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IsoKiero

@ IsoKiero @sopuli.xyz

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  • Email ownership, I give up.

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  • I flagree that hosting email servers on residential IPs is a recipe for being filtered and blocked

    Unless your ISP gives you a static address and agrees to change PTR record to your server address. Then it's no different than any other server on the internet. Obviously odds are that you're not getting one or if it's an option they'll likely charge more than VPS is going to cost you, but it's not unheard of.

    But for the actual topic, I don't get the myth either. I've got a good old postfix+dovecot setup running and the only problem I have is that spam filtering isn't quite as good as with commercial providers, but the handful of trash coming trough is easy enough to take care of manually.

  • Revisiting Rule #3

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  • Sounds reasonable approach to me. Also I'd include VPS and other cloud services too. "Is this VPS enough to run NextCloud" is a perfectly reasonable question for this community just like "is my old thinkpad good for...". I don't think there should (nor can) be a hard rule about what hardware to use. Questions obviously outside of self hosting (e.g. "what GPU I should by to play minecraft") should go elsewhere but otherwise I don't think there's even a real need to limit activity.

    And also there's a half a dozen of posts here daily (unless mods remove posts really efficiently). My opinion is that even if the post could go to some other community but leans to self-hosting side of things it can stay. Maybe if there was tens or hundreds of posts daily it would make more sense to limit what goes, but as things are now I don't think any kind of (in a lack of a better word) gatekeeping is beneficial to this community nor anyone else.

  • Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure

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  • You can do this with IMAP as well, you just need to delete and expunge the emails

    Yes, as I mentioned, but it's still extra step you need to manage. Not a big one, but extra step anyways.

    For automated systems, if you don’t want to store the emails, you can configure the email server to pipe the emails directly to a script.

    Which is not always an option. You could have the script running on your laptop which isn't always connected, for example.

    I'm well aware of the differences. I'm just saying that there's still use cases where pop3 has it's benefits over imap and discarding it as an 'old technology' isn't always the best route. I'm running my own email server for friends and family and I still have pop3 enabled just in case someone has one of those scenarios where it makes sense to use it.

  • Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure

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  • I've used that on automated systems. No need to worry about email quota and everything incoming is single-use input for other systems so there's no need to store messages on the mail server. Sure, you could do that with imap too, but pop3 clients usually don't leave messages on the server by default, so there's no need to delete them separately.

    Other case might be to pull the emails from email provider servers so that provider can't use your emails later. For example if you're an journalist you might not want to have your emails stored with a 3rd party. Or maybe you're using some free tier email provider with a very limited quota, which was generally the use case for pop3 before everyone got practically unlimited quota.

    On my personal account I of course use imap since I've got multiple devices but pop3 isn't quite dead yet.

  • Cars are like horses: people will soon realise EVs are just better, claims VW boss

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  • At least for me it is. Cheapest even remotely sensible (not immediate batter replacement coming up or anything like that) is around 8-9k€. I could pretty easily get 3-phase charger at home and around our normal commutes there's decent enough infrastructure already in place and specially the 2nd car of the house rarely sees more than 100km per day. So that would be pretty much a perfect use case for EV.

    However current Tiida we have for 2nd car was 2k. I can repair it myself and it's relatively easy/cheap to keep running too. With EVs there's potentially expensive faults, high voltage means that home repairs are either very difficult or straight impossible at least without pretty expensive tools. Also in here we have annual inspections and there's news almost weekly how a small dent on battery shielding or something other seemingly minor fault can mean that the whole car is pretty much scrap as replacements are expensive.

    And I'm not saying anyone should be careless of HV battery damages or other potentially very dangerous problems. They just are way more expensive to repair than with ICE cars.

    So, used EV should last at least two times longer than cheap ICE cars I've used to get in order to make sense financially. Likely more than two, since old conventional cars are pretty simple to keep running. And I'm not quite yet convinced that they can actually keep on going 10 years.

  • A CEO told employees they won't get raises in 2026 because the budget is going to AI

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  • Quick search and napkin math mixed with some LLM says that at least 100m should be fine. Launch would be a bit uncomfortable at around 3g, but nothing a normal body couldn't manage. Not that long of a flight, but a flight anyways.

  • This community isn't your personal adviser

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  • Editing original post and including steps which helped would be great. I don't expect anyone to reply to each an every comment separately, but a summary on what caused the problem and what fixed it would be nice. Specially when someone later finds the post with similar issue.

  • Does "learning to make beef jerky" count as a hobby for someone wishing to grow their hobbies? Or is it more accurately described as a culinary skill similar to barbecuing or slow-cooking or smoking?

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  • Absolutely. Even things you have to do, like laundry or cooking, are hobbies if you decide so. I'd say I repair cars for a hobby. Often they're our daily drivers which often need to be back on wheels pretty quickly, so it can be stressful and annoying at times, but it's still my hobby, even if I don't enjoy doing it all the time.

