curbstickle
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- Comment on Cliparr 2.0 Release - Self-Hosted Plex/Jellyfin Clipper 6 hours ago:
Please tag and disclose (if applicable) per rules 7 & 8
- Comment on This is the back of my 10" Mini server rack -- Custom made 3D printed power modules for each server 12 hours ago:
You can, but you can also run into some issues if you have git LFS, if one rejects for whatever reason, or sometimes branch issues.
Thats why I prefer to go to one repo and push out from there, but it is absolutely doable with git by itself.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 12 hours ago:
Be aware that you may need to temporarily use reolink’s app to set it up first - turn on the ports, for rtsp/onvif/http(s) then you can trash the app.
I think the HA integration will use the proprietary port/api for setup and you can avoid that way too, but don’t quote me on that one, you may want to confirm first.
- Comment on This is the back of my 10" Mini server rack -- Custom made 3D printed power modules for each server 12 hours ago:
I’m with you, I don’t like having to do the same thing more than once
I set up an “about my repos” repo, which has a readme detailing the process, and explanations of what is where and what they are all for, which is what I point clients to. That also has a link to my personal forgejo to demo local git as well (which can also sync, btw) along with a note that it may be down for various reasons like updates or changes I’m making, which is why I also sync elsewhere.
Depending on what services you’re selling to clients, it makes for a neat and simple addition to the list of skills to demo!
And you’re kind of making me want to use a mini rack as an excuse to my wife for a 3d printer, but she already knows I’m not getting rid of my 12-15RU racks under my desks, so I’m going to have to wait until we find the property we want so I can build my workshop….
- Comment on This is the back of my 10" Mini server rack -- Custom made 3D printed power modules for each server 13 hours ago:
I totally get that
Quick heads up - codeberg has an option to auto push changes to github, or the other way around with a github action (I prefer codeberg first)
May want to give it a try, from a client perspective you can also use that to note that a distributed approach provides resiliency (and now it becomes a selling point too)
- Comment on Standalone cameras 1 day ago:
With the app, yes, if you enabled notifications with thumbnails. Using the app and giving cameras internet access is the issue there. Deleted data stayed longer than people expected, too.
The crappy generated URLs for camera access was eufy’s fault, but thumbnails in notifications from the app I would consider a user ignorance issue personally.
That said I do not ever recommend using any manufacturer’s app, or giving a camera internet access. Isolate it on a vlan, firewall it off, and use a local open source NVR that you’ll access directly.
- Comment on Standalone cameras 1 day ago:
Reolink, Amcrest, and Eufy (only for their newer PoE line, they have a nice multi-lens feature and on-device processing for identification).
- Comment on Issues with https certs locally 3 days ago:
How is everything set up? Do you have a quick diagram or anything you can share? I’d like to understand how you have proxmox with a cert but not the rest, or what you mean by your own certs - like from LE? Where is your wildcard cert coming from?
- Comment on Self-hosted TV interface solutions 3 days ago:
Conferencing hardware from lightware (upstairs) and crestron (downstairs). Not something worth bothering with though, just get a CEC adapter like the pulse eight.
- Comment on Self-hosted TV interface solutions 3 days ago:
When companies decommission their hardware, they go to a large scale “recycler”. Most of the time that means pulling the drive on the PCs and maybe dropping another in before reselling it for less.
Some companies also recycle things like digital signage players, which could be purpose built hardware and mostly useless or purpose built software and fairly useful if you know what to check for. Or sometimes speakers, audio dsp’s, monitors, etc.
Other times when a company is being liquidated (like being sold off to pay for debts), it’ll get auctioned off. You don’t get to look at the details much (maybe one device pulled out in front of the crate the rest are in), you are buying in quantity, etc, but there can be good finds there.
I’m big on making use of perfectly good hardware with just a few years on them.
- Comment on Self-hosted TV interface solutions 4 days ago:
My answer is… excessive. So keep that in mind. If its just you or you and another adult, just set up kodi in some form.
