We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.
With all the deserving credits to the late and great Terry Pratchett.
Science doesn't make value judgements. Science doesn't tell you what's good and what's bad in the sense that it makes no moral judgement.
So whenever someone says "X is morally bad, because science says so", they either don't understand science or they have some agenda.
Science explains the world, but doesn't give instructions on what to do with that information. The decision what to do with it will be necessarily have to be based on something other than science.
Well. it has to be based on some value system and science doesn't provide one.
I for one think that human life has some value and so does freedom to choose many aspects of your life. but I can't "scientifically" argue why those values are correct.
To be able to make any value judgement at all, one has to have some "non-science input", some subjective choice.
What I'm saying is that basing those values on some fiction is no more or less "correct" than any other choice, because they are fundamentally subjective choices.
That's a silly idea. I can definitely come up with a definition of an immeasurable entity that has no powers, no effects and no way of being detected and call that thing "god". it would be unfalsifiable and thus irrelevant to scientific inquiry, but it wouldn't be "logically inconsistent".
I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m...
Realistically the best bang-for-the-buck is maybe to sell it to some collector and get a new one ;-)
Mostly tongue-in-cheek, though. I don't know if anyone is actually willing to pay for it, but I know some people are quite happy when they find their old Pi 1.
Android does on-device transcription of any Audio source as well in recent versions!
The issue with providing this with open-source software is that it tends to require deep integration into the OS, which needs pretty much the same kinds of APIs that spyware also needs, so they get locked down a lot ...
For example on Android I'm pretty sure that a 3rd party play store app could not provide the same feature without requiring the user to click through some unavoidable, scary sounding warnings from the OS (if at all).
I’m moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I’ve got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more...
I'm far from an expert in HBAs and never used one myself. but it is my understanding that the major advantage is that you're extremely unlikely to get a janky one whereas Sata controllers could be bad (they are often cheaply made non brand products). if they work either one is fine in a hone lab setting.
I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn’t been updated in a while. I haven’t updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes....
I used OpenHab a few years ago and remember it being way more fiddly with very varying integration quality. it didn't help that it was based on OSGi packages (the complex mess that Eclipse IDE is also based on), which I don't much care for.
i only recently starte with HA and found it much easier to use and tweak.
But I also saw some stubbornness by the devs. In my case related to oauth/third party authentication, which they claimed was "enterprise interests trying to corrupt a community project" (I'm paraphrasing) instead of good security practice of centralising the authentication in a homelab.
I don't have a simple guide, but it's probably a good idea to reduce the number of moving parts if you're trying to keep stuff simple. So pick something that has all the features in-one (user management, authentication, authorization, ...). They might not be the best at ever single thing (they almost certainly won't), but doing it all usually means that it's easier to configure and you don't need to wire multiple things together.
I've recently moved from Authelia to Authentik due to some features that I was missing/wishing for, but between those two I'd definitely say Authenlia is easier to get running initially (and you don't need external LDAP for it, as others have mentioned).
You'll probably still need a proxy that can do proxy auth because not all services can do OICD/OAuth2. I'm using Traefik, but heard that Caddy is easier to set up initially (can't compare myself).
Traurig dass man das schon als Erfolg sehen muss, ja.
Aber der Rettung den Weg zu dem bewusstsen Sexarbeiter zu versperren ist auch grottenschlecht.
Was die Priester untereinander (freiwillig) machen ist mir ja im Prinzip ganz egal und nur ein Problem für die Kirche. Aber wen die Scham dann verhindert dass sie jemandem Hilfe zukommen lassen interessiert es mich wieder.
I agree with the learning curve (personally I found it worthwhile, but that's subjective).
But how does ZFS limit easy backup options? IMO it only adds options (like zfs send/receive) but any backup solution that works with any other file systems should work just as well with ZFS (potentially better since you can use snapshots to make sure any backup is internally consistent).
So theoretically if someone has alrady set up their NAS (custom Debian with ZFS root instead of TrueNAS, but shouldn't matter), it sounds like it should be relatively straightforward to migrate all of that into a Proxmox VM, by installing Proxmox "under it", right? Only thing I'd need right now is some SSD for Proxmox itself.
Just throwing out an option, not saying it's the best:
If you are comfortable with Linux (or you want to be come intimately familiar with it), then you can just run your favorite distribution. Running a couple of docker containers can be done on anything easily.
