Moonrise2473
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- Comment on Nextcloud client just deleted all of my files, why did it do this? 1 day ago:
it is now a non issue
IMHO it’s still a big issue that might lead to data loss to someone else. The Windows client should be hardcoded to refuse syncing in onedrive folder.
Someone should reproduce this in a VM and open a GitHub issue
- Comment on How should one access their servers when in China if at all? 4 days ago:
When you enter China, you have to run their application on your phone to fill the immigration form. Way more convenient compared to the paper slip, right? 😉
It’s this apkpure.com/zhong-guo-ling-shi/com.gov.mfa
Luckily, you don’t need to install full malware but only medium malware, there’s a way to run it as a web app inside tencent WeChat by scanning a special qr code.
I run this stuff inside insular because tencent is tencent and even on fully patched Android 15 without any file access permission they still manage to drop fingerprinting files disguised as images in /pictures/.gs_fs0
For connecting to my servers, technically ssh on standard ports isn’t blocked (otherwise it would hurt their bots, no?) but I don’t want to show my server IP address, so I use a hysteria2 proxy hosted on a Oracle VM in the Japan datacenter. There are services like doggygo that rent access to those proxys for literal pennies (like $2 per month) but payment need to do with alibaba’s alipay or tencent wepay which is ultra traceable (linked to Chinese id+Chinese bank account+Chinese phone number) and very stupid. Honeypot?
There are reports of evil maid attacks where a secret service agent poses as room cleaner in your hotel room and tampers with your laptop when you’re away, but for normal people this seems unlikely. Keep your electronics with you at all times, always use a VPN, check hashes of executables if really need to run them (better not) and you’re going to be ok
- Comment on Gsam battery monitor has been delisted? 3 weeks ago:
the dev has no online presence, but they updated the app one year ago to add android 13 support
it seems the whole dev profile is gone
- Comment on We should have elections with no candidates. 3 weeks ago:
And also with a randomized name/logo that changes at every election, so there’s no more “i vote for that party because my family voted for them since 200 years ago, and i will still vote for them even if they want to do immoral things”
- Comment on Gsam battery monitor has been delisted? 3 weeks ago:
but on android < 15 it resets as soon as you plug the charger, so it’s not as useful which app drained the battery during the day. Plus it’s buried in the settings. (with a decent launcher it’s possible to have a shortcut)
On android > 14 is a good enough replacement, though
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to askandroid@lemdro.id | 5 comments
- Comment on Verizon pixel 7 and android 15? 3 weeks ago:
Update 2: I inserted an European sim card, a few hours later I got the prompt where android asks if I want to replace Google and chrome with a different default search engine or browser (mandatory by law in Europe) and most important I finally got the prompt to update to Android 15 build AP3A.241005.015 which isn’t the Verizon “certified” one from 6 months ago
So at least I got this problem solved, I’m a bit sad that I can’t run lineageos (seller doesn’t give the super secret bootloader unlocking program that nobody ever saw and needs, but says I have to ship to him and pay an extra fee - I’m sure he’s just going to swap the phone with a T-Mobile one)
- Comment on Verizon pixel 7 and android 15? 3 weeks ago:
update: seller (which is a professional refurbisher) says that all his refurbished pixels are american/verizon and he used to flash the global bootloader via JTAG, but since the pixel 6/android 13 (pixel 6 with android < 12 can, then they patched it with some antirollover) it can’t be done anymore. He says that nobody cares about bootloader unlocking and I’m literally the only one out of thousands of customers to have noticed the issue. He says that there’s a way to jtag the global bootloader onto the verizon pixel 7 and allow bootloader unlocking but it will have a permanent “software tampered” warning on boot and it can’t be locked anymore. Don’t know how much true that is.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to askandroid@lemdro.id | 2 comments
- Comment on Selfhosted alternative to google keep/onenote/evernote/goodnotes? 3 weeks ago:
It’s still in alpha but hoarder is promising
It’s designed to organize bookmarks, but can also support markdown notes with picture (a single picture, not multiple pictures)
Unfortunately at the moment the mobile app is so alpha that doesn’t support creation or editing such notes, only new bookmarks or new photos.
