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anamethatisnt OP , to Selfhosted in Monitoring software for a wide array of hw and sw

Gonna check it out!
Is it easy to setup automatic responses to the alerts, f.e. restarting a service if it isn't answering requests in a timely manner?
Have you used it together with Windows Servers too?

anamethatisnt , to Privacy in Privacy alternatives ChatGPT

!localllama

anamethatisnt , to Privacy in Privacy alternatives ChatGPT

There are private GPT solutions coming, f.e. https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/data-transformation/data-driven/ai-test-drive/
They are aimed at companies that for compliance reasons want to self host.

I wouldn't trust an llm solution with sensitive information unless I host it myself.

anamethatisnt OP , to Selfhosted in Monitoring software for a wide array of hw and sw

I've used SNMP a lot together with nagios so I should be able to handle it. :D

anamethatisnt OP , to Selfhosted in Monitoring software for a wide array of hw and sw

I'll have a look! Cheers!

anamethatisnt OP , to Selfhosted in Monitoring software for a wide array of hw and sw

Cheers! I've heard of Prometheus/Grafana but VictoriaMetrics was a new one. Gonna look into it!

anamethatisnt , to Privacy in Alternatives to Google Docs/sheets?

The simple solution is to use another cloud, such as proton drive mentioned below.

Another more technical solution is to setup a vpn at home and use vpn + smb to share files with your phones, this one fails if your computer isn't always online at home or if your internet provider runs CGNAT.

Your computer could be replaced with a selfhosted solution as nextcloud running on separate hardware, but now we're firmly in selfhosting land.

The VPN home could be replaced with a VPS that both your home network and mobile devices connect to as a CGNAT workaround.

The KISS (Keep it simple, stupid) principle says that getting another cloud storage is the way to go. If you truly wanna own your cloud then a trip to selfhost land it is.

anamethatisnt , to Selfhosted in Should I or should I not use a VLAN? I have trouble understanding the benefits for home use

I consider client devices to be a big risk factor and if I can keep them from having direct access to the Backup NAS and the IoT I consider that a big win. A simple ransomware attack on a client device would find any NFS/SMB shares the client can access and start encrypting - having the Backup NAS on a separate VLAN that only the server can access stops most of those from affecting the backup and makes restoring a lot easier. I would definitely recommend having an offline backup of the NAS as well in case of the server being breached.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/eb97ceb5-8869-4636-9cc1-da161b9b03e0.png

anamethatisnt , to Selfhosted in How are you making services remotely accessible?

I agree with this, protecting everything behind a VPN is the way to go. I help friends setup their vpn client to my stuff if I want them to access an internal service.

anamethatisnt , to homelab in Could you answer some VLAN based questions please?
  • Single switch, yes. Personally I would probably aim for a managed (must have for vlan support) switch with at least 16 ports where 8 has PoE+ (Power over Ethernet) with at least 100W total budget. The goal would be to power access points and that security camera through PoE instead of separate psus.
    A cheaper alternative is to skip PoE for now and buy an 8-port managed switch now and a secondary PoE switch in the future if need be.
  • There are access points with VLAN support, so you can have an access point deliver multiple SSIDs that belong to different VLANs. Two things to look for here is Local Management and PoE powered. You don't want your access points to become paper weights when the cloud management system is shut down. I don't want to use cloud management at all to be honest.
  • PoE allows you to protect your camera and your APs with the same UPS you put in to protect your network rack.

Draw up some plans beforehand, quick example where I forgot your video doorbell that would be on a separate SSID/VLAN through the APs if it uses WiFi. Which is kind of the point with drawing it up. It helps you find out what you missed.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/bf8d6fc4-92b7-40e9-ac68-6e675e125973.png

edit: And that is just an example on how to draw it up. I imagine you want your security camera and doorbell to save video on the NAS, so then their vlan need to be able to communicate with the NAS vlan, as another example of missing stuff in the drawing.

anamethatisnt , to Privacy in [Solved] How can I verify the ownership of an IP-address? - 26.26.26.x

While it's assigned public address, it's only used inside the private DoD military network. Try tracerouting to that address space, you'll see that your packets go nowhere.
Using dod address space in your vpn service means you will never conflict with the RFC 1918 private IPv4 addresses people use at home.

https://blog.erratasec.com/2013/12/dod-address-space-its-not-conspiracy.html

anamethatisnt , to Technology in Students Are Likely Writing Millions of Papers With AI

Not a problem, the next IT campus recruitment will list "OCR Scanner Operator" as a requirement and as a part of the job description. ;-)

anamethatisnt , to Selfhosted in What is a simple server solution for Jellyfin and Nextcloud?

Regarding management UIs I'm a fan of Cockpit (https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit https://cockpit-project.org/)

Regarding management UIs for docker I believe most use either portainer (https://github.com/portainer/portainer https://www.portainer.io/) or dockge (https://github.com/louislam/dockge https://dockge.kuma.pet/).

Regarding Samba most NAS devices simplify it a lot, but it isn't that complicated to do on Fedora either and once you've got it setup it's not gonna need a lot of tinkering. (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/samba/)

Whether you invest in a NAS or not I recommend you invest in a USB disk large enough to act as a backup for the storage disks. That's not an investment for later but one you want right away. And do make certain it takes backups, not replicates data. A popular option is Borg Backup (https://github.com/borgbackup/borg https://www.borgbackup.org/)
If I went for a NAS I would Borg Backup the laptop to the NAS and then use the NAS own backup software to backup to the USB.

anamethatisnt , to Technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

Curious. Firefox w/ Ublock Origin works fine for me when l set noscript to allow qwant.com to run javascript.

anamethatisnt , (edited ) to Technology in Firefox Partners with Qwant for a Better Web(?)

I like that Qwant is based in europe and I like that their search engine works with javascript off.
edit: Only first page, cannot show more results at the bottom. DDG will let me continue looking through results with javascript off and will continue to be my primary search engine.

The results differ between duckduckgo and qwant for me when using english but in my native language the results are very similar.
They've said that they reinforce their search results with bing if their own index has few results, so I imagine that's why.
https://betterweb.qwant.com/en/2023/09/18/web-indexing-where-is-qwants-independence/

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