pastthepixels

pastthepixels, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago)

Hey! Seems my instance can receive posts from yours; both !godot and !programming seem to show the latest posts (newest one is from 19 hours ago). Can this federate back?

edit: I made a whole comment on the issue page without realizing that 19 hours ago was also when you fixed federation… congrats on getting things to work! And maybe my coffee shouldn’t be as strong…

pastthepixels, 7 months ago

“Squirrel”

pastthepixels, 7 months ago

My instance is also having issues with federation. I actually found this from an issue on GitHub about it. I had to search up this post in order to see it. Hopefully my comment federates back!

pastthepixels, 7 months ago

I remember managing to get this issue solved on my computer. Looks like a QT issue. I may not remember exactly how I fixed it, but try the solutions in this thread and see if it works: lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34104

In particular run export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 and then run LMMS from the same terminal.

Also in response to other comments, LMMS is actively being worked on (though updates have been slow) – the last commit on the master branch was from 3 days ago, so that suggests that the project isn’t abandoned but development’s just rolling slowly.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

Yeah… Just wow. I disabled pictrs and deleted all its images, which also means all my community images/uploaded images are gone, and it’s more of a hassle to see other people’s images, but in the end I think it’s worth it.

Through caching every image pictrs was also taking up a massive amount of space on my Pi, which I also use for Nextcloud. So that’s another plus!

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

💀

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

A bit of reverse image searching reveals this was the original XKCD comic (more specifically, the top middle panel): https://xkcd.com/1269/

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

Don’t forget people on single user instances too! It feels pretty good watching drama and not having to worry about how this affects me.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

pict-rs, the software Lemmy uses to upload media by default, is a bit wack right now so people usually get around this (and some other issues) by uploading to sites like files.catbox.moe or postimages.org (the former of which can upload any media while the latter can only do images/gifs). I recommend checking that out - it can come in handy sometimes!

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

They don’t! The first site I linked doesn’t have a time limit, and for the second one, you can choose whether or not to give files one.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

Or worse, “Why should I switch to Firefox? Everybody’s complaining about the performance of Firefox compared to Chrome, but Chrome just works for me.”

Blissfully unaware of the kind of power you’re giving Google over the Internet by using their browser. I once had an experience where someone tried to use this to push me back to using Chrome.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

Firefox sorta does! If you only use tab groups (or profiles for that matter) to separate school tabs from work and personal tabs, I recommend giving the Multi-Account Containers extension a look.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

I may not be able to answer some of the more security-oriented questions, but one of the things I recommend is using a proxy to “hide” your home IP address. IP addresses can contain a lot of information including location data, so it’s a good idea to make things harder for attackers to figure out where you live. I’m pretty sure you can do this with a basic VPS setup, but I know for sure you can do this with Cloudflare (as I have it enabled on my server).

As for getting reverse proxies set up from your Docker containers to the outside world using Apache, I can help. I use (rootless) Podman on my Raspberry Pi, meaning when I expose ports from my containers I have to choose port numbers greater than 8000. Once I have a port (let’s say 8080), and a subdomain (I’ll use subdomain.example.com), I just need to create a file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ which I’ll call site.example.com.conf. The content usually looks something like this:

<span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ProxyPreserveHost On
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ProxyRequests Off
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ServerName subdomain.example.com
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ServerAlias subdomain.example.com
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ProxyPass / http://localhost:8080/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  ProxyPassReverse / http://localhost:8080/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span>

Then you just need to enter the commands sudo a2ensite subdomain.example.com and sudo systemctl reload apache2 and you should be able to access your container as a subdomain. You should just need to forward port 80 (and 443 if you want to set up Let’s Encrypt and HTTPS) on your router.

Hope this helps!

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

Yeah, Podman is definitely one of those things I would say to do the latter with. It’s functionality is the same as Docker though (commands work almost 1:1, and even docker-compose works with Podman), it has better integration with other system components (like automatically creating systemd services to start containers when a computer is restarted), and it gets you away from Docker as a company while still being able to access their containers on Docker Hub.
In the end though, I’d recommend sticking to what you’re familiar with. It’s always better to administer commands to your server that you know will work rather than learning as you go and hoping something doesn’t break.

pastthepixels, 9 months ago

he’s literally me fr