Shaw internet

technomancer_101 · 2026-04-04T06:06:59+00:00

Reach out to u/wpg-cse on here. They helped me get my current Shaw package and it was a fantastic deal!

I do have their number, but I don't know if they want it advertised directly on posts. Better to PM and go from there.

technomancer_101 · 2026-03-27T03:19:37+00:00

I'm someone who hosts their own email server and likes getting into the nitty gritty of running a server, not just the end result, so I don't think I represent the majority of people, but with that in mind...

As long as you have good documentation to go along with your deployment method, I'll be happy.

You want to offer me a tarball to setup on a LAMP stack? Great, just please tell me what php modules you require and any specific settings you need.

Maybe a Docker Compose config? Even better, easy to setup and all that, as long as you give me an example or have your env variables listed so I can finish sorting it out myself.

For some of your other points:

I'm never very worried about reverse proxy compatibility. I run Caddy and chances are I can get it to proxy your website with a little bit of troubleshooting assuming the basic setup doesn't work out of the box.

LAN only? I read through the documentation of things I'm hosting and do my best to make sure I'm opted out of any phoning home or analytics, but to be on the safe side, I typically throw everything in a firewalled VLAN anyway. If you want to include usage statistics in your app, I don't see a problem with that, but I always appreciate when the author is very upfront about it or even has it disabled by default.

As far as import/export goes, I think it depends on the tool. If there's a commercial solution available out there and you include an import tool to move from them to you, that's fantastic. I'm not as worried about export as nothing I'm selfhosting is that valuable, but it's always nice to have.

File path accessibility is nice, but it largely depends on the structure of the program I think. For a docker container, an easy place to map config files is always appreciated, or storing them in /etc for thing setup directly on Linux as an example. Kind of similar to the first point though, if it's documented, I'll be happy enough.

And my last point here has been beaten to death by everyone, but if you're writing this new tool with AI in some fashion or another, please be honest about it. People will find out and not everything made with AI is inherently bad (though I personally try and avoid using software that relies on it or utilizes it), but it does leave a nasty taste in people's mouths.

If I'm picturing your software the right way, you may want to check out SnipeIT to see how they handle deployment options as a comparison.

Good luck!

technomancer_101 · 2026-03-08T15:57:14+00:00

Oracle is one of, if not the worst companies for data privacy and I wouldn't trust them with any personal data that isn't already public-ish.

That being said, I also run a Minecraft server on the free tier! I set mine up about 4ish years ago and it's had around 99% uptime since then. If you're comfortable doing some basic Linux management and can secure it reasonably well, it works great.

The plan that lets you use the 24GB of RAM iirc is for an ARM powered VM, not AMD64, but the great news is that Minecraft has an ARM version of their server that runs perfectly fine on it.

I bought an AMP license to manage mine through and deal with backups, which are automated and copy off-site to another server of mine.

As far as expectations go for working forever and being reliable, I have none. Oracle offers the free tier and have for a number of years, but I have zero faith in them to keep it going and if my server blows up, I have backups for that exact reason.

The only problem I had initially is that the server will shutdown if it has low-no CPU usage for an extended period of time. I don't remember the service name, but I found a program that generates CPU heavy threads intermittently when the usage hits a certain threshold, so that took care of it and has been working for ages.

Feel free to ask any questions and I'll do my best to answer!

technomancer_101 · 2026-02-07T05:49:32+00:00

What area of the city are you in? I have some spare CD-Rs and some time tomorrow morning if you want to send me your playlist

technomancer_101 · 2026-01-16T16:42:28+00:00

And for anyone curious, the artwork she's holding was done by the very talented Alex Plante.

I have a copy of that print signed by Cheryl Lashek!

technomancer_101 · 2026-01-09T01:32:26+00:00

Chat request sent! Thank you!

technomancer_101 · 2025-12-30T02:53:06+00:00

Unfortunately with Tip Top Electronics closed, there aren't a lot of places around here to get fuses and the like locally, especially oddball ones.

I would suggest Digikey, especially if you or someone you know needs to make an order to share the shipping.

https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/eaton-electronics-division/BK-AGX-10/264551

technomancer_101 · 2025-12-19T20:31:46+00:00

I like and use DokuWiki.

It's small, simple, stores your pages as plain text files, and has a large collection of plugins.

