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Matthias Liffers

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[mətiːəs] he/him. Uninvited child of Whadjuk Noongar boodja. Gaming. Underwater photography. Sustainability. Self-hosted software. Occasionally knitting. FAIR research data. Metadata. Running from nothing.

  • Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist?

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  • 100% this. After a couple of decades working in universities, I can tell you it's a research integrity issue just waiting to happen - especially if they’re working with human data. Who’s going to be doing the ongoing maintenance? Installing updates? Making sure that nobody pokes holes in the security? What’s going to happen to the data on the server when the funding runs out?

  • Version Dashboard

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  • I use What's up Docker (https://github.com/getwud/wud) for this. It talks to the Docker daemon, is configured with labels. I get notifications when new versions and I can also look at a dashboard that aggregates all the updates and provides links to release notes.

    Admittedly, I don't use Kubernetes, so I can't tell you whether What's up Docker supports it. A bunch of docker compose files is enough for me.

    It can also update docker compose files with new tags for you, but I'm allergic to auto updates

  • Self-hosted PDF manager?

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  • As a card-carrying librarian, I recommend using Zotero as a client with a WebDAV backend (I use Nextcloud).

    If you’re studying or writing anything in which you need to cite your sources, Zotero is excellent and has integrations with many word processors. I’m pretty sure it can output your references as BibTeX if you’re in one of the disciplines that uses LaTeX.

  • My password is like 20 random characters. I have no idea who Chris Jones is. I woke up to this.

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  • Can I introduce you to my friend zigbee2mqtt?

  • Digital management post-life

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  • Vaultwarden's readme says that it supports the Bitwarden Emergency Access feature. Why not use that?

  • Looking for a collaborative bookmark manager

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  • Nextcloud Local vs NAS Storage

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  • Like some others, I have separate storage and compute servers.

    The data directory is an NFS share on my storage server and I run Nextcloud in docker on my compute server.

    I have the NFS share defined as a volume of type nfs in the docker compose, mounted to /var/www/html/data. Nextcloud itself just treats it like a local directory.

  • Should I use Restic, Borg, or Kopia for container backups?

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  • I’m using Autorestic, a wrapper for Restic that lets you specify everything in a config file. It can fire hooks before/after backups so I’ve added it to my healthchecks instance to know if backups were completed successfully.

    One caveat with Restic: it relies on hostnames to work optimally (for incremental backups) so if you’re using Autorestic in a container, set the host: option in the config file. My backups took a few hours each night until I fixed this - now they’re less than 30 minutes.