gerowen

@gerowen@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Lemmy need a fork or a rewrite due to its maintainers views?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the code good? Are you prepared to make any potential fork viable and useful in ways that Lemmy isn’t so people have a tangible, non-ideological reason to choose your software over Lemmy? Do you have a long term goal for funding and maintaining a fork?

  That said, Piefed is already a thing, and it federates with Lemmy. It’s where I’m commenting from right now. It has a better on boarding process and does a better job surfacing things I care about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker security⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Systemd has all sorts of options. If a service has certain sandbox settings applied such as private /tmp, private /proc, restricting access to certain folders or devices, restricting available system calls or whatever, then systemd creates a chroot in /proc/PID for that process with all your settings applied and the process runs inside that chroot.

  I’ve found it a little easier than managing a full blown container or VM, at least for the things I host for myself.

  If a piece of software provides its own service file that isn’t as restricted as you’d like, you can use systemctl edit to add additional options of your choosing to a “drop-in” file that gets loaded and applied at runtime so you don’t have to worry about a package update overwriting any changes you make.

  And you can even get ideas for settings to apply to a service to increase security with:

  systemd-analyze security SERVICENAME

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Docker security⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just host everything on bare metal and use systemd to lock down/containerize things as necessary, even adding my own custom drop-ins for software that ships its own systemd service file. SystemD is way more powerful than people often realize.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PS1 died today⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Check fuses. It may just have a blown fuse in the power supply or on the motherboard. It also may just be an issue with the power button.

  That said, I haven’t had a PS1 in years. Modern emulators like DuckStation can even play real discs but give you all sorts of benefits like upscaling, correction for polygon/texture warping, modern video outputs, etc. I regularly play my PS1 games, but I do so via an emulator on my Steam Deck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had very occasional issues with it not uploading new photos in a timely manner in the past. I haven’t had any issues in a long time, but I have gotten into the habit of explicitly opening the app, clicking “Uploads” and hitting refresh and making sure everything has been uploaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are New Appliances So Bad? [41:02]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally have clothes hanging on a line across the living room because our just out of warranty $1,000+ Samsung “smart dryer” died again a month after I replaced every sensor and the heating element, and I just don’t feel like taking it apart again to “maybe” find the problem.

  Before this we just had a plain white box from Maytag; easy to work on, cheap replacement parts. It was probably 30 years old when the motor seized and my wife asked for newer, fancier machines. Big mistake.