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N0x0n ,

I feel so bad for the long term contributors :/

The only good thing I could think off, is that someone is going to create a defederated stackoverflow alternative?

Or something similar, to bring back real human interaction…

If this wasn’t enough, This will probably raise war against corporated AI.

N0x0n , (edited )

Uhhhh, I saw them yesterday in northen* hemisphere in Europe and they waren’t white at all… So my guess would be that it depends from where you look at it ?

But in reality they are more dull than on pictures, because photographers use Long Exposure to make the color brighter than they actually appear.

Edit: Typo

N0x0n ,

Corrected !

N0x0n , (edited )

Hey thanks for the clarification :) ! I’m not a photographer nor educated enough in specific science domain.

I only pointed out what technique photographers use to make them appear so bright and colorful on pictures.

They really are as colorful as they appear in photos but human night vision is primarily black and white.

Does that even make sense? I mean, we are what we are, and we see what we see. There is noway that we could certainly know how they actually look like.

If a reptile looks at an Aurora Borealis, It would totally see it differently, and it’s perspective would differ from ours.

With a camera you can change alot of attributes to make it appear b/w, sepia, more light, rgb, cmjn, infrared, flash… But that doesn’t make it how they actually appear, I mean who is in charge to give the correct mixture of how much light, b/w, cmjn, rgb, infrared… to see the “real” manifestation ?

Personally, I think this is more a philosophical/metaphysic ¿? question, but I’m no expert in any of those subjects. I’m just relying on my personal experience and my feelings ^^.

Feel free to argument !

N0x0n ,

Thank you :) Also good to know it’s RISC-V (five roman number).

How is it pronounced? Like every letter or more like risk-5?

N0x0n ,

Nobody is talking about how games look sharper? Looking at 1080p vs 1440p side by side, you can clearly see the difference on how the textures look less “pixelated” and more rounded up.

It looks like you have a better AA effect and better color management (depends on your pannel though).

I really enjoy/see the change from 1080p to 1440, but you clearly need good enough hardware to make it run smoothly. It’s vram hungry and GPU demanding.

It wouldn’t be that way if there wasn’t any reason to eat that much more vram and GPU resources… Higher resolution textures

N0x0n ,

If you’re into selfhosting there is an alternative self-hosted Wayback machine.

Or you can use something like wallabag

And there is also a Firefox extension that let’s your download a whole web site as a single html file .

Finally, there’s Linkding who recently add local copy of your bookmarks.

N0x0n ,

Hummm, Don’t get me wrong I like the command line when I work on my GUI-less server, but a video player to run through the command line on a daily drive desktop with GUI and everything?

This seems a bit overkill and useless no? I mean when I’m on my desktop I just want to click on my media file and launch it right away.

Maybe I’m not the target audience and it’s focus is more entitled to people working in the video industry and needs more granular tweaking with specific media files? Scripts?

Or Am I missing something here?

why cant we connect 2 computers using USB

So i tried to connect steamdeck to pc using usb and i read its immpossible because steamdeck is a computer and some explanation on quora about strong master slave relationship. But then why is it possible for android phones to connect to pc whilist also having the ability to use USB and other usb c accesories. Also why cant it...

N0x0n , (edited )

Also goes in reverse. Here are probably a lot of good IT specialist who wouldn’t pass any comptia test. Not because they are bad IT guys or don’t have the necessary skill/knowledge…

No… Just because CompTIA tests are worded in such a way that you actually doubt that every answer could actually be right and fit the question…

They are playing on words and even if you’re the best IT guy in the world but lack the reading skills and English collocation of a perfect native Shakespeare writer, you’re going to fail ^^.

But that’s on purpose 🤑🤑🤑.

Torrenting exposes your public IP. In a country where government doesn't care, does that pose a risk?

I honestly don’t believe I will have any legal trouble because I don’t do anything like cp or worse, I just pirate media I like, not even porn. But across users of communities, or on public trackers, is IP exposure something to be concerned about?

N0x0n , (edited )

Recent qbitorrent update supports cross sharing between public/i2p users.

But people have to enable the option, most public trackers aren’t aware off and most private trackers are not into sharing their well builded closed piracy club money making scheme

N0x0n ,

You still need someone else’s computer. Making a cloudflare proxie or other cloud platform is useless and not secure, specially if you’re torrenting or trying to hide your IP.

I’m pratically sure they even block the torrent protocol and do not allow port forwarding on most cloud VPS.

Yeah proxies are great, but only if you have somewhere to route your traffic.

