pmk
@pmk@piefed.ca
- Comment on Is there anyone that would be interest in doing a video call with me to show me how all this cloudflare/nginx/authentication works? I can pay 4 days ago:
This has been my experience with self-hosting too. There are so many different areas of concepts that need to form a cohesive whole. Following a how-to and pasting some commands can lead to something running, but then there are worlds of knowledge to actually understand it. Especially when complexity seems to increase exponentially.
Funny thing is that for every low-level concept I actually learn, the more I appreciate my OpenBSD computer that I mostly play around with otherwise. - Comment on I finally bought a domain! Now what 1 week ago:
My general advice at this point is, if you haven’t already, to document the setup for your future self. It quickly gets out of hand with the amount of passwords, credentials, certificates, firewall settings, docker containers left and right, configs, workarounds, custom shell scripts, ansible scripts, git repos, backup locations and passwords, etc. Right now everything is fresh in your mind, but 6 months from now you may need to restore from a backup or an OS upgrade goes wrong, and then you’ll appreciate being able to remember the details.
- Comment on Ariana Grande, portraiting various enemies of Roman Empire 2 weeks ago:
Carthaginian Ariana is the only one actually smiling. If I had to choose any of the Arianas here to do maritime trading and agricultural innovation with, it would be her.
- Comment on My entire production website runs on a Raspberry Pi 4B + Orange Pi Zero 3 — real traffic, public dashboard, zero cloud 2 weeks ago:
If clouds are far away, then self-hosting could be “fog”? Clouds at ground level that you walk around in.
- Comment on Please, feel free to be awed by my cosmopolitan refinement 2 weeks ago:
But the french “r” is not like an english “w”?
- Comment on Getting started with NextCloud? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, do you remember which didn’t work? I recently set up a simple service (navidrome) as rootless podman with an ansible script, but it was… there were some hoops to jump through, mainly with the uid/gid and machinectl to get it to work.
- Comment on Getting started with NextCloud? 2 weeks ago:
Always nice to see podman used well! Do you have a dedicated user or is it rootful?
- Comment on Safely exposing services to the Internet 3 weeks ago:
Almost 20 years ago, Theo de Raadt (founder of OpenBSD) said: “you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can’t write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.” I would like to think that we’ve figured out the security holes since then, but… you know..