If you just want something simple that does the job, you can try a turnkey solution like YunoHost. There’s several other ones out there. Some with containers, some with more or less pre-packaged software… If you want to learn more during the process, maybe don’t and do it yourself because these things don’t teach you a lot. There’s some resources like the awesome-selfhosted list in the sidebar of this community. But I think for installing services you’d mainly look at the specific documentation of the specific service you’re just about to tackle. And maybe read up on Docker containers etc to judge whether you want to do it that way.

I rule Clueless Mod as well. To be fair, they’re usually doing a very good job in that community.

I’ve used a Dropbear SSH server in the initramfs for a while to unlock my server:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dm-crypt/Specialties#Remote_unlocking_of_root_(or_other)_partition
• https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Verschlüsseltes_System_via_SSH_freischalten/ (German)

Other possibilities include using the TPM module, a USB flash drive with a keyfile on it… A KVM / remote management module which is part of server and enterprise hardware anyway…

The latter is probably the easiest and most reliable solution.

There’s good use-cases for encryption on servers. Especially if other people have physical access to the location. Or it’s at home and a robber could steal it. Or you’d need a kill-switch to just turn it off and the encryption at rest kicks in… You don’t need to overwrite harddisk several times on replacement, or whip out the power tools to drill holes in it once it’s e-waste. And I have a lot of personal data on my server. Emails, my phone and laptop sync to it so there’s all my private photos, scans of paperwork and half of my life stored on the NAS. So of course I’m going to protect that. And of course it’s related to selfhosting because we have all kinds of sensitive information stored on selfhosted servers.

I mean it’s only my opinion, and not super straightforward to apply these concepts. So my take on it might not be entirely right…

I’m not very disheartened. If I look at the Threadiverse, I definitely see some negative dynamics we inherited from social media. And I think the atmosphere could be better. More constructive and welcoming. Less geopolitics news articles… And it’s far too easy to write simple truths and oppose people instead of writing nuanced comments with substance to them… We’ve had instances shutting down because there was too much responsibility in one single person and they burned out. Personally - I’d like to see several things handled differently.

But there’s also a lot of fun to be had, potential… I think overall the mods and admins and developers are doing a good job. Things I deem unacceptable like hate and spam get deleted and other than that I’m relatively free to write whatever I like. The negative aspects I wrote in the previous paragraph are more concerned with the platform layout and the users anyway, and less so with the governing structure…

It’s just difficult to manage a diverse crowd of people and cater to all of them. I’m not even sure if democracy is the correct solution for that. At least how it usually works in the real world with countries. We could come up with arbitrary direct forms of governing, since this place is powered by technology and software. I mean why appoint a fixed set moderators anyway? Software could just make every user have a web of trust and everyone could decide individually whom to delegate power to. Or who or what filters their perspective. We could get rid of admin power and follow a concept that’s currently tried with Nostr which handles that part of the hierarchy very differently…

I think all of that hasn’t been fully discussed yet. And it’s difficult to come up with good solutions, because things come with downsides as well. Like fostering echo chambers which might not be great either. It’s just difficult and complex. And nothing is perfect in the real world. And so far the Fediverse is the best Fediverse we have…

I like getting updates and new features? My computer isn’t new by any means. But I tinker with stuff, sometimes bleeding edge technology. Other than that I don’t really care. Rolling release, Debian Stable… I’m fine as long as it does the job. And for half the stuff it doesn’t even matter. I can write a letter with a 5yo LibreOffice or answer mails with any version of the mail client. Just give me modern, up-to-date tools when developing software, and it doesn’t hurt if the slicer knows about my new 3d printer from this year.

Or maybe @[email protected] would like to do that for us?

Thanks. Yeah those would be great in an awesome-webhosting list. Or something concerned with household or businesses. But as far as I know you’re supposed to stick with a topic with those awesome lists and not make random lists of random projects… I’ve filed a bug report in the meantime: https://github.com/ccbikai/awesome-homelab/issues/24

Lol. Why isn’t Forgejo in Development but some predecessors are? And Gitea is listed twice. And why is a tower defense game listed under Automation? Also I think a few projects I use are missing. Why isn’t the most common content management system there? The second most common password manager? The reverse proxy everyone uses? And who on earth needs customer live chat and a lot of business-scale website analytics, webshop systems and CRM and ERP in their homelab?? I’m sorry but this looks like slop.

