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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  if you need to share passwords with other people and do that often then that would be the only reason i would recommend a server-client based password manager. otherwise theres too many points of failure for my liking, especially for something that i use on a daily basis.

  KeePass on the other hand is just a single file thats stored locally and all you need is an app to read it. you dont need an internet connection or a VPN to access it remotely. your wifi could be down, even your power could be out and you would still have access to your database

  being able autofill desktop program logins was the main reason i switched away from bitwarden years ago

  KeepassXC on desktop has a feature called “Autotype” which basically simulates keystrokes to fill in your passwords. theres also an option to integrate with the KeepassXC browser extension, but with Autotype your browser has no connection to your database at all. i kind of feel this is a huge elephant in the room that most other password managers just gloss over. sure, you are getting a lot more convenience by having your browser autofill your passwords but its also adding a huge attack surface just for the sake of a few seconds or a few clicks.

  that said, Autotype isnt great at guessing all sites you might be trying to log into but there is this browser extension that will change your browsers window title to show the full site url which KeepassXC can then read

  one really underrated feature that i dont see any of the others doing is giving you the ability to use multiple vaults at once. you can have one vault for things that are really important, then everything else in another vault and have different strength passwords/passphrases for each one. i have maybe 300 logins but only around 10% of them are important. its kind of a pain if all you want to do is just log into some random forum but you have to type a long secure master password just to open your vault

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  using passphrases instead of passwords can make this a lot easier as well. a lot of times i just glance at a passphrase on my phone and then type the whole thing in one go into my laptop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  theres also the option of using a “key file” with Keepass, which can be any file, an mp3, an ebook or whatever, and then you select that file when youre entering your password. so as well as someone trying to brute force your password they also have to guess what key file youre using, which would be next to impossible if you had a folder full of hundreds of files

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

  something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Looking for an ebook reader with highlight syncing across devices⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i havnt tried it but librera on android has a sync option that uses google drive

  librera.mobi/faq/setting-up-synchronization/

  i think it only does highlighting in pdfs though.

  for other things like epubs, you can select text and then bookmark it, you can add in your own notes to the text, but they are mainly used for navigation. when you add a bookmark first, the text is visually highlighted but it goes away as soon as you scroll and i dont know if theres a setting to keep it highlighted

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ive been eyeing up netbird but havnt got around to trying it yet. its fully open source at least, and theyre based in germany is anyone cares about that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you actually audit open source projects you download?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  no. ive skimmed through maybe 2 things overall but thats about it. i use too many apps to be able to audit them all and i dont have the proper skills to audit code anyway, and even if i did i would still have to re-audit after every update or every few years. its just not worth the effort

  youre taking a chance whether you use closed or open source software, at least with open source there is the option to look through things yourself, and with a popular project theres going to be a bigger chance of others looking through it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My First Homelab⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wrap a nappy around them. that will help reduce any vibrations haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With the recent happenings with Synology/Plex, I’ve decided it’s time to make the move and up my self-hosting game, just need some input from the veterans to solidify my plan and put it into action.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if they do backtrack on this then its too late for me cos the damage is already done. ive got myself some new hardware already i wont be buying anything from them again. i wish them the best of luck though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the minimum or recommended requirements for a personal home server?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  raspberry pi’s arent the best option anyway since you need to add on a hat just to get some SATA ports. i think Odroid has some boards with sata connectors. zimaboard or zimablade are some other options off the top of my head

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨self hosted browser sync?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  ive been using floccus for a few years now and no complaints

  i havnt tried syncing tabs but i think its an option. what i do have is a one-way sync job for the tabs in each browser so i at least have a backup of them, and each browser has its own file, but i would imagine if you tried to sync the same file between multiple devices it would just get very messy at some point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Portugal Joins Switzerland, Austria, and Luxembourg in Outright New Dash Cam Ban as Summer Travelers May Face Hefty Fines Over Privacy Violations in Europe - Travel And Tour World⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i thought by now there would be small enough machine learning models that could be run on a dash cam that would blur out people’s faces. like OpenCV stuff or whatever Panoramax are using for their street-view imagery? but i dont know, maybe it would take more powerful CPUs to do this kind of thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida bill requiring encryption backdoors for social media accounts has failed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  putting a “backdoor” in secure software is the equivalent of taking a safe and installing a cat flap on the back of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  back to the good old days when “self-hosting” wasnt even a term because of course you would be hosting it yourself!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  duckduckgo added the “instant answers” sidebar for the first time back in 2014 and google did the same not too long after, so its definitely not a new issue