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DeepSeek tech wipeout erases more than $1 trillion in market cap as AI panic grips Wall Street
  • At least we know they censor.

    What topics are censored by ChatGPT and we are not aware of them?

  • [Weekly thread] How is everyone doing with their home improvements?
  • Finished today my closed furniture. A floor to ceiling kind of wardrobe made (very simply) with wood.

  • Help with Decluttarr
  • This is for Gentoo but very applicable to your case as well:

    https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=gentoo%3Apip

  • I'm not sure I'm toning up my arms the right way, can you help me?
  • Go swimming... Much better overall and pair wonders with running!

    ... Then pickup cycling and start triathlon...

  • 🔥 Advanced Heating Control
  • I use this extensively.

    I whish you could control many thermostats with many external termometers... But I need to run many copies of this automation, one for each room of my house!

    Works very well.

  • What's your least favorite instance?
  • Its still censorship and I don't like it...

    But the good of the fediverse is that I can spin my instance and don't deal with that!

    And I love it.

  • USA Question | How much is a dozen large eggs near you?
  • Here in northern Italy 10 medium eggs (free range) go for 1,99€. At a normal discount supermarket.

  • What's your least favorite instance?
  • Lemmy.world. i serioisly despise their de-federating from inatances.

    Well, any other instance censuring other ones just because (insert your cause here), so not really anything against world in itself.

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • Thanks!

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • Thank you! This is really interesting, will look into it.

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • I have heard of headscale, and agree that would fix my allergies.

    But I don't have a use case for that either, so...

    Maybe in the future, who knows.

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • Thank you, I am allergic to tailscale (joking).

    I already selfhost lots of stuff for family and friends using reverse proxy+https a public domain(s) and a VPS tunneled back (wireguard) home since I am behind CGNAT. And authelia on top of it all.

    My setup should be safe enough also for a Lemmy instance.

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • Ok, indeed, will go with latest for sure, thanks

  • Lemmy selfhost hints
  • Thanks! I have a more powerful hardware than a pi, how is it about bandwidth?

    I will have two, maybe three users.

  • Lemmy selfhost hints

    Hi all!

    I have decided to setup and selfhost my own private Lemmy instance.

    I will be doing with docker (podman, actually).

    Should I host at home or use a dedicated VPS?

    Anybody selfhosting its own Lemmy?

    Do you guys have any hints for me?

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    [Serio] cambio #gomme auto: posso affidarmi al concessionario?
  • No, non puoi fidarti a meno che tu lo conosca e sappia che è onesto.

    Io compro tramite un ragazzo che fa il gommista, ma che conosco personalmente. Una volta ho avuto urgenza e mi sono dovuto rivolgere a un gommista e mi ha rifilato una discreta sola.

  • [Serio] Quale marca di frigoriferi considerate piĂš affidabile, se doveste acquistarne uno ora?
  • Ho un bosh da 8 anni e va benissimo.

    Non ho altre esperienze però.

  • [Serio] gestione collega difficile
  • Incazzarsi e fare scenate è controproducente. Trattarla male e farsi beccare, pure.

    Ignorala e vivi la tua vita. È lavoro, dopotutto, lavoriamo per uno stipendio e non viviamo per lavorare.

    Io sarei sempre gentilissimo e lei darei retta esclusivamente in proporzione a quanto "peso" può avere lei nei miei confronti, sul piano lavorativo.

    Non sarei mai scorretto verso di lei ma limiterei al minimo qualsiasi interazione.

  • A collection of 150+ self-hosted alternatives to popular software
  • No please, hover links are just useless to tablet and mobile users, anybody without a mouse actually!

  • minir4 - I'm impressed
  • Agreed, if I can find the same item on other sites, its usually the same price or cheaper there.

    I canceled my prime membership due to this, and found out that well, yes, you can buy anything elsewhere.

  • minir4 - I'm impressed
  • I purchased all mines from aliexpress. Same identical item, way cheaper than amazon.

  • Service monitoring

    Hi all!

    i have a nice setup with some containers (podman rootless) and bare metal services (anything i can install bare metal, goes bare metal usually).

    I used Monit, in the past, to keep an eye on my services and automatically restart something that for any reason goes down. I stopped using Monit because doesnt scale well on mobile browser and it's frankly clumsy to configure.

    I could go back to Monit i guess, but i am wondering if there is anything better out there to try.

