Toribor

Toribor, 10 months ago

I’m now wondering what happens if the Mali government (or someone else) begins using those domains with their own lemmy instance, potentially with malicious content.

Would the instances they’ve federated with begin ingesting and serving that content automatically? Or would that be blocked due to key mismatch?

Toribor, 10 months ago

Most of the hacky ways around it involve retaining ownership of the old domain and leaving it up indefinitely as a pointer to the new location. If your domain is taken from you though there is not much you can do.

Seriously dumb to have used this TLD considering there are a ton of choices these days.

Toribor, 10 months ago

I get that not everything can be free. I’m more than willing to pay for sites and services that have value to me. But companies constantly selling your data, blasting you with advertisements and then having the gall to ask you to pay for the pleasure? It’s blatant rent-seeking.

Toribor, 10 months ago

Do you realize that boomers are the ones who literally made the Internet?

Not the ones that I work with.

Toribor, 10 months ago

Emulating Switch games is pretty solid these days too if you have the hardware to run it.

Toribor, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I take it your seedbox is hosted externally and your Plex server is hosted internally on your home network?

You could set up a cron job on your Ubuntu server to run periodically and pull files from your completed downloads folder using scp. You’ll want to set up an ssh key for authentication to do this.

Edit: I changed my mind about recommending scp for this But yeah you should just do sftp from the terminal on your Ubuntu server using a cron job. Both of these should be fairly manageable with a bit of trial and error.

Stopping the torrent and removing it from your list will depend on what torrent client you’re using.

Toribor, 10 months ago

It looks like some sort of issue with pict-rs, the image backend for Lemmy. I haven’t paid enough attention to see which instances are having problems.

Does my user image show up? I’m hosting a tiny Lemmy instance just for myself.

Toribor, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

“Rachel Powell, a woman who rawdogged her husband multiple times for the purpose of procreation, was found guilty today.” doesn’t have the same ring to it.

Toribor, 10 months ago

A more perfect analogy would be the truck driver handing the other guy the balaclava and watching him put it on in front of him and then take it off again before he left. Not really much more private.

Toribor, 10 months ago

Back in 2016 or so you could get a RaspberryPi 3 for $35. Add a $5 power supply, $5 SD card and $10 case (or 3d print your own) and you’ve got a nice little piece of hardware for running a tiny project at home for ~$50. More than enough for hosting some simple web services, backup software or something like Home Assistant.

Plus it was popular (which makes it even more popular). It’s always been very easy to find guides written specifically for the hardware, despite it’s limitations.

I think the value proposition has been dropping steadily though. They cost more, are hard to find and there are now a lot more competing SBCs on the market. RaspberryPi still has name recognition though, for now.

Toribor, 10 months ago

Spiderman is what got me to purchase a PS4. I’ve rebought almost everything on PC though so I think I learned my lesson this time (still waiting on Bloodborne and Ghost of Tsushima 😞).

Toribor, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Ansible vault. All my config files and scripts are deployed with Ansible. Usually they are pushing those into a file or environment variable but if you scope permissions narrowly and don’t run services/containers as root you should be somewhat safe. If someone has filesystem access you’re already in big trouble.

Instead I’d focus on keeping your attack surface as small as possible. Keep services behind a VPN or segment public facing services to a separate VLAN or docker network.

Toribor, 10 months ago

I’ve got Uptime-Kuma internally for watching all my internal services and then I’ve got one running on a VPS that watches all the external services and public endpoints.

Such a great project and so easy to use…

Toribor, 10 months ago

There is a community Ansible module for the Uptime-Kuma API that I’ve been trying to get working so I can trigger the maintenance window when I run my playbook to update services but I haven’t quite figured it out yet.

I’m in the same boat though, I start updating containers and my slack channel blows up for like five minutes straight.

Toribor, 10 months ago

I’m starting to think we just need to rebrand green energy projects to sound more like a tech concept to trick people into liking it more.

It’s not solar, it’s LightWave.

Toribor, 10 months ago

Saying that you’d end a war by giving the aggressor everything they want is some real 10th dimensional Parcheesi.

Toribor, 10 months ago

I wonder if we need ‘aggregate communities’ where communities across instances can agree to share a set of rules and guidelines. You still have to pick which community to post in but the content itself can be browsed like one large community, similar to a ‘multireddit’.

Not sure if this would work in practice but it could be a way to merge communities across instances. It’s been something I’ve been thinking about to address fragmentation without solving it by centralizing around one big platform.

Toribor, 10 months ago

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Toribor, 10 months ago

My dongers have never been higher.

Toribor, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I think a combination of 3d animation and ‘ai postprocessing’ is probably the most effective result.

As much as I respect the rights of extras, they are expensive and easier to replace than lead actors. Disney already has things setup so extras never have to be on set with your lead actors, although you get a lot of backgrounds with ‘people just walking back and forth with no purpose’, but a bit more effort will mean those prefilmed backgrounds wont even require human actors, they barely do already.

Toribor, 10 months ago

FreeDNS requires you to log in to their website once a month or so to keep your DNS name active or they will revoke it. DuckDNS doesn’t require that. It’s free and it works. I set it up forever ago and never have to touch it, with FreeDNS I was risking losing my name or having my services go down if I missed their nag email.

Toribor, 10 months ago

I’m actually doing both right now since I had quite a huge compose file that I haven’t converted to ansible yet. The biggest frustration I have is that there doesn’t seem to be an ansible module that works with compose v2 (the official plugin) which means I’m either stuck on the old version of compose or I have to use shell commands to run stuff like ‘docker compose up -d’.

One nice thing I’ve gained though is for services like Plex. I have an ‘update’ playbook that I use and it will check to see if Plex is actively streaming before updating the container which isn’t something I could do easily with compose.

Toribor, 10 months ago

ansible-nas

Wow, yeah this is exactly the sort of roles/playbooks that I’ve been building. I’m definitely using this as a source before starting my own from scratch. Thanks for sharing.