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johntash,

Non video version:

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johntash,

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t use these apps as much as I used to but I always appreciated that they exist.

johntash,

If you want privacy, don’t use a work device for personal stuff and don’t use a personal device for work stuff. Corporations are always going to want to monitor their own equipment for data exfil, etc, I don’t think any laws are going to tell them not to.

johntash,

We need laws to make them not to

That would conflict with laws that protect your PII/PHI. Are you okay with a doctor saving your health information onto their personal cell phone? Or a bank teller with access to move money between accounts able to do so from their cell phone at a bar while drunk? Or a plastic surgeon posting photos of their patients to social media without their consent?

Corporations suck, but people also suck. Even if there’s no malice intended, the average person is bad at personal security and can’t really be trusted to protect data that the corporation is legally responsible for protecting.

We should not forfeit our right to privacy

My point from before was that if you want privacy, don’t use a device that you don’t own. If you’re doing something not work related, use your own device and don’t use the corporate wifi.

johntash,

Lol sorry, I’m probably not explaining it properly.

  • Corporations are required (by law in a lot of cases) to protect certain information
  • Corporations also have an interest to ensure their own property isn’t misused or abused

Corporations need a way to achieve those two points. Normally this is done by some sort of MITM corporate proxy and maybe some invasive spyware-like software on the machine itself.

Some people absolutely abuse this power and would have no problem reading your personal e-mail, or watching your desktop screen all day. I agree that this shouldn’t be a thing and they shouldn’t have access without some sort of strict approval process.

But, how is a corporation going to prove that you did or did not send a secure/private document on your work device through your personal e-mail? If you are using your personal email, it won’t go through the corporate mail server so they have to rely on either MITM proxies and logs, or something locally on the device. The alternative (no monitoring at all) would lead to situations where data is compromised and the company has no idea why or how, if they even are aware of it at all.

Similarly what if an employee uses their personal email to accidentally download a virus and that virus starts uploading all of the files on the device to a server somewhere? Without any sort of monitoring, that event could go undetected.

If there’s an alternative, I’d love to hear about it. But I’ll probably always stick to keeping work and personal data separate.

johntash,

Self hosted nextcloud works great for me. There have been a lot of improvements over the last few years, handling conflicts doesn’t feel as clunky and I don’t really run into as many unless I’m storing git repos in my NC directory.

johntash,

Have you reported the posts and users you’re referring to? Or have you tried reaching out to the admins yet? Without proper reporting, you can’t know if they’re even aware of an issue.

johntash,

For anyone looking for an alternative, I really like Trilium so far. It’s completely open source and the main dev and community seem great.

The performance is way better for me than SN. SN couldn’t handle a large number of notes very well when I tested it last.

The only downside imo is there’s no real mobile client, but the mobile web interface is still pretty good and usable.

johntash,

It’s been a few years but Joplin always felt clunky to me, and sync was extremely slow. I’m not sure if it even had plugin support when I tried it last.

Trilium does actually have plugin support it’s just not as discoverable imo. You can create backend scripts and also frontend scripts that could act like a new editor.

There aren’t a ton of public ones, but check out github.com/Nriver/awesome-trilium for a few examples if you’re interested.

johntash,

It doesn’t work on every website, but sometimes you can change your address to be in California and then magically a cancel button will appear.

johntash,

It looks pretty bad even with an adblocker on now too

johntash,

Are these 33 different requests or do you hit the same endpoint multiple times?

I’d probably default to every 5 minutes at most, but I guess if it’s up to the admin then it’s all good. 33 requests per minute shouldn’t be a ton of load if it’s all read requests.

johntash,

Not without asking, but if the admin is okay with it then sure. I don’t see the point of any sort of monitoring making that many requests per minute though.

johntash,

In your profile settings, you can choose to hide posts by accounts marked as bot. I’d recommend trying that out.

Lemmy Instance with no IP address logging!

So I was interested in Lemmy, I checked Privacy policies of multiple instances; so far I cannot find any instance which doesn’t collect IP address at all; many instances dont even provide any info about what data they are collection (however they are using cookies so I assume they will be logging IPs too). I found some...

johntash,

Lemmy isn’t meant to be an anonymous platform afaik. Any web server is going to collect IP addresses by default. Even if the server admin doesn’t keep those logs, it’s still possible for the ISP to keep similar logs

If you’re worried about that, you’d be better off using tor or a vpn

johntash,

I never noticed fastmail has this, probably because I don’t use the webmail interface as often. Thanks for the tip!

johntash,

Most desktop ups are more meant to give you time for the machine to shut down (hopefully automatically) vs actually running them for n extended period of time.

