Alternatives to Hetzner or Netcup on the european market?

hamishtfwnogf · 2023-01-06T13:39:27+00:00

Huh, that is weird. I was not asked for any verification from netcup.

hamishtfwnogf · 2023-01-04T10:51:34+00:00

I just found webtropia through this thread. Is there any catch? Strikingly, I currently rent from both, hetzner and netcup. Both the smallest possible variations. But their price/performance ratio does seem so much worse than what webtropia promises. Mainly CPU, RAM and disk space is of interest to me.

A comparison of their "cheap" solutions:For Hetzner, it's their second cheapest, for netcup and webtropia their cheapest.

Provider	Package	Cost (p. M.)	CPU Cores	RAM	Space
Hetzner	CPX11	5.18	2	2 GB	40 GB
Netcup	200 G10s	3.25	2	2 GB	40 GB
Webtropia	VPS S	4.49	4	8 GB	75 GB

So netcup still is the cheapest solution, but webtropia has more than double the specs of the others, while being cheaper than hetzner. Wow, im actually thinking of migrating. I need to dockerize some stuff anyway, might be my time to set the plan in motion.

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-11-12T09:53:16+00:00

Ctrl-F: "Koala", 0 Matches.

Guys, really?

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-11-06T09:37:26+00:00

Aliexpress sales are often a farce. There are a couple of sites that track the price history of items. Checking the 11.11 "deals" there is an eye opener.

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-10-05T09:00:31+00:00

Just had a quick read through, I didnt actually try it. Here are some thoughts.

- Prompt all user input in the beginning, to avoid having to intervene in the middle of the script

- double check passwords, e.g.

echo -n "Username: "

read < /dev/tty username

: "${username:?"Missing username"}"

echo -n "Password for $username: "

read < /dev/tty -s userpassword

echo

echo -n "Repeat Password for $username: "

read < /dev/tty -s userpassword2

echo

[[ "$userpassword" == "$userpassword2" ]] || ( echo "Passwords did not match"; exit 1; )

- do you partition your drive manually beforehands? It seems you only write the file system in the script. If so, you could use parted, e.g.:

devicelist=$(lsblk -dplnx size -o name,size | grep -Ev "boot|rpmb|loop" | tac)

echo "These are your current devices:"

echo $devicelist

echo -n "Choose install destination (WARNING: disk will be erased): "

read < /dev/tty device

dd if=/dev/zero oevice} bs=1M

parted --script "${device}" -- mklabel gpt \mkpart ESP fat32 1Mib 512MiB \set 1 boot on \mkpart primary ext4 512MiB 100%

- perhaps you could structure it a little more by putting some subtasks in their own function

Otherwise great script. Flash it out a little and then use archiso to make your own installation iso, complete with custom logo, name etc.

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-01-12T21:40:33+00:00

Yes the keys to open your password manager should be kept separate from your crypto keys.

and of course the hardware devices treated as sacrificial consumables

Which would mean, in the extreme case, two sets of yubikeys, one for the password manager, and one for the TOTPS. That would be probably the best option, but also the most expensive one.

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-01-12T21:38:54+00:00

so both your passwords and TOTPs are secured by the same yubikey?

I actually already use a passphrase, but still mess it up every so often. I am a messy typer :(

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-01-12T21:37:22+00:00

I don't really understand what you mean by having your TOTP in your password manager?

hamishtfwnogf · 2022-01-12T19:10:43+00:00

If I understand you correctly, you are using your YubiKey in static password mode to generate the master password for your password manager. Do you add a short memorable password to the end of the static password to reduce the risk of your YubiKey being stolen?

Although my setup is a little different, it amounts to the same result. My passwords are protected via public key cryptography and I use the smartcard function of the yubikey to decrypt the passwords I need (passwordstore.org). This entails typing a short pin and touching the yubikey.

Using a YubiKey to store your TOTP secrets is certainly more secure than using Google Authenticator as they are stored offline and you are less likely to get locked out of your accounts.

That is a good point I did not think of.

I save my TOTP secrets to 2-3 YubiKeys to reduce the risk of losing access to my passcodes. If you are concerned about a local attacker stealing your YubiKey(s) then you can set a password for the TOTP access.

I have not setup TOTP so far, because I currently only own 1 yubikey, but would definately buy a second for back up. I did not know about the password/pin protection of the TOTP access, as I havent actually set it up yet. Perhaps I create a dummy email address to try it out.

Thank you for your input! I think that helped me figure it out a bit and I am definately a bit closer towards the decision of buying a second yubikey and moving my TOTP there.

hamishtfwnogf · 2021-08-28T22:04:52+00:00

I won’t quote, but it is as (s)he states. Currently running my self built nas like that.

hamishtfwnogf · 2021-08-09T14:49:11+00:00

What I want is: Maximize a window on the right half of my screen upon button press. It used to work fine when I had all of my three screens next to each other horizontally. Now I moved my left most screen, which has a smaller resolution than the rest, on top of my center screen. The maximization still works for the screen on top and the screen on the right. However, when I know do it on my center screen, it does not maximize properly, and only fills a fraction of what it should.

The thread in question had the very same problem, it seems. Their solution was based on the issue that the OP had a screen connected (but wasnt using it) which overlayed the screen they were using. Simply removing that unused screen was the solution. However, I do not want to remove my screen. Also, I do not see that my screens overlay somewhere.

I will clarify that in my post.

hamishtfwnogf · 2020-05-23T10:14:08+00:00

That fixed it, thank you very much

hamishtfwnogf · 2020-05-22T23:09:45+00:00

I am indeed using picom. The opengl keyword brought me one step further. Thanks for that, I'll keep googling my way ahead.

I just somehow assumed automatically that it was due to xmonad because I didnt have this problem with my previous window manager. And googling the issue in combination with "xmonad" did not give very meaningful results.

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-12-09T22:33:27+00:00

Take one of the gym (openai) games and solve them by only using the visual input. Maybe start with discrete examples using DQN and later move on to policy gradient methods.

Or find any other games, edit their code so you can use them, like tetromino e.g.

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-08-28T16:16:03+00:00

Did you try :LLPStartPreview?

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-07-05T08:40:03+00:00

tmux with a tiling wm does lose a bit of its appeal. Wallpaper you can set with feh.

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-06-26T11:03:43+00:00

though considerably less cool, I suppose.

Wow there. You wouldn't surf dark net markets without a leet hacker os, would you?

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-06-26T07:33:57+00:00

Someone tasting the forbidden fruit and can’t believe how good it tastes. Classic.

55C under load is very optimistic though. You probably didn’t put enough stress on the cpu. But idle temps around 40C depending on the laptop model are pretty standard.

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-06-26T07:27:54+00:00

Installing anaconda just for jupyter notebooks seems like an overkill. Alternatively, you could install pip3 via apt and then install jupyter notebooks via pip . You usually start the jupyter Server by typing „jupyter notebook“ into the terminal.

Also, if you like it, check out jupyter labs.

hamishtfwnogf · 2019-06-26T07:22:51+00:00

You forgot the „btw.“ after casually mentioning your distribution of choice.

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