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[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago

Ok, good point.

This would be local only so they can up/download ebooks here and share with the family - when they're here.

Thanks

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

So... if my SO is buying ebooks from the Kobo store, can they upload to Calibre (etc) and then someone else can download it?

They read a heap of books and want to share them with their family... who are on Kindles, with that DRM nonsense (boooo)

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, this.

It's annoying as hell waiting 6 weeks for someone to come online with that last 3%.

Anything I find like that I seed as long as I can

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 5 days ago

Yep, totally agree... the right tool for the right job.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Get an SSH tunnel working first.

That'll find all the problems poking holes through home routers, dynamic public IPs, etc.

Once you've got that part running, then you can look at VNC or... and hear me out... I just run the X11 apps remotely. So I'm opening their apps on my laptop, changing the config for their session and it's done.

I reconfigured Thunderbird that way when we moved email providers foe the family's email.

No need for VNC to transmit all their screen when just the app is needed 😉

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I agree... I want (and have) a NAS... and a separate Server.

The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.

I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.

And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don't want.

For OP, try things, break things, try other things... just make sure you have backups 😉

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Thankyou. For some reason thst just made me laugh and I've had a shit day... so thanks 🙂

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago

I bet you it's a hardware issue.

Run Memtest+ to check the RAM first...

Might be a PSU / heat issue....

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Where's Prosody in the list?

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

It's not about AV. It's about vulnerabilities.

AV just uses (often multiple) vulns to do something, and with closed-source systems you can't fix it yourself, so you need an application to do it for you.

AV is a block-list approach... always needs updating, even for things you don't have. Linux can operate with allow-lists, so only the apps you have can execute.

Plus firewalls (outbound as well as inbound), SSH, secure package repos, etc.

You don't need AV, but, you can have it if you want it (maybe file-less memoey resident stuff)

But, yeah, that other post was just mayhem.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah, we're using Conversations and it's fine for most things.

Will be self hosting prosidy "sooon"... and it'll all be in-house.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And this is their only post.

The wording, the story... I can't tell if it's a collection of google searches or someone newer to computing.

I get that someone could be stressed out by something, but this just seems odd.

I've seen people flip out in Red/Blue team trials, but this isn't the same

OP.. if this did happen to you, you need to calm down. Maybe with professional help. Then come back to this when you're calm.

 

After being home for weeks, I went away for business, the 1st night away there was a brief powercut and the firewall (on a UPS) seemed to get stuck.

So, that's no DNS, DHCP, or connectivity between wifi and LAN... All due to (admittedly aging) hardware issue.

Since then my entire home system has had issues whilst it all settles down.

It made me think about getting some redundancy into the system to handle a single failure.

So,.can you give me any insights into High Availability like CARP (for pfSense), VM failover (on Incus?), mesh wifi, Home Assistant, etc?

Of course there are going to be single points, like ISP line, etc, but seems like something to test out.

 

So, just a light post, I upgraded my Pi4 last night and found the Linux firmware breaks a 32bit install.

I've been meaning to change to 64bit for months, but as it's my DMZ box for torrents, radicale, etc, then it's just finding the right time to convert an adhoc setup into my ansible scripts.

Luckily I had a SD backup from September to get it running again

So, what have you broken over the holidays?

 

I stumbled across Diode whilst looking for ways to do secure off-site backups (to my own equipment at another house) and it feels like a paid-for TOR (Ok, there is a free option)

I'm looking for any real experience as the site has too much marketing lingo in it:

Every Client is secured with a public/private key self-custody identity

And this doesn't seem very dynamic if I want to change something:

Diode’s Blockchain Name System can be used for Client friendly names

And somewhere on the site it infers unlimited storage...!

So, is the free option worth me looking into, or is it a waste of time?

 

I have a few VMs and PMs around the house that I'd setup over time and I'd now like to rebuild some, not to mention just simplify the whole lot.

How the hell do I get from a working system to an equivalent ansible playbook without many (MANY) iterations of trial & error - and potentially destroying the running system??

Ducking around didn't really show much so I'm either missing a concept / keyword, or, no-one does this.

Pointers?

TIA

 

Just found my Vivaldi update contained a little more than just bugfixes... it now has Proton VPN built in.

It's actually part of the browser, not an extension, so I'm in two minds whether I like that... or not.

You need either a Vivaldi account or a Proton account, so it's not completely anonymous, but it's a start.

The free-tier of Proton VPN also appears to be bandwidth limited and your exit point is randomised, so... yeah, it's ok...

 

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

 

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs.

Just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, the network loses DNS so I "break the internet" for a short while.

Would Kea fix this?

 

Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma... and I can't find a programmatic / config option that says "don't notify between 11pm and 7am" (but willing to admit I've just not found it... yet...)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can't use "Do Not Disturb", and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn't make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So... any pointers? I'm sure you're not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets...

 

I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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