iamthetot
@iamthetot@piefed.ca
- Comment on Standalone cameras 1 day ago:
Wasn’t Eufy caught uploading data workout consent? Memory is a little fuzzy but I believe it was something like thumbnails being stored in an insecure cloud whether you liked it or not.
- Comment on Do any self hostable security cameras support a VPN to upload footage to another site? 1 week ago:
Their title and post mention VPNs multiple times. The P is Private. They also mention wanting to use their own storage, again implying privacy. Their entire post implies they care about privacy.
- Comment on The hardest choices require the strongest wills 1 week ago:
While I agree that sucked hard, it’s not exactly a like comparison to the software in OP.
- Comment on Do any self hostable security cameras support a VPN to upload footage to another site? 1 week ago:
Recommending Eufy to someone specifically asking for privacy focused suggestions is wild.
They were caught, and admitted to, lying about being offline only, and storing unencrypted thumbnails, if memory serves. They got fined for it and I’m sure they say they’re doing better but how can you trust them after that?
I would avoid Eufy given the context of post, OP.
- Comment on Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate you taking the time to write this out, but I knew all of that and didn’t really address the question. I was asking why the commenter above mine was using an auth service, like Keycloak, on LAN.
It has been answered a few times, thanks.
- Comment on Critical Keycloak Vulnerability (CVSS 9.1) - CVE-2026-18963 2 weeks ago:
Out of curiosity, what is the advantage of using something like this on LAN only?
- Comment on I measured the idle RAM of 19 self-hosted apps on identical hardware so you can size a VPS without guessing 4 weeks ago:
Really neat of you to do and to share, thanks. Not to sound ungrateful, but honest question… What good are these numbers if they are the floor?
- Comment on Anyone know a good Selfhosted yt-dlp manager? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been using YouTube-DL
- Comment on Is this a good first homeserver? 5 weeks ago:
Note about the network: it really doesn’t matter how fast your server can go if the rest of the stuff connected to it can’t also handle it.
You have a server with a 10 gigabit network port, you also need the cabling, router, switches, and other hardware that can handle 10 gigabit.
- Comment on 🎉 Dreeve v5.0.0 released (formerly Statistics for Strava). No more Strava or any 3rd party dependencies. 1 month ago:
Or secure, often.
- Comment on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects 1 month ago:
I hate genAI, but this is dangerous. I’m a writer and I’ve had my stuff accused of being genAI when it’s not. And there was an incident several years ago on a prominent art subreddit where an artist was banned for posting AI art, and when the artist proved it wasn’t by sending layer files, the mod upheld the ban and told the artist they should change styles because it “looked” like genAI. It’s not a great feeling.
- Comment on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects 1 month ago:
TOS get rewritten way more often than once every ten to twenty years lol, that it really not a big deal.
- Comment on [AIT] paperless-ngx 3.0.0 1 month ago:
I may be mistaken, but I had looked into Paperless before and saw they had AI features before this. Is it just more, or more in your face? I was under the impression they were optional, at least when I looked into it.
- Comment on Looking for a YouTube monitor and downloader. Sorry if wrong place for question. 1 month ago:
Can I have it download videos discriminately? For example, exclude live streams, ignore videos under 2 minutes, only download videos from 2025, only download videos uploaded on Mon-Fri? Furthermore could I have it download one playlist from a channel in 1080p, and a separate playlist from a channel in 720p?
- Comment on Looking for a YouTube monitor and downloader. Sorry if wrong place for question. 1 month ago:
The one I’m talking about runs in Docker and will auto download from a channel or playlist based on all kinds of rules and filters you set up. I use it up scrape favourite channels automatically every other day. Downloads them into a folder monitored by Jellyfin.
- Comment on Looking for a YouTube monitor and downloader. Sorry if wrong place for question. 1 month ago:
I have been using YouTube DL.
- Comment on Who is enjoying good success with Mealie's Meal planner? Does anyone have advice on how to tighten up the rules? I don't quite have as many queries as the Kodi or navidrome smart playlist function to play with. 1 month ago:
Only using Mealie as a recipe manager at the moment. Haven’t used the meal planner function. Sounds interesting though and might give it a try.
- Comment on I built a PDF invoice generator that runs entirely in your browser — $9 one-time, no subscription 1 month ago:
- Comment on I got sick of PDFsam Pro ads and built a free PDF merger that runs entirely in your browser 1 month ago:
I prefer a GUI when possible.
- Comment on It looks like iFixit won't be getting any more Steam Deck LCD spare parts 1 month ago:
As long as Gabe can afford a single yacht, as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on What great survival horror games have I missed in the last decade or so? 1 month ago:
SOMA is one of the greatest games of all time in my very humble opinion. Go in blind, don’t look up anything about it.
- 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 2 months ago:
When I was starting out with selfhosting and stuff, I had tons of issues with networking, reverse proxies, etc. And much of the advice here was not… particularly helpful. I genuinely don’t think most people here understand how much they know, and how much comes across as gibberish when they speak to a true newbie. I still see it in this forum all the time for new people. Just the other day someone described themselves as a total newbie, nothing more than Jellyfin running on a Mac locally, and a comment I saw suggested their next step should be running proxmox and setting up VMs and this that and the other service. Like… that’s not a good next step.
- Comment on Homepage - Selfhosting Dashboard 2 months ago:
My partner and I quite like Mealie. It doesn’t import 100% perfectly like you say, but it does probably 90% of the work.
- Comment on Immich bridge to google photos shared albums 2 months ago:
You can share Immich libraries
- Comment on I need some help 2 months ago:
Quick tech specs
With 122.88 TB capacity, you have ample space to store a vast number of images, extensive hours of video, or a large collection of songs
Understatement much?
- Comment on [META] Are paid for closer source advertising appropriate? 2 months ago:
There is no rule about advertising in the sidebar. I’m personally fine with it. If it weren’t advertised here, I might never hear about projects to be honest. Almost everything I’m hosting right now came about because I heard about it on a forum.
- Comment on Laptop as server, how to best manage battery? 2 months ago:
There’s no supposing necessary. It was a fire hazard, and presently not eventually. When something has caused a fire, it’s no longer a hazard, it’s just, you know, a fire.
- Comment on Continuwuity 3 months ago:
Then call it Matrix. They don’t need to know and probably don’t care about the specific server software you’re using.
- Comment on I ❤️ selfhosting 6 months ago:
My partner just uses mealie’s built in shopping cart.