TedZanzibar

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[–] TedZanzibar 15 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn't that exactly why so many of these company and app names have missing vowels? Because they can't trademark a word but they can trademark a collection of letters that sounds like a word when spoken aloud. It's really dumb.

[–] TedZanzibar 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Grabbed one of these on Thursday and it's arriving tomorrow. Just ever O slightly excited.

[–] TedZanzibar 9 points 1 week ago

I literally lolled at this lol

[–] TedZanzibar 72 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I like the idea of open worlds much more than I like the reality. With a full time job, kids, and a completionist mindset I just don't have the time or mental stamina to spend 100+ hours doing side quests and revealing every inch of the map. Not to mention reading all of that dialog and lore.

Give me a corridor with a tight, focused story over a sprawling open world any day of the week. Coincidentally Bioshock was awesome.

[–] TedZanzibar 4 points 1 week ago

Man I'd forgotten about that film but I also really enjoyed it. It was fully self aware and made no attempt to take itself seriously, and if you're in the right mindset for that then it's a great time.

Might have to watch it again.

[–] TedZanzibar 1 points 2 weeks ago

If it doesn't have an arrow then the correct side is denoted by whether the fuel icon itself has the hose on the left or right.

[–] TedZanzibar 1 points 2 weeks ago

Also the first thing that popped into my head. I know EVA was just a voice but teenaged me had the hots for her.

[–] TedZanzibar 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

I had no idea that people struggled with this so much and have come up with such crazy (to me) ways of figuring it out.

Most of the world, if asked to write down numbers 1-100 on a line, would do so left to right. The < and > symbols are arrows pointing left and right. To the left the numbers decrease (less than) and to the right the numbers increase (greater than).

All this stuff about crocodiles and ducks seems like such a bizarre way to remember it!

Edit: thanks for the comments, it's fascinating to get an insight on how differently people's brains work. Something that seems like such an obvious concept is just as baffling to others as the crocodile is for me.

To attempt to explain it better though: Say the number you're comparing to is 50. If x is less than that, say 30, then it would appear to the left of 50 in the list and the arrow would point that way <--. If it's greater than 50 then it would be to the right -->

[–] TedZanzibar 5 points 4 weeks ago

Nice! Been holding off on HA voice stuff, waiting for a more plug and play solution, so I've been watching this pretty closely. Managed to get one ordered before they (presumably) go out of stock in the UK. Hoping it arrives soon so I can tinker during the break!

[–] TedZanzibar 39 points 4 weeks ago

I dunno how it is in the US, but in the UK cats are considered "free spirits" and therefore their owners can't be held accountable for the cat's actions.

Jon can breathe easy.

[–] TedZanzibar 8 points 1 month ago

Pedant, but the pressure difference between 1 atmosphere and zero isn't all that great, so explosive decompression wouldn't happen even in the worst case scenario. Rapid yes, explosive no.

To be explosive you need something like the Byford Dolphin diving bell incident, which was 9 atmospheres to 1 in a fraction of a second.

[–] TedZanzibar 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Third Plex. It's a bit baffling as to why it's got such a bad rep recently because it performs its core function of serving media incredibly well, is super easy (barely an inconvenience) to setup, and there's apps for every conceivable platform.

Yes there's a few features locked behind a subscription (though they still sell lifetime passes, often at good discounts) and they're trying to "legitimize" with their ad-backed streaming thing, but the core product of local media server is still very much there, and free, and isn't going anywhere.

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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by TedZanzibar to c/smarthomes
 

We have a bunch of shutters in our living room that don't have any kind of remote control, nor a rod to operate them - you just move any of the individual slats and the rest follow suit.

Is there anything out there that could make these smart? I'm really struggling to find the right terms to search for.

Update: Turns out they are plantation blinds which has helped me to find the sort of thing I'm after. Cheers, Emperor!

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by TedZanzibar to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Quick overview of my setup: Synology NAS running a whole bunch of Docker containers and a couple of full blown VMs, and an N100 based mini PC running Ubuntu Server for those containers that benefit from hardware acceleration.