    A few requirements (not necessarily mandatory, but preferable):

    • Open Source (ideally: true open source, not just commercial sulutions with dumbed down free verisons)
    • Not limited, or focuesd, on containers (no Watchtower and similar)
    • For containers, it can just support "works" or "restart"
    • For containers, if it goes above the minimum "works" and "restart" must support podman
    • Must support bare metal services (status, start, stop)
    • Must send email or other kind of notifications (ok IM notifications, but email preferred)
    • Should additionally monitor external machines (es other servers on the LAN), or generic IP addresses
    • Should detect if a web service is alive but blocked
    • No need for fancy GUIs or a Web GUI (it's a pro point, but not required)
    • No need for data reporting, graphics and such aminities. They are a plus, but 100% not required.

    What do you guys use?

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    New storage setup, comments?

    Hi!

    I used to have three raid1:

    2 x 4Tb Ssd dedicated to store personal data

    2 x 6Tb HDD dedicated to store "iso's", the eye patched ones.

    2 x 4Tb ssd for backup.

    Ext4 everywhere.

    I run this setup for years, maybe even 20 years (with many different disks and sizes over time).

    I decided that was time to be more efficient.

    I removed the two HDD, saving quite a lot of power, and switched the four sdd to RAID5, Then put BTRFS on top of that. Please note, I am not using btrfs raid feature, but Linux mdadm software raid (which I have been using rock solid for years) with btrfs on top as if on a single drive.

    I choose MD not only for my past very positive experience, but specially because I love how easy is to recover and restore from many issues.

    I choose not to try zfs because I don't feel comfortable in using out of kernel drivers and I dislike how zfs seems to be RAM hungry.

    What do you guys think?

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    Power usage

    I am smarting up my home with lots of ZigBee thingies and decided to add a ZigBee smart monitor to my selfhost setup.

    Its a desktop box with a core i7 9th gen, 48gb ram, no monitor.

    I used to have 4xSSD 4TB + 2xHDD 6TB. Three RAID1 for a total of 4+4+6=14Tbs.

    Power was sitting at 50W.

    I restructured my storage: 1 RAID5 with the 4 SSDs (12tb) and removed the 2 HDDs.

    Power went down to 38W!

    I am amazed.

    In the future will run just 1 hdd for storing backups and keep it spinned down 99% of the time.

    PS: the above wattage is during transcoding, so with high CPU and disk usage....

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    Video conversion and encoding script

    github.com GitHub - gardiol/media_fixer: Bash script to autmatically adapt media formats

    Bash script to autmatically adapt media formats. Contribute to gardiol/media_fixer development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - gardiol/media_fixer: Bash script to autmatically adapt media formats

    (crossposting, because i think it can be interesting here too)

    I like my video collection nicely organized and omogeneous as formats, codecs and resolution.

    I know there are already pleanty of solutions like Tidarr, but i find them a bit too much for my needs, and also pretty complex to use.

    I wrote a simpler approach in a bash script called "Media Fixer", the URL is at the top of this post.

    Feel free to check it out, play with it. I hope it can be useful for others as well as me.

    It's released under the GPLv3.

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    On the importance of backups

    Well, here my story, might it be useful to others too.

    I have a home server with 6Tb RAID1 (os on dedicated nvme). I was playing with bios update and adding more RAM, and out of the blue after the last reboot my RAID was somehow shutdown unclean and needed a fix. I probably unplugged the power chord too soon while the system was shutting down containers.

    Well, no biggie, I just run fsck and mount it, so there it goes: "mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0"

    Then hit "y" quickly when it said "the partition contains an ext4 signature blah blah" I was in a hurry so...

    Guess what? And read again that command carefully.

    Too late, I hit Ctrl+c but already too late. I could recover some of the files but many where corrupted anyway.

    Lucky for me, I had been able to recover 85% of everything from my backups (restic+backrest to the rescue!) Recreate the remaining 5% (mostly docker compose files located in the odd non backupped folders) and recovered the last 10% from the old 4Tb I replaced to increase space some time ago. Luckly, that was never changing old personal stuff that I would have regret losing, but didn't consider critical enough on backup.

    The cold shivers I had before i checked my restic backup discovering that I didn't actually postponed backup of those additional folders...

    Today I will add another layer of backup in the form of an external USB drive to store never-changing data like... My ISOs...