N0x0n , (edited )

The proxy is also susceptible to application-level threats that the VPN is not.

You sure about that? I mean, to use a VPN your need some kind of application that could potentially be vulnerable or have some zero day exploits.

In contrary, a proxy is as simple as to forward your traffic to another computer through a SSH tunnel which doesn’t specially need some kind of application but only relies on lower level package.

Maybe I misunderstood your comment but If I’m wrong I’m agear to learn something new.

N0x0n ,

Maybe syncthing could fit your flow? OMV syncthing.

I have no idea if it works or if that’s something you would implement, but syncthing is pretty good :).

I use it to sync my encrypted backups between my devices (even my phone has my server backups). Never had any issue !

N0x0n ,

You should have a talk with your boss about NIST keypair :x

N0x0n ,

Woaah ! Thank youu ! That’s a great find !

N0x0n ,

Congrats !!!

Only one day? Lucky you ! It took me a whole week to get it to work with self-signed ssl certificate behind Traefik + docker + Adguardhome.

Adguard home rewrites and the correct certificate configuration solved most of my isues (android can be picky with self-signed root certificates). But I learned ALOT through the whole week, so I didn’t waste my time :).

I hope you too learned alot :) but if I may, I would switch from AdguardHome to Pi-hole.

I know… AdguardHomes functionalities and UI are awesome and overpass Pi-Holes’ but since I saw they add some strange trackers and very sketchy DNS request in their AdguardVPN android application, I don’t trust them anymore !

N0x0n ,

It does !! I really like it and was easy peasy to make the switch. But I have to admit, AdguardHome’s UI and DNS logs are way more detailed and I’m missing a few features I used with AGH. But nothing to critical that makes pi-hole unusable in my workflow !

But yeah, they do not have the same budget… That’s a good tradeoff i’m willing to take for my privacy :).

And one day, when I get a job I will surely donate to them.

N0x0n ,

Hummm, I have a syncthing instance in a docker compose, so yeah I can access it through my ssl domain (syncthing.home.lab) but traefik takes care of everything.

Now if it’s on your local machine you’re trying to use your SSL certificate I don’t know, I always access it through the local ip (127.0.0.1:8384).

If I had to guess or give it a try, I would point the IP to my dns through my host file on my machine. But that’s just a wild guess :/

I think syncthing has a good documentation about it :)

N0x0n , (edited )

Both are too similar and both suck :/

I mean, I do not want a copie of a closed sourced GUI where everything is behind some obscure hidden configuration… I often had that strange feeling of “why can’t I do that?” For simple basic things.

GNOME and MacOS both give me the same feeling of closed DE where you’re not in control over basic functionalities :/.

I have a Mac and GNOME on my debian desktop, I hate both, but luckily I can change my DE on linux so I would say MacOS sucks way more ^^.

Just my 50cent.

N0x0n ,

Just a simple example, on vanilla gnome you can not set nightlights to “always”, how stupid is that? Yeah there are some tweaks made by people you can download from the official gnome website… But than you have to trust their plugin/scripts…

I really don’t like that kind of modification :/

Yeah MacOS is probably the worst OS/GUI that ever existed, and that’s why following a similar path sounds just a bad idea…

N0x0n ,

Thanks for the share :))) ! Looks interesting ! Bookmarking until I have more time to read through the docs !

N0x0n ,

I’m on gnome on my daily desktop, and I hate it ! Thinking to switch to KDE but when I read that it took them 10 years to implement a good fuse “alternative” to make samba share work properly… I’m really hesitant to switch…

Gnome is great, but I hate the MacOS feeling… Everything seems soo… Proprietary :/ Maybe something more lightweight like XFCE will fit into my workflow.

N0x0n ,

Well, you still have to open wireguard’s UDP port to make it reachable outside your LAN.

Just sayin’ 🤷

N0x0n ,

Thank your for the write up 😁 Glad you solved your issue !!

N0x0n ,

Try to open the web developer tools in your web browser, to look if there is anything useful. It’s different for every browser but on firefox: ≡ > more tools > Web Developer tools. Look into the network tab and refresh your page and try to login again. This can sometimes give you some hints what’s going wrong.

Also have you tried to log every container from the compose?

When you ls all containers do they seem healthy or does one do not start? docker container ls -a ?

N0x0n ,

I just spinned up the docker compose bare bone without any modification just to see if it actually works on localhost. Just a checkup to see if by default it works, and yes I can login from my host IP:PORT without any issues.

github.com/mediacms-io/mediacms/…/admins_docs.md#…

I just changed the default port, because 80 is already used and gave the admin account a password.

