ShellMonkey
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- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 days ago:
Sooo, they act as an admin and can assign mods instead of using someone else's node and being a mod?
Aside from what I understand as an inability to actually remove bad content that gets in, how does that differ from something like hosting a fedi site?
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 days ago:
Then you get things like the platform you're on where in my case it resides in my house and lets me be that big scary admin/mod. Having the ability to purge bad content and actors from a central space is needed for anyone but the most thick skinned masochists to use a platform.
Plenty of people just want to go talk/post without wading through a swamp of the crap that one uncle brings up at Thanksgiving on a regular basis.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 days ago:
The system formerly known as Freenet has a module known as the web of trust that uses a similar model. It's interesting but runs into a problem of forcing users/hosts to propagate content and messaging they don't wish to be associated with.
There's a reason places like gab or hexbear end up isolated islands, the general population has no desire to be preached to be the lunatic fringes.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 4 days ago:
Last I ever was hearing this pushed around the fedi the big 'sell' was that mods/admins can't delete posts making it a 'freeze peach' platform.
The only people typically drawn to those are the people who tend to get banned for being intolerable on civilized platforms.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 6 days ago:
Guess that'd depend on how muchos needed/taken and how well it's absorbed. Far as I've ever seen the seasonal affective disorder (usually what people look at for D-ficiencies) tends to be a subtle shift rather than a solid good/bad moods.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 1 week ago:
Tried, but things got so slow the picture hasn't made it here yet.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 2 weeks ago:
Has worked well for me, but keeping in mind that email is probably about the hardest thing to properly self host.
DMARK/DKIM/SPF records have to be set up properly, DNS for auto config and such preferable, and dealing with a myriad of mail IP blacklists (good monitoring service for free: https://mxtoolbox.com/) all come into play.
- Comment on virtualizing OPNsense is....not going great 2 weeks ago:
It can make a big difference just in the processing power needed if there's anything more intense than a straight firewall. IPS tend to be a resource pig. What are the load numbers saying vs the number of CPU cores available?
I ran into similar (or even worse) choking trying to get it virtualized even with a proper passthrough that I eventually shelved but might take another run at someday. Knocking a couple hundred watts off the stack is always welcome.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 3 weeks ago:
Linux on phones or desktops suffer from one major problem as I see it, to much choice.
You make a Windows app it has to work with the latest couple versions, same with Mac.
Make one for Linux and you have to test it against dozens of popular distros, package it in multiple ways, and hope the dependencies are gonna match.
It's an awesome system for IT people and server admins, but for the end user, ehhh... That seems to be the problem things like snap and flat packs are aimed at fixing, which could transition to phones but first you gotta herd the cats into an agreed state.
- Comment on what would you do with an old dell server? 3 weeks ago:
I have one around that same class that is running Security Onion, because why not record and analyze all the things.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 3 weeks ago:
Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Since when is RegularJoe gonna be constipated?
- Comment on Are You Need Loan ? 4 weeks ago:
I am needing to Robin Hood up this joint and to redistribute some wealth, not to shill more debt load.
- Comment on How to keep adding on 4 weeks ago:
Depends a lot on budget, space, and electricity costs. Going to 'overkill' level once can save a lot of these issues down the line.
Mine started similarly, some small box with a couple drives that got up sized and then moved to another to add more...
Eventually I bought a used 2U box with 14 bays and set it up with a ZFS pool all made up of mirrored disk pairs and auto snapshots so it can have a drive fail without issue and go back 2 weeks if something gets oops deleted.
Downside, now the whole lab uses about 700 watts continually so the power bill is kinda nuts.
- Comment on here comes the truth 5 weeks ago:
But they have accepted themselves for who they are, that's part of the transition. You just got a catch up.
- Comment on Apple becomes third company in history to crack $4 trillion market value 5 weeks ago:
Seems not that late ng ago that it was a huge deal they where heading to $1T
- Comment on The people who protest against the Palestinian Genocide would be the same people who protested against the Holocaust. 1 month ago:
Then there are those who ask to expand the Holocaust and increase the throughput that disengaged people indirectly support by not arguing/voting against their wishes at least.
- Comment on Appropriate compliance 1 month ago:
I dunno about malicious, more like dumb request gets dumb results.
- Comment on The SJW squad has now ordered Hooters to hire men (not just women) 1 month ago:
Micky7 trying a new alt?
- Comment on Trump is openly committing treason. He must be impeached and removed from office. 1 month ago:
Which part? By this point it's kinda an ongoing river of treason
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And the Internet comes to a halt as every company around fights to develop an install base with the span of the current major players.
Not that I'm a fan of the mass surveillance system our current internet entails, but having a major influx of less technically competent companies creating their own networks and site plugins is just asking for an even more chaotic security landscape.
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 1 month ago:
Don't know about on PlayStation but: https://borderlands.fandom.com/wiki/Good_Touch
An unlisted effect occurs with game controllers using vibrate that breaks the fourth wall. While the character wields the gun, the controller will vibrate continuously even when not firing.
- Comment on [question] Help me access my local homeserver using a public domain name 1 month ago:
I think I can see where they're going with it, but it is a bit hard to write out
Say I set up my favorite service in house, and said service has a client app. If I create my own DNS at home and point the client to the entry, and the service is running an encrypted connection with a self signed cert it can give the client app fits for being untrusted.
Compare that to putting NPM in front of the app, using it to get a LetsEncrypt cert using the DNS record option (no need to have LE reach the service publicly) and now you have a trusted cert signed by a public CA for the client app to connect to.
I actually do the same for a couple internal things that I want the local traffic secured because I don't want creds to be sniffable on the wire, but they're not public facing. I already have a domain for other public things so it doesn't cost anything extra to do it this way.
- Comment on YouTube coughs up $24.5 million to make Trump case go away 2 months ago:
This settlement might help because Trump has directed one $22 million payment YouTube will make to the body overseeing his pet project – construction of a ballroom at the White House. Another $2.5 million payment will go to plaintiffs who joined the case and also felt YouTube infringed their rights.
A true man of the people, a couple scraps for however many may have felt their 'rights' to spout their conspiracies in YouTube where infringed, and 10X that for a fancy room for rich people to party in and plan how to become richer.
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 2 months ago:
That's mostly the reason I went for them, trying as some back burner thing to get whatever appliances, lights cameras, etc all figured how I could do them fully in house. Not a huge priority, switches work just fine, but if I do set such things up the idea of it failing because of an Internet outage is a no-go
- Comment on What if we were *just a lil evil*? 2 months ago:
On totally unrelated news, I'm finding the my new ecobee to be pretty sweet. Supposedly it can be two stepped into homeassistant via Apple's webkit?
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 months ago:
I was probably using Emby already by then, had bought a lifetime license since it didn't require bouncing things off and outside server like Plex did (or was it that Plex was a renewing subscription, I forget) , so it just stayed out of inertia.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 2 months ago:
I can't say I've given Jellyfin a proper try (as in using it and the clients exclusively for a long period) but we have been using Emby for quite a while before I knew it existed.
If I'm not mistaken Jellyfin is actually a fork of Emby so they're pretty similar, but one is a bit older.
- Comment on Can someone find a redeeming factor about this game? Like anything good about it. 2 months ago:
Pretty sure that's where I played it. In an era where having a round head on your character was good graphics it was pretty fun.
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 2 months ago:
Is there a handy list somewhere to defed from? I don't expect them to gain any traction unless they had an existing user base before, but would be nice to keep communal running tab.