I wanted something that would have profiles for my kids, a remote, and easy access. Where I am currently is:
- Flex Launcher - 10’ UI. The same person started Big Launcher after but never completed. I’m hoping to finagle Plasma Bigscreen into doing what I want, but I’m not there yet.
- Media is all Jellyfin, now with my older game emulation there as well.
- Logging into the machine also auths against JF, so its per user at the OS level for each member of the family. Currently working on NFC for login so my kids can tap a toy or something to get their account logged in, rather than me or my wife doing it.
- PC is an industrial pc I picked up, its light on usb ports but I added a wifi/bt card from another machine, bumped up the ram with some spares I had.
- I have a usb soundbar and usb audio processor, all audio goes through there, managed via pipewire.
- I couldn’t get CEC working well on it, so I made use of an overly expensive video switcher for this purpose that I picked up a while back. Corp conferencing switcher. Now I can send CEC programmatically.
- Current remote is just an older android tablet with lineage on it. I want to replace this with a keyboard/remote combo, but haven’t found what I wanted to yet. This will just get broken accidentally by a kid, so I’d prefer a remote.
The experience is pretty decent, just login and browse. In any case, this is the (overly complex) way I’ve addressed things for me. That said, a few notes / to-do items:
- No streaming platforms (I will not use them anyway)
- I still need to stand up a youtube front end (I don’t use it much so low on the list, more for my wife)
- I want to set up something to show family photos from immich as the background
- I need better controllers for gaming. I have one 8bitdo pro wired, an old 8bitdo NES controller, and a gamecube usb adapter (but my gamecube controllers have all gone to crap now, so thats useless). I also connected up the balance board from the wii, but haven’t gotten much use out of it yet.
- I want to get my AudioBookShelf on there as a dedicated setup with login by desktop account automatically, haven’t even started this yet. May have to do something a bit different here too as I want a read-along style for the kids.
- I would never buy all this stuff, I used things I picked up on the free or cheap via hardware replacements through my work and tech liquidation/"recycling” companies.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (4 September 2026) by @eshol 1 week ago:
@eshol@lemmy.world
One thing I’d note is what sourcehut has done is far beyond what codeberg has, specifically this part:
original content written with or which facilitates the use of LLMs (large language models) or other generative AI technologies
What codeberg did was the first part - content written with LLMs, though even that is “mostly”. Sourcehut goes way more restrictive.
And a shot out to @alam@lemmy.world for BentoPDF! Glad to have you here and an awesome tool to boot.
- Comment on Would you use a privacy-first mobile app that watches your whole self-hosted stack — nothing phoning home? 1 week ago:
I generally don’t ever look at dashboards, only historical data, and only after an issue.
I get an alert that there is an issue, and if its an issue thats happened before, there is an automation to address (this is why I look at historical data, to determine indicators).
So I never need to look on a mobile dashboard, because the only thing I’m interested in is the notification. The only way that isn’t going to work is if I have a larger outage, but I get a notification through work for that - I have a site-to-site setup so I could attach a switch to my work network for work reasons, and if that goes down I get a notification through my work setup (and vice-versa, which was a fun morning when that side went down).
- Comment on [AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system 1 week ago:
You can, I’m just saying be prepared for disappointment. The amount of effort you need to put in, imo, you could have had a spreadsheet and been done. And then used that with a script to autogenerate some mermaidml to get a purdy drawing out of it (which I highly recommend leveraging Beautiful-Mermaid.
And then you can feed that to an llm and make your queries about ports or other uses, to me thats a much better use/approach. To each their own though.
- Comment on [AIT] Anyone using AI to map your network / system 1 week ago:
Nope, and I wouldn’t recommend it either. They are generally not great with mapping IMO, no matter the model.
And really this is better managed with a quick diagram and a spreadsheet. If you want some software, look at netbox for this, you can add in validation rules and all kinds of automations as well.
