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poVoq

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Admin on the slrpnk.net Lemmy instance.

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poVoq ,
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It’s not like operational costs are skyrocketing, or that hosting will become any more scarce or more difficult.

That remains to be seen. There are multiple ways a single huge instance could drive up costs for everyone else, especially when there isn't organic growth that allows developers to find creative workarounds to firehose problems.

Lemmy has been seeing federation-desync issues over the last couple of weeks due to a bug in kbin being amplified by Lemmy.world. I imaging a similar issue but with a fully federated Threads would simply ddos most fediverse instances out of existence.

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I’d actually love to see something like this happen, as it seems to be something European governments and officials are embracing.

I had the chance to ask the responsible person of the EU commission about this at the last CCC congress and sadly he was much less optimistic. The answer basically boilded down to: as long as someone else funds and maintains it they are willing to put an intern or similar at work to post updates, but currently all these efforts are time limited and when funding for the 3rd party to operate them runs out, these efforts are likely to die off quickly. The actual buy in and willingness to operate their own social media infrastructure seems to be very low.

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There is XMPP the protocol which is indeed still widely used by commercial entities, and there is XMPP the open federated network, also called Jabber, which is still alive but Google did kneecap it pretty hard back then.

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That's a bad implementation then. Modern open-source XMPP works great on mobile, no problems with notifications at all on Android. iOS is more of a mixed bag, but that is solely Apple's fault and applies to all messengers other than iMessage.

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Well, Monal on iOS doesn't work worse than Telegram on iOS, so then apparently it's flawless as well. I am not an iOS user, but I heard complaints about Telegram on iOS as well regarding notifications.

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It's not dead, and works fine. I am not disagreeing that it had a serious set-back but that's water down the river.

Also WhatsApp is using a slightly modified version of XMPP, so your argument is a bit funny :)

Assistance migrating from gitea to forgejo

Hi. I self-host gitea in docker and have a few repos, users, keys, etc. I installed forgejo in docker and it runs, so I stopped the container and copied /var/lib/docker/volumes/gitea_data/_data/* to /var/lib/docker/volumes/forgejo_data/_data/, but when I restart the forgejo container, forgejo doesn't show any of my repos, users,...

poVoq ,
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Why this backwards way of migrating? The recommended way to to replace the Gitea docker image with the Forgejo one and leave everything else in place. Maybe make a backup before that you can revert to in case something goes wrong though.

poVoq ,
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You have a very loose definition of "essentially". I can see easily see multiple ways of the OP's copy approach failing while swapping out the container in place would not.

poVoq ,
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You need to share more details about your setup, but as others have already mentioned, it could be an database issue, because usually Gitea is configured to use a Postgresql database.

Also make sure you don't combine an upgrade with a migration, the Gitea and Forgejo versions need to be roughly the same. Especially around the 1.20 version there was a need to change the folder structure before upgrading.

poVoq ,
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Have "the rest of us" lost nearly all their belongings and had to flee in fear of their lives to another country where they have to start from zero? Because that is what it means to be a refugee.

But I suspect you are just trolling. Go somewhere else with your vile and self-defeating us-vs-them rethoric.

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They didn't open anything really. All they did was to allow companies to interact with their client API in an extremely limited fashion and only after signing an NDA riddled contract.

Its no wonder there are no takers on this "offer" and I hope the EU fines them billions for this malicious compliance.

poVoq ,
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Hmm, I was indeed going by their WhatsApp api access, but I doubt FB Messenger will be substantially different after 6 months.

nginx proxy manager changes IP. How to get static container IP?

all the containers change IP addresses frequently. For home assistant a static IP address of the proxy manager is mandatory in order to reach it. For jellyfin it is useful to see which device accesses jellyfin. If the IP always changes, it doesn't work properly....

poVoq ,
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Inside the virtual docker network they do have temporary IPs and hostnames. But it is pointless to reference these IPs, just use the hostnames which should be identical to the container name.

poVoq ,
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It's a "the NSA wanted to have that for their own internal use” kind of scenario.

poVoq ,
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Interesting read for sure, but I kept wondering if not almost the exact same article could have been written by someone visiting China during the time of the cultural revolution, just that in hindsight things would appear somewhat different?

poVoq OP ,
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It's just another way of interacting with ActivityPub groups. Like K/Mbin or Piedfed etc. And it seems to be quite nicely integrated with Pixelfed, so making for example photography focussed communities in it (that you can also participate in from Lemmy) seems like a net-win.

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

poVoq ,
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This was basically a lucky catch. Sadly makes you wonder how many backdoors like that have not been found (yet). Never the less the distro model of not feeding in upstream binaries directly is an important part of the multi-barrier security.

poVoq ,
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Where have you been living the last 20 years? Facebook is a repeated offender.

poVoq ,
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When you @ mention a community from Lemmy as a user on Mastodon you can post to that community from Mastodon. The first sentence of your Mastodon post will be used as the title, which is why they often look so strange on the Lemmy side.

You can also follow a Lemmy community from Mastodon, but it gets a bit messy as every comment will be shown as a boost Mastodon side.

