kossa
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- Comment on Setting up VPS (finally) 4 days ago:
I get the same feeling, like, as if three letter agencies from all over the world start targeting your server specifically in 300 ms.
What happens is, yes, your server is immediately bombarded by ScriptKiddies from all over the world, and if you set up root SSH with hunter2 as password, that thing is taken over immediately. But if you only allow keyfile SSH you’re 98% there already ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- Comment on Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM 1 week ago:
HDD for games? Enjoy your loading hours!
HDD works for media, allright.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 week ago:
Wait until humans find a way to divide by 0. Suddenly Cambrian explosion in science, immediate Warp civilization and whatnot.
Then they find this chip, but cannot decipher it, because they don’t understand mathematics not able to divide by 0 😅.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 1 week ago:
Do people even still exist who have the arcane knowledge to type in a domain directly?
- Comment on CopyParty is kind of a great file server 3 weeks ago:
All config with docker is the same, so basically every service is kind of maintained and especially backuped the same.
Plus, config is just files. If the server is dead, copy volumes and compose files to new machines, two commands, all services up again. No difference in how to deploy some services.
- Comment on same shit every day, on god 3 weeks ago:
Solar concentration is boiling some other liquid, so there’s some variance 😅
- Comment on GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Yep, used ECC server RAM DDR3 or DDR4 is basically thrown out. Unfortunately most consumer mainboards do not support ECC.
- Comment on Another angle of this modern art installation 4 weeks ago:
No, it’s clearly the fault of the buses. So defunding public transport it is.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 5 weeks ago:
I just saw the news of a new Enshrouded update yesterday and thought about trying it again. Did they change the build system in recent months? While I enjoyed discovering the map, I somehow found the building lacking. My benchmark is the Valheim build system, that is the sweet spot for me. What I crave for is a “survival” game with a Valheim build system AND a reason to build castles/villages/whatever. That is what Enshrouded did well with those characters.
- Comment on Preparing for the hardware market disruption 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, but storage requirements go up, so it stays the same (at best). It feels more expensive though.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 5 weeks ago:
Don’t even need storage or performance or anything on the VPS, just forward stuff to the homeserver.
- Comment on Own domain for Jellyfin and privacy concerns 5 weeks ago:
But that is about the ISP (and all hops in between). The provider, where you buy the domain does not see the traffic at all. Basically the domain seller just controls tme nameservers for that domain, but doesn’t see the traffic that goes to those domains.
Basically by buying a domain you buy an entry into the telephone book
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 5 weeks ago:
You can rent a cheap VServer as well and use its static IP to forward traffic. Easiest for it would be SSH reverse tunnel. Or you could VPN it with your homelab (connection established from within your homelab).
If you don’t want to rely on an external service you could as well establish a VPN server within your homelab and use IPv6 to connect to it, although the disadvantage would be, that if you’re trying to connect from IPv4 networks ‘outside’ that wouldn’t work.
Just listing some options to research. Welcome to the hobby, have fun 🤗
- Comment on what would you do with an old dell server? 1 month ago:
Apparenthy Australians three hours at noon www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/…/105965472
Or if you have one of those fancy new “bill by the minute according to exchange prices” contract in the EU, you might even receive money for using electricity at certain times 😅. But those times are (yet) far in between, so blasting the sweet free energy on crypto is not really viable.
- Comment on Where do I even start? 1 month ago:
How do I learn
…you say in your OP. Yet instead of learning, you complain “what kind of crap server is that”. You don’t learn by thinking anything is the softwares fault.
It is perfecthy normal, that you can reach the server IN your home network only when you are connected TO your home network. That is a security feature by your router and thus by design. But in order to learn how to open it up, you would need to be willing to learn.
But for the beginning: how is that even bad or crap? Like, it saves your photos when you come home and connect to wifi. Awesome, congrats!
- Comment on opencloud - I migrated from nextcloud. Screenshots and docker-compose-compose.yml included 1 month ago:
Probably language settings. Depending on your client you need to change those in the Lemmy WebUI. There’s something like preferred languages.
