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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Murena, Volla or other open source smartphones suggestions?

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  • Oh yeah, I had one of those a long time ago for my PayPal account, before smartphones were widespread.

    I'm using a Yubikey with my password manager (self-hosted Vaultwarden) and it works well! The Yubikey is a USB device - you can get it either as a USB-C or USB-A. It should work with any desktop PC as long as USB devices are allowed. I've got one on my keychain, and a second one stored somewhere safe. Good to have a spare one as a backup just in case the main one dies.

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  • FIDO2/WebAuthn hardware tokens don't use a code. That's why they're phishing resistant. You have to press a hardware token (usually plugged in via USB) to authenticate, but it doesn't do anything obvious on the screen like type a code. On mobile, these tokens usually use NFC, so you just tap the Yubikey or whatever to the back of your phone.

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  • FIDO2 tokens (like Yubikeys and passkeys) can't be phished.

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  • That's a lot more difficult than investing in alternatives to cars.

  • Is there a hosting/vps community on lemmy or just selfhosting?

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  • I agree with you :)

    Even on the same network, I like having a Zigbee coordinator with an Ethernet port. I put it in a more central location in my house, which helped improve the network quality.

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  • Only 4 downvotes so far. Better than I thought it'd go.

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  • My guess would be that a 2FA app from the government is likely using PKI (private + public keys) or something similar, rather than a basic TOTP algorithm. There's not really a generic app for something like that. Many services are moving away from TOTP since it's not phishing-resistant.

  • Is there a hosting/vps community on lemmy or just selfhosting?

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  • As others have mentioned, VPSes (and rented dedicated servers) count as self-hosted. In many situations, a VPS can make more sense than a home server:

    • Better internet connection - a lot of hosts have 40Gbps connections now, and it's a data center grade connection with a lower contention ratio.
    • Cheaper upfront - no initial purchase cost.
    • Depending on electricity prices, it can be cheaper over the long run too, especially with a $20-40/year one (see LowEndTalk, GreenCloudVPS Budget KVM, RackNerd specials, etc). That's the case for me in California - just the electricity for my home server costs more than some of my VPSes.
    • Usually better hardware than you'd have at home - often AMD EPYC or modern Xeons (not a 10 year old E3 or E5), enterprise NVMe SSDs, etc.

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  • AWS is very expensive compared to regular VPS services, and you only really get a benefit from it if you use a lot of different AWS services in a multiple regions. One EC2 instance in one region doesn't really have advantages over a regular VPS.

    If you do want to use AWS, consider using Lightsail. It's like a regular VPS and has a fixed monthly price for some amount of disk space, CPU, and monthly transfer, father than being dynamically priced.

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  • my Home Assistant server with z-wave, which needs to be physically nearby my other stuff

    Not sure about Z-wave, but with Zigbee it's possible to get coordinators with Ethernet ports (and this is generally recommended over USB ones due to the added flexibility), so your Home Assistant server doesn't actually have to be near your Zigbee network, just the coordinator does.

  • [PotatoDog] Uh Oh

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  • Wow I totally missed that the first time. Subtle detail.

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  • Scary what the government can do

    Requiring 2FA is a good idea though.

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  • The actual solution is to reduce dependence on cars.

  • Proton CEO supports business policies of republicans

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  • FastMail has been around a long time and they're very good. MXRoute is good too and lets you have unlimited email addresses at an unlimited number of domains (they only limit it based on storage space)

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    Mark Zuckerberg says anyone who quits Meta is 'virtue signaling'

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  • US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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  • It's going to take a while since all the software that uses kernel-level code has to adapt. Windows has very good backwards compatibility, but this would be a non-backwards-compatible change, so it'd require a lot of planning.

  • Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies

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  • I've always preferred w3m or links over lynx.

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

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  • You can do quite a bit with 4GB RAM. A lot of people use VPSes with 4GB (or less) RAM for web hosting, small database servers, backups, etc. Big providers like DigitalOcean tend to have 1GB RAM in their lowest plans.

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

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  • Just keep an eye on the power usage, depending on how expensive electricity is in your area. I live in California which has very expensive electricity, and buying newer, more power efficient hardware works out cheaper than 10+ year old Xeons over the long run, even if you get the Xeon system for free.

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  • Microsoft are going to significantly limit what can run in the kernel (including anti cheat) after the Crowdstrike issue. A side-effect of that should (hopefully) be better Linux compatibility.