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lemmyvore

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  • Monitoring Borg backups

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  • I check the return code from the borg backup job and issue a notification to my phone via NTFY if there was a problem.

    Please note that return code 1 (warning) will be issued if a file changes while borg is backing it up so it's very common if you backup log files for example. Which is why I only notify for code 2 or greater.

    You can also do it the other way and simply issue a notification no matter what happened, and just list the return code as-is. This is probably better since you also get confirmation that the backup job is actually running.

  • What email client are you guys using?

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  • Claws-Mail is still alive and well and works great. Lots of plugins, you can write your own post processing actions, custom powerful filters, customizable interface etc.

  • HTTPS on homelab (just locally)

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  • Btw, I don't use Arch

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  • If you don't already know the benefits it's unlikely it solves a problem you have.

    Even among its users many are using it because it's cool rather than because they actually need it.

    It's a declarative system, meaning you can describe how it should be setup (using a magic strings you have to look up online) and then it "sets up itself" according to the description.

    It's normally something you'd use for mass and/or repetitive deployments.

    It's usefulness for a single system is debatable, considering you can achieve very close to 100% of "reproducibility" anyway by copying /home and /etc and fetching a copy of the package list.

    Where the prescriptive approach is supposed to help is when you attempt to reproduce the system a long time later, after things like config files and packages have changed. But it doesn't help with /home, it hasn't been tested over long intervals, and in fact nobody guarantees long term compatibility for Nix state.

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  • If someone gets access they can delete your keys, or set up something that can intercept your keys in other ways.

    The security of data at rest is just one piece of the puzzle. In many systems the access to the data is considered much more important than whether the data itself is encrypted in one particular scenario.

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  • Now replace "signal" in your comment with "ssh" and think it over.

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  • If any part of the data gets corrupted you lose the whole thing. Recovery tools can't work with partially corrupted encrypted data.

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  • You. Don't. Store. Secrets. In. Plaintext.

    SSH stores the secret keys in plaintext too. In a home dir accessible only by the owning user.

    I won't speak about Windows but on Linux and other Unix systems the presumption is that if your home dir is compromised you're fucked anyway. Effort should be spent on actually protecting access to the home personal files not on security theater.

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  • Oh no, tell that to SSH.

  • Flatpak haters seem to believe that if an app isn't on their distro's repos, it's the developers' fault.

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  • The AUR is basically just a script that describes best case scenario for building something under Arch. They don't have any specific quality rules they have to meet.

    It's super easy to make and publish an AUR script compared to a regular distro package (including Arch packages).

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  • The ads are added in the app. If you cast, the Chromecast can't add apps (yet) so they'd have to make ad streams instead, and switch between the streams show-ad-show which would take several seconds of loading screen each way and so on. Which is a level of fuckery even they shied away from.

    TLDR they can't (easily) show ads during casting.

  • Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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  • No, unfortunately. 🙂 They're not talking about secure paths inside the office, they're taking about having all their processes using the floppy disks. They have a common format which is proprietary and can only be made with a proprietary PC program and can only be submitted on floppy disks.

  • My favorite button

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  • I want to know why Mozilla won't add it to Firefox Focus.

  • Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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  • Sure, but forcing an entire country to go through physical handling of each and every request is crazy. I really don't understand how they managed for so long.

  • Cloudflare launches a tool to combat AI bots

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  • Would be rather short-sided of them. They rely on the free tier of their services for upscaling and word of mouth. People are already wary of the fact CF can snoop on what's supposed to be private connections, but so far they've used that only for good.

  • GPL violation follow-up - some bad news and some good news

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  • Spending 20k to unchain yourself from a clearly ill-meaning vendor can be seen as a good investment in itself. 5k saved in (recurring) fees is a bonus.

  • Follow up from late Linux 90s post

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  • Windows and DOS games started working well later, as WINE and DOS emulator were evolving.

    But Linux had a thriving gaming scene of its own:

    • You've already mentioned Loki who made native ports.
    • Another type of "ports" were game engines made from scratch that used the level files of the original, games like Doom, Transport Tycoon, Caesar III, Panzer General, Stunts, ReVolt etc. You had to own the game files but the executable was FOSS.
    • There were lots of cool native games, many shooters (Warsow , Nexuiz, Cube, Tremulous), strategy games, cool arcade games (Tux Racer, Atomic Worm, H-Craft, Droid Assault), the rogue genre which debuted on UNIX and had tons of variants and so on.

    I'm only a casual gamer so this is just stuff I ran across occasionally, there was probably more.

  • Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

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  • What would they use Word for? This is about submitting data in their own standard formats in tiny files.

    The real crime is that they're not switching to online. Using optical discs is going to be even more ridiculous for those tiny files.

  • Shoko Server not recognizing any anime

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  • Why do you want to use Shouko? Yeah it can bulk-tag anime but it doesn't necessarily do a better job than Jellyfin with AniDB plugin. Also, it tends to hammer their API like an idiot and will get your user temp-banned or even perma-banned (depending on the size of your collection), while the Jellyfin plugin has rate limits.

    I used it once when I was moving my collection to Jellyfin and I barely got my account back.

    I would strongly suggest using just the regular Jellyfin plugins and adding titles to the directory in small batches and taking breaks if it stops recognizing them because it means the API is throttling you.