lemmyvore

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lemmyvore, (edited )

I think you can get a free subdomain and dynamic DNS service at desec.io, with this you should be able to keep the domain updated with your IP and point it at your home server. But you need to have a public IP from your ISP and not to be behind NAT.

Anither option is to use a Tailscale Funnel. You will have to use a .ts.net subdomain with them and they terminate TLS and re-encrypt for you. On the other hand it’s completely free, you get NAT traversal, an encrypted tunnel, and you don’t have to maintain the IP even if it’s dynamic.

lemmyvore,

You can also try starting a Linux game, if you have any, just to figure out if Proton is the issue.

How often do you back up?

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales...

lemmyvore,

I have autocron jobs that sync various server directories to a daily backup (on the same server), then sync that backup once a week to the weekly backup, and once a month take a tarball snapshot of the weekly backup.

Every once in a while I plug in a HDD on USB and take a Borg backup of the monthly dir. Borg does compression and deduplication (and encryption if you want to). I should be doing this also once a week but sometimes I’m lazy and leave a few weeks between them.

lemmyvore,

Se if you can get a DVD or Blu-ray writer and backup stuff to DVD or Blu-ray discs. If you keep the discs in individual jewel cases or in a disc wallet they keep very well.

Self-hosted or personal email solutions?

I have a unique name, think John Doe, and I’m hoping to create a unique and “professional” looking email account like johndoe@gmail.com or john@doe.com. Since my name is common, all reasonable permutations are taken. I was considering purchasing a domain with something unique, then making personal family email accounts for...

lemmyvore, (edited )

And that the bridge is only available on PC – on mobile you must use their proprietary app. And they’re working on launching a proprietary desktop app, after which they’ll have no reason to offer the IMAP bridge anymore.

lemmyvore, (edited )

For anybody interested in more choices for volume-based providers like PurelyMail (with tiers based on storage and emails sent/received but who otherwise allow unlimited domains/mailboxes/aliases) there’s also MXRoute (US) and Migadu (Swiss/EU).

These providers don’t usually make sense for a single mailbox (although some of them have a low entry tier for this purpose) but can be extremely cost-efficient if you need 2 or more mailboxes/domains.

lemmyvore,

GoDaddy is notorious for terrible service and NameCheap has started doing some shady stuff too lately. Luckily there are other decent registrars out there. I can recommend Netim.com or INWX.de in the EU – they also provide EU-specific TLDs which American registrars don’t.

If you need more than one mailbox you can’t beat the offers from providers like PurelyMail/MXRoute/Migadu, where you pay for the storage instead of per-mailbox. I’m using Migadu because, again, they work under EU/Swiss privacy laws.

Here are some more providers if you’re interested in taking advantage of EU privacy: european-alternatives.eu/…/email-providers

You do not need to spin up your own mail service and should not. Email and DNS hosting are the most abuse-prone and easy to mess up services; always go to an established provider for these.

Are there concerns tying my accounts to a service that might go under or are some “too big to fail”?

Look into their history. Generally speaking a provider that’s been around for a decade or more probably won’t dissapear overnight; they probably have a sustainable income model and have been around the block.

That being said nothing saves even long-established providers from being acquired. This happened for example to a French service (Gandi) with over 20 years of history.

The only answer to that is to pick providers that don’t lock you into proprietary technologies and offer standard services like IMAP, and also to keep your domain+DNS and your email providers separate. This way if the email service starts hiking prices or does anything funny you can copy your email, switch your domain(s), and be with another provider the very next day.

lemmyvore,

I’ve had providers being acquired from under me several times over the last couple decades. They usually get worse after that; new owners typically want to squeeze the customers not to improve quality. That’s why I won’t use (anymore) any email service that’s not easy to migrate away from.

To achieve a reasonable level of email independence you need IMAP access, you need to use your own domain, and you need to keep your DNS service separate from the email provider.

lemmyvore,

A general reduction in service quality, increasing domain prices (double check your renewals) and there are reports of domain name sniping (where they grab names that people are looking up).

lemmyvore,

As if a scammer can’t get a Gmail address. 😄 What does that even prove?

lemmyvore,

I have a bunch of users (friends and family) on a bunch of different domains. It’s honestly not so bad but yeah, you need a decent dedicated service.

