SirMaple__
@SirMaple__@lemmy.ca
- Comment on All United Nations Security Council members, except for US, call for ceasefire and aid into Gaza 1 week ago:
The Security Council needs to have the vote removed and changed to 2 thirds majority to pass items. Or better yet get rid of it and do everything in the General Assembly.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 1 month ago:
Yeah I’d consider that as a used phone. I’d only get the hardware from the OEM and install GrapheneOS myself. Less chance of man in the middle. It’s super easy to install using the web installer.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 1 month ago:
I think this is incorrect but I could be wrong.
You can not buy a Pixel device preloaded with GrapheneOS. They only come from Google with their standard Android and it’s up to the end user to install GrapheneOS
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 month ago:
We can’t buy Chinese EV’s in Canada thanks to the 100% tariff imposed by the GoC. I wish they’d get rid of the tariff. Our cheapest EV option right now is the Fiat 500e and that starts at over $30,000.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 month ago:
I used to back everything up before I broke the 50TB mark. Just can’t justify it now. I even looked at LTO drives for backing up the multimedia but they’re still to expensive for the higher capacity drives. And then you need tapes…
All the truely good content will always be out there somewhere on the net.
The script I use to generate the file lists is very very basic. Nothing special no formatting the lists or anything since it’s just for that oh balls, everything is gone scenario.
ls -alR /mnt/volume1/media > /mnt/volume2/backups/file_lists/media.txt
ls -alR /mnt/snapraid/data* > /mnt/volume2/backups/file_lists/snapraid.txt
Those text files are also part of the files backed up with PBS so I can always go back and restore previous versions of them. You may ask why I generate the list twice? The first is just everything inside the media folder on the volume1 mount point. The second let’s me see what files are on each individual drive so if only 1 drive dies I can just grep the text file and output to another text file and show me what is on that 1 drive.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 month ago:
Ah yes. My storage system is 2 x Supermicro CSE-846 cases. Only one as a CPU and motherboard, the other is acting as a plain Jane JBOD.
Hard drives I have 21 x 8TB 7200RPM mix of Seagate and Western Digital and 4 x 16TB 7200RPM from Seagate. I use mergerfs and snapraid. Mergerfs presents all the 21 8TB drives as one mount point. Snapraid uses the 4 16TB drives to provide 4 parity drives. Note that snapraid is not live and the parity is only updated after running a “snapraid sync” which I run nightly.
I only backup my songs and music videos. The rest is easy to get again. I have a script that generates a list of every single file I have each night. So if the day comes it would take too long to get back to where I was. The other reason I use mergerfs is if 1 drive dies, I only lose the files on that one drive and not the entire array. The truely important stuff such as tax documents, mortgage details, family pictures, will & estate documents are all backedup nice a safe using Proxmox PBS. The PBS datastore is synced to 2 remote locations as well as to external drives that I keep offline and rotate.
- Comment on How big is your media library? 1 month ago:
1,152 - Movies 552 - Shows 37, 062 - Episodes 491 - Albums 6,558 - Songs 362 - Music Videos 14 - Concert Films
Files are a mix of 1080p and 4K. 264 and 265. Standard and REMUX.
Total space used is currently 149.90TiB
- Comment on Rotary wing tism be kickin, i wana know what model it was >.< 2 months ago:
Nope. The 3 I listed do not filter any aircraft from being visible. They display everything the feeders submit to them.
I have a whole ADSB/VHF/L-Band feeder station on the roof of my garage and I feed the 3 I listed and ACARS data to airframes.io
I do feed flightaware…but only because they’re up front about being for profit and the fact they give feeders a free pro account. But sadly they do filter since its one of the requirements when have access to data directly from FAA. The pro account is nice for setting up alerts for flights family or friends may be on just so you know the plane made it.
- Comment on Rotary wing tism be kickin, i wana know what model it was >.< 2 months ago:
Don’t use adsb exchange! They up and sold out for money. I stop feeding them.
Use one of the not for profit ones. Like airplanes.live, adsb.fi, or adsb.lol
- Comment on X (formerly Twitter) has been experiencing international outages for a second time in a week. 3 months ago:
- Comment on Shats 3 months ago:
“Rectum. Damn near killed 'em”
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 months ago:
I use Proxmox PBS for all my backups. Datastore is on my file server at home. I sync the datastore daily to a little NAS at a family members house and to a super cheap storage VPS on the other side of the country. I also do a manual sync to an external drive that keep offline at home.
