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- Comment on Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist? 1 day ago:
Perhaps consider a SOCKS5 reverse proxy. If done over SSH, the client systems networking would act as though they are on the server itself, traffic would be secure, and it would walk around most firewall rules that probably exist.
Specifically, read up on “bastion hosts”.
- Comment on Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice. 1 week ago:
I have no problem with work friendship that grow naturally, but they have to grow… naturally. Placing me in a environment with an instruction like ‘be friends with these people’ doesn’t work for me
Medicine is a team activity. Being capable of relating to coworkers and patients is part of this.
Try therapy or find a different line of work.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? It's self hosting Sunday! 1 week ago:
Got my HPE DL380 G9 networked and configured with hardware RAID 0 and Debian running under ProxMox for a test run (need more disks for RAID 5). Thing had an advanced iLo license intact from the previous owner.
Deployed a docker container of linkwarden to it to try out and it seems pretty nice.
- Comment on Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days? 5 weeks ago:
I switched due to the following problems with Windows and benefits with Linux:
- Recall, the most privacy invasive software I have ever seen being spun as a “feature” which was shown to be insecure as well
- Fucking ads everywhere in the OS itself
- It’s slow as all hell
- I would try to do something as simple in the UI such as hitting “Sleep” and Windows 11 wouldn’t do anything until the 4th click
- Windows no longer has a monopoly on games or music software - proton and DAW’s like bitwig should now be forcing Microsoft to compete to make their OS better, but because capitalism doesn’t work, they don’t, and so I have no reason to stay with their OS
- Linux is fast as fuck. Games like Armored Core VI and Death Stranding run better in an emulated state on Linux for me than they do natively on Windows because Linux isn’t running 1500 telemetry tasks at all times.
- Linux gives you choices of window managers. Don’t like the UI in Windows? Tough luck. Don’t like a UI in Linux? Change it in 2 seconds if you’re using KDE Plasma, or switch to another WM like Gnome, XFCE, Cinnamon, etc so that the computer works the way you want. You want to have some WM functionality only sometimes that no one WM offers? Install 3 WM’s, choose which one you want when you log in. Make the computer work for you.
On Windows 11 the final absolute last straw for me was when it stopped installing updates for me and gave me this:
So I couldn’t even trust the system was secure anymore.
Windows is stagnated because all of their development focus has turned away from making a competitive OS with good and useful features for the end user, and instead focuses now on how to get more dollars out of each minor action a user could possibly take when using it. Linux just feels more modern, more powerful, more useful, more secure, faster, prettier, cleaner, and cheaper than Windows now because it is 98% of the time.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
I see, thanks.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
Uhhh… UpNp or port forwarding is the same way both Plex and Jellyfin work?
I don’t know what makes Jellyfin less secure since they both work the same way for this as far as I can tell…
Can you be more specific about what makes Jellyfin less secure when it comes to UpNp/port forwarding?
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 months ago:
I went to the Jellyfin landing page, copy pasted and ran literally one command, clicked a button to point it at my media folders and then I was done.
What isn’t easy?
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 months ago:
I swear to god, one of these days the update will be “Today Youtube has announced that they will be removing the annoying videos from their ads”.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 months ago:
I love you. Please spread it fucking everywhere when you do.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 months ago:
Even people who would by from Nazi’s still want a functional car.
These things randomly stop working, break if you drive it into a half a foot of water, have rear view mirror housings which bust off when you try to pull down the sun visor, have a single ethernet cable routing all the controls and devices so that if the connection breaks the connection anywhere everything stops working suddenly, a shelf underneath the headlight which accrues dirt or snow as you drive until it is not serving its purpose, exterior panels which just fall the fuck off, and hardly get any mileage.
The only people who buy these are those incapable of the barest reasoning.
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
I’ve heard a lot about Kubernetes, but haven’t actually had to interact with it once incredibly. Interesting, thanks for the recommendation!
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Wow thanks!
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Awesome, thanks! It didn’t occur to me that IKEA could be an option!
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Personal system but I work in technology, so learning solutions used in industry is always handy.
I want spinning disks as they have shorter life but a wider mean time between failure, which should be better for the RAID I want to configure.
Since SSDs have a definitive number of writes in their lifetime, as I recall it can be kind of dangerous to install several new ones at the same time in something like a raid 1 configuration.
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
That’s great to know, all four of my other machines are running Debian right now so I should have a pretty good idea of what’s up!
That probably is what I will do for some time, leaning it gently and securely against a wall somehow, but in the future rack would be nice - especially if I find some enterprise firewall for sale or something.
Also really happy to hear ebay might have iLO licenses - I have grabbed a couple one-time licences off there for windows machines before, but I didn’t know they sometimes had stuff like this too.
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Thanks for the tips and the link, that’s super useful!
- Comment on Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days 2 months ago:
Unsure about the iLO, but I do recall powering on one of these remotely in school using it. I’ll have to wait until I find some power cable to take a look I believe, but I do see a sticker with the default user name and password for it on the side, so here’s hoping haha.
I have a PLA 3d Printer, but I fear PLA has too low of a melting point to use for server components. It would be neat if there were a caddie model out there I could test with though - will have to look around.
Thanks for the insight on the rack as well, that will be good to know in the future I am certain.
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- Comment on Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans 2 months ago:
I like how their whole excuse to that was “WE DIDN’T SEED ANY OF IT BACK THOUGH” which arguably makes it even worse lol.
- Comment on Banker At US Firm Hospitalised With Pancreatic Failure After 110-Hour Workweek 3 months ago:
110 hours per week - if working every single day of the week - means that you are working about 16 hours per day, with 8 hours of rest in between. It sounds like this guy inverted a normal persons work/life schedule.
- Comment on After they kill Wikipedia history will be AI hallucinations. 3 months ago:
I mean they can try to censor it but I really don’t see why the wikimedia foundation wouldn’t just move shop to a different country, or a different group just starts running a mirror of it. Like it might be down for a while, at which time we would have to use mirrors, but I can’t see any future where its just gone forever.
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 months ago:
I’m currently yanking everything over a VPN connection from a provider that I trust and I’m not collecting anything as enormous as entire channels. With this considered along with the fact that this is outside the bounds of a user account (I don’t believe EULA can come into play as a result), I don’t think I could get in much trouble with them outside of having to change VPN endpoints occasionally if they decide to block out some IP (On one or two occasions I have gotten a message back from yt-dlp noting to sign in to prove I am not a bot).
I appreciate the offer on the script, however I think I will build my own as it is not an urgent matter for me and I consider it a good exercise in practicing my skills with programming. I’ve been looking to build my own RSS reader for a while, and I think this is probably a good use case for this as well.
Thanks!
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 months ago:
Wonderful, not surprised it exists already, Thanks!
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 3 months ago:
Neat, didn’t notice since they perma banned me for watching without ads via freetube I believe.
Ive just been downloading videos direct with yt-dlp, but I think I’m going to extend it into a bash script which fetches the RSS of the channels I want, downloads them if they haven’t been downloaded, and then deletes them after they have been watched and after a certain amount of time has passed, or if I have marked them for deletion.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 3 months ago:
I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn’t seem that good to me.
- Comment on Google To Subscribe To Your Emails To Find Content For Your Search Listings. 4 months ago:
I finally just blew up my gmail the other week and not a moment to soon as it seems. Much happier with my new swiss provider.
- Comment on DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse 4 months ago:
It’s when people try to have LLM’s generate code and then try to assemble the pieces produced into semi-functional, usually really bad, software I think.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 5 months ago:
Correct, it is the only reason I am not homeless.
- Comment on Fucking leeches 5 months ago:
Thank you.
