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  • Stack overflow is almost dead

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  • Why do you prefer Discord? What do I miss?

    I’ve had a discussion with someone about this. Apparently, there are people that enjoy the social contact. Some seem to like sitting in a Discord chat all day long and answering the same questions over and over again. Others like to “just ask” someone instead of looking for a solution themselves.

    That there’s no clear structure of all the solutions provided via Discord and thus people have to ask the same things, nor a proper way of backing everything up in case Discord goes rogue seems to be blissfully ignored.

    It’s probably part of the same phenomenon that, nowadays, people seem unable to write or read a few lines of documentation and instead create/watch 20 minutes on YouTube.

  • Simple NAS hardware for home use?

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  • Which Pi did you try? Since the Pi4/CM4 (can even work with SAS drives) and especially with the Pi5 you can build some nicely performing NASes.

  • Simple NAS hardware for home use?

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  • There are some passively cooled (i.e. no spinning fan) SFF Desktops (HP, DELL, etc.) or you could get a Raspberry Pi 5 and stick it into a Geekworm case. Power consumption with these devices should hover around 5W, maybe slightly higher under load. The Desktops most probably support WoL. The Raspberry Pi doesn’t.

  • Self Hosted Network Analyzer?

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  • The version I had played around with about 10 years ago could.

  • Self Hosted Network Analyzer?

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  • There's also The Dude - although it's a Windows-only application. But the visualisation is great.

  • Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps.

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  • I’m running SpotWeb to browse spots. It’s kind of a curated list of NZBs. So, most things you can find a spot for, are still actually available to download.

    It was heavily used by the Dutch to distribute movies with baked-in (“ingebakken”) Dutch subtitles for older media players.

  • Self hosted place check-ins

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  • If you like to checkin manually to places, there’s PrivateSquare which will query places around you from Foursquare (so, 4sq will still see whereabout you are), but store the actual checkin in a local database.

    If you want some automated tracking, I’m mostly happy with OwnTracks which logs to my DaWarIch instance. (I’ve previously used Traccar and php-owntracks-recorder.)

    While I don’t see any battery usage from OwnTracks, my only gripe is that it can’t increase the amount of points logged when it detects movement because of Apple iOS limitations.

    (For iOS, there’s also Geory which will log into a local database and CAN increase the logging by spawning a Live Activity. It gives me the most accurate logs so far. But they have to be exported manually to be stored elsewhere and the author wants to keep the app simple and doesn’t want to implement logging to external systems.)

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • I let CrowdSec determine that. I'm seeing /13, /12 and even /10 in my decisions list. All seem to be Amazon AWS ranges.

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • In the Traefik static configuration (usually traefik.yml), add this to load the CrowdSec plugin:

     
        
experimental:
  plugins:
    crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin:
      moduleName: "github.com/maxlerebourg/crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin"
      version: "v1.4.2"

    (The name for the plugin is defined here as crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin.)

    Then, in your dynamic configuration, add this (I've used a separate file dynamic_conf/050-plugin-crowdsec-bouncer.yml):

     
        
http:
  middlewares:
    crowdsec-bouncer:
      plugin:
        crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin:
          CrowdsecLapiKey: "...YOUR CROWDSEC LAPI KEY HERE..."
          Enabled: true

    (The name for this new middleware defined here is crowdsec-bouncer. It uses the crowdsec-bouncer-traefik-plugin defined in the previous step. Make sure these names match.)

    You can get the LAPI key by registering a new bouncer in CrowdSec.

    And, finally, make sure all incoming traffic routes through the bouncer plugin. You can do this individually, or in general via the static config:

     
        
entryPoints:

  websecure:
    address: :443
    http:
      middlewares:
        - crowdsec-bouncer@file
        - secure-headers@file

    The middlewares are processed top to bottom.

    Any change to the static configuration requires a restart of Traefik to become active.

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • I’ve recently enabled banning whole subnets if more than 3 malicious actors from that subnet are on the blocklist. This is great for all those DigitalOcean droplets and other cheap hosters used by those people…

  • CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?

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  • I had fail2ban running for several years before switching to CrowdSec late last year. They both work in a similar fashion and watch your logfiles for break in attempts. With the small difference that CrowdSec also lets you use blocklists from the "crowd" to block malicious actors before they even get to try their luck on your machine(s).

    I'm using CrowdSec with Traefik and nftables. But there are some bouncer plugins for nginx and OpnSense, too.

    I just followed their example configurations for Docker, Docker Compose and then started tinkering with the config until everything worked as desired.

  • 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design

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  • Well, some people in the "inner circle" might have some idea about the direction they want to take. But I very much doubt that anyone outside of that circle knows anything substantial. And in the end, that website is called MacRumors for a reason. They splurt out various things to keep people speculating and engaging with their site - which earns them money. But that's about it. I've removed them from my feed reader ages ago.

  • 20th-Anniversary iPhone Will Reportedly Feature an All-Screen Design

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  • It's a rumour. Nothing else. Not even Apple knows what they'll release in 2 years.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • I’m using Strongbox on iOS and macOS with iCloud Sync and never had any merge issue. Well, maybe once when I deliberately edited the same entry on two different devices. But during normal use, the sync and merge works great.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • The Bitwarden clients cache your data locally. So even if your Vaultwarden goes down, you’ll still be able to access your passwords. Just not sync new ones or make changes.

  • Vaultwarden selfhosting, or bitwarden service?

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  • I’d throw in option 3: use a KeePass2 database, sync it using whatever sync tool you like (SyncThing, iCloud, NextCloud, WebDAV, …) and use compatible apps (KeepassXC, Strongbox, etc.)

  • I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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  • Might need some

     
        
if (ob_get_level()) ob_end_clean();

    before the readfile. 😉

  • I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server

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  • And if you want some customisation, e.g. some repeating string over and over, you can use something like this:

     
        
yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | gzip -c > 10GB.gz

    yes repeats the given string (followed by a line feed) indefinitely - originally meant to type "yes" + ENTER into prompts. tr then removes the line breaks again and head makes sure to only take 10GB and not have it run indefinitely.

    If you want to be really fancy, you can even add some HTML header and footer to some files like header and footer and then run it like this:

     
        
yes "b0M" | tr -d '\n' | head -c 10G | cat header - footer | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
  • Removed

    eSIM reccomendations (IOT - UK)

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  • I was going by this thread and this comment. Those other websites are mostly selling SIMs for industrial IoT or CCTV stuff and are either acting as a MVNO (where I don’t know how much influence they have on the network configuration) or probably selling foreign cards with free roaming or something like that.