Lower Decks is awesome. That and The Orville were some of my favourite “Star Trek” moments in modern times.

By the way, there’s a bit of a story arc going on at the beginning of Discovery and some things don’t make sense until that gets revealed later on. The show changes some of the tone and atmosphere over time with new seasons. But if you don’t like it, maybe it’s just not for you. It’s not classic Star Trek for several reasons.

What I meant is, Lemmy isn’t governed by the people. It is governed by the admins and moderators. And well… these aren’t really appointed or elected by the users… nor can the people impeach them. And the power doesn’t even come from the people. Most they can do is come or leave. But they’re not really in control of any decisions. And I don’t think they have any rights. So I don’t think it’s any form of democracy. Sure, I can assume that role. But I don’t think this alone makes it a democracy. Most of the demos don’t do that. So their influence is limited and they have mods and admins decide for them… So It is a bit of a weird form of governing.

FYI: Lemmy isn’t a democracy. The Threadiverse is made up of different communities and they all have different rules. Whoever creates and moderates a community (or server instance) gets to choose. It’s not open nor is it a democratic process. They can do arbitrary rules. I’ve been banned for violating rules. It’s like a a party you got invited to. And the host gets to pick the theme. And we have many hosts with all the different instances and communities.

Yeah. I can’t make a statement here, I wasn’t involved and I can’t read up on it. But you did the right thing, then with reporting things.

Report it if you think it’s offensive and violates the rules. That’s how moderation works here. And you’d expect more glee and negative sentiment because some countries are “underdogs” and some aren’t. That doesn’t make anything right, but that’s how it is on the internet. Just do your part and report things which you think are inappropriate… Two wrongs don’t make a right!

I don’t think you being allowed to post political memes about other people’s lives is rooted in whether your people were attacked in history. At least not directly… And I didn’t attack nobody, so maybe I should play the victim card as well? I mean all of this is arbitrary. Why does Mongolia and everything up to Lake Baikal not belong to China? Why is Kaliningrad Russian and not Prussian? Why am I German in the first place? And why do we keep stupid little countries like Belgium or Luxembourg around? We had a lot of war and attacks happen in history of mankind…

Everyone has to do this? I mean I’m German… The borders here have changed all the time for centuries. I don’t post offensive memes about who should be incorporated into some country… Or ejected from my country. Or whether Ukraine belongs to Russia… Or Venezuela to the USA… Or the West Banks to Israel… That’s not really funny once people die because of it.

YDI. If you’re for the reunification of your country, maybe contribute something to the discussion and don’t just post propaganda memes? I mean whether someone is member of the United Nations doesn’t really determine their status as a souvereign country. Nor does the opinion of the CCP or USA?! So what’s the point?

I use LibreWolf on the computer and IronWolf on the phone. Both modified versions of Firefox, both Free Software. Not sure what they do with AI, but as they’re both aimed at privacy, I’d expect them to disable AI features which send data to external services.

Grok is tuned to view Elon Musk as its God, Lord and Saviour, source of truth… And deny the holocaust. So naturally it’d say things like this.

Edit: And grok.com doesn’t. It says it would NOT flip any switch to kill 16M innocent people. Maybe this is just the persona it assumes on X… If someone doesn’t like it, I’d recommend to quit X. Try Mastodon or Bluesky instead.

I’m not sure if this translates to the content creators. There’s many of them whom I really like to watch who do (or did) Youtube as a business model. Tom Scott being one example or Derek Muller (Veritasium). I’m subscribed to many more. Simplicissimus and their yet better second channel (in German). We wouldn’t have those without monetization. The platform of course went shit over time. Fortunately my Ad blocker still works and thanks to Sponsorblock my experience is fairly alright… But personally - I’m split on this question. We had quite the amount of entertainment before monetization but I think a large amount of quality content also arrived after that, and because of it. Those people would be working some office job today if it wasn’t to Youtube. And I (and the world) would miss out… On the other hand we got MrBeast, a lot of fake cooking videos…

One thing I did is connect to the smart home (Home Assistant) and the NAS running at home. Some internet service providers don’t provide proper IPv4 addresses any more so IPv6 is the most convenient way to connect. This doesn’t require a VPN provider, though.

Yes. And best don’t turn any setting off or change things around unless someone knows what they’re doing. Power off the entire computer and unplug the storage device physically. (And subsequently, take it as an invitation to learn more about automated backups.)