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- Comment on I have a IBM eServer xSeries 346, does anyone has experience with the ServeRaid-7k, to create a RAID array? Also, you can ask me anything about this 2005 beast! 2 months ago:
Why is that? Does the motherboard effectively just not have enough inputs for all the disks, so that’s why you need dedicated hardware that handles some kind of raid configuration, and in the end the motherboard just sees it all as one drive? I never really understood what SCSI was for. How do the drives connect, SATA/PATA/something else?
- Comment on Pause alerts during the night 2 months ago:
Modern Android Do Not Disturb is configurable enough for you to do this. Allow your family contacts through, block the rest.
- Comment on My stupidity saved me from being hacked today! 3 months ago:
You’re saying you see a bunch of login attempts on your router, but you don’t think they actually got into it?
- Comment on How to auto-reboot if CPU load too high? 3 months ago:
I would assume that wouldn’t cause so much contention that the system is unusable, though, right? Unless they’re busy waiting.
- Comment on Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media 3 months ago:
Sounds like OP is asking about file storage. Video streaming could be spotted using info leaked regarding traffic behavior. But uploading an encrypted file for storage shouldn’t leak anything except the size.
- Comment on What is your preferred method for backing up several TB of data? 4 months ago:
I’ve been using TrueNas with a nightly sync to Backblaze for years and I like it.
It used to be called FreeNas and used FreeBSD. Now the BSD version is called TrueNas Core, and a new Linux based version is called TrueNas Scale.
I would go with TrueNas Scale if I were starting a new one today. You probably won’t use the “jail” functionality immediately, but they’re super handy, and down the line if you start playing with them, you’ll run into fewer compatibility issues running Linux vs BSD.
- Comment on Should I bother with HTTPS over Tailscale? 4 months ago:
Yes, I misread and immediately deleted my post lol. I think you were talking about tailscale VPN, and I was thinking something more like cloudflare tunnel.
That said, the risk is still there that tailscale (or whichever middle company) can read your plaintext packets.
- Comment on How I accidentally slowed down my nextcloud instance for months 4 months ago:
Good job debugging it. Where’d you get that list of IPs?
- Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams 4 months ago:
This is literally what public/private key signing was invented for.
The person affiliated with the company signs their posting/emails with their private key, and the company maintains a list of all public keys corresponding to anyone working for them. That way, anyone outside the company who is allegedly talking to someone from a certain company can validate the signature against the public key to ensure it came from who they say they are.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
I’ve seen Thread mentioned twice so far, but I don’t think I’ve heard of it, and apparently a name like that makes it impossible to find any information about it. Do you have a link plz?
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
If something could cast from one of my devices to another of my devices using the cast button, that’s all I want. I can strap one of those devices to my TV and be golden.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
This looks neat, though sounds like only the grayjay/futo app can cast to it, and I doubt any app would natively adopt it. Assuming it’s not just casting a video feed from your phone, my guess as to how it works is, it just copies the relevant cookies over to the fcast device where it can just pretend to be your phone as far as the server is concerned.
This would be fine if it supports all the apps I use, and I’m the only one ever casting, but I don’t want to force guests to install and configure another middleware app to just to cast stuff. My hope is that Matter will somehow solve these, but I probably shouldn’t get my hopes up.
I should try setting up fcast either way though, see how it goes. Thanks.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
It’s the same Matter afaik, but yeah, I had forgotten about the interop standard and originally thought “Matter” was specific to this casting spec.
- Comment on Open casting alternative (by Amazon?) 5 months ago:
I don’t know the specifics of Miracast, but my impression was that it is specifically used to cast a video stream from one device to another device. That is sometimes useful, but not what I typically use my Chromecast for.
The most useful feature of my Chromecast is the ability to be logged into Plex/Netflix/HBO/Spotify/YouTube/etc on my (or my guest’s) mobile device, and effectively send a link and a (probably ephemeral) token to the Chromecast so that it can stream directly from the server to the Chromecast without my mobile device spending battery power and bandwidth being a middle-man.
And I assume the difficult part here is down to copyright reasons. Most of those streaming sites already limit the number of devices you can permit to stream content (which sucks, but is besides the point), so my impression is that they need to have some kind of under-the-table agreement with the Chromecast/Roku/Firestick/Apple TV/etc. folks to ensure that the device will correctly validate the credentials, not save any of the content, and properly dispose of everything when it’s done. And I assume Google has similar talks about when a device on the network is allowed to be listed as a casting device to apps.
