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solrize

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  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Yeah that is kind of vague though. I don't really have other stuff on my LAN (https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired) right now unless you count my phone.

    I'm in another thread right now where a guy is running a simple encrypted chat server on his phone under tmux. That is pretty cool and using an old phone is an interesting alternative to a razzleberry pi if you don't mind running Android and don't need much compute or storage.

    I think I see, you're suggesting using a local server as sort of a jump box to the internet, with otherwise disconnected clients. I guess that has some attractions, though in practice I use web browsers all the time, with the usual bug-ridden software stack that surrounds such things. If I were doing anything really sensitive I wouldn't use that approach.

  • Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.

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  • I did see some onion code in the script, but didn't figure out that it was listening on an onion port. Cool. I'm not sure of the attraction of running it on a phone, but I'll take your word for it ;). Do you actually use it? Yeah I can see wanting to reorganize it in some ways, and maybe try to use some more standard protocols (irc?) or a subset. Does tor not already provide its own crypto?

  • Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.

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  • Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.

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  • Wow, it is cute. I'm still having trouble imagining using it, but I like the idea of a curses chat client under tmux.

  • Using Termux to create a tiny selfhosted hidden chat server with E2EE.

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  • I don't get it, how to other clients connect and do they use the same program? It does look cool though the tmux keyboard is bare bones.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Well that was one idea mentioned by one of the other posters: better security by having the server off the network.

    I think my luddite tastes in software are part of it, but if I have a server on the network, it might as well be in a data center where I don't have to worry about space, power, noise, ICE raids (my servers are in several countries so they'd at least have more work to do), etc. I can add or delete new hardware with a few clicks. I actually do have an old Supermicro 1U server in my kitchen but it's just sitting there unpowered. I had intended to colo it but it's just not worth doing that. I had forgotten about it.

    Even if I have a server at home, I probably want to back it up over the network, so then what? There are remote copies of the files then either way.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Aha, yeah, sharing with people at home is an attraction and it's good to not have to rely on your home internet being up for that. DVD backups though (unless they're being shared too) seems like they can be handled either with client storage or remote servers. You want off-premises copies of your backups anyway.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • I mostly listen at home, but I do have some music files on my phone. I could put them all there in principle. The phone has 256GB of local storage and an SD slot that can take a 2TB card. It's a cheap phone too (Moto G series). I have a few GB of music that I listen to plus some archived.

    If I'm going to stream to my phone away from home though, that means the streaming server has to be on the internet, and wasn't one idea of a home server to be off the internet? I do have a bunch of such files on a bare metal dedicated server at OVH. They have better things to do than examine my files and delete stuff with the wrong kind of lyrics. I do understand not wanting to use stuff like Google Drive where they do mess with the files.

    Even if I wanted to totally control the hardware I'd probably look into colo. But dedicated servers always end up being cheaper.

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  • I'm not into video, I didn't want a rehash, I was hoping for a 1 sentence summary or the like. I don't have any subscriptions and my music and ebooks are on the client and I don't understand the attraction of putting them on a server. I guess the thought is that many people use their phones for media consumption, with limited local storage particularly on old iphones, but I'm not set up that way. I like having the files local instead of streaming them.

    It's not about me personally but rather (regarding media) about how a streaming setup is better than local file storage for stuff like ebooks. Even for a phone user, phone storage is cheap now, especially if your phone has an SD slot. One big attraction of servers for me is fast internet, but that means hosted servers rather than home since my home internet is slow.

    I'm something of a a luddite but I've generally tried to stay away from "smart home" stuff, streaming subscriptions, etc. So I'm trying to figure out if home servers are more of the same.

  • Using rsync for backups, because it's not shiny and new

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  • I've been using borg because of the backend encryption and because the deduplication and snapshot features are really nice. It could be interesting to have cross-archive deduplication but maybe I can get something like that by reorganizing my backups. I do use rsync for mirroring and organizing downloads, but not really for backups. It's a synchronization program as the name implies, not really intended for backups.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • Again though, why a server? I don't understand the concept of streaming really (I mean why I would want it, not how it works). I have some music files but they are on my laptop's internal SSD (plus a few on my phone). No need for streaming. The idea of a server is generally to run some network services 24/7, or serve multiple clients, or have more hardware resources than would normally be found on a client PC. I don't see a raspberry pi at home helping with much of that.

    I guess I could imagine wanting some kind of centralized media server at home if there were multiple people using it, but it's just me, and I'm generally not into video so I don't have a huge video library or anything like that.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • I'm pretty comfortable running Debian on servers. I just don't understand why I'd want the hardware at home instead of remote. I don't have much space at ome, and my home internet is crappy.

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • The main difference is that having a home server means You are in complete control over Your data. You can run home server and isolate it from the internet, running only on local network. Great for privacy and You are not relying on some external provider being reliable and available.

    I my a laptop for that, no remote access, I mean what services would I want to run and what would the clients be?

  • Everyone should have a home server (or a friend that has one)

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  • This is a 32 minute video that starts with a text card and robo voice. Is there any kind of summary? I don't have a home server and don't know what I'd do with one if I had it tbf. I have several vps and other hosted servers and find them much less hassle than a home server. But, maybe I'm missing out on something.

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  • People believe weird stuff. It's normal, get used to it. Try to politely get out of the attending the wedding if you don't want to go. I wouldn't use metaphysical explanations like "cleansing evil spirits" but yes, there are lots of people ("extraverts" if you want a search term) who do experience mood improvement by going to crowded events like that. I'm not big on it myself, but whatever works for you.

  • Fediverse blogging?

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  • If it's just for small non-private updates, a Mastodon account might be simplest.

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  • Any Good Book Recommendations on the Ethos of Open Source?

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  • Not trying to be that guy, but the founding idea of open source was to not have an ethos. The GNU project came with an ethos of something like community enablement, which not everyone liked, so the open source label was invented to describe an approach to software that had technical advantages but was ethos-free.

    Anyway though, you might like "The Hacker Ethic" by Pekka Himanen, and (on the free software side) "Free Software, Free Society" by Richard Stallman. The latter is easy to find online but the former might be a bit obscure.

    AOSA, The Architecture of Open Source Applications, is a technical book but a very good one.

  • grep + tree how?

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  • I don't understand what you're asking: you want some kind of graphical display of the file structure? Grep per se doesn't do that, but maybe you could match the output against "tree" output? I generally just use M-x grep in Emacs which doesn't make a tree-like display, but lets me navigate to matched lines by clicking on them.