What you're losing is usually the simple configuration GUI and some built-in features such as automatic backups. What you gain is absolute control over everything. That tradeoff is definitely not for everyone, but it's what I picked and I'm quite happy with it.
I just thought that if all storage can easily be "passed through" to a VM then it should in theory be very simple to boot the existing installation in a VM directly.
Regarding the extra storage: sharing disk space between proxmox and my current installation would imply that I have to pass-through "half of a drive" which I don't think works like that. Also, I'm using ZFS for my OS disk and I don't feel comformtable trying to figure out if I can easily resize those partitions without breaking anything ;-)
That's an extremely silly reason not to use a specific tool: Tool A provides an alternative way to do X, but I want to do X with some other tool B (that'll also work with tool A), so I won't be using tool A.
Send/receive may or may not be the right answer for backing up even on ZFS, depending on what exactly you want to achieve. It's really nice when it is what you want, but it's no panacea (and certainly no reason to avoid ZFS, since its use it 100% optional).
Hi, currently I have a almost none backups and I want to change them. I have a PC with Nextcloud on 500gb ssd that I also use for gaming (1tb system drive). Nextcloud would be used to store/sync images, documents, contacts, and calendar from my phone and laptop. I also have an old pc that has 2x 80gb, 120gb, 320gb, and 500gb...
Can second Kopia! The deduplication works like a charm.
I've recently started using Immich (I previously used Google Photos). And since I've backed up a recent Google Takeout archive (unzipped), backing up all of my images in Immich added just a couple hundered megabytes (over ~200GB of images).
Edit: also, don't discount paying for some cloud storage for backups entirely: I never wanted to do that since I wanted to host it myself, but there's multiple reasons to have one of your backup targets be a cloud storage (yes, I know I'm in the selfhosted community):
it's definitely physically seperate
most cloud storage has incredibly reliable storage (which is hard to replicate on most home-storage-budgets)
the cost can be very low even compared to buying disks (I pay 20$/year for 1TB, which can hold all of my valuable data easily, obviously not my "bulk stuff").
One thing that RAID doesn't do is verify the integrity of your data on read. In other words: if you have silent data corruption somewhere you won't notice.
For many use cases that's acceptable, since it doesn't handle often, but personally I don't like it for any kind or achival/backups. That's why I picked ZFS, which stores and verifies checksums even on non-mirrored/non-raid storage. I've added RaidZ2 (similar to RAID 5 with 2 parity disks) on top of it to be able to recover from checksum errors.
These kinds of issues are what drove me to use RaidZ2 (I went over board with using 6-disks): When during resilvering after a broken disk a second disk fails, it'll still keep the data.
Landtagswahlen in Bayern stehen an, und da ich im Ausland verweile lasse ich mir (meine letzten) Wahlunterlagen zuschicken. Ich will ja schließlich meiner Bürgerpflicht nachkommen....
But the only thing causing mind on my doubt is how excessively impulsive and not-in-control-of-himself Enlo often seems. That's the only thing that makes "this is just a serious of very stupid decisions made in the heat of the moment" even somewhat plausible.
Given it's position as a mostly progressive/liberal paper their line on transgender topics is weirdly backwards. And it's not just commenters. It does match the overall atmosphere in the UK in general, but it's extremely jarring when looking at it from the outside.
It seems to be both conscious and coordinate and does fit into the overall climate of the UK in general being quite openly transphobic (yes, that's a generalization, I know).
Just look at some of the crap that J. K. Rowling sprouts which doesn't seem to reduce her darling status.
I'm not going to "debate you bro". Build your own opinion, read the articles I linked, try to find an argument.
Try to find good faith. Then maybe there can be a conversation.
What OP described is exactly how TERFs phrase their fight against trans people in public. I'm not going to engage with those arguments, because they either come from ignorance (which I'm not energetic enough to combat today) or from a place of bad faith "discussions".
I think my position on that was made clear enough by my original post and my reply.
You might have been asking in entirely good faith, but the issue is that this "oh, can you please explain your point of view to me" approach is so extremely frequently presented in bad faith and costs so much energy from those who care about topics like this.
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an external SSD that’d last me a while being plugged into my incredibly simple SBC home server. I’ve done a bit of research but haven’t found much information about USB-connected SSDs and their longevity in terms of 24/7 use....
These can be worked-around by using the "older" usb-storage drive, but that may need to be manually enabled (and leads to bad performance compared to good chips).