Maybe this github anwser can be helpful ??

The compose stack seems not that easy to customize, In your position I would mount it bare bone a change things one/one reading through their admin docs !

My guess would be that changing the volume a few things are missing? I don’t know, docker issues a hard to troubleshoot when you’re not infront of the computer.

N0x0n ,

Yeah, sorry about that… Seems alot of python is involved.

Can you check your permission on “pg_logical/snapshots” in your folder ?

drwx------ 1 70 root 512 Apr 21 15:40 postgres_data

drwx------ 1 70 70 0 Apr 21 14:41 pg_snapshots

N0x0n , (edited )

Here is something you can work on. You could try to mount your volumes as named volume as per this docker-compose file, so that docker takes care of permissions and ownership of the files.

If I understand it correctly you want to use an external drive or a drive partition ? You can’t directly use those partitions as named volume. You can also mount a SAMBA/CIF mounted volume from your external drive/drive partition or NFS (read here).

Do not change this part in the docker-compose I shared above. This files needs to be located where It can find it.


<span style="color:#323232;">    volumes:
</span><span style="color:#323232;">      - ./deploy/docker/local_settings.py:/home/mediacms.io/mediacms/deploy/docker/local_settings.py
</span>

This is what I would give a try. Apart from that, I can’t help you any further, maybe someone else would come up with a better idea :/.

This seems like a stupid permission issue ˆˆ’. Hope you will find your way arround !

Repairing bad sectors in an external drive

So I have this external 2.5" drive salvaged from an old laptop of mine. I was trying to use it to backup/store data but the transfer to the drive fails repeatedly at the ~290GB mark leading me to believe that maybe there is a bad sector on the drive. I tried to inspect the drive using smartmontools and smartctl but since it is...

N0x0n , (edited )

Also interested ! But I read through my long search that bad sectors on a drive… Is a sign that your drive is failing and that there is nothing you can do about it.

Your drive will probably accumulate more and more bad sectors until it becomes unusable (there is some threshold).

There is however a way to “mark” them but thats just a temporary solution. I wouldn’t put important/critical data on it (pictures, backups, OS…)

N0x0n , (edited )

Hey did you find a solution? I maybe found something that could interest you !

Complementing @thebrain anwser, I totally wiped and fixed bad sectors on a old SSD drive I fought was borked because of alot of unallocated pending sectors. (In/out errors)

Keep in mind this is advanced stuff and could not work in your case and EVEN brick your hard drive. You will lost all your data and everything will be rewriten.

Manually rewrite sectors

https://leo.leung.xyz/wiki/Hdparm

Full wipe with “–security-erase-enhanced”

https://tinyapps.org/docs/wipe_drives_hdparm.html

This can take some time (3hours in my case) and it looks like your terminal is stuck, don’t worry just wait until it finishes !

Again this can be DANGEROUS ! Only attempt such mesure if you don’t care to lose your hard drive.

N0x0n OP ,

Isn’t samba a fork and open source package from Windows’s samba/cif ? I think I read something like that on the web, but not sure about that information. So it hasn’t anything to do with windows. I may be wrong on that tough !

N0x0n OP ,

Then I learnt it’s no longer maintained so switched to NFS.

Ohhh wasn’t aware of that information ! Thank you.

N0x0n OP ,

Thank you for the hint ! Yeah it’s in a multiOS environement.

N0x0n OP ,

Yeah, multi-OS environemment… Thanks for your comment :)

N0x0n OP ,

Thanks !! Yeah I think I don’t need enterprise grade security :) Not right now I suppose… Do you know what Kerberos actually solves in an Enterprise environnement?

N0x0n OP ,

Thanks for the link :) I have already setup a samba share (actually I have setup all 3 on my server xD). But Didn’t knew they have a whole tutorial on it :) Thanks for the resource, I think I will stay with samba :) Looks the most versatil and has also “easier” security function setup. I mean I don’t think I need Kerberos in my homelab setup and SSHFS… Yeah people tend to argue it’s a pain in the ass with Windows !

N0x0n OP ,

Good to know samba works well with truenas. Seeing all the comments, the tendency seems to go in samba’s direction !

N0x0n OP ,

Thank you for your friendly and detailed response !!!

Look at the Arch wiki article for Kerberos, I think that’s what I used mostly. Feel free to ask if you need help setting it up.

