floridaman
@floridaman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Many such cases 3 months ago:
Venmo is, afaik, owned by PayPal, although they do a good job to not let on that it’s a PayPal service.
- Comment on Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God' 4 months ago:
The same Zuck that is training “AI” off their platform’s user data?
- Comment on Advice wanted: Combining current solutions into one home server 4 months ago:
Proxmox sounds like it fits their use case , it’s a useful and tweakable solution, and because it’s based on KVM you can pass through hardware with IOMMU. Personally, I run Proxmox on my (admittedly not very good) home server with like 12 gigs of ram and a processor from the early 2010s, handles a few VMs just fine with hardware passthrough to a TrueNAS VM. I do run a lot of my micro services on some cheap thin clients (DNS mainly) for redundancy as I mentioned, they were cheap. Home Assistant OS is happy on Proxmox as is Jellyfin with hardware acceleration.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
So you removed all of the windows 11 from the windows 11, sounds pretty tolerable.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
I’m not even from Florida 😭😭 Planning on a namechange for my Internet personality soon though
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
I hate Comcast as much as the next guy but I feel like 1.5TB a month would be reasonable. Even at those speeds you probably wouldn’t be downloading more, just downloading whatever you do now but faster.
- Comment on Jesus, help me! - No! 7 months ago:
He’s going to JESU 24
clearly
- Comment on I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post 7 months ago:
Thanks for the read!
- Comment on I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post 7 months ago:
Ah, I will look into adding that to my React layouts. Thanks for the suggestion!
- Comment on I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post 7 months ago:
Ah I will look into that, maybe there’s a Matrix library I can implement so that I don’t have to do that manually, lol.
- Comment on I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post 7 months ago:
I have been looking for an alternative recently, I was going to publish an article about why I dropped disqus and my search for an alternative but I never saw this. I guess the search term “self-hosted website comments” has all its SEO clogged up with Disqus by now. Will check this out though, thanks!
- Comment on I see your Termux server and raise you my iPhone - Self Post 7 months ago:
I do have an RSS feed! It’s floridaman7588.me/feed.xml I should probably put it in a more obvious place on my site tho, haha And thanks for reading!
- Submitted 7 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on 8 months ago:
but but muh thermodynamics
- Comment on Should I move to Docker? 11 months ago:
Some people seem to hate on it, but I love Docker, it works well for what it has to do and has relatively low overhead as far as I can tell. I personally virtualize a Debian server on Proxmox for my containers just so as to keep everything even more compartmentalized, but it takes more work than it’s worth to set up.
And if you don’t like Docker for whatever reason, you can also try Podman which is API compatible with Docker for the most part.
- Comment on BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! 11 months ago:
Said in the reply to the other comment here, but I don’t really self host for security/privacy sake. And in addition to that comment I’d also like to say that I do use a YubiKey when possible for MFA. I’m not a security nut enough to care about TOTP (which kinda sucks anyway) all too much but for important things I do use physical MFA.
- Comment on BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! 11 months ago:
Fair, although I’ve said in a comment on this account somewhere else, I self host more for convenience sake than anything. I just like having my own password manager, sure it’s not as secure to use it for MFA but it’s better than giving my passwords to Google, LastPass, etc. and then using eg Google Authenticator. Self hosting is more a corporate distrust thing than a privacy thing for me
- Comment on Excuse me, but the industries AI is disrupting are not lucrative 11 months ago:
womp womp
- Comment on BVG out here recommending the best 2FA Apps! 11 months ago:
I self host Bitwarden (Vaultwarden) so I just use the built-in TOTP authenticator in the Bitwarden app. It’s nice to have it all in one place + having auto copy and paste when I log in. And because I self host, it’s all backed up securely and with (as far as I know) no real backdoors.
- Comment on Should i use Cloudflare? 11 months ago:
That’s a fair point, I self host stuff more out of convenience over privacy (although that’s still a factor) so I guess I just care less about them watching my traffic I suppose. CF is just so easy with their Argo Tunnels and domain registrar service.
- Comment on Should i use Cloudflare? 11 months ago:
I use their tunnels in conjunction with internal split horizon DNS so I don’t have to forward any ports and can access things locally faster so I’m probably breaking this rule but I haven’t gotten any emails or letters about it yet. Crossing my fingers they don’t care lol
- Comment on Should i use Cloudflare? 11 months ago:
It’s been a while since I’ve heard anything about this but didn’t they change their ToS in regards to media on their network? I thought I read something about that clause getting removed at some point a few months back.
