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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

While Voyager has mod tools, I'm not sure if you can create a community in the app.

You might need to do the initial setup on the website: https://sh.itjust.works/create_community

Afterwards you should be able to take mod actions on the app

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

In addition to downvoting, please report the post so that admins can take care of it.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Is tailscale running / logged in on those other devices? Does it auto detect the server like it did on the phone?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imo it might be easier to collaboratively build keyword lists. It's tedious to tag posts manually, and it becomes impossible to do it effectively after the user base grows past a certain point. You can auto-remove any post that isn't tagged, but a lot of people dislike that kind of filtering and only a few communities would implement something like that

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

IMO it's partially because investors are willing to throw money at anything "AI" related, and so people are throwing everything at the wall in case something sticks

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unless they mean something like the Respondus rootkit

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/best-way-to-use-respondus-lockdown-browser-for-school/26098

IMO some exams should just be proctored in person

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is this because it's getting difficult for students to mess with the boot options?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Have you tried the third party ones? I've seen recommendations for Swiftfin

https://github.com/jellyfin/Swiftfin

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure which guides to recommend, but in case it helps narrow down your search, you could share more about your situation:

  • Do you have any existing hardware or are you planning to buy? If so, what is the budget for the equipment and where in the world are you approximately?

  • What did you want to self host? Some services would benefit from a certain type of setup. For example, if you're serving lots of media, if you need redundancy and uptime, if you're running AI models or something that needs a GPU

General tips:

  • take lots of notes on your process. This will help you iteratively improve your setup. If it all falls apart, it will be easier to quickly get going again since you know what options you picked at each step.
  • Make more posts here when you get stuck on something :)

For Linux, a lot of people go with Ubuntu server because there are a lot of existing guides for it. You don't need much Linux knowledge to start self hosting since you can learn by doing over time. Some concepts to explore before getting started might be cron, the Linux file system, and user permissions.

For Docker, you should be fine if you know the basics. I'd recommend using Docker Compose since it's easier to understand what's happening when its written out in a nice yaml file. Install Docker and Docker Compose on the server, and then install something like DockGE to manage the compose files. When you want to run a service, copy the Docker compose file and then swap the port to what port you want to use, and the volume to the location you tend to use.

For a very basic setup, I'd find a video guide for

  • installing Ubuntu server on the machine
  • basic setup of the Ubuntu server (file permissions, docker, docker compose)
[–] otter@lemmy.ca 267 points 1 month ago (11 children)

crashes

Maybe, but could it also be an intentional dark pattern to make it difficult to cancel?

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I haven't heard of any learning curve with Jellyfin. It seems easy to set up, and the apps are about as user friendly as you can get (especially the third party ones)

 

I modified the title to make it more descriptive

I also think it's time for the open source and/or fediverse Trakt alternatives to get some love.

The price change is listed as going from $30 a year to $60 a year, and they're also changing everyone to that price:

Starting May 20, 2025, all VIP renewals will move to a standardized price. This means that any legacy, promotional, or grandfathered pricing will no longer apply to renewals processed on or after that date. Instead, all VIP memberships will renew at the new standard rate going forward.

People are not happy on their forum:

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/upcoming-vip-renewal-pricing-changes/56676

This user poll suggests that around 97% of respondents (at the time of making this post) will not renew

https://forums.trakt.tv/t/poll-will-you-keep-your-vip-membership-at-60/56923

 

Discourse now supports ActivityPub as a method of accessing posts, and we’re testing this out with the General > News category and our announcements. You’ll be able to find out about Mastodon posts and even reply to posts from Mastodon and they’ll show up here!

Hint: If you have a Mastodon account, link it to your forum account at https://discuss.privacyguides.net/my/preferences/activity-pub. That way if you reply or like a post on Mastodon, it will perform the reply/like here with your forum account :wink:

See https://discuss.privacyguides.net/ap/about for details.

[...]

I'm going to try it with Mastodon later today. I'm not sure what the support with Lemmy will be like, but clicking on this link seems to at least load the community name / icon: !news@discuss.privacyguides.net

 

Synology's telegraphed moves toward a contained ecosystem and seemingly vertical integration are certain to rankle some of its biggest fans, who likely enjoy doing their own system building, shopping, and assembly for the perfect amount of storage. "Pro-sumers," homelab enthusiasts, and those with just a lot of stuff to store at home, or in a small business, previously had a good reason to buy one Synology device every so many years, then stick into them whatever drives they happened to have or acquired at their desired prices. Synology's stated needs for efficient support of drive arrays may be more defensible at the enterprise level, but as it gets closer to the home level, it suggests a different kind of optimization.

 

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/19146681

Jellyfin Server 10.10.7

Important Notes

Configurations behind a reverse proxy that did not explicitly configure trusted proxies will not work after this release. This was never a supported configuration, so please ensure you correct your configuration before upgrading. See the updated docs here for more information.