    This is my backup strategy up to yesterday, I have backrest automating restic:

    • 1 local backup of the important stuff (personal data mostly)
    • 1 second copy of the important stuff on an USB drive connected to an openwrt router on the other side of home
    • 1 third copy of the important stuff on a remote VPS

    And since this morning I have added:

    • a few git repos (pushed and backup in the important stuff) with all docker compose, keys and such (the 5%)
    • an additional USB local drive where I will be backup ALL files, even that 10% which never changes and its not "important" but I would miss if I lost it.

    Tools like restic and Borg and so critical that you will regret not having had them sooner.

    Setup your backups like yesterday. If you didn't already, do it now.

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    Add a discrete GPU or not?

    In my server I currently have an Intel i7 9th gen CPU with integrated Intel video.

    I don't use or need A.I. or LLM stuff, but we use jellyfin extensively in the family.

    So far jellyfin worked always perfectly fine, but I could add (for free) an NVIDIA 2060 or a 1060. Would it be worth it?

    And as power consumption, will the increase be noticeable? Should I do it or pass?

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    Web printing

    Hi!

    I have setup ScanServJS which is an awesome web page that access your scanner and let you scan and download the scanned pages from your self hosted web server. I have the scanner configured via sane locally on the server and now I can scan via web from whatever device (phone, laptop, tablet, whatever) with the same consistent web interface for everyone. No need to configure drivers anywhere else.

    I want to do the same with printing. On my server, the printer is already configured using CUPS, and I can print from Linux laptops via shared cups printer. But that require a setup anyway, and while I could make it work for phones and tablets, I want to avoid that

    I would like to setup a nice web page, like for the scanner, where the users no matter the device they use, can upload files and print them. Without installing nor configuring anything on their devices.

    Is there anything that I can self-host to this end?

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    Power outage worries

    Hi fellow hosters!

    I do selfhost lots of stuff, starting from the classical '*Arrs all the way to SilberBullet and photos services.

    I even have two ISPs at home to manage failover in case one goes down, in fact I do rely on my home services a lot specially when I am not at home.

    The main server is a powerful but older laptop to which i have recently replaced the battery because of its age, but my storage is composed of two raid arrays, which are of course external jbods, and with external power supplies.

    A few years ago I purchased a cheap UPS, basically this one: EPYCÂŽ TETRYS - UPS https://amzn.eu/d/iTYYNsc

    Which works just fine and can sustain the two raids for long enough until any small power outage is gone.

    The downside is that the battery itself degrades quickly and every one or two years top it needs to be replaced, which is not only a cost but also an inconvenience because i usually find out always the worst possible time (power outage), of course!

    How do you tackle the issue in your setups?

    I need to mention that I live in the countryside. Power outages are like once or twice per year, so not big deal, just annoying.

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    Issue with local DNS and Android

    I have a home network with an internal DNS resolver. I have some subdomains (public) that maps to a real world IP address, and maps to the home server private address when inside home.

    In short, i use unbound and have added some local-data entries so that when at home, those subdomains points to 192.168.x.y instead.

    All works perfectly fine from Windows and from Linux PCs.

    Android, instead, doesnt work.

    With dynamic DHCP allocation on android, the names cannot be resolved (ping will fail...) from the android devices. With specific global DNS servers (like dns.adguard.com) of course will always resolve to the public IP.

    The only solution i found is to disable DHCP for the Wifi on android and set a static IP with the 192.168.x.y as DNS server, in this case it will work.

    But why? Aynbody has any hints?

    It's like Android has some kind of DNS binding protection enabled by default, but i cannot find any information at all.

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    Torino e dintorni

    Qualche utente linux / OpenSource fanatic in zona come da titolo?

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    Weekend di Ferragosto?

    Che fate di bello? Passata la festa, sempre in vacanza? Siete a casa? Che fate?

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    DNS issues

    Hi! i am selfhosting my services and using a DNSMasq setup to provide ad-blocking to my home network.

    I was thinkering with Unbound to add a fully independent DNS resolver and not depend on Google/Adblock/Whatever upstream DNS server but i am unable to make Unbound work.

    Top Level Domains (like com, org...) are resolved fine, but anything at second level doesn't. I am using "dig" (of course i am on linux) and Unbound logging to find out what's going on, but i am at a loss.

    Could be my ISP blocking my requests? If i switch back to google DNS (for example) all works fine, but using my Unbound will only resolve TLDs and some random names. For example, it will resolve google.com but not kde.org...

    Edit: somehow fixed by nuking config file and starting over.

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    FitTrackee

    If I remember correctly, FitTrackee Dev do post on this community.