Do you have anything that would still be using the server when the power is out?

It’s not really answering your question, but are solar panels or a backup generator possible in your area? A long power outage like that everyday would be really annoying

johntash,

I’ve had better experiences with rclone mount vs s3fs, but the experience isn’t great. It’s not a posix filesystem so stuff like file locking won’t work. Which makes it dangerous to run databases (incl SQLite) on top of.

Rclone has options to enable a local cache as well. It helps with performance, but I haven’t tested the performance too much yet.

johntash,

I haven’t used it personally, but there is a discord matrix bridge. You wouldn’t get some of the fancy features like voice, but it might be alright for text only.

Unless you can convince the server mods to bridge directly, you’d probably want a puppet bridge.

matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/

johntash,

I wouldn’t recommend a normal bridged room, just a puppet bridge. So it’d basically be the bridge using your own account and pretending to be a real client, not trying to bridge a matrix room with a discord channel.

Puppet bridges are kind of like bitlbee if youre familiar with it, but for matrix

What do you use for home lab project management?

since the weather is going to start getting colder, i’ve been looking ahead and trying to plan out some projects that i want to work on over the winter. mostly, network service projects, ai server build, home assistant stuff, various 3d printer projects, etc. and i’m looking for a way to keep all the notes and files in a...

johntash,

Kanboard is pretty good, but doesn’t use git for storage.

Something like wiki.js or Dokuwiki might work, wiki.js uses git and Dokuwiki uses plaintext files.

If you’re using nextcloud already, Nextcloud Deck is pretty basic but works alright if you want a simple kanban board .

BookStack is also great for a wiki, but doesn’t use git.

Obsidian is really popular right now too and uses plain markdown files that you could manage with git

johntash,

Is getting a phone from work specifically for work an option? It’s always a pretty bad idea imo to mix work and personal stuff on the same device

johntash,

And I know OP mentioned not using much ram, but almost everytime I see a server load that high, it’s usually because the server is swapping heavily causing the iowait.

johntash,

An underwater or even underground factorio would be awesome. Maybe a future mod or expansion? I’d imagine a lot of the engine work will make those types of things easier too.

johntash,

Do you bridge your sms from your actual phone number or did you have to set up a new VoIP number or something like that?

johntash,

Thanks for that. I didn’t realize those bridges even existed! Did you try mautrix-gmessages at all? It looks like it supports mms and rcs and is actively developed.

I need to set up a new matrix server but I’ll probably give those a try too.

Having a pine phone would be pretty cool to have things like that to mess with.

johntash,

In case you or OP uses nextcloud, the nextcloud mobile app has the option to backup contacts automatically too

johntash,

I’m really interested to see what you end up picking. I’m going through another phase of “find a new note taking tool” too. I can give you a few recommendations to try:

  • Obsidian is great on desktop, and okay on mobile. But it’s really slow sometimes to open so not great for quick notes. I have a Tasker task/shortcut on my home screen that prompts me for a quick note and saves it to a md file in the vault directory without ever opening the obsidian app. Sync also isn’t free unless you use a 3rd party plugin. There’s a ton of plugins and some seem great, but there’s no real built in security to protect you from malicious plugins afaik.
  • Joplin is okay, it has a great web clipper browser plugin. Syncing (at least over webdav) is painfully slow and doesn’t happen in the background. The UI UX is pretty clunky but has been getting improved. Exporting from Joplin to markdown is annoying and not in a format usable by other tools. I ended up writing a script that uses the Joplin rest API to export all my notes with correct file names, frontmatter, etc. Otherwise they’re random uuids and the metadata is at the bottom of the file.
  • Standard Notes seems alright so far. I’m pretty sure it’s still electron, but hasn’t felt too slow to me. It’s the only app I’ve tried that has true end to end encryption where the notes are encrypted locally on your devices, not just in transit. Self hosting the sync server still requires a paid subscription to unlock most of the features like uploading files or using any note type other than plain text.
  • logseq scratches the emacs org mode itch, but doesn’t have a mobile app out yet. It’s an outliner by default too. I haven’t used it much but it seems like it gets as much attention as obsidian does.
  • JTX Board, kind of a weird one but it’s mobile only and uses caldav to create notes using the VJOURNAL format. I’m testing it with nextcloud. The app is pretty fast and usable offline so great for quick notes. It does have a lot of limitations though like not really being able to add large images or attachments. I also haven’t found a good desktop or web app that uses the VJOURNAL standard.
  • TiddlyWiki - I really want to like it, it works offline and has several different methods of syncing changes. I haven’t been able to get a good mobile syncing experience though, and it doesn’t have a dedicated mobile app.

