that these were bots. Sophisticated bots tho, I’ll give them that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not on AWS and yes I know I can’t stop port scanning and bad traffic is a thing. Doesn’t stop me from filling out the form.

  On occasion, if they end up in recidive, I’ll report them to AbuseIPdb. If I did it for all attempts, I’d be as busy as a squirrel in a nut factory, because the bots are thick out in the ether. Like every minute of the day they’re out there throwing rocks at the castle wall. I had to start logrotating because logs were getting so big it was difficult to review and audit. Every so once in a while, they’ll break out the trebuchet and lob something significant, but I’ve had no breaches to date.

  My servers are single user only, so buttoning things down is a little less complicated for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a last resort, whistleblowing like app that requires a password on a timer?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always thought about a ‘button’ on your phone that you could press and wipe an entire encrypted drive. Conversely you could have to log in at an appointed time/interval or the same scenario goes into play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got my first script kiddy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I am reminded of a Richard Pryor skit in which he tells about a football player he knew who bit the fingers off of an opponent who was trying to gouge his eyes through his helmet. When Pryor asked him why he bit the guy’s fingers off he said ‘Everything outside the mask is his. Everything inside the mask is mine.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How big is your media library?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  80K+ hires music flac - no movies - no episodes, no shows, no podcasts, no youtube

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh…gotcha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  VPN - I currently pay for Proton, and we use it on the FireTV, but it sucks cause it doesn’t have killswitch.

  I have been using Private Internet Access so long I can’t remember when I first started but it’s been years. I’ve had great success with PIA and I never fire up a device locally without it. It does have a killswitch, advanced killswitch, split tunnel, multi-hop with shadowsocks or socks5 proxy, openVPN or Wireguard configurations, and a dedicated IP option.

  I’ve tried other top name VPNs, but imho, non come up to what PIA does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Error 1033 Cloudflare⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey bro. I’m just a FNG here, but I’ve found that the more detail you can give, the better the results (answers) will be. However, two sentences about a Cloudfare error is probably not going to garner much interest. People here I’ve found, are willing to help, but they can’t guess what it is you’re talking about.

  Kind Regards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tailscale addressing concerns over potential enshittification of the platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but there are a lot of things you can do with the use of a good firewall, Pi-Hole, VPN, et al, you can mitigate those leaks. Anytime I fire up a new piece of software, my firewall pops up and says ‘Hey bro, you really want this chatty piece of software running uninhibited on your network?’ and here I go plugging holes. It’s not 100%. Some software absolutely refuses to work unless it has internet access. Bluebeam comes to mind. You do what you can, and decide if the hardwired software is something you really need or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do I do -- Incorrect?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same thing can happen even when you are first doing the setup process.

  I might get a bit too stressed about standing up a server than I should, but this notion has always been in the back of my mind, prompting me to hurry the fuck up and secure everything before some bot detected I was remiss we in having this or that in place in the initial setup. So, it’s like a sprint trying to get all security in place.

  I don’t share my servers with others like a lot you guys do, so it’s a little simpler. Implementing host.allow and host.deny (ALL:ALL) does the trick. Over the course of 24 hours, I think, conservatively hundreds of bots visit.