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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?

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.
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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.

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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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 ;)

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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.

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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?...

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

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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....

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Welcome to Lemmy! I recently posted about Wanderer also in another self-hosting community: https://slrpnk.net/post/7887187

As someone interested in self-hosting this, I have two questions:

How far is it suitable for say a local hiking association or a small municipal government to use this as a public trail database to promote regional eco-tourism efforts? Where I live the local government has something like that, but it is badly maintained. For that to work it would need to have the ability to easily find trails on an overview map and to allow posting notices about trail closures etc. (ideally even crowd sourced?) Maybe also some way to mark trails as official, if they are designated and sign-posted.

Unrelated: have you thought about allowing the live-tracking via apps like Phonetrack or OSMand? I think that would make it both more convenient for uploading tracks (at least where there is sufficient cell-coverage) and might add an interesting social aspect to it if you can share your live-location with other users.

P.S.: Would be great if you could add it to https://translate.codeberg.org/ for adding additional languages easily.

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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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Mumble + IRC or XMPP works well.

poVoq ,
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Some outdated ones do, but it is very easy to run your own modern IRC server that does none of that.

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It's separate, but you can use Matterbridge to connect the chat if you really want.

Alternatively you can use Jitsi Meet, which can be integrated with Ergo and an IRC webclient like Convos, but that isn't a simple setup then anymore.

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Looking at the above data, these hybrids do reduce fuel consumption. About as much as you would expect from a non-plugin hybrid.

It is rather that the WLTP figure vastly underestimates the fuel consumption.

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Plug-in hybrids are relatively new. At least in Europe most newly purchased cars are leasing and company provided cars. These companies probably thought it would be nice green-washing to buy hybrids. They probably also do not have sufficient charging infrastructure at their parking-lots and do not refund their employees for the electricity costs when they charge at home (or rather it is too bureaucratic for the employees to bother with asking for a refund). Which results that these cars are mostly used the same way as regular non-plugin hybrids, which only the relatively modest fuel savings these provide.

Should I learn Docker or Podman?

Hi, I've been thinking for a few days whether I should learn Docker or Podman. I know that Podman is more FOSS and I like it more in theory, but maybe it's better to start with docker, for which there is a lot more tutorials. On the other hand, maybe it's better to straight up learn podman when I don't know any of the two and...

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Doesn't really matter for basic stuff as it will be the same.

Once you get into container orchestration the differences start and then you basically need to decide what you want to get out of it.

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Well, afaik the spinning up and down and related temperature changes do the most damage. I am not sure if a disk that is spun up daily will outlast one that mostly idles 24/7. Maybe if you do it only weekly?

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A mirror raid with a filesystem that does error correction based on checksums (btrfs/ZFS) and incremental backups with snapshots is probably the safest... and you should still have another off-site backup if it is really important data.

But for most home use stuff a single drive for backups that you regularly do is sufficient in 95% of the cases.

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The "cold hard data" is that 100% of the people that would be able to collect this "cold hard data" run their drives 24/7.

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Looks like their website is hosted on a low-powered Android as well... at least it doesn't load at all here. Edit: now it worked

That said: I tried it before and while it does work it ended up being too limited and annoying. I am planning to try again with a device that has basic PostmarketOS support though. Not enough to be usable as a phone, but as a server it might work if I can get the network over USB work reliably.

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Don't use anything Samba unless you absolutely have to because of Windows. Its a shit protocol.

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Outside of normal operating hours? Why not?

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Cheaply selling drinks (maybe non-alcoholic) would probably more than off-set the additional costs.

poVoq ,
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As far as I know there are specific legal provisions for foreigners living in China in regards to VPN use, so what might be true for your friends isn't necessarily true for a regular Chinese person.

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You will need an NVMe adapter and a bigger SSD to store the Matrix database and it will put a lot of stress on the system if you join bigger rooms.

Otherwise it should be fine, although I personally would recommend skipping Matrix all together and rather install an lightweight XMPP server (and if you really need it a Matrix gateway for that).

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Commercial incentives which are strong and predictable. Regulations should not be designed as if they aren’t there.

The entire point of the GDPR is to reign in those "commercial incentives" to spy on users for a little extra money from advertisers.

But I am starting to get the feeling I am trying to argue with someone who makes a living out of spying on users and selling that data to advertisers, which makes this argument moot.

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