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Methylman , to mildlyinfuriating in When the tab on the soda can doesn't quite work

Whoever taught this can how to be a can failed miserably

Thavron , to gaming in Multiplayer Co-op games
@Thavron@lemmy.ca avatar

PULSAR is pretty amazing if you have a few friends to play with. It really feels like actually running a spaceship together. You can shout things like “Divert all power to main turrets” and actually mean that.

FrozenLama ,

Pulsar is the game that I feel like was so close to being a great game but they gave up on it before it got there. Working together to run the ship is awesome but the world is SOOO empty. Like at least add mod support so folks can help or something. I want to love the game but that always stops me.

isosphere ,

I’m too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven’t elaborated on yet.

Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I’m absolutely going to get my money’s worth - this kind of game just doesn’t exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.

isosphere ,

I just got this game and I’m having a blast, this is the style of game I’ve been hungry for for a long time.

ijustlookatpictures , to selfhosted in Help standing up a self-hosted Lemmy instance

I’m giving it a go at the moment. Have you looked at the ansible playbook available at github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible ?

TerryMathews OP ,

I did. I could never get ansible to work when I was setting up the same machine. If you know how to set the inventory file up for that, I’m all ears.

ijustlookatpictures ,

I’m just going through it now. I’ll keep you posted

ijustlookatpictures ,

I’m currently hitting an issue of lets encrypt failing to authenticate using the .well-known. The domain in the hosts file is lemmy.domain.com though I have a feeling this may have to be the FQDN. the base domain is currently being used by matrix to serve antoher .well-known so it looks like I’ll have to add another page there somewhere.

fuser ,
@fuser@quex.cc avatar

yes, the domain in the hosts file needs to be the fqdn. Let’s encrypt will look for the auth file at the root of that. if you are already using this fqdn/webroot you’ll need another cname.

ijustlookatpictures ,

I don’t think I’m using the root for anything, just domain.com/.well-known/matrix/server. Would I be able to serve the challenge at domain.com/.well-known/acme-challenge/stringofcharacters?

fuser ,
@fuser@quex.cc avatar

I think so. letsencrypt will only be looking for the file that certbot creates, so as long as it can resolve the fqdn to your host and port 80 (yourdoma.in) is navigable, then you should be good.

ijustlookatpictures ,

certbot certonly --manual is what I need though I think cloudflare or something else is making it only resolve to https. I’m going to shelf this for now and come back to it later. Thanks for your help

ThreeHalflings , to piracy in If Lemmy had been around, the MegaLinks sub wouldn't have had to go.

What’s an ML?

emptyother , to futurama in This community is great. If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.

If it doesn’t, dont blame yourself, Kif. We were doomed from the start.

Lance404 ,

*Kif, old man, I’ll be in the escape pod.

If that wicker chair I like survives the slaughter,

have it sent to my P.O. box.*

linearchaos ,
@linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

And while you’re at it show them the metal I won.

Wander , to technology in Question about how web domains work
@Wander@yiffit.net avatar

When you buy a domain, you buy the right to (among other things) edit the address book for that domain, also known as DNS zones.

Once you buy the domain, for example, you can tell your domain provider “I want example.com to point to the IP address 1.2.3.4”.

Most importantly the domain provider has been given the rights to sell these domains by ICANN who manages what is known as the “root DNS servers”.

When a computer has no idea who to contact to resolve a domain it contacts the root DNS servers first and these tell them to check the entries of the domain provider. It all trickles down from there. If the domain provider wasn’t approved by ICANN then their root DNS servers would never point to them.

In reality there’s more organizations involved including: resellers, registrars and registries. But they all follow the same principle and create a chain of linked address books (DNS zones) that flow from the root DNS servers.

There is not stopping you from setting up your own domain system. You can get all the domains you want for free, but no other computer would be able to access them because by default the convention is to trust only the ICANN DNS servers.

If you use windows, Google “hosts file”. In that file you can enter any domain you want and an associated IP address and your computer will comply with it. You could even have google.com point to your own homepage, but of course that would only be your computer.

By the way, if you hear about DNS servers like google’s 8.8.8.8 or cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1, these are not the root DNS servers. These are called “resolvers” and they are the ones that talk to the root DNS zones and cache their response so that it can be resolved faster instead of having to go down the whole chain every time.

tubbadu OP ,

thanks for the super answer! I understand now!

anders , to android in Did Google ever say why it killed the bottom address bar in Chrome? (And what's your fave browser?)

