Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
I always assumed that "lawful" is relative to the society one lives in/comes from. And if that's the case then the Punisher is anything but. He's living by some law, alright, but not law of others around him.
Hey guys, I’m new to self-hosting; I’m trying to set up cloud storage to store pics and other content. However, I’m unsure whether to use my old computer, Buy NAS or ResberryPie to set up a home server....
Raid 5 with 3 drives survives one dying disk. Raid 1 (mirroring) with 2 disks survives one dying disk. if either setup loses two disks all the data is gone.
When you run 3 disks then the odds of two failing are higher than if you run 2 disks.
So 3 disks are not significantly safer and might even be worse.
That being said: both setups are fine for home use, because you've set up real backups anyway, right?
Hi there ! I have a little box at home, hosting some little services for personal use under freebsd with a full disk encryption (geli). I’m never at home and long power outage often occurs so I always need to come back home to type my passphrase to decrypt the disk....
This starts dropbear as an SSH server that only has a single task: when someone logs in to it they get asked for the decryption key of the root partition.
I suspect that this could be adopted to whatever encryption mechanism you use.
I didn't follow it exactly, because I didn't want the "real" SSH host keys of the host to be accessible unencrypted in the initrd, so the "locked host" has a different SSH host key than when it is fully booted, which is preferred for me.
"Use vim in SSH" is not a great answer to asking for a convenient way to edit a single file, because it requires understanding multiple somewhat-complex pieces of technology that OP might not be familiar with and have a reasonably steep learning curve.
But I'd still like to explain why it pops up so much. And the short version is very simple: versatility.
Once you've learned how to SSH into your server you can do a lot more than just edit a file. You can download files with curl directly to your server, you can move around files, copy them, install new software, set up an entire new docker container, update the system, reboot the system and many more things.
So while there's definitely easier-to-use solutions to the one singular task of editing a specific file on the server, the "learn to SSH and use a shell" approach opens up a lot more options in the future.
So if in 5 weeks you need to reboot the machine, but your web-based-file-editing tool doesn't support that option, you'll have to search for a new solution. But if you had learned how to use the shell then a simple "how do I reboot linux from the shell" search will be all that you need.
Also: while many people like using vim, for a beginner in text based remote management I'd recommend something simpler like nano.
You don't need a dedicated git server if you just want a simple place to store git. Simply place a git repository on your server and use ssh://yourserver/path/to/repo as the remote URL and you can push/pull.
If you want more than that (i.e. a nice Web UI and user management, issue tracking, ...) then Gitea is a common solution, but you can even run Gitlab itself locally.
Billionaires don't "work". At least not in the sense that they get some amount of money that's in any way in relation to the value they create. They shuffle around money to do things for them and sometimes that makes them more money. Calling that "work" lessens the meaning of that word and gives them too much credit.
Have you heard of TV tropes? It's a wiki of ... well, tropes in story telling (warning: for some people following a single link to https://tvtropes.org/ means they find themselves half a day later with 32 tabs open and having read up on all kind of story tropes while having forgotten what time is).
On the one hand it will help you recognize the tropes and figure out how many of them are used in all story telling (yes, even the good ones), but on the other hand it can help appreciate that it's not the tropes or the broad strokes that make up a story, but how well it's told.
There's a reason there are so many movies/stories/plays that are just re-tellings of some Shakespear play or another: it doesn't matter that the outcome is known from the start. The journey and how well it's told is what's important.
So basically: "Oh yeah, that guy's gonna betray me. I wonder how and why exactly!"
I like to imagine that whenever there was a particularly slow day or someone was particularly stressed, they just opened the prepared article and tweaked and improved it a bit ... it's probably the collaborative work of many people over many years.
I’m trying to de-Google my life and self-host more. One tricky point with me is calendaring. I can get a CalDav server running and syncing with my Android phone without much hassle, but I haven’t yet found a server or client that can send e-mail reminders for events, rather than just pop-up notifications....
I was about to mention that ;-) Whenever I find myself looking for software in an area where I don't know any of the "competitors", I'll look for the awesome-* lists. At the very least they are always a good starting point.
Die Platte in meinem ersten Rechner musste auch partitioniert werden. Weil MS-DOS 3.3 meine 40 MB Festplatte nicht als eine einzige Partition ansprechen konnte... max. nur 32MB pro Partition wurden unterstützt.
I noticed that Linux server distros are using LVM as default. What is so good about LVM, and when should I use it? Is there a GUI for managing LVM volumes like GParted, or is it just through the terminal? How is it different from RAID in using multiple drives for one volume?
I'm torn a bit, because architecturally/conceptually the split that LVM does is the correct way: have a generic layer that can bundle multiple block devices to look like one and let any old filesystem work on top of that. It's neat, it's clean, it's unix-y.
But then I see what ZFS (and btrfs, but I don't use that personally) do while "breaking" that neat separation and it's truly impressive. Sometimes tight integration between layers has serious advantages too and neat abstraction layers don't work quite as well.
ZFS combines the features of something like LVM (i.e. spanning multiple devices, caching, redundancy, ...) with the functions of a traditional filesystem (think ext4 or similar).
Due to that combination it can tightly integrate the two systems and not treat the "block level" as an opaque layer. For example each data block in ZFS is stored with a checksum, so data corruption can be detected. If a block is stored on multiple devices (due to a mirroring setup or raid-z) then the filesystem layer will read multiple blocks when it detects such a data corruption and re-store the "correct" version to repair the damage.
First off most filesystems (unfortunately and almost surprisingly) don't do that kind of checksum for their data: when the HDD returns rubbish they tend to not detect the corruption (unless the corruption is in their metadata in which case they often fail badly via a crash).
Second: if the duplication was handled via something like LVM it couldn't automatically repair errors in a mirror setup because LVM would have no idea which of the blocks is uncorrupted (if any).