- Comment on Promised myself I will support them after they go stable. They kept their promise and so did I 1 month ago:
You put them in a safe. Safe falls down, spinning is gone.
You put them in a safe and forget about them for some time. Flash is gone, spinning still has data.
- Comment on What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends? 1 month ago:
Webdav is just a http “file system”. You can then e.g. mount the storage space as a webfolder in your operating system.
- Comment on hmm breakfast 1 month ago:
Also, nicotine is self-medication for a lot of undiagnosed ADHD folks. So, there are health benefits. Far outweighed by the health drawbacks though. At least for smoking to get the sweet, sweet nicotine.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
I just love how all the articles and everything about this study go “Do you need another TV or monitor?” instead of “here’s a chart how to optimize your current setup, make it work without buying shit”. 😅
- Comment on Local dns rewrite problems on android 1 month ago:
I kinda had a similar problem. Never found the root cause, but what did the trick for me was to put an OpenWRT Router between the default ISP router and my home network.
As I said, I never figured out, why Android did not respect the DHCP settings of the default router, but here we are. Maybe it was some DNS shenanigans by the ISP’s config, maybe it was a wrong DNS/DHCP configs from my side, maybe it was IPv6 shenanigans. Those are the culprits I would investigate from your side.
- Comment on Internal domain and reverse proxy 1 month ago:
Lots of people recommending a proper domain, I would as well (way easier)
Just, if you want to go the complete “independent” route: either make sure all the ylients you plan to use can just accept self-signded certs and skip validation or you need to create your own CA and import those into your clients.
Depending on which clients you plan on using that might be impossible (e.g. for some IoT devices, some Smart TVs and such).
That is why having an proper domain and use LetsEncrypt, ZeroSSL et. al. is way easier.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 1 month ago:
Well, as a kid I thought by the time I’ll do my driver’s license there will be no more manual transmissions around.
Turns out, automatic is just still way more expensive to buy AND, as I recently learned, crazy expensive in maintenance.
- Comment on Banana 1 month ago:
Banana milkshake is where all the dark bananas go for me.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
I really loved it, up to the point where I just couldn’t contain the level design in my brain anymore. Guess I ran out of brain memory or something, but when a 3D space with changing orientation and gravity comes into play, I just did not know anymore where I already explored ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Add time pressure into that mix and the game lost me.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 months ago:
But with all the shit I need to control in my car, how would we fit all the physical buttons?
Like, if I need to contain the warp core and reroute auxiliary power to medical while applying a new shield matrix because I am facing off some unexplained space deity. How is that supposed to work with buttons?
- Comment on Load bearing Tupperware 2 months ago:
- Comment on How much time and money would it take to set up and maintain a server similar to disroot.org, offering the same services, for a group of ten people? 2 months ago:
I mean, Email is twofold. Like running the server and getting inbound email: just as easy as all the other services.
Outbound? That shit can be difficult, near impossible on residential. But as outbound mail is kinda “lost” anyway in a privacy sense, I would not feel too bad about using a relay.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
Hm, I would expect that to be true, as in “where a McDonalds opens up, there’s less demand for local family owned restaurants”, but I would not take the rate of self employment as proof.
In developed countries exist more laws against pretended self-employment and more small businesses incorporate, thus lowering those numbers.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 2 months ago:
One aspect I haven’t read about: competitive pressure and economics of scale.
So, imagine two carpenters: they both produce one chair a day. They sell it and can sustain their families with that. Now the one carpenter works a little overtime and uses sharper tools: he’s able to produce two chairs a day. He still needs only to sustain his family, so he could sell the chairs at 50% discount. But he goes for 75% of its original price. Still cheaper, he has more.
Everybody wants to buy those chairs now: they’re the same, but one is way cheaper. The other carpenter loses business, he can’t sustain his family anymore, because he needs to sell one chair a day at least. To keep up, his business needs to grow now.