Does Miracast already handle this?
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- Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine 6 months ago:
I don’t think it should be necessary to tell a search engine where the most relevant results are located. That’s literally the only point of a search engine. I want to enter a search term, and if the best results are on reddit, I want to see those, or if it’s on Lemmy I want to see that, or if the best result is somewhere else I don’t know about, THAT’S what I want to see. The fact that we have to manually tell search engines where to search is completely backwards.
Not ranting at you, you’ve done good work. Just disappointed at the current state of “search” engines.
- Comment on YSK: You can search (most of?) lemmy as a search engine 6 months ago:
I have to think, on some BBS forum somewhere, before search engines took off, someone made a script out of
curl
,grep
, and a list of popular domains to search this new thing called “the Internet”.This giant aggregation string you’ve created isn’t something that should need to be done manually, this is something search engines should just do for us. Instead they’re focused on ads and listicles…
- Comment on After I’m Gone Backup Solution 6 months ago:
Backblaze supports encryption and lives in “the cloud”. Seems like if they don’t currently have a “beneficiary” option, they should add it. Your beneficiary could make a free account, and you add their account as your beneficiary. Until you die, they can’t access anything. But if you do, it is all accessible by them and only them.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 6 months ago:
As long as you’re ok with it being way less dependable, and having to rebuild it from scratch more often 😉.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 6 months ago:
I made that switch a few years ago for that reason.
That said, as the saying goes, RAID is not a backup, it should never be the thing that stands between you having and losing all your data. RAID is effectively just one really dependable hard drive, but it’s still a single point of failure.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 6 months ago:
I’ve heard just in general. The resilvering process is hard on all the remaining drives for an extended period of time.
- Comment on Can I use two different drives? 6 months ago:
I don’t know if you’re talking about the sample of cases you’ve personally witnessed, or the population of all NASes in the world. If the former, that sounds significant. If the latter, it sounds like it’s probably not something to worry about.
- Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
I don’t have my bill in front of me, but for my state it looks like mine’s effectively around €0,10/kWh. So yeah, more expensive for you.
- Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
I was worried about the power usage when I first started using my old gaming CPU for a home server (i7-4770k). I bought a kill-a-watt, ran it plugged into that for a month, saw that it was using pennies worth of energy per month and never worried about it again.
Unless you’re pegging the CPU at 100%, it’s not going to be pulling the full 65W. As far as maintenance fees go, the cost of replacing a single hard drive will likely overshadow your energy costs.
Pro tip: keep an eye out for hard drive deals on black fri. And I recommend doing a burn-in run on any new drives when you get them to push them past the initial failure window of the bathtub curve (I used
badblocks
. Took nearly a week for the initial run, but I found one bad drive and was able to RMA it immediately instead of finding out the hard way). - Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
This will be fine. But assume you’ll want to swap out the hard drives in the future for more, larger, NAS appropriate disks.
- Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server? 7 months ago:
Why 8th gen? Wikipedia and Plex say quicksync was added in Sandy Bridge.
- Comment on US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity. 7 months ago:
Time for an old fashioned beach-off
- Comment on Mozilla Senior Director of Content explained why Mozilla has taken an interest in the fediverse and Mastodon 7 months ago:
I feel like this relationship of: one company pays a competitor to promote an unrelated product that could very reasonably be used to engage in anti-competitive behavior should at the very least be heavily regulated by the SEC, or possibly just outright prohibited. Alphabet is the epitome of the mega-corporation who has the resources to compete viciously in almost any industry, but has the breadth for plausible deniability about who their competition is.
“What? Mozilla isn’t competition…browser? Oh you mean chrome? That little thing? Nah, we just do that on the side. We’re an ad company.”
Meanwhile: “What? Meta? You mean like Facebook? We don’t compete with them, hah, remember Google+? They compete with TikTok…Oh ads? I guess so, but that’s kind of a side thing. We do mobile os/web analytics/email/whatever.”
- Comment on Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM 9 months ago:
Yeah, just meant it should be a valid workaround in the event they want to try it before your local scan feature is ready.
- Comment on Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM 9 months ago:
You could always SSH into localhost I assume.