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Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yes it would. In my case though I know all of the users that should have remote access snd I'm more concerned about unauthorized access than ease of use.

If I wanted to host a website for the general public to use though, I'd buy a VPS and host it there. Then use SSH with private key authentication for remote management. This way, again, if someone hacks that server they can't get access to my home lan.

Dynamic DNS vs Dedicated VPN IP in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Their setup sounds similar to mine. But no, only a single service is exposed to the internet: wireguard.

The idea is that you can have any number of servers running on your lan, etc... but in order to access them remotely you first need to VPN into your home network. This way the only thing you need to worry about security wise is wireguard. If there's a security hole / vulnerability in one of the services you're running on your network or in nginx, etc... attackers would still need to get past wireguard first before they could access your network.

But here is exactly what I've done:

Bought a domain so that I don't have to remember my IP address.
Setup DDNS so that the A record for my domain always points to my home ip.
Run a wireguard server on my lan.
Port forwarded the wireguard port to the wireguard server.
Created client configs for all remote devices that should have access to my lan.

Now I can just turn on my phone's VPN whenever I need to access any one of the services that would normally only be accessible from home.

P.s. there's additional steps I did to ensure that the masquerade of the VPN was disabled, that all VPN clients use my pihole, and that I can still get decent internet speeds while on the VPN. But that's slightly beyond the original ask here.

[Immich] What is the "proper" way to navigate migration from another service (all photos are already on the server) in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

A couple of options in my opinion, as I just did this myself:

You can use the CLI tool to "upload" them. You can even do this from the server itself. So upload times would be as fast as your network card can process or however fast your server is, whichever is slower. It does require that you create an API key for the user in question though.

Otherwise you can create an external library and link that to your account. Now Immich will still index this library but it won't move or manage the actual files. I'm not sure though if it looks at those files for duplicates (i.e. if you try and upload the same photo from your phone to the server). This external library will also prevent deleting photos as well, FYI.

There might be other options that I'm not aware of, as I've only been using Immich for about a month now.

Edit: link to the CLI documentation: https://immich.app/docs/features/command-line-interface/

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Search Lemmy 0.4.0 update (an enhanced search engine for Lemmy) (www.search-lemmy.com)

submitted 1 year ago by marsara9@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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A couple days ago I updated https://search-lemmy.com/ to 0.4.0.

New features, that several people were asking for:

The UI has been overhauled and it should be much easier to find your home instance now.
Search itself has been overhauled. Increase search performance significantly. I also automatically search for related terms as well. You may now see fewer search results, but ideally they should be more relevant. You can also now include basic syntax like:
- quotes: "some terms that must be together"
- negative terms: cat -dog (shows posts about cats that don't mention dogs)
- either or: cat OR dog (shows posts about either cats or dogs). The default search behavior is now an implicit AND, but order doesn't matter.
I've added several new filters that you can use including:
- !safeoff -- Disables safe search allowing NSFW posts to appear in the search results (NSFW is now hidden by default)
- since:YYYY-MM-DD -- shows only posts that have occurred since the specified date
- until:YYYY-MM-DD -- same as above but in reverse. It will only posts up to the given date.
I've removed the preferred-instance query parameter from the results URL so it should be easier to share links to search results now.
The date the post was created or last updated is now displayed in the search results.

Bug Fixes:

Site performance should now be stable. Fixed a bug related to the database pool that was causing the site to hang.
Fixed a bug that would cause broken links.
Fixed various bugs with the crawler causing posts to be missed.

Known Issues:

If you set your home-instance to a fairly small instance, the number of search results is also relatively small. Once (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3259) is resolved. I should be able to show links regardless of what your home instance is set to, allowing you to search the entire Fediverse.
Currently searching only looks at the post title and body. Comments aren't indexed either. This also is dependent on the above issue on Lemmy itself.

Finally some things to note:

I've started to refactor the code to abstract away Lemmy from the actual search engine. As I now start to prepare to search other Fediverse instances like Kbin, and maybe even Mastodon, etc...

Dynamic DNS domain registrar in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cloudflare? Namecheap?

Not sure exactly what features you're after but the vast majority of them support what you mentioned above.

In my understanding of the main principles of the Fediverse, federating with any large corp should never even be considered. Is my understanding wrong? What is the "idea of the fediverse" to you? in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] marsara9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Assuming the fediverse becomes mainstream one thing I hope to actually see is that existing company forums start to join the fediverse.

Think if you no longer needed to login to EA's website to post about bugs to the Sims. Or if Prusa's 3d printer community forums could also be found right here... Or any other existing community help forum.

The problem though is, that in order to get there, Meta and others have to bring the users and essentially show the way first.

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Announcing a new Search Engine for Lemmy (www.search-lemmy.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by marsara9@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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I shared bits and pieces of this before, but it's officially up and running now: https://www.search-lemmy.com/

This is an enhanced search engine for Lemmy. With a few primary goals:

You can choose a preferred instance. After choosing what your primary instance is, and performing a search ALL links will open in that instance.
This aims to be a replacement for using site:reddit.com in Google, but just for the fediverse.
You can filter the search results by:
- Instance -- This will filter the results to only show communities that belong to a particular instance. Just type something like instance:lemmy.wrold or instance:https://lemmy.world/. This is separate from your preferred instance, such that you can search for posts on lemmy.world while still opening them on lemmy.ml.
- Community -- You can refine the search by a specific community. You use the same syntax that you'd use here community:[!fediverse@lemmy.world](/c/fediverse@lemmy.world).
- Author -- Similar to the above you can also filter by a specific author such as: author:@marsara9@lemmy.world.
The entire thing is open-source. You can view the code and even host your own instance... See more details here: https://github.com/marsara9/lemmy-search.

NOTE: This only supports Lemmy instances for now. Other fediverse type instances may be in the future depending on how this works out.

I've been working on this over just the last few weeks, so it hasn't had a chance to crawl much of the fediverse yet. For now it only supports lemmy.world and lemmy.ml but other preferred-instances will come online as time goes by.

If anyone finds any bugs, and I'm sure you will, or if anyone has any suggestions PLEASE raise an issue on GitHub for me to track. Lastly, if anyone wants to help contribute please feel free to reach out.

NOTE TO SERVER ADMINS: You can prevent your site from being crawled by adding lemmy-search to your robots.txt for the user-agent.