I juggle a lot of different note apps because I’m still looking for “the one”, so always interested in seeing other’s opinions!

johntash,

Kanboard is currently my choice. You can install a couple plugins to make it look more modern and combine boards but it has almost all the features I wanted.

johntash,

What’s a kiwifarm?

johntash,

Ohh, thanks for the info! I thought maybe it was a jab at NZ but figured it couldn’t be that. I had no idea they exist, but will avoid them

johntash,

SR3 and SR4 were both great. I think SR3 only had the super power stuff from a dlc though? They both have some unique quests that I really enjoyed.

johntash,

The genki side missions were great. I just remember going into SR3 not expecting a lot and then ended up finishing the game (rare for me) and actually enjoyed it a lot.

I don’t think I ever finished one of the GTA games, I usually got bored fairly quickly.

johntash,

Don’t worry, for an extra $5/mo you an get 50 pages of paper that automatically disintegrates after one month

johntash,

I’m not an expert and it’s definitely possible they’re shit, but I remember doing research for buying new smoke detectors and finding out about all the different types of them. Like some don’t even care about smoke, they only care about heat. And others use different methods of detecting smoke that can be better for different types of fires (kitchen grease fire vs electrical fire).

Anyway I had no idea there was more than one type, I feel like that should also be made more obvious when buying new ones.

We should have something like federated communities

Communities on different instances about the same topic should have the option to essentially federate so a post on one appears on all of them and opening any of them shows you the comments from all of them. This way when lemmy.world is down its not a big deal because posting to any news community federates to all of the...

johntash,

Wouldn’t a multilemmy still run into an issue where duplicate posts or cross posts show up multiple times in a feed?

johntash,

How are you liking the tasks app? I haven’t used it much but I was trying the Deck app for a while as a Trello replacement but found it too basic. I was wondering if the regular tasks app was missing any useful features too.

johntash,

A relatively new addition for me is the Memories app. It does some object recognition on photos and makes it easier to search through your own photos. I think Immich might be better but memories is integrated in nextcloud.

johntash,

I was looking at tasks.org and it seems pretty nice. I think I have two types of tasks usually. Some are more project oriented and fit better with a trello style kanban board, but I also have simpler ones like grocery lists, bill reminders, etc. I use remember the milk for that currently, but I’ll probably try switching.

I was also looking at etesync recently for caldav/cardav but I kind of like the idea of it being integrated into nextcloud better.

johntash,

How does the server know who to deliver a message to if the metadata is encrypted?

johntash,

I don’t have a guide or a lot of real experience with it, but is there anything in particular you’re running into issues with?

johntash,

I’m sorry!

Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! (hay-kot.github.io)

Homebox is the inventory and organization system built for the Home User! With a focus on simplicity and ease of use, Homebox is the perfect solution for your home inventory, organization, and management needs. While developing this project I’ve tried to keep the following principles in mind:...

johntash,

Thanks for your feedback! I was going to try this out but your comment makes me want to give them some more time. Ive been waiting for a long time so I don’t mind giving it some more time to cook.

At the moment I’m in the middle of mixing Netbox and snipeit, so maybe by the time I get frustrated with both of them, homebox will be in a better state.

johntash,

How far into the game did you get? I know it took me a couple tries to actually get hooked, but that involved doing a good portion of the tutorial island multiple times

johntash,

Restic, kopia, and Borg are all pretty good backup tools with deduplication built in, so they might be a good option if you’re doing this for backup purposes?

johntash,

Self documenting, eh? I may be familiar with the same process.

johntash,

I’m not very good at deciding on where to document things, so I have a mix of BookStack, Dokuwiki, and Obsidian currently.

I really like Dokuwiki but I like the UI/UX of BookStack better so I’m working on a plugin to sync bookstack and obsidian. I’ll probably get rid of Dokuwiki after that.

The main reason for syncing with obsidian is that I want documentation that isn’t stored on the thing it’s about, in case my servers completely die.

In another thread, someone reminded me that TiddlyWiki still exists, it’s also a pretty cool little tool.

johntash,

Ghost is pretty simple, and might be worth looking at. I have a couple sites that I use ghost to manage the content and then a script that wgets the rendered site and uploads it as a static site.

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