rentar42

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rentar42,

If the only thing I knew about a given law is that those three complained about it I would immediately and wholeheartedly support and endorse that law. It's probably awesome and badly needed.

rentar42,

Don't you have it exactly the wrong way around?

Also, since the hate itself is already irrational, any additional "quirks" in that hate shouldn't be surprising anyone.

rentar42,

The problem with your attitude is ...

No. That's your problem with my attitude.

"Free speech" absolutists don't convince me with their hypotheticals.

Believe it or not: absolute free speech is not the end goal and not as valuable as you all believe.

Forbidding some kind of speech can be okay.

Because not forbidding it creates an awful lot of very real and very current pain. Somehow the theoretical pain that a similar law could create is more important for your argument, than the real and avoidable pain thatthis law is attempting to prevent.

but e.g. American free speech would be nonexistent

And I say that the specific American flavor of free speech is not very valuable at all.

rentar42,

Even if the state apparatus is bloated and needs to be improved, simply firing 10% of your workforce isn't going to magically improve things (especially when done so quickly). You basically can't know if you fire useful people or bloat. And for each "unnecessary" person you fire you also fire someone who was the only one in their department understanding their job and doing their actual work.

rentar42,

I understand your argument and there's some truth to it. But on the other hand exactly these kinds of decisions (joining/leaving the EU/NATO/...) have an incredibly strong possible effect, so them being done only based on the decisions of some politicians that were elected on some promises possibly quite unrelated to that decision has its own set of problems.

Looking for a reverse proxy to put any service behind a login for external access.

I host a few docker containers and use nginx proxy manager to access them externally since I like to have access away from home. Most of them have some sort of login system but there are a few examples where there isn’t so I currently don’t publicly expose them. I would ideally like to be able to use totp for this as well.

rentar42,

I've got the same setup! What I love about authentik is that I can even add a Google login as an authentication method. That severely increases the spouse-acceptance factor, as they don't have to "remember yet another password" or "carry around another thingie". Personally I use a YubiKey anyway, but for others who aren't into it "for fun" or for philosophical reasons reducing the friction as much as possible is paramount.

rentar42,

That example makes sense to me, because it's an alternative to something like hosting a blog on some third party site: generate it statically and host the result somewhere.

rentar42,

Now you make me feel old. In "the olden days" before streaming of media over the internet was as commonplace as it was now, that was the standard way that tech-savy people consumed media: Either on their PC or with some set-top box with built-in storage. I fondly remember my PopcornHour, which was basically a line of desktop-boxes that ranged from "basically a hard disk, video decoder and HDMI out" all the way to "can automatically rip your BlueRays".

rentar42,

I suggest to avoid the temptation to get one of the many cheap Android boxen meant for media playback from Ali Express or the like, as they have a strong tendency to be heavily loaded with malware. Definitely not all of them, but it's really hard to tell which specific one you'll get.

rentar42,

That's a great answer if one already has a NAS (which is not unlikely, given the name of the community). But if that's not already present (or desired for other reason) then a simple media-PC with some built-in storage is simpler to set up.

rentar42,

A custom "source available" license that may not be as clear-cut as intended and depends on "we know it when we see it" by the authors of the license? You don't say!

rentar42,

I've not tried that myself, but AFAIK VLC can be remote controlled in various ways, and since the API for that is open, multiple clients for it exist: https://wiki.videolan.org/Control_VLC_from_an_Android_Phone

There's also Clementine which offers a remote-control Android app.

rentar42,

https://lemmy.world/post/12995686 was a recent question and most of the answers will basically be duplicates of that.

One slight addition I want to add: "Docker" is just one implementation of "OCI containers". It's the one that broke through initially in the hype, but you can just as easily use any other (podman being a popular one) and basically all of the benefits that people ascribe to "docker" can be applied to.

So you might (as I do) have some dislike for docker (the product) and still enjoy running containers.

rentar42,

I personally prefer podman, due to its rootless mode being "more default" than in docker (rootless docker works, but it's basically an afterthought).

That being said: there's just so many tutorials, tools and other resources that assume docker by default that starting with docker is definitely the less cumbersome approach. It's not that podman is signficantly harder or has many big differences, but all the tutorials are basically written with docker as the first target in mind.

In my homelab the progression was docker -> rootless docker -> podman and the last step isn't fully done yet, so I'm currently running a mix of rootless docker and podman.

rentar42,

Somewhere a monkey paw finger curls and you're moved to the timeline where the world is in a nuclear winter ...

rentar42,

In the immortal words of Jake the Dog:

Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.