It uses a headless chromium to make screenshots for URLs.
Optionally, can use a bullshit generator like ollama or openai api keys to automatically create a lot of useless tags to each note
- Comment on how can i self host my music? 3 weeks ago:
What I’ve been doing:
Easy option: because I only have around 40gb of music, I sync it between my PC and my phone using syncthing since 128gb is the minimum nowadays
Hard option: streaming is cooler so I installed nextcloud with an optional plugin called “music” which allows to connect an app called “ultramusic” and it becomes “self hosted Spotify” with android auto support and all the bells and whistles. Disadvantage: Nextcloud is a moving target. For some reason they have to release new incompatible versions every two or three months. So for plugin developers this is a very annoying upgrade threadmill that eventually leads to burnout and that plugin dies. Even officially supported plugins sometimes don’t support the latest version when they launch it. If you choose to use nextcloud with docker, make sure to stay behind 1-2 versions (tag nextcloud:28 when nextcloud:30 is released) or your plugins might suddenly break without any warning. According to fanboys this is the industry standard nowadays and it’s up to the user to manually check the GitHub issues of each of the 30 plugins if it’s compatible before updating. Even if it’s official plugin. They call it “stable” but they mean “beta testing for the paid enterprise version”.
- Comment on Has anyone tried the new Resilio Sync 3? 4 weeks ago:
yes but the old docker requires the old licenses that aren’t on sale anymore to share more than 10 directories or other QOL improvements
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
It says “unlimited file sync is a $5 in-app unlock” so I’m guessing they can make money. Main problem is the apple developer fees that will eat the profit of the first 25 sales each year
- Comment on An update so major, we could have built the product from scratch. | GameVault 4 weeks ago:
That client seems really nice, is that new? I was thinking that it was just a download link for the browser but now it’s like a self hosted steam 😲
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to selfhosted@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Does anyone know why it was forked and the fork got all the improvements while the official app is in the exact same state of when it was launched years ago?
It was because all the proposals got rejected?
Because if he rejected all the improvements I don’t really understand why he’s saying “nobody wants to help development”
- Comment on Results comparison 8B parameter LLM x Gemini 4 weeks ago:
Well, Gemini is the stupidest of the bots
- Comment on Multiplayer shooters should get "pure" healers that can't shoot 1 month ago:
It would exclusively work for competitive eSports.
Many people play just for fun, don’t want to focus on teamwork
- Comment on An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless 1 month ago:
it’s not about the exoskeleton, but that the fact that the guy was forced unable to use it and left paralyzed for two months because the manufacturer refused to give him a $20 replacement battery for the remote, making the $100k exoskeleton a brick. If it wasn’t for the media outrage, he would still be paralyzed in a bed waiting for someone to carry him around with a wheelchair
- Comment on Randomly getting ECH errors on self-hosted services. 1 month ago:
I had a similar problem when using nginx proxy manager. In the end I just gave up and directly used cloudflare tunnels+cloudflare ssl
- Comment on static website generator 1 month ago:
What about Publii?
WYSIWYG static site generator but personally I like to keep the content in markdown pages in a git repository so i can keep unlimited edit history; this saves everything in a local sqlite database.
Unfortunately the most powerful one that checks all the boxes, including automatic upload to s3 is hugo, but as you said the learning curve is high. Maybe try to see if you can run the example site of this theme, install hugo in your system, then go in the
examplesitedirectory and runhugo serve. Slowly edit the files until you understand how it works. - Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
I tried nextcloud photos for ten minutes and it looked like you can add photos to an album only at the moment of their creation. And you need to choose them one by one, don’t have “select all”. And you can’t select photos already uploaded in the past. What? Couldn’t think of a worse gallery than this.
