Dave
@Dave@lemmy.nz
- Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website? 1 week ago:
As someone with a public facing website, there are significant volumes of scraping still happening. But largely this appears to come out of South East Asia and South America and they take steps to hide who they are so it’s not clear who is doing it or why, but like you say it doesn’t appear to be OpenAI, Google, etc.
It doesn’t appear to be web search indexing, the scraping is aggressive and the volume will bring down a Lemmy server no matter how powerful the hardware.
- Comment on Password managers... 1 week ago:
What’s your solution to this problem for the rest of your digital life?
- Comment on How customer service jobs be 2 weeks ago:
Well if you get 50 from a large fries, isn’t it feasible they got 100 from two large fries?
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 2 weeks ago:
Haha yip that’s the top album for me, this checks out.
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 2 weeks ago:
I just took the info from the article, what is wrong about it?
- Comment on Regular Animals(2025), Art Basel Miami Beach - Mike Winkelmann(Beeple) 2 weeks ago:
In case people are wondering, from left to right in the bottom image:
- Andy Warhol
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Elon Musk
- Pablo Picasso
- Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann (the artist who made them)
There is also a Jeff Bezos one not in that image but seen in the other images.
- Comment on I like kiwi 3 weeks ago:
And kiwifruit doesn’t even grow on a tree.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn’t notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
Thanks, I didn’t manage to find many options in swiftfin, you don’t know if I can enforce it for a user from the server side?
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 3 weeks ago:
I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law’s TV, it’s just push play.
My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.
Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 3 weeks ago:
Ah yip, makes sense, thanks!
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 3 weeks ago:
Ah haha, I actively avoid using google so don’t log in to an account. If you don’t mind me asking, if corporate surveillance isn’t what you’re avoiding, what’s the main reason you’re using a VPN?
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 3 weeks ago:
No it’s a paid VPN, and it starts fast but after the first 500GB or so it slows right down.
I do suspect many of the issues are from activity on the VPN rather than specific VPN blocking, but that doesn’t change the issues.
How do you handle the Google Captchas that never end? That was the worst part for me.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 3 weeks ago:
I have, thanks. The impossible to complete captchas are the worst for me, so many sites that are basically broken.
- Comment on Would this extension help folks in the UK with Imgur posts? 4 weeks ago:
Browsing lemmy is probably fine, but the general internet is a god damn nightmare to browse on a VPN. Can’t load that one reddit search result with what you need. Endless google captchas making you do traffic light after traffic light on sites you didn’t even kniw used google. Downloading games from GOG is capped at like 0.5Mbps. And I’ve had plenty of instances of cloudflare blocking VPNs to certain sites.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
How so? I have HTTPS on internal sites, I just use DNS validation to get the certificate.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
What is the security risk of adding HTTPS to a site going via VPN?
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 4 weeks ago:
I highly recommend spinning up a Nextcloud AIO instance. It’s the recommended and supported method, and it will likely run a lot nicer because all the database, redis, etc tweaking are done for you in a known good setup.
If you try that and it’s still no good, then OCIS might be worth trying depending on exactly what you are trying to achieve.
- Comment on Bad experience on selfhosting nextcloud 4 weeks ago:
I’m also here on AIO with a great experience. It’s snappy and the website loads faster than Onedrive ever did.
I had a docker install prior to AIO being available, and there was a lot of tweaking to get it running nicely (though it did run nicely). AIO takes care of it all for you.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
Others might have suggestions. I run everyhting in docker. I then use Traefik as the reverse proxy in docker, where you add labels to the containers you want it to handle and it works things out on it’s own. I have also configured it to do certificates automatically, including automatic domain validation using a Cloudflare API.
Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager are other popular ones that can configure HTTPS certificates for you.
You don’t have to overthink it. Choose a reverse proxy you like. If it does automatic certificates, that’s great. If not, Let’s Encypt (which most of these services use for the free certificates) have a certbot program you install and run on a cronjob to renew certificates.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
Owncloud Infinite Scale was a rewrite of the codebase to get away from PHP. In theory this should be better able to run on lower end hardware. People tend to say they use it if they are only wanting the file part and not all the apps. Personally I use Nextcloud because I want the apps.
Automatic certificate renewal is built into many reverse proxies, and can be done for free, so I don’t see a reason not to do it.
Nextcloud has federation of some features so I’d guess that would be a key reason you can’t change the domain (you also can’t change a Lemmy domain once set up). However, you’re using it for file sync for yourself, right? Regardless of what you pick (even Nextcloud), you could surely just set up a new instance under the new domain then move all your files over.
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think it’s really true these days that it needs a lot of config. Maybe reverse proxies will do it for you automatically without much setup.
I am curious what the security risks are for HTTPS for a service that will already be accessible remotely?
- Comment on Self hosted Onedrive alternative 4 weeks ago:
OwnCloud Infinite Scale might be the option you missed?
Nextcloud was forked from the PHP Owncloud some years back, and they added all the apps and things. But Owncloud is like Nextcloud but focused only on the files.
I am a bit concerned that you’re talking about not wanting HTTPS and see it as a bad thing that something requires it. Given you can get free certificates these days, why would you not want a secure connection? Even if you’re accessing via a VPN to server tunnel, I see no reason not to have it.
- Comment on Bracing for impact 4 weeks ago:
I’m sure you have a backup and that you’ve tested restoring it. Just have another machine that is available in the case something happens to the first.
E.g. I somehow fried the motherboard of my server while cleaning it. It took me days to troubleshoot the issue.
But I also have an old laptop strapped to the back of my TV that is used to stream media using Kodi. When this event happened, I installed a more appropriate OS on the TV laptop and restored my backup and was up and running in an hour or two. Then I could take the time to troubleshoot my issue and resolve it on my main server.
- Comment on It's Not Google's Fault. It's Yours. 4 weeks ago:
It’s your fault that Google search results are so bad, because they learn from their users and all the smart people left years ago.
Do your part, hop on Chrome and help Google get better search results by working for them for free!
- Comment on Watch me go Reddit 5 weeks ago:
Worth noting there are descriptions here: join-lemmy.org/docs/…/03-votes-and-ranking.html
But basically Hot is most upvotes with a decay based on how old the post is (down to 0 after I think 2 days)
Active is the same thing but with the decay based on when the last comment was posted rather than the post itself (use to find conversations).
Top is just the highest score (upvoted minus downvotes) only counting the votes in the period you select (hour, 6 joura, day, etc).
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 5 weeks ago:
Hmm I haven’t seen this option before.
I definitely make use of controlling which apps buzz, and the priority setting which makes them go bz, bzzz, bz bz, etc. I don’t know where I get this trait from (it doesn’t seem to be a generational thing) but I feel it’s rude to have a phone’s volume on when others are around.
Being in a room with a bunch of people all watching things on their phones with thr volume on annoys me to no end. I feel bad even having it ding when others are around.
- Comment on It's Fun For The Whole Family 5 weeks ago:
Do different apps have different notification sounds? I’m a vibrate only person but I thought a notification sound was a notification sound, not some custom ring tone.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 5 weeks ago:
They have definitely had third iterations of things, but have they called them 3?
I mean there are at least 5 half-life games, they just called the third one 1 and the fourth 2 and the fifth wasn’t numbered.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 5 weeks ago:
I’m starting to wonder if a mailpit instance is a bad idea. Just a page you go to where any email goes, make sure it’s not externally accessible.