I hope the groups addition that Mastodon is working on will fix that mess.

poVoq ,
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You mean being instrumental in facilitating a genocide in Myanmar of the Rohingya people isn't sufficient?

poVoq ,
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Facebook allowed connecting with XMPP clients for a while and then cut off that access. While they were not the main offender compared to Google, they still did nothing but leech off the XMPP ecosystem until they decided it wasn't in their interest any longer.

poVoq ,
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The point is that at no point in time where they actually interested in supporting the XMPP federation. It was only a short term tool for them to capture some audience that it would not have otherwise.

poVoq ,
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The thousands of extra-legal killings that were the direct result of the election of Duterte as president (who was AFAIK elected with direct help from Cambridge Analytica and a vile social media campaign on Facebook) is also nothing to scoff at.

But I think the Rohingya genocide is way more insideous, because Facebook knew that their platform was being used for direct encitement of violence and coordination of progroms and chose to ignore it because they thought Myanmar would be a lucrative market and wanted to consolidate their monopoly power there.

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  1. An old laptop is the easiest to start with, but you might eventually run into storage limitations with it. But in general getting an older one and putting a bigger SSD into it is usually sufficient (but look for one that can limit battery charging to 80%). Otherwise a thin client or a mini-pc is good, but they don't come with a built-in UPS or Keyboard/Screen for quick troubleshooting.
  2. Domains cost pretty much the same everywhere, but I think in your case OVH is good. They give you a free email service and dynDNS for free with every domain purchase, so that takes care of the difficult stuff like email hosting for notifications and the like. It also includes a free 100mb webspace you can use for that static site and not worry about your server being online all the time.
  3. IPv4 only is no problem. You need to see if your ISP gives you a dynamic public IP (so no NAT) and if the router you are using allows access to configure port-forwarding.
poVoq OP ,
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It’s not cool to stigmatize mental illness.

This is not at all what my take away from that comic is. I guess it is somewhat open to interpretation, but I think it rather asks what the underlying societal dynamics are that cause people to develop depressions in the first place.

poVoq OP ,
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I think you fell right into the trap of modern capitalist realism claiming that we live in the "best of all possible worlds" despite of how horrible it actually is. You don't have to go back to pre-agrarian times to find societies which were vastly better to live in. I recommend reading The Dawn of Everything to update your understanding of relatively recent history.

poVoq OP ,
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You might not have realized it yourself, but you again failed to truly imagine that a better world than capitalism is possible. In your own words it's either neo-feudalism or warlords. Imagining that changing this is only possible through evolutionary change of the entire species is transhumanist territory, and I hope I don't have to lay out the negative implications of that.

I think you should look at the actually defining characteristic of humanity, which is culture and being able to reinvent itself through it. Culture doesn't need huge species wide developments to happen, but it does need imagination of real possible alternatives.

poVoq OP , (edited )
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Well, I think you are getting there 😊 But believing that you can educate people into pro-social means is a classic mistake that Marxists and related socialists often make. Culture is not so much about what you are taught but rather the social substrate we find ourselves in, often without realizing the effect it has on us.

poVoq ,
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Have you tried Cockpit? It has pretty nice Podman integration.

poVoq OP ,
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Sounds great. What about hardware acceleration features of the NIC? I read somewhere that its better to disable the support for that in OPNsense when running it in a VM?

poVoq OP ,
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Thanks for the quick reply.

What about the LAN side: Can I bridge that adapter to the internal network of the VM host somehow to avoid an extra hop to the main switch and back via another network port?

poVoq OP ,
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It is more powerful hardware with much higher single thread performance which should help with OPNsense networking; Ultimately to allow more than 1gbit WAN input which my current firewall hardware is incapable off, although that is still in the future.

But I feel like I could utilize this hardware better if it was running something other than OPNsense, thus the idea to make it run it in a VM.

poVoq OP ,
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Yeah, I though about that, but that sounds like a footgun waiting to happen.

poVoq OP , (edited )
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I just saw that option. What would be the advantages and disadvantages of this?

I guess when I pass the actual NIC device the hardware acceleration should work?

Edit: Looks like my host system does not support this, at least that is the error I get when trying ;)

poVoq OP ,
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Yeah, I did do a test-setup with OPNsense in a VM today and it mostly works. But I see where you are coming from and usually I also prefer setups that are easier to maintain and with less footguns. I guess I'll sleep over it first.

poVoq OP ,
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I keep wanting to look into that one. Can it be easily extended from the Debian repositories?

You may be offered a free premium Telegram subscription – but please don’t accept (archive.is)

Telegram is giving away FREE Premium subscriptions! All they need from you is to use your cell phone as a relay to text out their OTP codes! And the recipient of the OTP sees your phone number! What could POSSIBLY go wrong with this deal?...

poVoq ,
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https://joinjabber.org is also a good resource for learning about XMPP.

poVoq ,
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It has more "modern" features than Simplex 🤷‍♂️

poVoq ,
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Long term you are probably better off converting to AV1 and sticking with Firefox, but I understand that your desktop GPU might not currently support AV1?

I made wanderer - a self-hosted trail and GPS track database (lemmy.world)

Over the last two months, I developed wanderer. It is a self-hosted alternative to sites like alltrails.com or in other words a self-hosted trail database. It started out more as a small hobby project to teach myself some new technologies but in the end, I decided to develop it into a fully-fledged application....

poVoq ,
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Unless Pocketbase adds support for ActivityPub, you are probably better off just adding a share to Mastodon, Pixelfed etc. button in the frontend and let an external software handle this.

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