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Public pressure can be effective, but this isn’t public pressure. This is the “click a button if you agree” type of action. Online petitions are extremely ineffective unless they’re part of a broader, stronger campaign. This petition isn’t part of anything in particular.

From what I see, some student started it and there are no goals, and no planned actions. According to change.org, this petition mentioned in a medium.com blog and some tech website most of us have never heard of. That’s not much.

It’s just a place to vent your frustration.

it’s definitely better than doing nothing at all

It makes one feel better because it gives people a false sense of accomplishment.

Look, vote if you want, I just think this is off-topic and isn’t directly relevant to self-hosting. Hence the comment.

Petitions are useless.

An ultimate guide could be a few tomes long not because you need to know that much, but because there are so many options and solutions. I’d recommend learning basics: core utils (i.e. command line tools), docker, network security basics (vpn, firewall).

Then as you start adding more services, you can identify gaps in your knowledge and close them (e.g. what is a database, how to manage it, how to back it up and then restore if it fails).

Do you actually keep sensitive data on your self hosted systems?

People self-host photos, documents, code, passwords, chats, and other sensitive stuff. Even Jellyfin in your example can get you into legal troubles if your pirated content suddenly becomes public.

What am I missing?

That it’s 2026 and our lives are heavily digitalized. I’d understand this question on 2000 where you’d probably host a few html files and a counter-strike server, but come on.

Haha, this is cool. I might as well do something like this.

Bruh 💀

I don’t think you always need the server, only one of my clients was logged out for unknown reason. Two other clients that I have worked just fine. But it seems that if you’ve been logged out, unlocking the database might be not so trivial. I still need to research this though.

I was recently debugging one issue on my server and vaultwarden became inaccessible for a couple of hours. During that time, I was logged out and could not log back in using bitwarden’s firefox extension. It was reporting an “unexpected error” because it couldn’t reach the server. So is this really true?

Everyone would still have access to what was last synced.

Is there a workaround that would allow me to unlock the database even if the server is down?

I’m here for genuine interactions with other people. So I’m not a fan of ads from brand new accounts that will never engage with the community or enrich it.

a breach of one container means access to the data of all containers

How so? Each service uses its own database with credentials that provide access only to that database. Unless on top of a breach in your container there is some zero-day in your DBMS - which I find highly improbable - no other data will be affected.

Given that database management systems already provide clear separation between services in the form of databases, users, and permissions, I see no need to spin up new database instances for each individual service. You say it’s easier to back up tightly coupled services and databases, but why? I find it easier to back up a single database server than multiple servers.

The real concern with shared databases is performance: some services, under certain conditions, can generate load that degrades database performance for everyone. But that’s usually a problem for large enterprises, not self-hosters.

I suppose some people like to collect stuff. You’re right that it’s easy to access mainstream stuff, but once you decide to watch some less known movie - especially an old one - you may struggle to find it. Even with somewhat popular movies there are things like extended/director’s cuts, remasters, re-releases, etc. So I get it.

With that said, I watch on average one movie per week, so android tv with a video player that can browse a samba share is more than enough for me.

It’s like in an office when a person whose birthday it is today must bring a cake or something like that :D HB

You don’t need your own email server to degoogle your life.