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I have an apartment where the dumpster is a car's drive away, and taking trash down involves 4 staircases. What is the best way to ameliorate this situation?

i cannot possibly express how much of a gigantic pain in the ass this is; it’s making more more slovenly than i want to be because it’s such an inconvenience to throw stuff away....

sleepybear ,

There’s always a way: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYEOG9LOIk

sleepybear ,

I don’t think it’s about lemmy.

militarytimes.com/…/sensitive-us-military-info-ex…

sleepybear ,

curl ifconfig.io works too

sleepybear ,

Depends a lot on your existing reverse proxy.

You can read the nginx config that the defaults include and it’s some basic rules to route incoming requests to either lemmy or lemmy-ui. If your existing reverse proxy is nginx you could just incorporate the rules in there.

It also depends on why you need it behind the existing proxy, and how you’ll choose to route your traffic, and where you traffic is coming from in general.

I’d start with taking a look at the default nginx config to see if you can move those rules to your existing reverse proxy, or just forward everything coming in that’s for lemmy straight to the lemmy reverse proxy, although that might be more complicated in correctly preserving the incoming requests.

sleepybear ,

Many years ago working for a monitoring software company someone had found a bug in the uptime monitoring rules where they reset after a year.

It was patched and I upgraded one client and their whole Solaris plant immediately went red and alerted. They told me to double it to two years and some stuff was still alerting.

They just said they’d try to get around to rebooting it, but it was all stable.

Everywhere else I’ve worked enforces regular reboots.

Email self-hosting

As the title reads, I really want to begin hosting my own email server again. I’m sick of the poor quality of the service providers out there. Damnit all I want/need is a reliable IMAP/SMTP provider. I spent 3 hours getting off of Hostinger and on to Zoho. I just hope Zoho won’t suck. It’s great for now but we’ll see....

sleepybear ,

If you want a reliable provider try Fastmail. Used them for years, very rare outages. I have my local postfix set to relay to them for locally sent mail. Great web UI.

TIL that the descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually (castleholic.com)

Descendants of the Wittelsbach family, that reigned the Bavaria until 1918, still receive 14 million euros annually from a compensation fund that was established 100 years ago. The head of the family also has the right to live in Schloss Nymphenburg in Munich.

sleepybear ,

Needs the www:

castleholic.com/…/the-wittelsbacher-ausgleichsfon…

Why does smoked salmon look 'raw'? And why does it taste so different from a cooked fillet?

I don’t tend to eat much fish, but in the supermarket earlier I saw some smoked salmon which didn’t need cooking, and some salmon fillets which did. They looked the same really - both ‘raw’. I decided to buy some of the fillet. It was nice, but a very different flavour from when I’ve tried smoked salmon in the past....

sleepybear ,

Traditional lox is just brined in salt, no smoking.

Gravadlax is brined in salt and sugar with spices.

Smoked salmon is just smoked salmon, like nova, in the US.

Due to customer preference and lack of knowledge, most want smoked salmon when they ask for lox, so are sold lox.

See: forward.com/news/7669/the-raw-truth-about-lox/

sleepybear ,

Most towers will fit 4 drives.

If you’re out of SATA ports or M2s you can buy PCI adapters.

If you’re buying SSDs they’re small and don’t care about orientation, can but plugged into the cables and stuffed anywhere in the case that doesn’t impede airflow.

Where do you want your drives? What sort of drives? I’ve also found it more performant to stuff them in the case and 4 drives isn’t a stretch unless you’re also running a ton in the target server.

sleepybear ,

I’ve done this for years, but also:

  • anything automated goes straight to specific folders for those categories. Very quickly identify stuff that’s noise and put in rules to move it out of your inbox. Sure some stuff you might need, but anything that’s corporate spam needs automating away.
  • use (and create if necessary) the right mail groups so your whole team, project partners, whoever see the right emails and ask people to use them.
  • add a VIP rule to highlight emails from the boss, VP, anyone you know you want to read right away
  • be clear with people on how to reach you. If you prefer Slack for immediate stuff, tell people. It’s fine to be clear that email is for less immediate consumption, or non-conversational stuff. Slack is far better for collab.

Email Hosting w/SMTP, what do you use?

I’ve recently been trying to degoogle myself, and in doing so I’m going to need another email. I tried ProtonMail, but apparently only business accounts can use SMTP, even though their features claim SMTP access. I’m plenty fine paying for the service, but going from the $6/month to $12/month just to get notification...

sleepybear ,

Fastmail.

But, it’s not the cheapest. $5 a month gets what you need though.

Really quick WebUI, great features, including hosting your own domains and smtp rewriting.

Very smart helpful support team.

Great for degoogling.

[Abandoned all hope] Trying to self-hosting a mail server, but port 25 is blocked by my ISP

So, I spent the last few days researching and then finally setting up mailcow. I got my domain name, my wildcard certificate, got all the containers up, disabled ipv6 (I don’t have it set up on my home router and am too lazy to set it up tbh), created a domain and an mailbox, etc....

sleepybear , (edited )

The major email providers will only handle email from know good and trusted IPs. If you’ve been hosting on the same IP for 15 years you’re trusted. If you started it last night your IP is still untrusted. It takes a long time to gain trust.

SendGrid has a good explanation here: sendgrid.com/resource/email-guide-ip-warm-up/

sleepybear ,

Moving to Caseta for lighting from the random mix of bulbs which never quite work was amazing. It’s also much cheaper to put in one controllable switch than replace the 6 bulbs in the light fittings connected to the wall switch. Those bulbs always fail in weird and non-debuggable ways.

I use Crafty Controller (craftycontrol.com) to manage the minecraft servers. It runs in a docker instance and gives you a nice web UI to manage each minecraft server. I use it to delegate control to my kids to create and manage servers as necessary.

Finally, if you’re not using a config mgmt tool, I’d start looking, so you can make everything easily re-doable. Personally I’m using Ansible, but puppet, chef, salt, etc all work too. Ansible is easiest given it does need it’s own infra. I like it so if something dies I can redeploy everything onto a different server.

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