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Immich vs. PhotoPrism in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I'm curious if anyone's paying to support development (of either application)?

I'm just about getting all my photos into my NAS, so will be looking at these myself soon

Google Chrome’s uBlock Origin phaseout has begun in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

the company said it would start turning off Manifest V2 extensions

...in time for Black Friday & the holiday sales?

Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

ListenBrainz passes the 1 billion listens mark! in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 2 days ago

Ooh, didn't know about this and I listen to music ~16 hours per day!

Just need to capture it: No obvious collector for MythTV, so might have a problem there...

Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Interesting, I have those on my car and I actively avoid using them.

It can't cope with anything more than a simple scenario (dim around car in front, deal with on coming car in other lane). If you also have pedestrians and vehicles on side junctions, then you burn their eyes.

So, I'd assumed it was a US feature (straight, wide roads) brought over here

GeoClue TZ: Privacy-First Linux Location Service in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 5 days ago

Ah, ok, got a little confused... GeoClue TZ is an improvement on GeoClue

I didn't even know this was a thing, I just dealt with this manually - now feeling a little silly.

How RAID system reliable? possible of raid system failure in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I can confirm that moving the disks to a very similar device will work.

We recovered “enough” data from what disks remained of a Dell server that was dropped (PSU side down) from a crane. The server was destroyed, most of the disks had moved further inside the disk caddy which protected them a little more.

It was fun to struggle with that one for ~1 week

And the noise from the drives...

Aptera completes low-speed drive in its first production-intent solar electric vehicle in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

I have rooftop solar, but only for the house because I can't reach my car to charge it in the street.

The car sits outside for days (I work from home), so in my case this would be great.

This is the 1st I've seen of this car, so haven't read any other details, but I'd be surprised if external charging wasn't possible.

Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good in c/technology@lemmy.world
Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds in c/technology@lemmy.world
I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't have any evidence to backup my statement, but for my usecase (Linux booting troubleshooting toolkit) Kingston sticks last a fair while (~10 years), but Sandisk fail sooner (<5years?)

The main thing I've noticed for all brands: there's no warning before failure. They're like nicad batteries... all good, then one day - completely dead. So never keep any data on them that you can't lose.

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Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" (feddit.uk)
 

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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Any MythTV Users Here? (feddit.uk)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Cyber@feddit.uk to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

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pfSense DHCP (& DNS) Performance (feddit.uk)
 

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs.

Just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, the network loses DNS so I "break the internet" for a short while.

Would Kea fix this?

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Pause alerts during the night (feddit.uk)
 

Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma... and I can't find a programmatic / config option that says "don't notify between 11pm and 7am" (but willing to admit I've just not found it... yet...)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can't use "Do Not Disturb", and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn't make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So... any pointers? I'm sure you're not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets...

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Desktop Security (feddit.uk)
 

I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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XMPP... on a Pi? (feddit.uk)
 

So, I've had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I'm heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I've got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

"Better" server software?

Thanks

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