ZFS has many other useful (and some arcane) features, but that's the most important one related to its block-layer "LVM replacement".
ZFS is nifty and I really like it on my Homelab Server/NAS. But it is definitely a "sysadmins filesystem". I probably wouldn't suggest it to anyone just for their workstation, as the learning curve is significant (and you can lock yourself into some bad decisions).
I guess that means it’s dead, as there’s no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product
Yes! As soon as your homelab grows above a couple of services and especially if it's used by two or more people SSO becomes an absolute necessity! The tolerance of non-technical users for handling a bunch of passwords and having to enter them everywhere is understandably low.
The Home Assistant devs apparently also deal SSO as "a corporate feature that big-corp interests want to force onto us" whereas it's the exact opposite in many cases: If we want self hosted services to be a realistic alternative to the "big corpo offerings" then we have to consider convenience and security an important feature and SSO is one of the few things that improves both at the same time.
But that's exactly what every other Employee and country is doing.
And he's not capable of handling the fact that someone might be standing up to him.
And I don't even mean that in a "doesn't have a business plan to handle that situation" sense either. I think that he's personally not emotionally stable enough to fully grasp what's happening.
If you want to go all philosophical about it, think about who decided what "insane" means. That was the same species. So we set arbitrary standards of sanity and then we repeatedly fail to meet them ... something something philosophy ...
Portainer has so many tiny broken places that I effectively treat it only as a read-only view. It lists my containers and shows my logs and nothing much else.
It could in theory do quite a bit more, but starting from the fact that it doesn't quite do docker-compose, but its own thing that's somehow similar but different there's just too many tiny issues with it.
Also, it's quite aggressively pushing the paid option without a way to turn that off (or at least turn it down to tolerable levels).
Herbert F. (84) has been in a Taliban dungeon in Kabul for six months: the right-wing extremist blogger from Vienna had traveled to the Islamist country in the Hindu Kush despite warnings. He had wanted to show that, contrary to the opinion of experts, Afghanistan was a safe country of origin and that refugees could be deported...
That is the official and authoritative source, but it's also German and Legalese (and the nuance is definitely also in the application and comments, slightly similar to "case law" in common law countries, but not quite the same), so I doubt it's of much use. https://voez.at/politik-recht/rechtsinformationen/persoenlichkeitsrechte/ (or a Google translate version of it) can probably give you a better idea (that's a non-official site by the umrella organization of Austrian news papers).
It's also pretty important to note that the "Mediengesetz" doesn't restrict your average private citizen in what they can say: this is specifically about organization publishing media of any kind (news papers, books, ...).
extends to an international context like what we have here.
The article linked to is from an Austrian outlet, so Austrian laws and customs would apply.
Other outlets that report on the same story are obviously not bound by Austrian law and I think I saw at least one "article" (it was really just a very terrible summary of some other source) that used the full name.
I suspect he would like nothing more than this to be as public as possible, so I don't think he will sue. Since my interest in this only really extends as far as "haha, that guy" I'm also not going to actively look into it ;-)
I don't think "standing" exists as such in civil law countries (as most of Europe), that is mostly a common law term.
But AFAIK the only one who can sue for this are the "injured parties", i.e. those about which untrue or defamatory things were said or who's identity was revealed without proper consideration of the pros/cons (because the right to anonymity in this is far from absolute).
I don't quite understand what you're asking for. What about those letters?
Also: I suspect that if I understood I probably couldn't give you an answer, because I'm not well-versed enough in all the details to be able to go into the nitty-gritty. The majority of my understanding is from seeing the effects of the law in news papers (via redactions and corrections) and occasionally reading up on how it works.
Had this conversation with someone who chose to no longer be at my table after meeting a blind NPC (files.catbox.moe)
Another player who was at the table during the incident sent me this meme after the problem player in question (they had a history) left the group chat....
Shot for shot (startrek.website)
What is the most efficient method to set up a home server?
Hey guys, I’m new to self-hosting; I’m trying to set up cloud storage to store pics and other content. However, I’m unsure whether to use my old computer, Buy NAS or ResberryPie to set up a home server....
Remote solution to decrypt disk at boot
Hi there ! I have a little box at home, hosting some little services for personal use under freebsd with a full disk encryption (geli). I’m never at home and long power outage often occurs so I always need to come back home to type my passphrase to decrypt the disk....
Any way to edit a file over internet?
I would like a program or website to connect to a computer and be able to edit a file there....
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Self-hosted calendar that isn't Nextcloud and can send e-mail reminders, not just pop-ups
I’m trying to de-Google my life and self-host more. One tricky point with me is calendaring. I can get a CalDav server running and syncing with my Android phone without much hassle, but I haven’t yet found a server or client that can send e-mail reminders for events, rather than just pop-up notifications....
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Why and when should I use LVM?
I noticed that Linux server distros are using LVM as default. What is so good about LVM, and when should I use it? Is there a GUI for managing LVM volumes like GParted, or is it just through the terminal? How is it different from RAID in using multiple drives for one volume?
ownCloud becomes part of Kiteworks (owncloud.com)
I guess that means it’s dead, as there’s no way a corporation would pay millions to acquire a competitor just to continue developing a free alternative to their own product
Elon Musk calls strikes ‘insane’ as Swedish workers take on Tesla (www.theguardian.com)
louislam/dockge: A fancy, easy-to-use and reactive self-hosted docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager (github.com)
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Herbert F. (84) has been in a Taliban dungeon in Kabul for six months: the right-wing extremist blogger from Vienna had traveled to the Islamist country in the Hindu Kush despite warnings. He had wanted to show that, contrary to the opinion of experts, Afghanistan was a safe country of origin and that refugees could be deported...