But really, use a spreadsheet.
- Comment on Expanding my laptops HDD capacity 1 week ago:
I’ve gone this route! Anything with a busted screen is fair game to me, though I haven’t picked up any recently, mostly just tiny/mini/micros (and heavy on the lenovo tiny).
But a custom hacked up laptop can be a great option especially with tight space to work with
- Comment on [AIP] besstiolle/Timeline: my own tool for organizing my timeline diagrams with (hardly) no AI-generated content 1 week ago:
Could be a 20s clip! 😀
- Comment on [AIP] besstiolle/Timeline: my own tool for organizing my timeline diagrams with (hardly) no AI-generated content 1 week ago:
I read the original differently than you, but it seems its been edited in the meantime (and I’m on mobile at the moment)
Either way, I think all is well currently
- Comment on [AIP] besstiolle/Timeline: my own tool for organizing my timeline diagrams with (hardly) no AI-generated content 1 week ago:
Testing, test plans, and QA is not “mostly all”.
Let’s also stay on topic please. Its tagged appropriately and the relevant disclosure is present.
- Comment on Self hosted trail mapping and GPS tracking with Wanderer @ selfhosted 1 week ago:
That really isn’t the issue, and no, that would not be permitted here. It would be one thing to note that an LLM was used in some part of the project, it would be entirely different to criticize the poster based purely off whether or not there were any contributions involving LLM.
That would be a rule 1 violation.
If you want to comment on a known vulnerability, thats one thing. Commenting that its vulnerable because an LLM had a pair level patch is not.
- Comment on Self hosted trail mapping and GPS tracking with Wanderer @ selfhosted 1 week ago:
Ah, got it, I misunderstood from the post, sorry about that
- Comment on Replacing Cloudflare Tunnel with a Selfhosted Towonel Tunnel 1 week ago:
between your device
Thats the part right there. Its for not your device to access.
Like a self- hosted website/blog for example. Or taking the complexity of “start this before you try to connect to my eBook server” for your BIL, or “OK mom, when you want to watch the home videos I converted to digital you have to do it only from your phone, press this first, then share to your TV”.
That is the part I think you are missing. Use other than yourself and your own managed devices.
- Comment on Rasputin moving out of pre-alpha 1 week ago:
Also please add the appropriate tag - [AIP] in this case - to the title
- Comment on My domain is accessible from external networks but not from my internal network. Might anyone know why? 1 week ago:
If you have internal DNS (technitium, pihole, bind, whatever), split DNS is easier (and, imo, better for long-term use). Your local DNS serves local IPs, public DNS serves public IPs.
- Comment on Retro Assembly is great 1 week ago:
And it can tie in pretty darn nicely with Jellyfin
- Comment on BentoPDF can now edit existing PDF text along with two new engines. 1 week ago:
That wouldn’t count as anything other than CBH, since it wasn’t involved in any stage of programming/documentation/etc - more like testing samples, which is no different than users sending crappy pdf’s along imo.
- Comment on BentoPDF can now edit existing PDF text along with two new engines. 1 week ago:
@alam@lemmy.world Please update your post with a tag and disclosure as needed per rules 7 & 8.
- Comment on [AIP] I've been working on the perfect UI for cron and supervisor for several months now. Tell me what you think. 1 week ago:
See disclosure at the bottom - Implementation lists pair.
Thats 50/50 per our rules here.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly (28 August 2026) 1 week ago:
@eshol@lemmy.world Just to mention, the simplicity of an AI tag implying it being fully vibe-coded is what led to the more complex structure here based of ai-disclosure.md. If you just want a simple approach, maybe just the hint/assisted/pair/generated part would work for you?
- Comment on [AIP] I've been working on the perfect UI for cron and supervisor for several months now. Tell me what you think. 1 week ago:
Vibe coding would mean writing no lines of code, just words to an LLM. In our dosculosure here, that would be generated.
They have Pair in the disosure, which is about a 50/50 split in code.