Personally I've had to try a couple of USB/SATA adapters until I found one that worked reliably (but that might have just been bad luck), but since then it works flawlessly.
My second RPi is in an Argo Eon case which (given it's designed/advertised as a NAS case for the RPi) is using one of the "good" chips and I've never had an issue with it.
Last but not least: if you don't need massive storage space, then I'd argue against spinning rust: they are more prone to failure, usually require more power and may even cause undesired noise. So if you don't need >= 1TB, go with an SSD, they are cheap as dirt.
Good on you to finally get into it, I switched to something systematic only very recently myself (previously it was "copy important stuff to an external HDD whenever I think of it").
The one thing that I learned (luckily the easy-ish way) is: test your backup. Yes, it's annoying, but since you rarely (ideally never!) will need to restore the backup it's incredibly easy to think that everything in your system is working and it either never having worked properly or it somehow started failing at some point.
A backup solution that has never been tested via a full restore of at least something has to be assumed to be broken.
Which reminds me: I have to set up the cron job to periodically test a percentage of all backed up data.
I decided to use Kopia, btw, but can't really say if that's well-suited for your goals.
Seit April wird mit Baggern das Eis abgetragen, um die Abfahrtsstrecke zu optimieren. Auch Sprengungen wurden vermutlich vorgenommen. Mit einer Anfrage an die Gemeinde Sölden sowie an das Land Tirol will Greenpeace Klarheit schaffen. Anstatt zuzulassen, dass Gletscher in Tirol vernichtet werden, fordert Greenpeace...
Ich finde es traurig dass es nicht mal unsere Polizei hin bekommt in einem solchen, relativ ruhigen Konflikt, professionell zu bleiben von Verhalten und Ton her. Hier wirft niemand mit Steinen auf die Polizeit, keiner beleidigt sie,… und dennoch sind sie nicht in der Lage das ganze ohne Schmerzen und Beleidigungen zu lösen.
Ich bin mir nicht sicher dass diese "Problemfälle" tatsächlich Fehler sind die die zuständigen Stellen mit der angemessenen Stärke zu verhindern versuchen.
Man muss nicht bei der Polizeiausbildung sagen "und der letzten Generation ordentlich den Arm verdrehen!" um solche Ergebnisse zu erreichen.
Es reicht hin und wieder eine Nachforschung zur Gewalt in Amt ein bisschen langsamer als notwendig zu machen, als verantwortliche Person ein bisschen weniger oft nachzufragen was passiert als das bei anderen Themen, bei der Ausbildung vielleicht doch nicht ein extra Kapitel zur Angemessenheit der Gewalt hinzuzufügen sondern das existierende von annodusemal unverändert beizubehalten, ...
Derlei "Verfehlungen" passieren viel zu häufig und durch die Bank in vielen verschiedenen Ländern dass ich schön langsam glaube dass sie zumindest leise geduldet oder sogar gezielt gewünscht sind von ausreichend hoch sitzenden Stellen.
Die Kurzform "ACAB" verliert halt da viele Nuancen, aber wenn der gemeine Bürger keine Professionalität von Polizisten erwarten kann, dann wird's halt immer schwieriger dagegen zu argumentieren.
In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars – basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I’m hosting locally,...
On most consumer level routers the hardware is unlikely to be the restricting factor, but the software could quite possibly not allow that option.
If you could (and are willing to!) flash something like OpenWRT (or DD-WRT, I haven't used either one in a long time) onto it, then you could potentially unlock the full potential of the router.
That's one of the reasons why my essential passwords are in a KeePass file that gets synced to my primary devices. Even if I completely loose access to my servers/accounts/... I will still be able to access them.
My goal is to set up my services so that they can mostly live with limited connectivity. Because either my phone has no internet or my at-home ISP craps its pants, but either one will happen sometime.
So it's more about being able to gracefully resume than "perfect access".
In other words: if something stops syncing or I can't access some specific service that's mostly acceptable to me. What isn't acceptable is if the syncing got into a state that needed intervention to fix or one of my services didn't come back when service is restored.
So in a sense resilience is more important than 100% accessibility.
The small number of exceptions (mostly password saves and other minor bits) I make sure to actively sync to my personal devices so that if my selfhosted stuff goes away I'm not 100% stranded.
So these are people that sell access to (presumably media-filled) existing Plex installations?