- Comment on An After-School Program Teaches Teens Java and Python 11 months ago:
you know how it goes
- Comment on good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient? 1 year ago:
ARM software support is just generally rough, yeah it’s good on RPi (and Mac) but on other boards it typically sucks, namely the cheaper boards OP would be buying. Here’s a couple software examples though, I’m a big docker user and just the other day I was trying to run I believe Mastodon and Lemmy on an ARM device but there was just no image for it. I’m sure I could build an image myself but for someone just getting into Homelabbing (like OP), x86 is the platform to use.
- Comment on good alternatives to raspberry pi which are cheap and efficient? 1 year ago:
I’d recommend an x86 board because as great as the RPI and similar can be, ARM just doesn’t have the same support for a lot of things you might want to self host. I personally like to spring for a used thinclient PC off of eBay, because they have about the same resources as a Raspberry Pi but on an x86 platform. With my thin clients I typically install Alpine but a really light Debian install could work as well, and then from there you can go about installing Docker etc for a little homelab. Even better, if you get lucky and get a couple of them you could mess around with clustering them and some light Kubernetes at home. I’ve got mine running PiHole and Unbound on Alpine to serve my whole house with DNS and it works great. I don’t think I’ve had hardly any downtime issues or anything of that sort.
TL;DR: try a couple cheap thin clients from eBay and you can run some light stuff on them for cheap.
- Comment on Kids and teens are inundated with phone prompts day and night 1 year ago:
I think Lemmy accepts markdown formatting, the syntax might just be different
For example,
this is a strikethrough - Comment on I've pretty much stopped caring about the Beeper app. 1 year ago:
I waited for ~2 years to get onboard and just having the ability to use iMessage on my Pixel 6 has made it worthwile. Plus the tight integration with other services and being able to use it to sync SMS between devices is like Apple level. It’s probably not the best service for certain aspects (e.g. privacy, they say it’s E2E but who knows what their stack is), but the secret sauce that is the app just ties it all together so well. Plus, they have support built right into that app via a private Matrix Room and a REAL PERSON will respond to almost any query within a couple minutes. I accidentally sent a DM request to the CEO and he replied in like 3 minutes. If you want to skip the line I can give you my invite code so you can try it out.
- Comment on Debunking the Tech Hype Cycle with Dan Olson 1 year ago:
tl;dr, you’re right but I’m more concerned about the media and lay people misusing the term, and it just annoys me personally too
I am sorry, I should’ve been more clear, and I do genuinely appreciate your comment as it is very useful information. I am referring to lay people using the term ‘AI’. These institutions and individuals, who I agree are the most trusted on the topic, use the term because it is becoming the term broadly recognized. I have no problem with these people using the term, because they are aware of the context they use it in. I have a problem with people who are not versed in the topic using it, and that is what I agree with Connover on. When the media, and more broadly the general public, use the term AI, they are usually considering it to be a big spooky thing that could come for everyone’s jobs, and especially on the Internet the term is used to perpetuate a grift. I don’t wish to argue either, I just wanted to append this to clear up what I meant. And don’t get me wrong, I’m no expert on the topic, as much as I made it sound like that, I’m just tired of the media and the actual grifters misusing the term without actually understanding the connotations. Artificial Intelligence sounds like something that can replace a human mind, and to some extent, a lot of generative LLMs can do that, but they aren’t intelligent, they are just large algorithmic guessing machines, and using AI just feels to me to be misleading in that sense. I know this comes down to personal opinion in the end, at least on my part, but you are right, and I’m just tired of hearing people spout about AI like it’s some existential threat as it is now.
Wow that ran on, sorry if you read the whole thing lol. Also you don’t gotta reply, I just wanted to clarify what I really meant to say.
- Comment on Fully local nameservice 1 year ago:
As recommended by others, you might want to use a real public domain that you own, and a reverse proxy for split horizon DNS. I personally run Bind9, Unbound, and PiHole as my DNS servers. Bind9 handles split horizon, so if I request my domain internally it gets routed through Bind. Then bind hands it off to PiHole for adblocking, and PiHole makes requests through Unbound set up as a recursive DNS server which doesn’t rely on any external DNS. I also use Traefik as a reverse proxy for all of my services. My set up is more complicated than necessary, and if you want just a few local domains, PiHole + a reverse proxy is plenty good for your needs.
- Comment on Best secure router for home use? 1 year ago:
Here is something I wrote previously under a similar post: “Check out the OpenWRT Table of Hardware, it has a list of firmware mod-able off the shelf WiFi routers that work with, you guessed it, OpenWRT. It’s rather versatile as it’s Linux based and can handle VLANs, multiple SSIDs, and of course, you can change the DNS servers.” As I said, OpenWRT is very versatile and runs on many different routers, just find one you like and install it! Many of the supported routers provide Gigabit switching, and some even have multigit for your server connection.