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@ Pixel @lemmy.ca

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  • Self-Host Weekly (29 August 2025)

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  • The level of self-righteousness on that forum is hilarious, so it's nice when the achievement is appreciated for what it is.

  • Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?

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  • Companies can have multiple business lines.

  • Has anyone's browser failed the Anubis challenge on some sites but not every site?

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  • Is your user agent set to a generic Mozilla? Some have harder challenges for certain user agents too.

  • Food and Cooking @beehaw.org
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    How Nigerians reinvented an Italian tinned tomato brand

    www.aljazeera.com /features/2025/8/23/how-nigerians-reinvented-an-italian-tinned-tomato-brand

  • Securing a 'public' service for family

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  • I'm mocking you for insisting that the general public should use complex technical solutions because you think they're easy to deploy at scale.

  • Securing a 'public' service for family

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  • I have a few qualms with this app:

    1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software.
    2. It doesn't actually replace a USB drive. Most people I know e-mail files to themselves or host them somewhere online to be able to perform presentations, but they still carry a USB drive in case there are connectivity problems. This does not solve the connectivity issue.
    3. It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

    Iykyk. This technical elitism is just generally really off-putting.

  • homelab @lemmy.ml
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log

    words.filippo.io /run-sunlight/
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log

    words.filippo.io /run-sunlight/

  • Self-Host Weekly (9 May 2025)

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  • Oh awesome! So pleased to see Mistral AI integration for paperless-ai.

  • Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws

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  • Buying a $250 Residency Card From a Tropical Island Let Me Bypass U.S. Crypto Laws

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  • The whole point of this card is basically to bypass KYC requirements for crypto exchanges that don't allow US customers. They are very explicit about this in their marketing.

  • News @lemmy.world
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    US pauses military aid to Ukraine, says White House

    www.reuters.com /world/europe/us-pauses-military-aid-ukraine-media-reports-2025-03-04/

  • DeepSeek AI launch sees $1tn wiped off world’s biggest tech companies

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  • China scary tho

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • The X3 CPUs were essentially quad cores where one of the cores failed a quality control check. Using a higher end Mobo, it was possible to unlock the fourth core with varying results. This was a cheap consumer Acer prebuilt though, so I didn't have that option.

  • Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?

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  • I had a old Acer SFF desktop machine (circa 2009) with an AMD Athlon II 435 X3 (equivalent to the Intel Core i3-560) with a 95W TDP, 4 GB of DDR2 RAM, and 2 1TB hard drives running in RAID 0 (both HDDs had over 30k hours by the time I put it in). The clunker consumed 50W at idle. I planned on running it into the ground so I could finally send it off to a computer recycler without guilt.

    I thought it was nearing death anyways, since the power button only worked if the computer was flipped upside down. I have no idea why this was the case, the computer would keep running normally afterwards once turned right side up.

    The thing would not die. I used it as a dummy machine to run one-off scripts I wrote, a seedbox that would seed new Linux ISOs as it was released (genuinely, it was RAID0 and I wouldn't have downloaded anything useful), a Tor Relay and at one point, a script to just endlessly download Linux ISOs overnight to measure bandwidth over the Chinanet backbone.

    It was a terrible machine by 2023, but I found I used it the most because it was my playground for all the dumb things that I wouldn't subject my regular home production environments to. Finally recycled it last year, after 5 years of use, when it became apparent it wasn't going to die and far better USFF 1L Tiny PC machines (i5-6500T CPUs) were going on eBay for $60. The power usage and wasted heat of an ancient 95W TDP CPU just couldn't justify its continued operation.

  • What’s your RSS solutions?

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  • I really liked Miniflux and its clean design too too, but I found without an adequate categorization functionality, it quickly became overwhelming. Since I don't check my RSS reader as often as I should, it eventually got overwhelming and I had to switch to FreshRSS.

  • What side hustles have you personally seen work pretty well?

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  • There are lots of states that will straight up ban you from doing this without a gasfitter ticket.

  • What side hustles have you personally seen work pretty well?

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  • DegreeForum.net is a forum of education hobbyists that do accelerated online degrees (Bachelor and Masters level) for fun.

  • How should one access their servers when in China if at all?

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  • A lot of these comments are downright unreasonable.

    It's important to evaluate your threat model critically. The average tourist (that isn't going to Western China) or student is not a target for surveillance or data extrication attempts, especially firmware level attacks that are very specific to devices and are expensive to research and implement.

    Companies tend to require employees to carry burner devices for international travel because that's just good practice. You're far more likely to lose your device when traveling, border officials have broad discretion to search for and access your devices, and companies tend to have high value information available to their devices past the corporate gateway, like trade secrets, technical designs, accounting records or employee data. That applies to any country, even Western countries.

    Take your privacy seriously, but the notion that anything that touches Chinese soil means your devices are instantly compromised is a bit of a fallacious claim. Critically evaluate your role, the information you carry and why you might be the target of anything.

    Anyways, as far as VPNs go - technically not illegal. Companies, universities, etc. all have sanctioned MLP gateways in Hong Kong to bypass the firewall. Every expat in China uses a VPN. There's only one public case of anyone ever being arrested for using a VPN (and it was under a catch-all law), the others were all operators of ShadowSocks/V2Ray airports.

    Tailscale and WireGuard is dicey in Mainland China. If you're just a short term visitor, just buy a 3HK roaming sim for China and call it a day. As a best practice, you don't really want to expose your self hosted services to the web anyways, so I would probably not even bother trying to VPN from a mainland connection directly.

    I never got Plex or Jellyfin to work well on actual Mainland internet connections, simply because the Chinanet backbone that most people in China use is excruciatingly bottlenecked to the point that torrenting from other Chinese peers is just a much more pleasant experience.

  • What percentage of phone calls (to your personal phone) do you answer?

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  • 100%. I learnt the numbers 0-9 in Mandarin Chinese and I know how to cuss in Chinese to Chinese robocall scammers.

    I also have a social sciences research background so I have no disincentive or misguided desire to respond with wrong data to polls either.

  • Google Pixel @lemmy.world
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    Google Pixel 9 Phones now available for pre-order

    store.google.com /category/phones
  • Google Pixel @lemmy.ml
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    Google Pixel 9 Phones now available for pre-order

    store.google.com /category/phones

  • Is there any Podcast players that autoskip ads?

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  • People who are looking for direct integration between podcast players and SponsorBlock seem to be missing that a lot of podcasts these days that do have advertising in them oftentimes have dynamic ads where the ad audio will change depending on the day, the geographical location of the download, etc. So SponsorBlock can't actually account for what are essentially dynamic timestamps Whereas with YouTube you typically have fairly static timestamps that can be shared across a user base, only smaller podcasts are really going to be able to be captured by SponsorBlock unless someone discovers a way to mod an Android APK to essentially prevent the client-side compilation of ads and the original podcast audio assuming that there is a podcast app that does this on the client side.

  • Debian is a snail and its shell

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  • I mean, some bird species have mothers that essentially drop their fledglings to predators to distract from themselves (and their insecurities), or just simply don't feel bothered to actually help raise them to maturity.

  • Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control

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  • The great firewall situation was always interesting, because if you would use a roaming Sim, then you will be able to access anything

    Roaming SIMs work because the APN sets a network routing path outside of China.

  • Travel Photography @lemmy.world
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    A photographer’s wander in Bhutan

    www.theglobeandmail.com /life/travel/article-a-photographers-wander-through-bhutan/
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    What destinations are experiencing "undertourism"?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Pixel @lemmy.ca

    What destinations are experiencing "undertourism"?