Toribor

joined 1 year ago
[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 5 points 1 year ago

I get that not everything can be free. I'm more than willing to pay for sites and services that have value to me. But companies constantly selling your data, blasting you with advertisements and then having the gall to ask you to pay for the pleasure? It's blatant rent-seeking.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Yes. It doesn't outright kill an instance, but it's definitely a major inconvenience and a learning opportunity.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It's my understanding that this isn't possible. Migrating domains in Lemmy is not supported though it is possible with some very hacky solutions like you're describing. But the old domain needs to be retained indefinitely as a pointer to the new domain or it will break federation with other instances. If they lose control of the domain or can't keep it basically forever then federation will break. They can potentially migrate users and posts, but it is effectively like resetting and starting over as a new instance.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 7 points 1 year ago

Most of the hacky ways around it involve retaining ownership of the old domain and leaving it up indefinitely as a pointer to the new location. If your domain is taken from you though there is not much you can do.

Seriously dumb to have used this TLD considering there are a ton of choices these days.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm now wondering what happens if the Mali government (or someone else) begins using those domains with their own lemmy instance, potentially with malicious content.

Would the instances they've federated with begin ingesting and serving that content automatically? Or would that be blocked due to key mismatch?

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not sure how this would work, but what about the concept of cross-instance communities? For users it would be a bit like a multi-reddit where you group various communities together into one aggregate list but when posting content you'd have to choose which instance it lands on. Mods would have to agree on a set of rules (and you'd have some communities split off due to differences), but otherwise it seems somewhat plausible.

That would be one way to solve the problem of every instance having a version of one specific type of community.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you realize that boomers are the ones who literally made the Internet?

Not the ones that I work with.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 12 points 1 year ago

Emulating Switch games is pretty solid these days too if you have the hardware to run it.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 14 points 1 year ago

A more perfect analogy would be the truck driver handing the other guy the balaclava and watching him put it on in front of him and then take it off again before he left. Not really much more private.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I take it your seedbox is hosted externally and your Plex server is hosted internally on your home network?

You could set up a cron job on your Ubuntu server to run periodically and pull files from your completed downloads folder ~~using scp. You'll want to set up an ssh key for authentication to do this.~~

Edit: I changed my mind about recommending scp for this But yeah you should just do sftp from the terminal on your Ubuntu server using a cron job. Both of these should be fairly manageable with a bit of trial and error.

Stopping the torrent and removing it from your list will depend on what torrent client you're using.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It looks like some sort of issue with pict-rs, the image backend for Lemmy. I haven't paid enough attention to see which instances are having problems.

Does my user image show up? I'm hosting a tiny Lemmy instance just for myself.

[–] Toribor@corndog.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ansible vault. All my config files and scripts are deployed with Ansible. Usually they are pushing those into a file or environment variable but if you scope permissions narrowly and don't run services/containers as root you should be somewhat safe. If someone has filesystem access you're already in big trouble.

Instead I'd focus on keeping your attack surface as small as possible. Keep services behind a VPN or segment public facing services to a separate VLAN or docker network.

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