@mikestevens I use Firefox on both phone and pc and use Firefox Sync to sync between them.

aBoredPirate , to piracy in Soap2day is DEAD!!!

Jesus christ. Cant even post it to reddit and it feels wrong. But jesus christ. It was like gods library of content in there. great service, high quality, little to no scummy ads. I remember it from day one. Fucking christ.

Chainweasel , to technology in Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Week 1

Trace it to the root of the problem, if the subreddits going dark took the servers down, then what made all the subreddits go dark 🤔

battleoften ,

My guess is that it didn’t. I wonder if all of the subreddits going dark left the front page and r/all open to god knows what from more unsavory subs, and when Reddit realized that it was happening, pulled the plug until they were able to filter out anything less-than-corporate-allowable on the front page.

Elbullazul , to selfhosted in What's your backup strategy?

I run a restic backup to a local backup server that syncs most of the data (except the movie collection because it’s too big). I also keep compressed config/db backups on the live server.

I eventually want to add a cloud platform to the mix, but for now this setup works fine

Oli , to selfhosted in What's your backup strategy?
@Oli@fedia.io avatar

In the process of moving stuff over to Backblaze. Home PCs, few clients PCs, client websites all pointing at it now, happy with the service and price. Two unraid instances push the most important data to an azure storage a/c - but imagine i'll move that to BB soon as well.
Docker backups are similar to post above, tarball the whole thing weekly as a get out of jail card - this is not ideal but works for now until i can give it some more attention.

*i have no link to BB other than being a customer who wanted to reduce reliance on scripts and move stuff out of azure for cost reasons.

qwacko ,

Would I be correct to assume you are using Backblaze PC backup rather than B2?

ono , to technology in How would you make Lemmy nicer for yourself?
  • Make remote community discovery more intuitive.
  • Make remote community subscription more reliable.
  • Make navigation & reading work without javascript.
  • Make dark mode available when not logged in.
  • Indicate which comments are new when returning to a recently-visited post. (old.reddit.com does this if you have premium.)
  • Display user and community names with the domain part dimmed (and maybe on a separate line), for less visual clutter at a quick glance.
  • Display user names without prepending an @ sign, for the same reason.
  • Allow sorting community lists by name.
  • Horizontally align all community names in lists, regardless of whether they have icons.
  • Reduce wasted screen space.
  • When reading a post/comment on any random instance (perhaps found via web search) make subscribing & finding that post on the user’s home instance a one-click operation, so they can reply.
  • Optionally hide avatars & community icons.
  • Optionally (admin choice) mirror remote instances’ images, so they can’t be abused by remote parties to track local users.
  • Optionally (user choice) disable or replace remote images, for the same reason.
  • Stop auto-inserting new items into a list that’s being viewed. (It causes what I’m reading to suddenly shift or disappear off-screen, which is disorienting.)
  • Make buttons work reliably. (Clicking them sometimes applies a border without doing anything else.)
SirMrR4M , to gaming in The best open-source games you know

CataclysmDDA is an amazing open source roguelike. Has a bunch of tilesets if you don’t like ASCII

denemdenem ,

Also most og roguelikes are open source which is great!

InfiniteVariables , to gaming in The best open-source games you know

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

Thewanderer , to selfhosted in [Question] Does anyone run their own email server?

I’m using openbsd with dovcot, opensmtpd on a pi. I used mailhardener to get it scoring well. I’ve had no issues with it getting flagged.

DidacticDumbass OP ,

That is cool. This is the solution I was hoping existed, but someone brought to my attention the need for 100% uptime, an by inference the lack of redundancy on a home solution, so I need to reconsider what I am will to do.

databender ,
@databender@lemmy.world avatar

I have a friend in a neighboring state that I visit regularly - we’re setting up disparate SANs, one at his location, the other at mine. We each get half the storage space; we back up to the half onsite and overnight the onsite SAN data gets backed up to the offsite. This has nothing to do with mail, but if you can host a mail server on something as inexpensive as a pi then you could have one at multiple locations for redundancy purposes.

EDIT: I just realized I typed SAN instead of NAS. It’s NAS, I just don’t deal with NAS’s all day at work so I always write that by default.

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