chris

@chris@lemmy.grey.fail

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a bad recommendation, but I disagree.

  Rocket chat is just as heavy (in fact, it federates to Matrix), uses MongoDB, and has steadily pulled features behind a paywall for years. To me, if I’m hosting the service on my own machines and I’m not using their live support, the idea of paying for the privilege of using it is absurd.

  Matrix has come a long way, including integrated voice and video chats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes indeed. It’s now failing. 😞

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify changes developer mode API to require premium accounts, limits test users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, this kind of sucks.

  I wrote a nifty script a few years ago that pulls the popularity metric of a song, converts that to a star rating, and writes that to a tag with Mutagen. At a glance I can see the hits. If I like the track, I’ll “love” it (side stepping the need for a personal rating). It’s a system that’s been serving me well for a long time.

  Locking down APIs does seem to be the trend. I’m not sure I’ll look to adapt.

  Giving money to Spotify is out of the question, but I may pay for Deezer or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How’d it work out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean in terms of hijacking DNS. Might be worth a look.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love the portability of running this in Docker. I rsync a backup of this and the Appdata folder every night. When or if this server fails, I can be up and running again in minutes on another machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is your ISP interfering?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  services:
  
    pihole:
      container_name: pihole
      image: pihole/pihole:latest
      hostname: sheldon
      environment:
        HOST_CONTAINERNAME: pihole
        TZ: ${TZ}
        WEBPASSWORD: ${WEBPASSWORD}
        DNSMASQ_LISTENING: "all"
        PIHOLE_DNS_1: "unbound#53"
      ports:
        - "53:53/tcp"
        - "53:53/udp"
        - "67:67/udp" # Only required if you are using Pi-hole as your DHCP server
        - "8080:80/tcp"
      # network_mode: host
      dns:
        - 127.0.0.1
      networks:
        dns:
          ipv4_address: 172.22.0.2
      volumes:
        - /mnt/appdata/pihole/etc-pihole:/etc/pihole
        - /mnt/appdata/pihole/etc-dnsmasq.d:/etc/dnsmasq.d
      restart: unless-stopped
      depends_on:
        unbound:
          condition: service_healthy
  
    unbound:
      container_name: unbound
      image: klutchell/unbound:latest
      networks:
        dns:
          ipv4_address: 172.22.0.3
      volumes:
        - /mnt/appdata/unbound:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/custom
      restart: unless-stopped
      healthcheck:
        test: ["CMD", "dig", "google.com", "@127.0.0.1"]
        interval: 10s
        timeout: 5s
        retries: 5
  
    wg-easy:
      container_name: wg-easy
      image: ghcr.io/wg-easy/wg-easy:15
      ports:
        - "51820:51820/udp"
        - "51821:51821/tcp"
      # environment:
      #   TZ: ${TZ}
      #   LANG: en
      #   WG_HOST: ${WG_HOST}
      #   PASSWORD_HASH: ${PASSWORD_HASH}
      #   WG_DEFAULT_DNS: 172.22.0.2
      #   WG_MTU: 1420
      networks:
        dns:
          ipv4_address: 172.22.0.4
      volumes:
        - /mnt/appdata/wg-easy:/etc/wireguard
        - /lib/modules:/lib/modules:ro
      cap_add:
        - NET_ADMIN
        - SYS_MODULE
      sysctls:
        - net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
        - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1
        - net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=0
        - net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
        - net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1
      restart: unless-stopped
  
  networks:
    dns:
      external: true
  

  Feel free to just delete the wg-easy service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very well could be!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lineage sounds a lot like “Linux.” Take it easy on the lad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of it is anxiety; being replaced by AI, the continued enshitification of the services I loved, and the ever present notion that AI is, “the answer.” After a while, it gets old and that anxiety mixes in with annoyance – a perfect cocktail of animosity.

  And AI stole em dashes from me, but that’s a me-problem.