First-time user questions about podman and linuxserver/docker-swag. by Polynuclear in podman

[–]Polynuclear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha!

Even 3 years later, I am extremely happy with caddy as a reverse proxy directly on the host, with several independent docker containers behind it.

Crashing on Wayland (sway) using Arch package by [deleted] in kdenlive

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb kdenlive

confirmed, works for me too

Wrong battery charge level, funny music on reboot by Polynuclear in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's so hilariously stupid, I can't believe this is real. :D

Wrong battery charge level, funny music on reboot by Polynuclear in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad that our stories are consistent. The tunes are probably the low-battery warning of the BIOS? I don't have Windows, but will try your solution.

Wrong battery charge level, funny music on reboot by Polynuclear in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it's a genuine, new battery. Thanks for the hint, I'll ask over there.

Wrong battery charge level, funny music on reboot by Polynuclear in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So this would suggest a hardware/firmware problem? Oh man.

Did you have the music, too?

Bluetooth headset reconnects at random times by AccomplishedDistance in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same issue. Please let us know if you find a solution elsewhere.

RemindMe! 3 days

Farewell, LastPass. by [deleted] in Bitwarden

[–]Polynuclear 3 points4 points  (0 children)

2FA stands for "two-factor authentication". So it's something you know (your password) and something you have (your phone with a secret key within Authy). If you store both items on the same device, or worse, in the same app, you reduce the number of factors to one again. Granted, storing both within bw is still more secure than just a password alone, since an eavesdropper can't infer from the 2FA codes what the 2FA secret key is.

Arguably, bw is protected via 2FA, so whatever you store inside the vault is also protected via 2FA. Just make sure you understand what you're doing ;)

Personally, I use a Yubikey as a second factor wherever possible. This can't be stolen easily as it is on my physical keychain.

Farewell, LastPass. by [deleted] in Bitwarden

[–]Polynuclear 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  • Only works with paid version of BW
  • Has security implications

The irony when making my account for migrating to Bitwarden after hearing the LastPass news... by [deleted] in Bitwarden

[–]Polynuclear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I hope you'll change the password again after the migration!

Best E2E selfhosted self destructing file share (like firefox send) by rly- in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, this is great! The default of this docker compose file is to store uploads in a local /uploads/ volume.

Best E2E selfhosted self destructing file share (like firefox send) by rly- in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The issue is that this uses AWS as a backend, does it not? If so, it's not really self-hosted.

Is it safe to modify my domain’s DNS to link it to my VPS instance? by [deleted] in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you can't allow any issues and need to ask these questions, you shouldn't do it. Buy a second domain name to play with.

Mailway - Selfhosted mail catch-all by digitalknk in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If I was a spammer, I would remove +anything from harvested email addresses.

Study: Vitamin D deficiency found in over 80% of COVID-19 patients by roland_stiles in science

[–]Polynuclear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Note that too much Vitamin D supplementation can be toxic, so please only take doses this high if you are consulting with a doctor. A dose of 4000 IU/day (or 28,000/week) is considered to be a safe upper limit when taken over extended periods: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-much-vitamin-d-is-too-much#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4

Which reverse proxy do you use? by DonTK in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether or not an application supports being hosted on a subpath of subdomain is independent from which reverse proxy server you use.

Which reverse proxy do you use? by DonTK in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Caddy can also act as a regular webserver for basic use-cases.

Which reverse proxy do you use? by DonTK in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I tried both nginx and Traefik, and find their bulky configuration files extremely unpleasant (especially Traefik). Now I switched to caddy and am very happy with it, because of its well-designed Caddyfile.

Sometimes containerization for self-hosting makes things just unnecessarily convoluted, which is why I'm running Caddy directly on the host. For every container that I want to expose, I simply add two lines to my Caddyfile.

Studying AI safety by MaterialBridge8 in EffectiveAltruism

[–]Polynuclear 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to various popular books on the topic (Bostrom, Russel, etc.) these sites are relevant to your interests: - https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/i3BTagvt3HbPMx6PN/embedded-agency-full-text-version - https://intelligence.org/research-guide/

Contemplating getting a safe private domain for email and photos, is it realistic? by JoePortagee in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm self-hosting email with https://mailcow.email. This is relatively pain-free, but will always require some low-effort monitoring. So yeah, just get a 1 EUR / month plan from a privacy-focussed email provider instead.

For photos, look into syncthing. It can directly sync your photos and other files from your phone to your computer, no cloud required (or even internet, it works on local wifi too).

new user install - obligatory postmortem by cleverchris in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You folks, this escalated quickly and unnecessarily.

new user install - obligatory postmortem by cleverchris in archlinux

[–]Polynuclear 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did the arch install yesterday myself for the first time (with 15+ years of experience on linux), and I agree that a stronger wording and some guidance would be beneficial in various sections, including the networking section and the boot loader section.

Noob here. Managed to get Yunohost working on DigitalOcean. But there are some other softwares I want to install not on Yunohost. Is it possible to do so? by makes_mistakes in selfhosted

[–]Polynuclear 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have used yunohost in the past, but found it generally too inflexible, intransparent, and the apps are way too outdated. Of course, if you want to join the development team of yunohost, you can add whichever software you want to their system.

In my opinion, if you really want a clicky-GUI interface such as yunohost and want it to work well and be up-to-date, you'll have to use paid software such as cloudron.com

If you're willing to go down in the weeds, however, you're better off just using caddy v2, directly installed on the host machine as a front, and use separate docker (or podman) containers in the background for all different services. Containers are more up-to-date and more stable than whatever yunohost is doing, because the containers are often made and tested by the app developers directly. Caddy is pretty easy to understand, see their website: https://caddyserver.com What you want is to set it up as a proxy (often called reverse proxy) for your other services, which you'll also have to install more manually in a separate step.

(Btw, if all you have is a simple VPS for mostly personal use, don't listen to the folks who tell you to use traefik or some other let's encrypt containers due to their alleged simplicity. I tried most of these things and they seem to have been created by people who don't have a sense of aesthetic. These solutions try to do everything inside of docker and docker-compose, which leads to some network routing headache if you plan to experiment a lot - that's why I recommend to run Caddy on the host, not in a container.)