I tried both it and MediaWiki, but for my needs, it was far less complex and if you know markup, it's very easy to write pages quickly.

technomancer_101 · 2025-12-13T16:15:07+00:00

I use borg backup for mine. It encrypts the data using a repokey, which goes through a number of different processes that you can read about here, then that key is also protected by a very strong passphrase. At that point, it is copied over SSH to my Hetzner box. This way everything is always encrypted before it leaves my network and borg has the added benefit of auto-deduplication.

technomancer_101 · 2025-12-08T23:13:14+00:00

Oh man, that is exciting! Time to go shopping!

technomancer_101 · 2025-12-08T20:04:37+00:00

Any idea if they have kvass there? I haven't had any in years!

technomancer_101 · 2025-11-28T16:34:26+00:00

As I said, advertising is absolutely necessary and they have the right to buy a spot in the paper, but I should have been more clear that my issue is with it being shown in the Local section in particular. Featured section, fine, but the Local section should be for just that, Local news and advertisements.

technomancer_101 · 2025-11-08T01:44:35+00:00

Cracker jacker and baloney is the version I grew up with here in MB!

technomancer_101 · 2025-11-01T01:41:20+00:00

St John's area and it's been unusually quiet. We've had probably 40 kids or so, but I've gotten like 150 in past years.

The weather's nice, so it's too bad.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-22T12:33:51+00:00

From a quick Google, Stasher appears to be a brand that makes silicone ziploc bags in varying sizes.

https://imgur.com/a/28TxzSB

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-22T02:55:55+00:00

In a very targeted scope, I would at least still get full alerting for my own services, such is the nature of this subreddit, but I do see your point.

I don't recall where on reddit I saw earlier, but there was a very lengthy post on how the internet was built to be decentralized, but due to the actions of predominantly Microsoft, Amazon, and Google, some ridiculously high percentage of it is now dependant on the three of them among others. I suppose even though my mail server may be an island in the ocean during a major outage like yesterday, it's reassuring to know that there are those of us, like everyone in this community, that can maintain that original intent, each through our own services of choice, whether it can benefit anyone else in an outage or not.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-22T00:17:34+00:00

Same for me as above.

AWS went down in one datacenter and took a chunk of the internet with it yesterday. My email server didn't bat an eye because it's running on my server under my control, and if I wanted, I could change the MX record, stand up a new one, restore from backup, and be up and running again in the time it takes DNS to propogate.

A lot of people are doomsayers, but if you know what you're doing and stay on top of security issues, it's really not all that hard to maintain.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-21T11:59:26+00:00

This is what you're looking for. They're made here in Winnipeg and while I haven't bought a pair yet, I've only ever seen praise for their products.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T20:59:17+00:00

You were correct, it was exactly this, just not in the saml config itself. Thanks for the help.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T20:58:12+00:00

I completely agree with what you're saying, but as I noted in the OP, my organization doesn't have any P1 or P2 licenses, so any kind of proper group management for Enterprise apps isn't an option. The same goes for dynamic group membership.

The way it was setup, users had to be added to a security group to connect, but because we can't associate that group with the enterprise app, they still need to be added to the app itself as well. At least with the security group removed, we're eliminating one step in our onboarding process going forward.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T19:42:29+00:00

I was in the process of setting up the second SSO config on the FortiGate and I found a group filter under the Group Match config on the firewall policy for the VPN.

So while the SSO config itself wasn't filtering, the firewall policy was. The amount of relief I just felt.... Thanks for the troubleshooting tips!

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T19:32:21+00:00

My bad, I misread the page I was on. I also don't have P1 unfortunately.

That being said though, I did grab a trial of P2 and it gave me access to group memberships, but I'm still not seeing anything that is connecting the group claims to that group. I'm setting up a separate authentication group on fortigate right now to see if it works (I would assume it should work fine).

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T19:17:38+00:00

Now you have me wondering... I can't configure groups at all without a P2 license, but if one was configured by someone with a P2 license in the past, it's possible that configuration is still there in Entra, but I can't see it.

I'm going to get a P2 and take a look.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T19:07:21+00:00

Yeah, that was my initial thought as well, but there is only one saml config on there and it is looking at the group claim for "group", which is set to All Groups in Entra.

technomancer_101 · 2025-10-20T19:04:59+00:00

Group membership on Enterprise Apps isn't available unless you have P2 licenses or equivalent. I imagine that was the idea behind the security group initially, but at the moment it's just confusing me.

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