    Well, I want to thank him/her as this is a very nice piece of software that I just started using but looks so promising and well done! A breeze to install, even on bare metal, and so well designed (even a CLI? Come on!).

    Looking forward to try Garmin integration tomorrow.

    Thank buddy!/Appreciated.

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    Solar inverter e linux?

    Ciao! Ho da qualche mese un impianto fotovoltaico e mi piacerebbe leggere i dati dell'inverter senza dover passare dall'app proprietaria, salvare le statistiche e magari mettere su un po' di alert.

    Ho un home server linux e mi piacerebbe trovare una "scusa" per mettere su home assitant o simile e magari buttarmi nel mondo zigbee di cui ancora non so nulla.

    L'inverter è un CPS-SCE6KTL-120.

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    Self-hosted diary

    Looking for a self hosted diary type of service. Where I can login and write small topics, ideas, tag them and date them. No need for public access.

    Any recommendations?

    Edit: anybody using monicahq or has experience with it?

    Clarification: indeed I could use a general note taking app for this task. I already host and use silverbullet for general notes and such. I am looking at something more focused on daily events and connections. Like noting people met, sport activities and feedbacks, names, places... So tagging and date would be central, but as well as connections to calendar and contacts, and who knows what else... So I want to explore existing more advanced, more specialized apps.

    Edit2: I ended up with BookStack. MonicaHQ seems very nice but proved unable to install using containers. It would not obey APP_URL properly and would mess up constantly HTTP / HTTPS redirection. Community was unrepsonsive and apparently github issues are ignore lately. So i ditched MonicaHQ and switched to BookStack: installed in a breeze (again container) and a very simple NGINX setup just worked. I will be testing it out now.

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    CalDAV web gui

    Hi, Using radicale since I switched from next cloud, using dav5x on android pretty nicely.

    I was thinking about adding a web ui to access my calendars too from web... Any recommendations?

    Radicale web ui only manages accounts and stuff, not the calendars contents.

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    Riflessione su app e monetizzazione

    Ciao, non se se sia la comunitĂ  giusta ma provo a postare qui.

    Ho recentemente installato a partire da un suggerimento trovato sul sito che non si può nominare un Launcher nuovo che si chiama Niagara Launcher. Non posto link per non fare pubblicità, ma il nome lo faccio per contestualizzare. Le premesse erano molto interessanti: un Launcher fluido con un concetto leggermente innovativo, anche se tutto sommato neanche troppo.

    Dopo neanche cinque minuti di prova mi rendo conto che qualsiasi funzionalità non basica è da attivare e prevede il pagamento, e fino qui non ci vedo niente di strano, quello che mi ha lasciato perplesso (e mi ha fatto disinstallare istantaneamente l'applicativo) è stato che la formula di pagamento prevedeva un plan annuale che partiva dai €10.

    Ora chi sano di mente può pensare che qualcuno abbia intenzione di pagare un recurrent di €10 per una cagata come un launcher? 2, 3 o forse anche 5€ una tantum credo che li avrei pagati.

    Per quanto innovativo o curioso sicuramente è una follia. Il concetto di fondo è che io pago un recurent per un servizio.Non pago recurent per fondamentalmente un software cosi basico.

    Credo che la cosa sia un po' uscendo di mano Cosa ne pensate?

    Sia chiaro che il mio problema non è quello di remunerare o meno gli sviluppatori che è giustissimo che siano remunerati ma quella che è l'aspettativa di remunerazione.

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    Looking for a way to monitor my services

    Hi! i have a mixed set of containers (a few, not too many) and bare-metal services (quite a few) and i would like to monitor them.

    I am using good old "monit" that monitors my network interfaces, filesystems status and traditional services (via pid files). It's not pretty, but get the work done. It seems i cannot find a way to have it also monitor my containers. Consider that i use podman and have a strict one service, one user policy (all containers are rootless).

    I also run "netdata" but i find it overwhelming, too much data, too much graphics, just too much for my needs.

    I need something that:

    • let me monitor service status
    • let me monitor containers status
    • let me restart services or containers (not mandatory, but preferred)
    • has a nice web GUI
    • the web gui is also mobile friendly (not mandatory, but appreciated)
    • Can print some history data (not manatory, but interesting)
    • Can monitor CPU usage (mandatory)
    • Can monitor filesystem usage (mandatory)

    I don't care for authentication features, since it will be behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS and proxy authentication already.

    I am not looking for a fancy and comples dashboard, but for something i can host on a secondary page that i open if/when i want to check stuff. Also, if the tool can be scripted or accessed via an API could be useful, so i would write some extractors to print something in a summary page in my own dashboard.