Migrations aren’t simple but aren’t that complicated either (just did one last year).

I mainly need to copy their email over but it’s also a good moment to check they’re using decent passwords and to have them freshen it.

I also need to update their webmail and IMAP/SMTP URLs in their bookmark/email apps but I’ve been playing with DNS CNAMEs for this purpose and it’s mostly working ok (aliasing one of my domains to the provider’s so I only have to update the DNS which I do anyway for a mail migration).

lemmyvore, (edited )

Yeah the Proton hype has got a bit out of hand lately. Proton started out with good intentions but I don’t think people realize it’s a Swiss startup with a marked interest in making it big, and being acquired by an investment fund is one of the classic exit strategies for startup owners.

All it takes is discontinuing the IMAP bridge and suddenly a large portion of their user base is completely captive. I hope I’m wrong but there may be a big sentiment reversal later this year.

lemmyvore,

Wait, does this mean you’re giving Gmail the password for the other mailbox?

lemmyvore,

In addition to the above, most of the percieved advantages of CF are non-existent on the free tier that most people use. Their “DDoS protection” just means they’ll drop your tunnel like a hot potato, and their “attack mitigation” on the free tier is a low-effort web app firewall (WAF) that you can replace with a much better and fully customizable self-hosted version.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Any stories you’ve heard about websites enabling CF to survive DDoS were not on the free tier, guaranteed.

Please re-read the description for the free tier. Here’s what “DDoS protection” means on free tier:

Customers are not charged for attack traffic ever, period. There’s no penalty for spikes due to attack traffic, requiring no chargeback by the customer.

Will they use some of their capacity to minimize the DDoS effects for their infrastructure? Sure, I mean they have to whether they like or not, since the DNS points at their servers. But will they keep the website going for Joe Freeloader? Don’t count on that. The terms are carefully worded to avoid promising anything of the sort.

lemmyvore,

By default a container runs with network, storage and resources isolated from the host. What about this isolation is not “proper”?

lemmyvore,

I still don’t understand why you think containers aren’t adequate.

Say you break into a container, how would you break out?

lemmyvore,

You don’t design security solutions on the premise that they’re not working.

lemmyvore,

If they can find a kernel exploit they might find a hardware exploit too. There’s no rational reason to assume containers are more likely to fail than VMs, just bias.

Oh and you can fix a kernel exploit with an update, good luck fixing a hardware exploit.

Now you’re probably going to tell me how a hardware exploit is so unlikely but since we’re playing make believe I can make it as likely it suits my argument, right?

lemmyvore, (edited )

I think it should be fairly trivial to do with Python and a calendar library, you’d just have to go through the input entries, keep the ones with the properties you like and dump those to the output.

I’m not well versed in Python either but I had a specific calendar problem once — had to clear a calendar storage that went back years and the provider’s UI didn’t let you delete the base calendar — and after looking it up it was a few lines of Python.

That’s probably why you don’t find established tools because every person who runs into this stuff has a super specific need.

lemmyvore, (edited )

There are people for whom 2 weeks is too old, don’t mind them.

Ironically it’s also this type of user that tends to get in over their head with rolling bleeding distros and destroy their system. 😄

I tend to think about it as the “wild” years, it’s a time in a PC enthusiast’s life when they want to experiment with lots of stuff and only the most fresh will do. But there are lots of people who appreciate a bit of stability more.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Docker has an apt repo. You can add it to your Debian/Ubuntu and install and update packages normally. No need to use a script install.

docs.docker.com/engine/install/ubuntu/

lemmyvore,

So this board allows you to remotely control the PC you put it in?

Is there a reverse project, that allows a PC to act as a PiKVM for another PC or laptop so they can be controlled remotely?

lemmyvore,

I was thinking more about the basics, like USB input and getting the image+sound. For that you could get away with a special USB cable and a capture card. I’m just not aware of any software for it, I don’t think the original PiKVM stuff was ever ported to PC.

lemmyvore, (edited )

Of course it can. And your PC can also fall off the desk. I’m saying a snapshot tool is a really poor solution for distro problems, it’s really a bandaid for a problem that shouldn’t exist.

Use a decent distro, take proper backups, and use snapshots for what they were intended — recovering small mistakes with personal files, not for system maintenance.

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