Any super important documents such as tax records health related files, backup of the data volume from vaultwarden, or anything related to wills & estates get backed up as well to 2 USB thumb drives that are LUKS encrypted. I keep 1 in my go bag and another is hidden somewhere… Thumb drives get updated once a month, or sooner if anything major changes.
- Comment on Reddit Plans Extra Verification Steps To Detect The Human-Like AI Bots 3 months ago:
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 3 months ago:
No problem. It’s a great piece of software. I have it monitoring logs for nextcloud, vaultwarden, mailcow(postfix & dovecot), basic nginx proxies (just to be safe and for rate limiting). I have 4 OPNsense and 1 Debian bouncers.
I had an issue with so a note about setting up the bouncer on OPNsense. If you have the LAPI on a different machine you can currently only connected OPNsense to the using the command line. The LAPI options in the web interface are for defining the interface to bind to and run the LAPI on OPNsense itself. Which isn’t an issue, I just wanted it on a VM so it’s easier to keep online instead of it going down if the OPNsense it’s on fails. Plus I like to keep SSH disabled on my OPNsense devices and spend a bit of time using cscli on the LAPI VM from time to time.
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 3 months ago:
I’ve been thinking about going this route. What size subnet are you blocking? /24?
Only thing stopping me is I selfhost email and don’t want to ban say a whole subnet from Microsoft/Azure and end up blocking the outgoing servers for O365. I’m sure I can dig around and look at the prefixes to see which are used for which of their services just haven’t had the time yet.
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 3 months ago:
Crowdsec with a central LAPI server. You should install it on the servers themselves to monitor the application logs directly. Then every bouncer(firewall, router, edge device) connected to the LAPI will all block the same IPs. I got sick of repeat offenders and up the ban time to 1 year in hours.
- Comment on Biwatt releases 4.5 kWh sodium-ion battery - Energy Storage 4 months ago:
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 4 months ago:
- Comment on FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink 4 months ago:
- Comment on Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs 4 months ago:
Should have thought of that when voting …
- Comment on America is fucked 4 months ago:
Where I live in Canada traffic moves for anything with lights(other than a tow truck unless of course they have an EMS escort). We pull up on to sidewalks, curbs, and anything really to clear a path. Heck I’ve seen people put their vehicle into a snow bank pr a ditch to get out of the way. I guess we’re of the mindset that others will do the same for us should we be the ones awaiting EMS to arrive or deliver us to an ER.
- Comment on Canadians could face detention if denied U.S. entry, Ottawa warns 4 months ago:
It’s time for travel.gc.ca to be updated to yellow for the US.
- Comment on Moving from Cloudflare tunnels for media streaming, first plan didn't work out due to double NAT 5 months ago:
Do not. I repeat do not expose Jellyfin to the internet. It has too many security issues to be direct accessible from the internet.
I use Jellyfin and only access it over WireGuard. I have a mesh setup between the routers at a few family members houses.
If you have absolutely no other way then to expose it to the internet you need to make sure that you whitelist only the approved IPs in your VPS firewall and block everything else.
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 5 months ago:
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 5 months ago:
I use LUKS on my systems. I use mandos and wireguard in intramfs to connect to a mandos server to unlock LUKS during boot.
- Comment on Sophos XG Firewall Home Use 5 months ago:
Nope. I’ll stick with OPNsense which is open source.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 months ago:
No upselling. Yes they might have something in the order process. Like when ordering a VPS you can add windows os or some control panel type software. I didn’t pay anything extra and my domains all have private whois details when lookups are done. The one thing they did offer in the order process for domain transfer was something to do with anycast DNS, but it was just a box on the page and wasn’t in your face or annoying.
No annoying emails either. I only get emails from them related to services I purchased from them which include changes to whois contacts(also usually get a email from CIRA for my .ca domains), bill PDF being ready for download, or additional IP is available and ready for use etc.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 months ago:
Canuck here. I’ve been moving all my domains from porkbun over to OVH. I still use desec.io for the DNS since they’re based in Germany and like to keep it separate from the registrar.
If OVH plays its cards right they’re going to be getting a lot more business from those looking to dump GCS, AWS, and Azure.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Stay in Canada and out of the US. I know this is not an option everyone. Do stay safe and do anything you can to protect yourself online and physically as well. Just wanted to add my support to those in the US who didn’t ask for this.