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    My take on selfhosted photo management

    I have spent quite a lot of time trying to find the best photo management solution for my use case, and i think i have finally got a solution in mind. Please follow me and help me understanding what could be improved.

    The use case: I took, over the decades, thousand of pictures with manual, film based SLR, digital DSLR and many other devices. Today i mostly only take pictures with my phone and occasionally (like 1-5 rolls per year) B/W film photos. I like to have all the pictures neatly organized per album. Albums are events, trips, occasion or just a collection of photos for any good reason together. I have always organized albums my folders and stored metadata either in the photo or in sidecar files. Over the decades i changed many management tools (the longest has been Digikam) but they all faded away for one reason or the other. I do not want to change organization since it proved solid over decades. I do not trust putting all eggs in a database or a proprietary tool format.

    The needs: backup photos from family phones. Organize photos in albums (format as stated above), share & show pictures with family (maybe broader public too), archive for long term availability. Possibly small edits like rotation. Face recognition is a good plus, geographical mapping and reverse geotagging is a great plus. General object recognition could be useful but not a noticeable plus. Also i need multi-user support for family members both on backup and gallery-like browsing. My galleries need to be all shared (or better one big gallery, plus individual backups for users)

    What i don't need: complex editing / elaboration (would be done offline with darktable)

    Non-negotiable needs: storing photos in album-based subfolders structure with all metadata inside photos or sidecar files. No other solution will ever stand the test of time.

    I tried many tools and none fits the bill. Here are my experiences:

    • Immich: by far the most polished, great for phone backup&sync, not good for album organization (photos cannot be sorted into folders, albums are logical only). Has the best face detection and reverse geocoding.
    • Photoprism: given up because i don't like open-source with money tags (devs have all the rights to ask for money, but i distrust a model where they might give up support unless they make money)
    • Librephoto: feels abandoned and UI & Face detection is subpar with immich
    • PiGallery2: blazing fast and great UI, but cannot be used for backups nor organization. But can cope well with my long lasting collections of photos.
    • Piwigo: i used this decades ago. By today standards feels ugly bloated and slow as hell. No benefits anyway for my use case that compensate slugginesh. And my server is powerfull.
    • Damselfly: great tool and super friendly dev, unfortunately i could not fit into my use case. It can work on folders, but it's actions are too limited and beside downloads and exports and tagging... not much else. Not even backups from phone. I understand it's use case is totally different from mine. Still a great piece of software.

    My solution: more of the idea of how i want to proceed from here on...

    Backup: keep the great Immich for phone backups. Limitations: requiring emails as user logins breaks my home server authentication scheme but i can live with it. The impossibility to organize photos in folders is a deal breaker but luckily, you can define "logical" albums and download them.

    Organization: good old filesystem stuff, i don't need any specific tools. Existing photos are already sorted in subfolders, new albums can be created from Immich, downloaded, and stored on new subfolders on the server. Non-phone albums (DSLR, film cameras...) can just be added as well directly on filesystem

    Viewing: PiGallery2 pointed at the subfolders, blazing fast viewing online for all family members.

    Global workflow: take photos from phones, upload automatically to immich, then manually go sort them in albums, download albums and create appropriate subfolders on the server (if needed to save space, delete downloaded photos from immich). Upload/unzip and enjoy from PiGallery2. -- OR -- take photos with other cameras, scan/process on PC (darktable), create appropriate subfolders on the server, upload and enjoy from PiGallery2.

    All in all what pisses me off of all this is:

    • Immich requiring a fucking email address to login (not a privacy concern here, but my users will need to remember a different login for this specific part)
    • Immich not supporting subpaths, i will need two subdomains to achieve this workflow, while just one would have been less complex for the users (something like photos.mydomain.org/gallery and photos.mydomain.org/backup, instead of photobackup.mydomain.org and photogallery.mydomain.org, you get the idea). I know all the blah blah on subdomains being better and such, i don't care, this is an usability issue for dumb users and, in general, it's the way i prefer it to be.

    Of course, the best course would be to have Immich support folders (not external libraries, but actually folder based albums which is totally different approach) and it being able to move photos to folders, but hey, it wouldn't be fun in that case :)

    Amy thoughts?

    UPDATE: Immich storage templates seems to be the missing link. Using that properly would cut out the manual download/reupload approach. Need to experiment a bit, but looks promising.

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