On the NAS I have a Linux Mint VM that I use for various desktoppy things, but performance via RDP or NoMachine and so on is just bad. I think it's ultimately due to the lack of acceleration, so I'd like to try running it from the mini PC instead but I'm struggling to find hypervisor options.

VirtualBox can be done headless, apparently, but the package installed via Apt wants to install X/Wayland and the entire desktop experience. LXC looks like it might be a viable option with its web frontend but it appears to be conflicting with Docker atm and won't run the setup.

Another option is to redo the machine with UnRaid or TrueNAS Scale but as they're designed to be full fledged NAS OSes I don't love that idea.

So what would you do? Does anyone have a similar setup with advice?

Thanks all!

Edit: Thanks for everyone's comments. I still can't get LXC to work, which is a shame because it has a nice web frontend, so I'll give KVM a go as my next option. Failing that I might well backup my Docker volumes, blat the whole thing and see what Proxmox can do.

Edit 2: Webtop looks to be exactly what I was looking for. Thanks again for everyone's help and suggestions.

 

Hey all,

I have a DS1821+ at home and have just bought a DS723+ with suitably sized disks and an equivalent amount of RAM to store at my parents' house as a complete off-site backup. What I'd really like (and the reason for buying the extra RAM) is a drop-in replacement in case of full failure of the 1821. Ie. Drive to my parents', grab the 723, take it home, plug it in and away we go.

I'm thinking the best way to achieve this would be through a combination of HyperBackup for backing up just the apps (most importantly Docker), and Snapshot Replication for everything else. Does that sound accurate or is there something I'm missing?

Cheers everyone!

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by TedZanzibar to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

Specifically from the standpoint of protecting against common and not-so-common exploits.

I understand the concept of a reverse proxy and how works on the surface level, but do any of the common recommendations (npm, caddy, traefik) actually do anything worthwhile to protect against exploit probes and/or active attacks?

Npm has a "block common exploits" option but I can't find anything about what that actually does, caddy has a module to add crowdsec support which looks like it could be promising but I haven't wrapped my head around it yet, and traefik looks like a massive pain to get going in the first place!

Meanwhile Bunkerweb actually looks like it's been built with robust protections out of the box, but seems like it's just as complicated as traefik to setup, and DNS based Let's Encrypt requires a pro subscription so that's a no-go for me anyway.

Would love to hear people's thoughts on the matter and what you're doing to adequately secure your setup.

Edit: Thanks for all of your informative replies, everyone. I read them all and replied to as many as I could! In the end I've managed to get npm working with crowdsec, and once I get cloudflare to include the source IP with the requests I think I'll be happy enough with that solution.

 

Some sort of goals against streak, no more than 2 or possibly 3?Also unclear as to whether that's a franchise or NHL record?

 

... Due to past performance post mid-season, but look at those standings! Even if Boston or New York catch up in points we'll still be on top.

Anyway, just sending some hockey love from a UK Jets fan.

 

I work in tech and am constantly finding solutions to problems, often on other people's tech blogs, that I think "I should write that down somewhere" and, well, I want to actually start doing that, but I don't want to pay someone else to host it.

I have a Synology NAS, a sweet domain name, and familiarity with both Docker and Cloudflare tunnels. Would I be opening myself up to a world of hurt if I hosted a publicly available website on my NAS using [insert simple blogging platform], in a Docker container and behind some sort of Cloudflare protection?

In theory that's enough levels of protection and isolation but I don't know enough about it to not be paranoid about everything getting popped and providing access to the wider NAS as a whole.

Update: Thanks for the replies, everyone, they've been really helpful and somewhat reassuring. I think I'm going to have a look at Github and Cloudflare's pages as my first port of call for my needs.

 

Hey there, my local instance has had two admin posts pinned for the last 6 months-ish and they show right at the top of my Subscribed, Local, and All views. I can't imagine they're going to get un-pinned any time soon, so it would be great to get a feature where we can hide them.

Thanks for the consideration!

 
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