We are or were all noobs once. Going away from the keyboard is often an undervalued step in the solution-finding process. Kudos!

rentar42,

You've got a single, old HDD attached via USB. There's plenty of places that could be the bottleneck here, but that's among the first I'd check. Can you actually read from that HDD significantly faster than your network transfer speed? Check that locally first. No use in optimizing anything network-related when your underlying disk IO is slow.

rentar42,

Given the very specific dependencies that Immich has wrt. the Postgres plugins it needs, I'm certain that it's not currently packaged as an RPM and I would even bet that it never will be (at least not as one of the officially supported packages put out by the developers).

rentar42,

Can confirm the statistics: I recently consolidated about a dozen old hard disks of various ages and quite a few of them had a couple of back blocks and 2 actually failed. One disk was especially noteworthy in that it was still fast, error-less and without complaints. That one was a Seagate ST3000DM001. A model so notoriously bad that it's got its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST3000DM001
Other "better" HDDs were entirely unresponsive.

Statistics only really matter if you have many, many samples. Most people (even enthusiasts with a homelab) won't be buying hundreds of HDDs in their life.

[System-agnostic] Running intelligent and informed adversaries that feel fair

So, I like stories where everyone is competent, and as a GM I try to run my villains as playing to win. My goal is for the players to have a good time, but the enemies will use every resource at their disposal to achieve their aims: they will retreat if continuing to give battle is a bad idea, they will go scorched earth if...

rentar42,

One approach would be to tell them.

Not everything that the GM says to the player necessarily needs to be character information.

Of course, you don't want to ruin their suspense by telling them too early or too directly, but something along the lines of "as you hear the sound of many footsteps closing in, you remember that you thought you heard a "click-thunk" back in the mansion, but brushed it off as your nerves back then ... maybe you did trigger that silent alarm after all."

Password Manager that supports multiple databases/syncing?

I currently use keePass, and use it on both my PC and my phone. I like it because I can keep a copy of my DB on my phone and export it through a few different means. But I can’t seem to find an option to actually sync my local DB against a remote one. I’ve thought about switching to BitWarden but from what I can see it uses...

rentar42,

Was about to post this, this works well for me.

In my case I'm storing the DB on my Google Drive for now, but Keepass2Android supports many different systems, including "generic" things like WebDAV, so really anything should work.

While Keepass2Android is integrated with the syncing and will always check for conflicts (i.e. check for latest version before saving), the same isn't necessarily true for the desktop client. But since I rarely edit from both devices at the same time, anything that syncs to the Desktop in a somewhat realtime fashion should work just fine.

And for the few (long ago) cases where updates were overwritten, the "previous version" feature of Google Drive was god-sent! (And KeepassX can simply merge the old overwritten version into the current one and you'll get the correct merge).

rentar42,

I think the difference is at what level:

  • don't implement your own storage redundancy system at the kernel level with a small team in a closed-source fashion, because that's the kind of thing that needs many eyes, lots of experience and many millions of hours real-world usage to fully debug and make sure it work.
  • do build your own system by combining pre-existing technologies that are built by experienced teams and tested/vetted by wide/popular usage.

I feel OPs critique has some truth to it. I personally would rather stay with raidz by zfs, exactly because of it's open nature (yes, they too have bugs, nothing is perfect).

rentar42,

I honestly have no real opinion on this (yet), as I don't know if that would help or not.

But 90% of all policy proposals from the UK end up being terrible ideas, so I'll just assume this is stupid.

rentar42,

I find that to be a tricky thought experiment.

Can you run a country in a way that peppers the general population with "all is well" propaganda thoroughly and still manages to capture all the necessary information to make properly informed decisions at some high level?

You'd need some "elite" layer of people who get to see unfiltered, honest information, but how would you even collect that information if even local, low-level government actors are subject to (and meant to believe) the propaganda?

Basically what I'm asking is: if I ignored moral concerns, is there a world where keeping the majority ignorant could actually lead to more efficiency than letting knowledge of the state of things spread?

rentar42,

Do you have any devices on your local network where the firmware hasn't been updated in the last 12 month? The answer to that is surprisingly frequently yes, because "smart device" companies are laughably bad about device security. My intercom runs some ancient Linux kernel, my frigging washing machine could be connected to WiFi and the box that controls my roller shutters hasn't gotten an update sind 2018.

Not everyone has those and one could isolate those in VLANs and use other measures, but in this day and age "my local home network is 100% secure" is far from a safe assumption.

Heck, even your router might be vulnerable...

Adding HTTPS is just another layer in your defense in depth. How many layers you are willing to put up with is up to you, but it's definitely not overkill.

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