It’s always Arch wiki :D. Thank you, but I will probably stay with samba at the moment which will probably fullfil my current needs and seems more complex than I thought ! Also, it’s in a multi-OS environnement (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and NFS seems to not work very well with Windows :/ If I could I would switch my whole family to Linux, but old habits die hard…

Anyway, will keep Kerberos under my radar ! I really want to learn more about it seems very interesting, especially the cybersecurity aspect !

If you don’t mind… Can you tell very briefly what kerberos actually solves in a coporate environnement ? Please, give me a sneek peak of the subject that awaits me :) !!

N0x0n OP ,

I read/heard that alot of NAS server users tend to use NFS shares :/ Don’t actually know why, but that’s what I found out while reading server/NAS configurations on the web.

Maybe because NFS’s speed compared to samba and SSHFS?

N0x0n , (edited )

You are probably talking about video content? I don’t have any advice concercing those, and I’m also interested if someone has some good self-hosted alternative for this kind of content.

On contrary, if you’re an ebook/webpage hoarder I had a long run in finding the best solution to keep my learning ebooks tidy and well organized.

If you are serious about learning through written textbook and web, having everything in one spot and also a buildin pdf reader, I really advise you to have a look at Zotero. Even if you are not a researcher it’s a very useful tool !

Also would suggest you to give the Zotero 7 beta a try instead of 6. Better UX, native macOS m1, linux, better pdf reader, webp reader… Alot of improvement !!

One thing you should be aware of, it’s their cloud syncing, which allow you to continue your work on another computer, which cost a bit of money. Nothing to exagerated though ! BUT if you’re a self-hoster you can sync your personal data folder through a bind volume/samba share/nfs/syncthing… What ever your poison is :).

Sorry if this doesn’t help in your quest of video content organization, but chances are, you’re also hoarding alot of pdf/web page content !

N0x0n ,

Maybe something worthwhile looking at (was roaming the web to find something that could actually fit your request!) Mediacms it looks promising, but never tested it so you have to give it a try yourself :).

But seeing from the github repo, it looks like a selfhosted youtube CMS :) Just keep in mind to backup your data before giving it a try. I have no idea how stable it is.

Hope it helps !

N0x0n ,

It’s true, it’s not a silverbullet, but it’s probably the next step to piracy and illegal content, IF someday they find a working solution to break torrent over the clearnet.

They already found a simple elegant working solution for the common user: Block at the DNS level in the router. While this works for most non techy user, most of us already use a VPN or know how to change the default DNS server.

N0x0n ,

Just because of the loading bar? You’re easy to please 😁.

N0x0n ,

Was just kidding 😁 Keep that feeling, it’s a great one ! I love to see other people enjoying such simple but powerful brain flooding dopamine ! That awwwwww moment is really enjoayble, for others and yourself !

Hope you will have fun with openSUSE ! I’m also thinking to switch from Debian to OpenSUSE for my daily drive. Debian as server is fantastic, but got some quirks running it with backports and testing.

Maybe a skill issue? Probably, but trying something different will give me the necessary boost to find out 😄

N0x0n ,

The Debian wiki is awsome. But it’s less noob friendly than Arch wiki.

The web UI looks like an old forum from 2000. Don’t get me wrong, a well written manpage style webpage is way better than an eye candy bloated scripted webpage (IMO) and I really like how detailed the Debian wiki is. But in today’s “mental standards”, the Debian wiki is not attractive enough for most new comer.

Also, It seems the Debian wiki is not as indexed as Arch wiki on the web.

Finally… I can’t access their wiki with my VPN ! :/.

But I do agree, The Debian wiki is a gold mine !!!

Basic docker networking?

Hi guys! I’m going at my first docker attempt…and I’m going in Proxmox. I created an LXC container, from which I installed docker, and portainer. Portainer seems happy to work, and shows its admin page on port 9443 correctly. I tried next running the image of immich, following the steps detailed in their own guide....

N0x0n , (edited )

Docker networking is fun :) (IMO).

Without having a look at your container and how you configured it, if you have correctly mapped your ports and didn’t change anything fancy and don’t use a reverse proxy

Your container should be accessible on your host’s IP mapped with you Immich docker port:

HostIP:2283

Edit: Also, don’t run a docker container in… Another container (LXC).

Containerinception

How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

I have been thinking about self-hosting my personal photos on my linux server. After the recent backdoor was detected I’m more hesitant to do so especially because i’m no security expert and don’t have the time and knowledge to audit my server. All I’ve done so far is disabling password logins and changing the ssh port....

N0x0n , (edited )

Call me names… But sometimes the story has far more branched backstories than they actually shed into light.

Trust nobody, not even yourself.

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