Security

  • Fix validation of API parameters to FFmpeg [GHSA-2c3c-r7gp-q32m], by @Shadowghost
  • Fix trusting forward headers if none are configured [GHSA-qcmf-gmhm-rfv9], by @JPVenson

Note: GHSAs will be published seven (7) days after this release.

General Changes

  • Fix regression where "Search for missing metadata" not handling cast having multiple roles [PR #13720], by @Lampan-git
  • Clone fallback audio tags instead of use ATL.Track.set [PR #13694], by @gnattu
  • Backport 10.11 API enum changes [PR #13835], by @nielsvanvelzen
  • Support more rating formats [PR #13639], by @IDisposable
  • Fix stackoverflow in MediaSourceCount [PR #12907], by @JPVenson
  • Upgrade LrcParser to 2025.228.1 [PR #13659], by @congerh
  • Include Role and SortOrder in MergePeople to fix "Search for missing metadata" [PR #13618], by @Lampan-git
  • Delete children from cache on parent delete [PR #13601], by @Bond-009
  • Fix overwrite of PremierDate with a year-only value [PR #13598], by @IDisposable
  • Wait for ffmpeg to exit on Windows before we try deleting the concat file [PR #13593], by @Bond-009
  • Fix 4K filtering when grouping movies into collections [PR #13594], by @theguymadmax
  • Remove empty ParentIndexNumber workaround [PR #13611], by @Shadowghost
  • Update dependency z440.atl.core to 6.20.0 [PR #13845], by @Shadowghost

Jellyfin Web 10.10.7

General Changes

  • Fix parsing minor version of Tizen [PR #6661], by @dmitrylyzo
  • Fix re-focusing on pause button when displaying OSD [PR #6510], by @dmitrylyzo
  • Fix skip button not displaying correctly with OSD [PR #6583], by @rlauuzo
  • Fix catalog plugin page not setting page title [PR #6570], by @nielsvanvelzen
 

I saw this article earlier:

Tesla 'going bankrupt' is endpoint of protests, says local organizer

In the spirit of right to repair, self-hosting, giving a second life to old devices, and limiting data collection by car companies:

  • What are some considerations?
  • Are there any projects worth keeping an eye on?

An example that came to mind was Valetudo, which is a cloud replacement for vacuum robots enabling local-only operation. Some robot vacuums are easy to install this on, and others require more invasive modifications.

What I've found so far:

  • FreedomEV, a project that was presented at FOSSDEM 2019 but doesn't have recent activity
  • TeslaMate, which is a popular and active selfhosted data logger for Teslas, but not necessarily a replacement for the software
 

I commented this in another thread, but thought that it could do with its own post.

It's a solid list to go off of if you want to pick a few to host. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

Overview

Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use
🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want
✨ 100% more soul warming than mining
📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

  • networks: Tor, i2p
  • computing: boinc, foldingathome
  • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
  • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it's open to contributions.

 

Nearly 1 million Windows devices were targeted in recent months by a sophisticated "malvertising" campaign that surreptitiously stole login credentials, cryptocurrency, and other sensitive information from infected machines, Microsoft said.

The campaign began in December, when the attackers, who remain unknown, seeded websites with links that downloaded ads from malicious servers. The links led targeted machines through several intermediary sites until finally arriving at repositories on Microsoft-owned GitHub, which hosted a raft of malicious files.

Ad blockers aren't just convenient, they're necessary for online safety. Install it on your family member's devices

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39864162

FreshRSS is a selfhosted RSS feed management tool


In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

  • Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
  • Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
  • UI accessible from user-query view
  • New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
  • Several improvements and bug fixes

Full release details in linked post

 

FreshRSS is a selfhosted RSS feed management tool


In this release, we have restarted to focus on features. A long-awaited feature has been added, namely sorting articles by various criteria: received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random.

A few highlights ✨:

  • Add order-by options to sort articles by received date (existing, default), publication date, title, link, random
  • Allow searching in all feeds, also feeds only visible at category level with &get=A, and also those archived with &get=Z
  • UI accessible from user-query view
  • New shortcuts for adding user labels to articles
  • Several improvements and bug fixes

Full release details in linked post

 

It's brief, around 25:15

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nf7XHR3EVHo


If you've been sitting on making a post about your favorite instance, this could be a good opportunity to do so.

Going by our registration applications, a lot of people are learning about the fediverse for the first time and they're excited about the idea. I've really enjoyed reading through them :)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/39411782

After moving in to our new server last month, our next large project is to set up some new Fediverse platforms. One of the most requested of those was Pixelfed, which is an image sharing platform.

You should be able to sign up here: pixelfed.ca

As with any new instance, some issues are to be expected and while we've done some testing already, please bear with us as things get going. For any support related issues with pixelfed.ca, please post in the new !pixelfed@lemmy.ca community

Edit: We have moved from pixeld.ca to pixelfed.ca!

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