That does seem like a problematic thing to do and I understand why Plex wants to shut that down.
But surely their tons of online-integrations and user-account-requirements gives them other tools at their disposal than outright blocking a major VPS provider, that seems insane.
Die EU-Kommission will mehr für Bauern sowie für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen tun – und härter gegen billige Elektroautos made in China vorgehen. Dies kündigte Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen bei ihrer alljährlichen Rede zur Lage der (Europäischen) Union am Mittwoch in Straßburg an.
BYD und SAIC fallen mir erst mal ein (letztere unter dem Markennamen MG). 60% kommt mir etwas viel vor, aber sie sind im Durchschnitt doch spürbar günstiger als vergleichbare Europäische Fahrzeuge.
Mag schon sein, aber diese Werte zu vergleichen ist nicht gerade interessant: Die Preise in lokalen Märkten mit unterschiedlichen Ansprüchen die mit unterschiedlichen Modell-varianten bedient werden werden unterschiedlich sein.
Im Endeffekt scheinen die 60% irgendwoher beschworen zu sein (vermutlich gibt es irgendwo ein einzelnes extremes Beispiel wo das rechnerisch nachvollziehbar ist, aber wirklich "durchschnittlich" oder "markt-relevant" ist es nicht).
Und ich versteh auch nicht warum diese Zahl dann genannt würde, denn auch ein "nur" 25% Preis-Vorteil hat schon immense Auswirkungen auf den Markt, also braucht man nicht 60% fantasieren um was machen zu wollen.
Ob und was man dann macht ist eine andere Frage wo man wieder unterschiedlicher Meinung sein kann, aber man sollte sich mal vorerst über die Tatsachen einig werden, bevor man "Lösungen" diskutiert.
I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services....
An important first step that you can do before any "real" selfhosting is to get your own domain that you control. That way you can more easily switch providers (or start selfhosting) later on without having to distribute the knowledge of your changed email address to all relevant contacts and services.
I'm still using Gmail (lazy and it works), but I've switched fully to using only email addresses on domains that I own.
Every line of code has been audited by all security researchers. The implementation is language agnostic and extremely slim (0 LOC). It runs all the JavaScript I want (none).
I'm not trying to defend Apple, but arguably that's an entirely different system that just happens to be packed into the same UI. It's deeply integrated which I find worrying, but doesn't really mean that if I get a SMS text for security verification that I'm "using iMessage" in any real sense.
I vaguely remember a perk in some expansion book of some Shadowrun edition that was basically "common sense" and ruleswise it meant that once per game session the GM should ask you "are you sure about that" when you're about to do something stupid. That's it. If you go ahead, you go ahead. If you don't realize that they are triggering the perk, you go ahead. If you never do anything stupid (yeah, right), they will never ask.
I tend to give that to my players "for free", but I still love that it's been encoded as a perk that's worth some points at character generation.
Yes, but there's a fine line to draw here as a GM: as a theoretical extreme, if I intervened every time I thought their PC would "definitely know this" or "would never do this", then I start to play the PC more than they do.
Or put differently: that disconnect between player knowledge/actions and PC knowledge/actions is unavoidable to some degree. How much of it is tolerated/expected pretty much depends on your goals/playstile/desires on the group. Some players really care about "playing the PC right" and others really just see them as a puppet to control (in which case they can't "play them wrong").
Religious and superstitious beliefs should not be respected.
We’re in the 21st century, and the vast majority of us still believe in an utterly and obviously fictional creator deity. Plenty of people, even in developed countries with decent educational systems, still believe in ghosts or magic (e.g. voodoo). And I–an atheist and a skeptic–am told I need to respect these patently...
Raspberry Pi 1 B projects?
I have an old Pi hanging around doing nothing. When I originally got it it had the latest Pi OS with desktop loaded and ran like garbage, not surprisingly. So I messed with it headless for a bit, then found RISCOS as an option in Pi imager utility and that is just a neat OS. Fun to play around with for sure. But now I’m...
Are there any good self hosted software that can create subtitles for videos?
All the solutions I’m seeing are some third party service where I would have to upload my videos to them to get them transcribed.
Getting in a pickle over hardware
I’m moderately tech savvy, a little experience with most OS and comfortable with hardware. I’ve got some basic things working in Docker. I want to start self hosting my photo backup, Bitwarden, Jellyfish, Sonarr and Radarr, Pi hole, Home Assistant and replace Dropbox. But the more I dive into the hardware and setup the more...
