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  • Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster?

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  • Filecoin showed promise as a nearly free option. I used to be a storage provider. Met a lot of other storage providers at conventions. The people involved were pretty alright. I haven't interacted with the community in a few years though. Biggest problem I saw back then was a lack of a user friendly means of storing and retrieval. That might have changed now.

    Whatever option you pick please make sure you encrypt your data before you send it off.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • What ISP are you referring to? I have genuinely never heard of an isp that takes 24 hours to rotate your IP. Also utilizing dynamicdns is not going to incur more dns traffic? Dynamic DNS updates your dns provider from a system on your local network that your pub ip has changed then your provider will start sending traffic to the new ip. Propagation used to take a while but I haven’t experienced propagation wait times of over 10 minutes in years. This all being said dynamic DNS isn’t exactly the most elegant solution. It is just one of the simplest that I mentioned. There are significantly better options overall that completely take the requirement of a static pubip completely out of the equation and can be built using all free open source tools relatively easily.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • I mean I’ll be real. Sure in some circumstances that could be an annoyance for 15 seconds for some software that might rely on a session whenever your ip changes like once a month if that. A rotating ip is probably one of the easiest things to work around amongst the plethora of challenges that ISPs present for those who want to self host.

    I mean just take a look at what is involved if you are in a situation where cg-nat is implemented. You legitimately have no control over the root of your network at that point. I have that issue in particular with what is essentially a mobile hotspot as my failover for when my fiber fails. That being said I had to architect it in a way that took that took cg-nat into consideration. If I hadn’t then when fiber fails it would take down my services as a whole anyway.

    My point is that those challenges have workarounds, you can solve those issues relatively easily and they even present a level of security. Where it is actively malicious is with restrictions to capacity such as upload limits in which they to a degree lie about their speeds and capacity. The terms of service stuff is just flat out awful too.

  • ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services

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  • If you have control over at least the root of your network you can totally get away with hosting in a dynamic pub ip. You just need to set up dynamicdns. There are other ways of handling this specific issue too. You can always go to a colocation and set up a server there if you want. You could also create your own reverse proxy tunnel in a place that is public then forward it. There are lots of work arounds really. Yeah, it sucks that American ISPs generally don’t support ipv6 but there are totally ways to work around it all.

    What really gets me up in arms is when they advertise gigabit connections or 500mb speeds only to limit upload to 20mb/s. That is where they are actively inhibiting self hosting communities.

  • TIL Sabrina Carpenter is Bart Simpson's niece

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  • She loves doing it lol. At least she seemed to when I met her on the west side of the valley in LA. I genuinely had no idea it was her until she hit me with a “don’t have a cow man” lol

  • To the one person who keeps forcing this site down our throats

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  • Very much sounds like the whole thing was vibe coded.

  • Acquired HPE DL380 G9 - Questions about what is done for self hosting on them these days

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  • Personally I did something similar here. You could likely find a rack for free if you look at to colos, data centers or schools. I got a 60u full enclosed rack from the colo I kept my servers at. The big problem was space. People look to get rid of them because they are such a burden in space.

    Good stuff getting a gen9. I got a gen8 before I realized that there were firmware limitations particularly with a lack of support for gpt. I instead needed a really hacky workaround with mbr in order to run my name ssd as the boot drive at full capacity.

    Also I like to drop this tool occasionally for any new homelabbers.

    https://www.labgopher.com/

  • (Actually Useful) Decentralized Infrastructure/Distributed Computing Projects?

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  • Ipfs is a really cool useful project.

    Filecoin is cool for super cheap longterm cold archives

    Helium is well. I have mixed feelings about it.

    Akashnet is a cool decentralized marketplace for docker container deployments.

    There are a few peer to peer decentralized vpn things here and there.

    There are tons of projects that are cool in concept but I really have to say you are more likely than not to lose money if you speculate on any tokens attached to the projects.

  • Quickly transferring files between PC and phone

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  • Taildrop works relatively well for most all circumstances. Only thing is you gotta use trayscale or cli currently for sending files from a Linux/bsd machine. I don’t know if opened has a port for trayscale but it definitely has a port of tailscale.

  • Secure Way to Expose Docker Containers to the Internet?

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  • Networking is fun because there are literally infinite potential options. There really isn’t a best option. It’s just what do you prefer. In my case I like to write a docker compose and write a tailscale container into it. I then set the service I want to expose either to my own tailnet or to the internet through funnel or though this other implementation I came up with a while back that I still need to do a write up on. Either way here is a guide i wrote with some docs as reference on my forgejo (git alternative). Docs are kinda a mess but hopefully it makes sense enough to help you out.

    Tailscale docker compose examples

  • Sidekick - A new mastodon web client, in which the user can post through a variety of bots! (still in early alpha-phase ...)

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  • Yeah, this is kind of everything that most fedi communities I know about do not want.

    Cool that you built a thing and all and maybe there is a use for it but I'm gonna have to respectfully downvote.

  • Run android app

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  • That would be interesting. If this is going where I think it is then it would probably suck seeing as touch screen input feels exponentially worse with latency but nonetheless would be really cool to see work for hosting a web app of sorts for desktop use.

    Check out linuxserver.io, kasm and whatever the x11 version of waydroid is called. I can’t remember it at the moment. That should give you enough to get started building a container if you want.

  • I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks

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  • This is dope! I wish there was a proper community that did tests like this in mass using open source standardized methods/hardware.

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  • Ahhh. The vypyr.. I love everything about that stupid amp series.

  • Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second

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  • Totally agree. It sounds like something was lost in translation here by the final edit of potentially some run though a llm for proof reading to dumb it down enough to either just make it more consumable, more clickbait or realistic both.

    My guess is the actual research reported that it was 100s of packets per second (not screenshots) which is still a lot more than you would expect even for spyware. Either way it’s been well known that smart tvs are spyware ridden, I don’t need a paywalled service to tell me that.

  • OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity

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  • Aaaaand

    Pop goes the AI bubble.

    Last stages of capitalism for tech is usually in the form of an ipo of some sort which is what this will lead to.

    There will be other cool shit obviously with integrations and tools that will hopefully trickle down to open source models but the writing is on the wall. This is a cash out and enshittify move.

    The best news out of it is we will start to see less and less “our company is Ai and we shoved Ai into said thing” as the companies late to the game will continue to shoot their shot until OpenAI has completely dominated the market and investors stop caring.

  • TIL in the alphabet song, the note for the G is a G

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  • If sleeping the wrong way for 12 hours was sound.^

  • Student dorm does not allow wifi routers

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  • Honestly this sounds like a bit of a pickle. If I were in your situation I would just use one of the cellular carriers 5g internets. I personally use a T-Mobile 5g internet hotspot with a fresh tomato flashed nether 6700 plugged into it. Then I basically do all of my networking from that. Latency is a fair bit higher (usually about 30-50ms) but upload is significantly better than spectrum.