atzanteol
@atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on 2 days ago:
Some people get into self hosting because they want their data to be their data. They don’t care about the particulars, they just want that peace of mind.
These people are the worst. What they want is fine - but the idea that you don’t need to worry about the particulars is ridiculous.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I think you could take this arbitrarily far.
This can be said about literally anything. And it’s a “slippery slope fallacy” to use as an argument.
There are “appropriate levels of understanding” I’m advocating for. I’m not even saying “don’t use yunohost” - just understand what the components you’re using do and how they interoperate.
- Comment on Thoughts about my (potential) first server? 3 days ago:
Also, what can I expect concerning RAID? That is definitely the most concerning thing for me, as I’ve never worked with it.
Generally speaking it’s recommended these days to use a software RAID rather than relying on hardware. If anything happens to that RAID controller you will need to replace it with a duplicate in order to mount your drives. Software RAID is controlled by the Linux OS and would be much easier to recover. There used to be a bit of a performance penalty for a software RAID but these days it’s negligible.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
That’s fair - I’ll keep that in mind in the future to be more clear.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Really grasping now aren’t ya?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Er… I’m not - I’m deriding that fact. Do you know what “ignorant” means?
- Comment on 3 days ago:
“Reads like an ad” - see also “simile”.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go.
Yeah - I’m the one wallowing in ignorance.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Sometimes people are just passionate about things. Like digital sovereignty.
🙄
Who gives a shit? I don’t know how to write apps for my phone either, I just click the install button and away I go. I don’t have time for a new career. If it weren’t for YNH I wouldn’t be hosting at all. And it’s not for lack of trying. Shit is complicated.
I’m always a little surprised when people are passionate about being ignorant.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
It still reads like an ad for yunohost…
I think one of the mistakes many newb self hosters make is thinking of systems in their entirety rather than as components.
“How to install pihole on a raspberry pi” and “how to setup nextcloud on yunohost” are examples. All using very specific tools and very specific steps.
I’m noticing this more and more with documentation for apps where they tell me to use their specific docker-compose file and have instructions to use let’s encrypt in a specific way rather than referring you to let’s encrypt as an option and pointing you at their docs.
People aren’t learning how to use each of these tools and how to be flexible in their implementation.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
In part one, I explained why I’m passionate about self-hosting and I discussed what you need to get started on this journey (a VPS and a domain name)
You didn’t need either of those things. This reads like an ad for yunohost.
- Comment on Element/Matrix Official Docker Install Method? 1 week ago:
12 pages of detailed documentation
Home Gamer: Is this it?
- Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app? 1 week ago:
To create an invite you:
# drop into mongo shell docker compose exec database mongosh # create the invite use revolt db.invites.insertOne({ _id: "enter_an_invite_code_here" })
That’s pretty jank.
Also - I’m getting pretty fed-up with self-hosting documentation that assumes very specific environments and goes into detailed configuration for that environment. Don’t tell me how to setup a server and how to enable/configure SSH and setup UFW as part of setting up your software. Just tell me how to setup your software and what ports it uses.
- Comment on Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond 1 week ago:
That fuck you mean? You can use these drives for any purpose you want.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like you haven’t taken the time to properly design your environment.
Lots of home gamers just throw stuff together and just “hack things till they work”.
You need to step back and organize your shit. Develop a pattern, automate things, use source control, etc. Don’t just file follow the weirdly -opinionated setup instructions. Make it fit your standard.
- Comment on 4 Black Eggs Surfaced From the Dark Heart of the Ocean—With 'Alien' Creatures Inside 4 weeks ago:
Utter clickbait drivel.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
…it answers from the attached KBs only. If the fact isn’t there, it tells you - explicitly - instead of winging it.
So you’ve made a FAQ with a LLM interface? I could see that potentially being useful for cooperate “let our bot answer your questions” tools.
But the usefulness of AI isn’t just in “tell me a fact”. Like what would your AI give for "what functions would I use in Python to convert a utf16 string to utf8?
- Comment on How are people discovering random subdomains on my server? 5 weeks ago:
Apparently it doesn’t.
- Comment on Self hosting with subdomains 1 month ago:
Section 1 says you’re using freedns.afraid.org though.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped 1 month ago:
Aye - that’s another reasonable use of the phrase.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped 1 month ago:
Ugh really? I haven’t seen that myself but that’s frustrating.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped 1 month ago:
Non-containerized applications. Not in a container. It’s not complicated. Running “on bare metal” sounds cool but it’s a wildly inaccurate description. Containerized applications run on the system natively just like non-containerized applications. So if one of them runs “on bare metal” then then others do as well.
But historically “on bare metal” is used for embedded or micro-controllers where you don’t have an OS.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #152: Wrapped 1 month ago:
- Users will stop referring to non-containerized applications as “running on bare metal”
- Comment on Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...). 1 month ago:
What “other technology” is going to make sure your API doesn’t have SQL injection and bad authentication vulnerabilities?
- Comment on Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...). 1 month ago:
“Security” is not just “ssl”…
- Comment on Created a self-hosted API for CRUD-ing JSON data on different storage providers (local, S3, minIO, ...). 1 month ago:
I think you should make it more clear in your docs that this is wildly insecure and should be restricted to “tinkering” usage only.
That said it seems like a fun project to write.
- Comment on Question about accessing my services from corporate Network 1 month ago:
Ssh port forwarding and socks proxying. Unless they block port 22.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
AI is so much faster than reading docs. And you get context specific responses that you can drill into. When used correctly it’s very useful.
This was using it… incorrectly though…
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
The drive got whipped [sic]
Oh, it was just sitting there and “got wiped”? Not because of a command you ran?
Sorry to be snarky but when asking for help you need to provide what you did, what error message you see now or what you expect to happen and what is actually happening. Also what OS you’re using would be helpful.
Presumably you should be able to get the drive back into a usable state - but I’m not familiar with SAS drives.
- Comment on ChatGPT fried my drive!? 1 month ago:
Am I the only one who has no idea what their problem is now? Just that there was an error about DIF but… What’s the issue now?