Any good alternatives to Home Assistant?
I have a self hosted HA deployment that hasn’t been updated in a while. I haven’t updated it partially because they made the boneheaded move of deprecating their YAML config in favor of GUI-only config, and partially because the developers are insufferable dickholes....
Simple guide to self hosted authentication?
I’d like to set up my identity and authentication service for my self hosted applications but it is not a beginner friendly subject....
Priester feiern Sexparty – Polens Kirche in Erklärungsnot (www.t-online.de) German
New to NAS - What are the recommended solutions?
So, I am thinking about getting myself a NAS to host mainly Immich and Plex. Got a couple of questions for the experienced folk;...
How to store backups?
Hi, currently I have a almost none backups and I want to change them. I have a PC with Nextcloud on 500gb ssd that I also use for gaming (1tb system drive). Nextcloud would be used to store/sync images, documents, contacts, and calendar from my phone and laptop. I also have an old pc that has 2x 80gb, 120gb, 320gb, and 500gb...
Briefwahl beantragen - Warum so einfach?
Landtagswahlen in Bayern stehen an, und da ich im Ausland verweile lasse ich mir (meine letzten) Wahlunterlagen zuschicken. Ich will ja schließlich meiner Bürgerpflicht nachkommen....
New wave of Mastodon users thanks to Elon Musk floating around the idea of charging everyone for Twitter (media.tech.lgbt)
[De] Das BMDV in Sachen Auto kompromissbereit wie immer. Da schreibt der Chef gleich selber. Brömm, Brömm... (feddit.de) German
Quelle: social.bund.de/
The Guardian gets a dedicated Europe Edition (lemmy.ml)
Tesla Buys German Railway Line to Host Passenger Trains at Gigafactory (www.trains.com)
Summary:...
Best external SSD for high-uptime use?
I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of an external SSD that’d last me a while being plugged into my incredibly simple SBC home server. I’ve done a bit of research but haven’t found much information about USB-connected SSDs and their longevity in terms of 24/7 use....
Selfhosted backup solution with GUI
I have a confession to make....
Tiroler Gletscher für Ski-Weltcup-Opening in Sölden teilweise zerstört (greenpeace.at) German
Seit April wird mit Baggern das Eis abgetragen, um die Abfahrtsstrecke zu optimieren. Auch Sprengungen wurden vermutlich vorgenommen. Mit einer Anfrage an die Gemeinde Sölden sowie an das Land Tirol will Greenpeace Klarheit schaffen. Anstatt zuzulassen, dass Gletscher in Tirol vernichtet werden, fordert Greenpeace...
[DE] Als Aktivistin vor Schmerz schreit, schreitet Passant ein (www.youtube.com) German
Ich finde es traurig dass es nicht mal unsere Polizei hin bekommt in einem solchen, relativ ruhigen Konflikt, professionell zu bleiben von Verhalten und Ton her. Hier wirft niemand mit Steinen auf die Polizeit, keiner beleidigt sie,… und dennoch sind sie nicht in der Lage das ganze ohne Schmerzen und Beleidigungen zu lösen.
What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down?
In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars – basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I’m hosting locally,...
Plex will be blocking access from at least one VPS provider (imgur.com)
Appears to be Hetzner for now, wouldn’t be surprised if all VPS get affected eventually.
Von der Leyen zur Lage der EU: Billige E-Autos unerwünscht (taz.de) German
Die EU-Kommission will mehr für Bauern sowie für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen tun – und härter gegen billige Elektroautos made in China vorgehen. Dies kündigte Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen bei ihrer alljährlichen Rede zur Lage der (Europäischen) Union am Mittwoch in Straßburg an.
When you have THAT DAY at the office. (lemmy.world)
Feel bad for the atlassian programmers right now.
Have you kept a Google or Outlook email?
I’ve moved almost completely to Proton Mail. I expect I’ll end up keeping a Google or Outlook account, not for use as a primary account, but as a recovery account or to access other services....
I finally created the perfect JavaScript runtime: No-JS
Every line of code has been audited by all security researchers. The implementation is language agnostic and extremely slim (0 LOC). It runs all the JavaScript I want (none).
Report: Apple claims iMessage not big enough to fall under purview of EU ‘gatekeeper’ competition law (9to5mac.com)
It's the only way to be sure (diyrpg.org)