dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 1 day ago:
I usually use HTTPS. A lot of web features only work over HTTPS.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 2 days ago:
I think Tailscale has some methods for hole punching with double NAT (including CGNAT) and symmetric NAT, but it doesn’t work in 100% of cases. tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works
IPv6 is definitely a good solution since then you don’t have to deal with NAT at all. IPv6 is pretty easily doable in the USA (at long as you’re not using Starlink) but can be harder in other countries that don’t have as robust IPv6 infrastructure.
- Comment on How do I run docker compose on Bazzite? 3 days ago:
this means their permissions do not work like docker, and it is not in fact a drop-in replacement for docker
It might a drop-in replacement for Docker if you’re running Docker in rootless mode? Not sure how common that is, though.
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 3 days ago:
I like Unraid because it’s essentially “just Linux” but with a nice web UI. It’s got a great UI for Docker, VMs (KVM) and Linux containers (LXC).
- Comment on Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source 3 days ago:
Don’t. Use a VPN like Tailscale or Wireguard. Tailscale uses the Wireguard protocol but it’s very easy to configure, and will automatically set up a peer-to-peer mesh network for you (each node on the VPN can reach any other node, without needing a central server)
- Comment on GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly 4 days ago:
this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.
That’s part of it, but using a dedicated server, colocated server, or VPS are also considered “self hosted” too. Generally, “self hosted” means any server, web service, etc where you maintain it yourself.
- Comment on Ancient 4 days ago:
It really do be like that. I work with some people who are nearly 15 years younger than me (I’m in my mid 30s and some newer employees have just graduated from university) so I feel this.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 4 days ago:
I use Borgbackup for backups, and Borgmatic to handle scheduling them. Borgbackup is a fantastic piece of software.
For storing the backups, I use a storage VPS. I got one from HostHatch a few years ago during Black Friday sales, with 10TB space for $10/month. Hetzner have good deals with their storage boxes, too - they offer 5TB space for $13/month if you’re in the USA (you need to add VAT if you’re in Europe).
- Comment on 28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it" 5 days ago:
“The full source code of Lego Island? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your archives?” “Yes” “… Can I see it?” “No”
- Comment on Why I don't use AI in 2025 1 week ago:
Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time
I wonder if they’re factoring in the energy usage to train the model. That’s what consumes most of the power.
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 1 week ago:
Crowdsec is much more efficient than fail2ban. Fail2ban is a lot of old Python code with inefficient log parsing routines.
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 1 week ago:
Crowdsec blocks login attempts too.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
I didn’t mean to imply that every rental store in Australia did this, just that I lived in Australia and the rental stores I used included the manual.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
Whenever I rented an N64 game, the manual was in the box, and the store would check to ensure the manual was there when you return the game. That was in Australia though, so maybe it was different in your country?
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
There were rental places that didn’t include the manual?
- Comment on Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive 2 weeks ago:
Does this have a way of sharing a directory publicly?
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
I hope that goes well for them. It’s hard and expensive, which is why there’s so few good search engines and half of them just use Bing’s API.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a source for that? I think it’s nowhere near 95% of sites.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Definitely true. I’ll have to try it out. Is Ecosia better than DuckDuckGo or Kagi?
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Google was best in the 2000s, but things were different back then. SEO spam wasn’t really a thing yet, there were far fewer websites, and most online discussions were archived and searchable (compared to today where there’s platforms like Discord that aren’t indexable in search engines at all).
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
I use it for document summarization and it works well. I use Paperless-ngx to manage documents, and have paperless-ai configured to instantly set the title and tags using Gemini as soon as a new document is added.
I chose Gemini over OpenAI since Google’s privacy policy is better. I’m using the paid version, and Google says data from paid users will never be used to train the model. Unfortunately I don’t have good enough hardware to run a local model.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
It’s been common ever since magnet links were created, since you can post a magnet link anywhere (even in a plain text file) rather than having to upload a .torrent file somewhere like in the old days.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
This is available in the UI too - there’s a tab labeled “Web”. Sometimes it’s hiding under “More”.
Adding it to the search provider URL is a good idea though.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 weeks ago:
Ecosia still uses American services though - they use Google, Bing, Yahoo and Wikipedia for search results.
- Comment on Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk 2 weeks ago:
Even if the report is inaccurate, Backblaze has never been profitable, which isn’t great. Investors will keep pushing them to become profitable, likely eventually resulting in enshittification of some sort. We’ll see if things have changed when they publish their Q1 2025 results on May 7.
- Comment on Disappointing Sequels 3 | Game Sack 2 weeks ago:
Ahh that’s unfortunate - they worked well together. Family is always the most important though!
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 weeks ago:
It was missing a bunch of features last time I tried it - no crossfades, no automatic playlists (for things like liked songs, decades, etc), no artist radio (play an artist plus similar artists), no way to play sonically similar songs (based on offline analysis), no Android Auto. Maybe it’s improved now - I’ll have to give it another shot.
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, unfortunately it’s closed-source. It’s a good app though! If you build something similar that’s fully open source, with an Android app and Android Auto support, then I’d definitely be interested in trying it.
- Comment on Disappointing Sequels 3 | Game Sack 2 weeks ago:
Wow I didn’t realise that Game Sack is still around. I remember watching their videos maybe 10 years ago.
- Comment on Pico Pixel Player - Offline-first PWA Music player with transcoding & folder listing support 2 weeks ago:
Have you tried Plexamp? It supports all the features in your list. You need a Plex Pass for most of the features though.
I’m not mentioning it to suggest your project is bad; I’m mentioning it since it might give you some inspiration for features to implement in your one :)