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talkingpumpkin

@ talkingpumpkin @lemmy.world

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  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • A NAS is just a computer and TrueNAS is just Linux (ok, TrueNAS CORE is Bsd).

    You can run zfs on any machine: they recommend loads of RAM for optimal performance, which you don't need at home (or at work, unless your job is running a data center).

    You can choose from a number of FOSS NAS-specific operating systems, plus all linux distros (since you post here, I'd assume you either can or aim to administer a home sever?)... why would you go with a proprietary OS?

    There are several FOSS operating systems for network equipment too (keyword "NOS"), but as far as I'm aware none that work on small soho/edge switches. OpenWrt runs both my router (mikrotik) and WAPs (tplink), but the two 8-port switches I have at home (also tplink) run their proprietary firmware.

  • Le Utopiadi: tre giorni di proteste a Milano contro le Olimpiadi invernali

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  • Se facciamo una manifestazione per quello, ci vengo pure io. Ma... non mi sembra sia questo il caso se si parla di "tre giorni di proteste contro le olimpiadi invernali"?

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  • I really don't get your reasoning, but I recommend helix (because I recommend it to everybody).

    It's a pleasure to use, and it's... also not widespread or old enough to have any reported CVE ;)

    Oh, it's written rust IIRC, so it probably doesn't suckless.

  • Should I be using Debian?

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  • Don't tear down your server just to have fun - setup a vm (or get one of those minipcs), call i "playground" and have fun there.

    Redo your server after you've tried different things, and only if you feel like you found something that is worth it.

    Experimenting with different distros can teach you a lot (especially if you try very different ones - mint and debian aren't that much different) and I do recommend you do it, just don't do it in production :)

  • Why is Debian always left out of the distro recommendations?

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  • I'd say it's because:

    1. the people who ask for recommendations won't like (or understand) debian? (it's just "old packages this" and "outdated that" for most people)
    2. the people who do use and appreciate debian don't read "I hate windows pls recommend me a distro" posts (or at least don't reply as often as the

      <insert popular distro>

      fanboys)

    And, no, I don't use debian myself.

    but when I finally switched over to Debian, everything just worked!

    That's most probably because you learned how to use your system without breaking it in the meantime :)

  • Release fish 4.4.0

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  • So I've been using it for a while! :)

    What is the big deal about 4.4.0?

  • Release fish 4.4.0

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  • Is this the stable release of the rust rewrite?

  • Pros and cons on - and alternatives to - running three separate servers on one single Linux instance using systemd-nspawn

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  • Should I just learn how to use Docker?

    Since you are not tied to docker yet, I'd recommend going with podman instead.

    They are practically the same and most (all?) docker commands work on podman too, but podman is more modern (second generation advantage) and has a better reputation.

    As for passing a network interface to a container, it's doable and IIRC it boils down to changing the namespace on the interface.

    Unless you have specific reasons to do that, I'd say it's much easier to just forward ports from the host to containers the "normal" way.

    There's no limit to how many different IPs you can assign to a host (you don't need a separate interface for each one) and you can use a given port on different IPs for different things .

    For example, I run soft-serve (a git server) as a container. The host has one "management" IP (92.168.10.243) where openssh listens on port 22 and another IP (192.168.10.98) whose port 22 is forwarded to the soft-serve container via podman run [...] -p 192.168.10.98:22:22).

  • What's a Linux distro thats breaks the windows mold and is good for testing?

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  • You don't need to change distro in order to change desktop environment: just install gnome/kde/whatever if you want to give different ones a spin (you don't need to uninstall your current desktop environment either - you can have multiple ones and choose which one to use when you login)

  • Here's a nixos-rebuild wrapper script that formats and colorizes traces

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  • That just build t8plus becomes nixos-rebuild build --option eval-cache false --flake './nixcfg#t8plus' (the flake is at ./nixcfg/flake.nix).

  • Which distro is closest to 'GUI/UX for everything, absolutely no CLI' approach like Windows or Mac + and just works (ie passes LTT Linux test)

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  • Is MacOs "absolutely no cli"? It wasn't when I was using it (admittedly, some 10yrs ago), except maybe for the basic things which any mainstream linux distro also provides.

    What about Windows? Back in the day I would have paid to have a semi-decent CLI instead of being forced to use regedit (I hear regedit is still going strong, but I've not touched windows for an even longer period than MacOs)

  • Software Survival 3.0

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  • The future is 3.0 quantum AI blockchain .com (also orchestrated application server RAD microservices enterprise edition, but TBH those fads weren't as bad as the current ones)

  • Software Survival 3.0

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  • And there’s ceo’s listening to these folks fools [FTFY]

    I think it's more like the other way around: the current exaggerated faith in AI did not start from the bottom

  • Installing self-hostable services on a cloud server isn't self-hosting ???

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  • Honestly, do we need a legal definition of what "self hosting" is and what isn't?

    I didn't see your post and in the modlog I can only see it's title: "Apparently I'm into Web3, says Netcup" [ed: Netcup is a hosting company].

    If your post was discussing stuff specific to your hosting provider, then the mods did well in removing it - if you were talking about things that would have interested this community, then they have probably been too rash in removing the post.

  • Private network storage for my users?

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  • IDK how much I'd trust them with tech stuff (not much, definitely). However I don't see how encrypted storage may become an attack vector?

    I mean, they could clog up the HDDs with crap, but they can already do that via non-encrypted network storage (and in several other ways).

  • Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

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  • So basically... AI can be addictive (to vulnerable people)? Maybe the bubble will not burst then.

  • Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?

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  • Here it is:

    Many of us got hit by the agent coding addiction. It feels good, we barely sleep, we build amazing things. Every once in a while that interaction involves other humans, and all of a sudden we get a reality check that maybe we overdid it.

    In His Dark Materials, every human has a dæmon, a companion that is an externally visible manifestation of their soul. It lives alongside as an animal, but it talks, thinks and acts independently. I’m starting to relate our relationship with agents that have memory to those little creatures. We become dependent on them, and separation from them is painful and takes away from our new-found identity. We’re relying on these little companions to validate us and to collaborate with. But it’s not a genuine collaboration like between humans, it’s one that is completely driven by us, and the AI is just there for the ride. We can trick it to reinforce our ideas and impulses. And we act through this AI. Some people who have not programmed before, now wield tremendous powers, but all those powers are gone when their subscription hits a rate limit and their little dæmon goes to sleep.

    Looking at Gas Town (and Beads) from the outside, it looks like a Mad Max cult. What are polecats, refineries, mayors, beads, convoys doing in an agentic coding system? If the maintainer is in the loop, and the whole community is in on this mad ride, then everyone and their dæmons just throw more slop up. As an external observer the whole project looks like an insane psychosis or a complete mad art project. Except, it’s real? Or is it not? Apparently a reason for slowdown in Gas Town is contention on figuring out the version of Beads, which takes 7 subprocess spawns. Or using the doctor command times out completely. Beads keeps growing and growing in complexity and people who are using it, are realizing that it’s almost impossible to uninstall.

  • Finding a new registrar/name server for .at

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  • I don't remember them asking for any ID. Then again I gave them my real name/address and I payed with my credit card so... it's not like they can't confirm it's me.

  • solved (sort of): How are people discovering random subdomains on my server?

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  • (I missed the first part so I'm not sure I follow)

    How are the the subdomains resolved? If you registered them on a public DNS that might be what leaks them. Otherwise... maybe your browser?