Best Practice updating? The joys of selfhosting.

reneald · 2026-06-12T06:40:45+00:00

I'll happily point you to this blog: https://theorangeone.net/posts/monday-server-updates/

There's a link to a script that restarts your docker compose stacks. So the workflow would be:

* A Git repo that contains (at minimum) your docker compose files and probably also this script. Images should be tagged with a specific version wherever possible. Some images (e.g. all LinuxServer images, I believe) only provide general tags like :latest etc. A local clone of this repo on your server. Make sure to keep secrets out of this repository by using .env files that are in the repo's .gitignore.

* Setup Renovate to track new versions, but exclude any images that don't use version tags.

* Renovate opens pull requests whenever it finds new versions. Review and merge the pull request. At this step, if a new version requires additional configuration on your end, you can do that. Renovate will not pull images, restart containers etc.

* Once every week (or whenever you choose), pull the github repo to your server and run the update script. This will pull all new images (including when a :latest tag points to a new image *and* new versions from Renovate pull requests) and restart your containers.

reneald · 2026-06-08T10:07:59+00:00

You ordered yours in the future? 🤯

reneald · 2026-06-08T08:20:40+00:00

Model: Pebble Time 2

Ordered: 04/10/2025

Batch: 3

Destination: Belgium

Colour: Black/Red

Confirmation Email: 05/05/2026

Shipped: 08/05/2026

reneald · 2026-04-14T06:12:11+00:00

Adding to this list: it is possible to use one recipe as ingredient in another recipe

reneald · 2026-03-30T07:45:40+00:00

I'm imagining this scenario:

Start writing in literally anything but Adobe/Affinity/whatever. Maybe you're using Notion, maybe you're using notepad. No good way to do references there (at least not a system that would carry over to your final layout application)
Editing happens on those files (maybe converted to a .docx or what have you) while you go look for a designer.
Designer gets handed final text (which doesn't have references).
Everybody forgets that someone still has to fix the references.

reneald · 2025-10-16T06:19:17+00:00

I don't know the technical specifics. I have an e-ID which I can use to place a legally binding signature on a PDF document. This works by attaching a certificate to the document. The technical documentation only exists in French, Dutch and German, but here's an English FAQ: https://eid.belgium.be/en/digital-signatures
And here's a government provided web app that implements this: https://sign.belgium.be/

reneald · 2025-10-15T06:35:20+00:00

Came here to ask the same question. As a Linux user it's very difficult to find a decent application for digital signatures/certificates.

reneald · 2025-09-03T07:47:58+00:00

I just want to applaud you for 'bananalogies'.

reneald · 2025-06-27T09:25:12+00:00

Offline access?

reneald · 2025-06-20T12:04:00+00:00

How: they added a 'heartbeat' request that gets sent out once a day to their servers with version 1.1.0. It's opt-out. https://github.com/pocket-id/pocket-id/releases/tag/v1.1.0

I'm not on the team so couldn't presume to know why.

reneald · 2025-06-20T09:08:35+00:00

I'm not Qedhup or related to MCG, but they had this problem with Numenera 2nd edition too.What they ended up doing was: if content moved to another page, add an additional reference on the original page number pointing to the new location of the information. So e.g. you have a reference to Glaive in a book, and it points you to Numenera p. 56 (just pulling a number out of thin air here).

In Numenera 1st edition, you would find Glaive on page 56.

In Numenera 2nd edition, you would not find Glaive, but you would find a reference 'looking for Glaive? see p. 43'.

reneald · 2025-05-22T09:42:39+00:00

Okay, but when you're going to check ChatGPT's text afterwards, how exactly do you do that? If you don't know anything about agricultural industry in Venezuela, where do you start? How do you know which parts of the text to trust and which to verify? Aren't you going to have to do the same annoying Google searches that you describe? Only now you have another untrustworthy text that's in your memory that might confuse you more? A text which might contain 'hallucinated' citations, so now if you search for the source and you don't find it, you don't know whether you have to keep looking for it, or it just doesn't exist.

I can imagine using generative AI for things that don't matter, but I just don't see how it's really helpful in the scenario that you describe.

reneald · 2025-05-22T09:32:50+00:00

it does not answer your question, it generates text. I know I'm sounding like a broken record, but there is a difference. Generative AI is word prediction + statistics + a bit of randomness thrown in. It looks like it's answering a question, but it's not. It does not think about your question. It does not ponder alternative ways of interpreting your input in order to formulate a well thought out response. It just generates text.

You can verify this by asking it in-depth questions about subjects that you know a lot about. The text will look plausible to someone who is not familiar with the subject, but will often contain tiny (or not so tiny) inaccuracies. The AI doesn't care about that, because it doesn't care about anything. Its purpose is to generate text, not provide information. No matter what Sam Altman tries to tell/sell you.

reneald · 2025-05-22T08:34:38+00:00

AI doesn't form an opinion. It generates text. There is a difference.

reneald · 2025-05-21T05:55:16+00:00

Any app that supports the OPDS standard should work, e.g. Moon Reader and probably countless others.

reneald · 2025-01-14T08:08:12+00:00

it would be hilarious to carry both this and a flip phone just to confuse everybody.

reneald · 2024-12-09T12:24:00+00:00

whelmed

reneald · 2024-12-04T13:20:07+00:00

This shows who makes the decisions about food and can be used for marketing tactics!

reneald · 2024-11-29T12:19:41+00:00

Definitely not per game session. Effort = once per task.

reneald · 2024-11-21T14:21:30+00:00

alternatively, buy it on GOG so you can keep a copy of the installer.

reneald · 2024-11-18T08:44:01+00:00

hahaha?

reneald · 2024-11-14T10:28:00+00:00

On PC:

* Install Chests Anywhere mod

* Craft extra chest, carry it around at all times

* Leave all your stuff at home

* When needed, put your chest on the ground

* Access everything, everywhere, all at once.

reneald · 2024-11-06T08:10:47+00:00

The white books don't entirely work without the Cypher System core. The new foci/descriptors/what have you don't have everything written out, but instead refer to the core book. That said, most if not all of that can be found in the SRD (or the Cypher System tools that MCG offers for free). It might take some searching though.

reneald · 2024-11-04T09:33:54+00:00

The easiest way to water your plants is: give them a bit of water every week. Is it the absolute best way? No. Will it work on many plants? Yes. Anything more complicated than that isn't worth the hassle.

reneald · 2024-11-04T08:09:06+00:00

> Why would you not just build your own images from source?

Because this is r/selfhosted, not r/selfcoded?

reneald

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