  • Privacy isn’t dead: it’s just that tech companies have made it inconvenient

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  • It doesn't need to be black & white either. For absolute privacy, sure, it is a PITA to get everything running, but you don't need to go all in to reduce your footprint on the internet. Moving email out of gmail is a start. Signal on the side of whatsapp is a step forward. Bazzite instead of Windows on your old gaming rig is a pretty decent leap. And so on.

    And self hosting is getting more and more feasible. Home Assistant is something you can just buy and plug in to start moving from Alexa to FOSS variant. Immich is fairly easy to get running to move from Google Photos / iCloud to your own devices (just remember backups).

    And even if you want to just consume services, there's other options than just Google/Microsoft/Apple around. Every small step counts and affects on what data "they" have on you to sell.

  • Ideas for self hosted door bell

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  • I would go with separate devices. You can add a button with two set of terminals to trigger both the traditional chime and IOT thingy on the same time. Personally I don't see the appeal on video/audio with a doorbell, but I'd guess there's some raspberry pi project around to achieve what you want. SIP just for a single house doorbell at a first glance sounds like a massive overkill, camera with a two-way audio, possibly integrated to home assistant, works equally well without the overhead of running a whole IP telephone system with it.

  • Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board

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  • And yet I still know people who are just so chuffed about “never having to drive again.”

    Personally I'd be happy to use fully automatic car and never drive again unless I really want to. The coffin on wheels with T in front just isn't one of those. And none of the other brands aren't there either.

  • The Netherlands just blocked a US company from buying the app Dutch citizens use for everything

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  • News agencies brought everyone and their dogs to give their opinions on why using foregin (and USA specifically) provider for voting systems was a bad idea. Then there was plenty of articles what the decision is being reconsidered and eventually a handful of items noting that we are actually staying in domestic datacenters. Rational decisions apparently don't get as many clicks.

    But there's still plenty of our data (banks, insurance companies, etc) using AWS/Azure which should be considered as a national security issue, but those are private companies, so government can't (or won't) interfere as strongly.

  • Where to get third party UPS batteries?

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  • I've used local supplier for years who has spesifically selection for UPS batteries. Even APC ones tend to be pretty standard, just rip the APC stickers off and get the actual battery model number and ask from your local shop for replacement. I got a pair for new-for-me UPS a few weeks ago. Official APC kit would've been several hundred euros, the ones I got were ~50 with postage. They might not last quite as long as 'brand name' ones and power output is a slightly lower even on spec sheet, but that unit is running at around 15% load anyways, so in my case it doesn't really matter.

  • All You Proxmox Users - ProxCenter

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  • Most likely not. However, proxmox is a bit strict here and there on how it wants drives, networking and other stuff laid out. Also the hypervisor itself is quite strictly only for that. So, if you want to tinker with something without virtualization platform or use your drives for something else than just proxmox-installation it's likely not officially supported at least and might cause some headache or even bigger problems, like potentially losing data, if you run it in a way it's not meant to.

    However, if you just want a pretty capable hypervisor and run all your stuff on top of that it's perfectly fine, specially for hobbyists. For bigger enterprises it has some issues and management for a bigger server fleet, at least for now, isn't as polished as the 'big players' have, but, again, for home gamer it's pretty good solution.

  • how data do you transfer an month?

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  • Router has 35d uptime, WAN interface stats shows Tx/Rx 3,9TB / 28TB. Most of the downstream is obviously IPTV and other streaming services, upstream is mostly offsite backups.

  • Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storage

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  • No errors and I have separate local backup server with spinning drives too which works just fine. Local backup server has ~5,7TB of data and verifications complete in about 5,5 hours. Actual (incremental) backups to S3 take about two hours with that ~2TB on VMs which seems decent enough.

  • Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storage

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  • I'm using OVH, not AWS. Their console gives estimation of ~20€/month for the ~2TB I have stored. Versioning is disabled and i'm currently runnign on their signup offer of 200€ credit, so I'm good to go for few weeks more. The storage I'm using includes the traffic, it's just practically unusable due to verification speeds.

  • Proxmox Backup Server verifications stupidly slow on S3 storage

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  • Local server has SSDs with zfs and well enough memory for arc.

  • ‘The Worst Leak That I’ve Witnessed’: U.S. Cybersecurity Agency Leaves Its Digital Keys Out in Public on GitHub

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  • It doesn't seem to have kickback brake, so it kinda is. It just should be running on full speed and hit something on the tip.

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    What's your homelabs power draw?

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  • 150W or so for the main server now that I upgraded it to full SSD setup. Maybe a bit more when under heavier load. Another maybe 100W for router, main switch, frigate-server and other bits and bobs with full load. And then backup server with 4 spinning drives another maybe 150W. Haven't really measured anything, just ballbark figures.

    So around 500W total. But I've got electric heating anyways and hobbies tend to cost something.