meltedcheese

@meltedcheese@c.im

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @phant Pi-hole is super easy to set up and easy to build on. It’s been very robust for me and also eye-opening due to the excellent UI. About 5% of the network traffic in my house is now blocked. Thousands of DNS requests per day. Most of that is trackers. Apps and “smart” devices are very determined to phone home so you’ll have to block many of these domains manually as they show up. Be forewarned, some apps and web sites will simply stop working if you block their tracking and other info gathering on your network. Luckily, there is good #FOSS to substitute.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't want to use AI, so I made something that detects it!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  @shads @selfhosted Agreed. Words carry baggage and #AI has a lot of baggage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  @potatopotato @selfhosted Black Ice exists. Software is hand-to-hand combat. The most #cyberpunk sentence I’ve read today:

  “There are also various poison and tarpit systems which will serve scrapers infinite garbage text or data designed to aggressively corrupt the models they’re training. “

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Interoperability between self-hosted services⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @utopiah @yaroto98 re #HomeAssistant integrations, you can also look at what is available under #HACS library, search or ask for help in any of the community forums for #HA such as https://community.home-assistant.io or on reddit, discord , git hub. It integrates nicely with #homebridge and also with containerized systems e.g., docker, portainer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Beyond Pi-Hole⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @q7mJI7tk1 I have #Pihole and #unbound both running on an #RPi4 for over a year. Solid as a rock although new domain lookups take much longer the first time. After that they’re cached. About 6.5 to 7.5% of the #DNS queries get blocked. I’m super happy with the setup.
  #HomeAutomation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin over the internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @EncryptKeeper That’s my experience. Zombied home computers are big business. The networks are thousands of computers. I had a hacker zombie my printer(!) maybe via an online fax connection and it/they then proceeded to attack everything else on my network. One older machine succumbed before I could lock everything down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @muusemuuse @essell Maybe this? There seem to be a number of possibilities. Let us know what you find out. #HomeAutomation #Maker #SelfHost

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World Backup Day⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  @irmadlad Yes, and keep a copy offsite! A good friend’s house burned down in the recent Eaton Canyon fire. He and his family lost absolutely everything. Photos, letters, memorabilia — the story of their lives. A devastating loss. He had plenty of backups, but none stored elsewhere and the ones in his house were also thoroughly toasted. Friends are working to find copies of photos, but that is just a fraction of what was lost.

  It isn’t hard to do backups, just a chore. I by a thumb drive every few months. A few terabytes is not too expensive and it is small. I backup to it and mail it to a family member. I know it is safe. Daily backups are better but more cumbersome. I back up weekly to hosted disk drives at a small Internet service provider.