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
Me too, just saying that encryption isn’t always a pro
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
Encryption in self hosted when you’re hosting only your personal data isn’t really a positive feature
For the case of ente, having all the photos in encrypted blobs in a minio container, means you have to export the content every night using their cli tool, verify it, repeat for every family member, then backup the result
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
Technical question, if it’s e2ee, it means videos can’t be transcoded? Modern smartphones encode video at a bitrate that doesn’t allow real time streaming on 4g
- Comment on Mozilla grants Ente $100k 1 month ago:
This is a photo gallery that can replace Google photos, while using nextcloud as a photo gallery is a proof of concept that can’t be even considered alpha quality
- Comment on An out-of-warranty battery almost left this paralyzed man’s exoskeleton useless 1 month ago:
I’m shocked to learn that they are licensing the tech to competitors instead of holding everything in the walled garden
- Submitted 1 month ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work 1 month ago:
When on my personal install the music app was broken after an update for months, I didn’t complain at all. Because I went to see who was the maintainer: owncloud. Not their fault. In this case was my fault. Definitely my fault and without sarcasm. A third party plugin is expected to have problems after updates. Completely understandable. They’re even competitors.
First party plugins instead, MUST work at all times versus the latest stable release. It’s the reason I didn’t check compatibility.
This is the concept I want to say. It’s not hard. I’m not saying “the update process must be idiot proof”. When shit like this happens, it completely erodes trust in users. It’s not stable, it’s beta. It’s a tiny detail. It’s just a number on the manifest. What does it cost to update that number to 30 for the forms app? (The “incompatible” version runs perfectly fine when the check is overridden)
But no, let’s defend this behavior of moving fast and breaking things for no reason, like that issue thread on GitHub where users are rightfully pissed that the Windows nextcloud desktop client reboots without confirmation and fanboys are dismissing it “eh the cloud indicators in explorer.exe are so important, must reboot at all times, what’s the problem”
Do you agree that first party stuff must work? (unless it’s discontinued)
Would you expect Microsoft Office 365 being disabled after upgrading to Microsoft Windows 11?
And finally, how I persuaded the it department. Here I make a list of all the members:
We were just searching a way to host a worthless survey that nobody is watching instead of paying $350 to Surveymonkey. We drank the marketing cool aid and assumed that something heavily promoted just 6 months ago would be supported. But this is unreasonable.
Solution 1: waste a week doing your suggested way of multiple installs and custom unit tests and every quarter check carefully everything because nextcloud “stable” is as stable as a house of cards.
Solution 2: delete nextcloud and write a form in PHP+HTML in an afternoon, don’t have the same problem with nextcloud 31 next quarter.
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- Comment on I tried to selfhost Nextcloud at work 1 month ago:
Ok i get it, it’s best practice to do rushed releases without QA because users are the free testers.
They definitely had no way to know that their own app was incompatible, this is definitely a problem of the stupid user. Idiot user who believed their newsletter “update now, hub 9 is the best thing ever”. The user should have known that stable = untested beta
Also, this issue happened exclusively to me in the whole world, because everyone else isn’t an idiot like me and checks 30+ release notes scattered in 30 different repositories to guess any incompatibility. I was lazy and only checked the main notes! Such an idiot! Why I didn’t check every single installed app? It’s just 30! Nextcloud devs couldn’t have known that nextcloud devs didn’t update the manifest of the forms app! I should have checked before! Completely my fault!
Now if you excuse me I got an update to the Windows nextcloud desktop app and it must reboot after update because reasons even if there’s a GitHub issue with 200 angry comments about that. No wait! Stupid me! First I have to fire a VM and use a whole week to write automated tests that account for every possible combination of settings, language, power management, installed apps and so on. Otherwise I could lose a worthless survey that nobody reads and that will definitely get me fired!