@movq@www.uninformativ.de I do wonder that sometimes, but I try to take notes if I’m doing something complicated. Just a few lines in a text file with some context plus the command I used. ffmpeg.txt comes in very handy.

It’s 500. I never changed it, so that’s the default of either Bash or my distro. It’s fine for me.

@bender@twtxt.net That’s what I suspected. I compared the text, including the alt text for the image. I guess I didn’t read it carefully enough.

No worries @aelaraji@aelaraji.com, it happens to the best of us.

Why are there two threads for the same post? #2hhvp2a #kz5qjza

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’m definitely putting that in the list. I like tmux but I just can’t wrap my head around the controls. This looks more like a tiling window manager.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Is that a terminal multiplexer? If so, which one? I suspect it says at the top but I can’t quite read the text.

@bender@twtxt.net Fair point… :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Planning it ahead of time is all well and good if you have the money to buy 6 or 8 hard drives at once. I really don’t, and I want to mirror the whole thing offsite anyway. Mergerfs will let me do it now, and I’ll buy a drive each for SnapRAID in short order.

QOTD: Have you ever suffered significant data loss? If so, what went wrong?

@bender@twtxt.net Ha, we both looked it up at once. You win.

@bender@twtxt.net Synology uses single-volume Btrfs on software RAID, which seems to be pretty solid in my research but that’s less flexible than ZFS. https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS

@bender@twtxt.net Exactly. It’s just not an option with warnings like that all over the place. Some people have had success, but I’m not risking it. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@hungrycats.org/

@prologic@twtxt.net ZFS is fine but it’s out-of-tree and extremely inflexible. If Btrfs RAID5/6 was reliable it would be fantastic. Add and remove drives at will, mix different sizes. I hear it’s mostly okay as long as you mirror the metadata (RAID1), scrub frequently, and don’t hammer it with too many random reads and writes. However, there are serious performance penalties when running scrubs on the full array and random reads and writes are the entire purpose of a filesystem.

Bcachefs has similar features (but not all of them, like sending/receiving) and it doesn’t have the giant scary warnings in the documentation. I hear it’s kind of slow and it was only merged into the kernel in version 6.7. I wouldn’t really trust it with my data.

I bought a couple more hard drives recently and I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to allocate them before badblocks completes. I have a few days to decide. :)

@bender@twtxt.net There’s stagit which generates static HTML files

@prologic@twtxt.net I remember running yarnd for testing on a couple of different occasions and both times I found all the required command line options to be annoying. If I remember correctly, running it with missing options would only tell you the first one that was missing and you’d have to keep running it and adding that option before it would work.

This was a couple of years ago, so I don’t know if anything’s changed since then. It’s really not a big problem, because it would be run with some kind of preset command line (systemd service, container entrypoint) in a production environment.

@bender@twtxt.net I avoid install scripts like the plague. This isn’t Windows and they’re usually poorly written. I think it’s better to prioritize native packages (or at least AUR, MPR, etc) and container images.

@prologic@twtxt.net That’s good advice. I don’t open any ports to the Internet if I can possibly avoid it. Everything is on Wireguard, even stuff that doesn’t really need to be. It’s super easy to set up on other people’s computers, too. Even on Windows.

@prologic@twtxt.net Both are very nice in my opinion. I don’t think you could make a mistake with either, at least when it comes to looks.

@prologic@twtxt.net I think this would be solved in the short to mid-term by fixing the mute function. Or, maybe, adding a “Hide this user from Discover” button.

@prologic@twtxt.net Picnic CSS is my favorite one on first glance.

@prologic@twtxt.net Are they changing unique IDs? I hate when people do that. If I ever do that with any of my feeds, feel free to mock me relentlessly.

@bender@twtxt.net Makes sense. We definitely need the ability to mute feeds from the Discover feed.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I remember your solution. It’s very simple, I like it.

Yes, my backup target is my home server. I have a hard drive dedicated to Restic repositories. It’s still not a real backup as I don’t have anything offsite but it’s better than my previous solution. I had two very old hard drives I kept plugged in to my desktop PC and I would (on very rare occasion) plug in another hard drive and copy all the files over to it. Luckily, I’ve never suffered any significant data loss and I would rather not start now. Once I have automated backups on each of my machines, the next project is getting those backups offsite.

@prologic@twtxt.net I think one-way feeds are okay and we shouldn’t discourage them so strongly. On the other hand, I think it’s the duty of a poderator to filter out feeds that are just noise from the Discover feed. I definitely consider a truckload of one-way posts mostly in another language to be noise. Did you get rid of Gopher Chat too? I’d call that noise, for sure.

@bender@twtxt.net Standard twtxt is a microblog in its purest form. A blog, but smaller. It’s just a list of posts to read, and that’s an echochamber in the same way my regular blog is an echochamber. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that.

@prologic@twtxt.net I support the delisting of ciberlandia.pt in the Discover feed due to the sheer volume of posts from there and the fact that most of them are in Portuguese with this being a predominantly English-language pod.

@prologic@twtxt.net Why do we need to avoid posting to the void? That’s pretty much what twtxt was made for. I don’t like the “Legacy feed” terminology, either. I support the delisting of ciberlandia.pt but I think this change is heading in a bad direction.

I like @sorenpeter@darch.dk ’s suggestion. It gives the users the information and lets them make their own decision instead of putting a big scary warning in their face. That’s what Microsoft does, and we shouldn’t be Microsoft.

@prologic@twtxt.net How do you manage multiple remotes? Do you just run restic backup for each one?

I wish there was a good GUI for Restic so I could have non-technical people using the same thing I do.

QOTD: How do you back up your files?

I asked this one almost a year ago and I started using Restic shortly after that. When I started, I was only backing up my home folder to the repository over NFS. Now, I’m backing up the entire root filesystem to a repository using the REST backend so I can run Restic as root without breaking the permissions.

I’m working on automating it now and I’m trying to come up with something using pinentry but my proof-of-concept is getting pretty obtuse. It will be spread out in a shell script, of course, but still.

systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch restic --password-command='su -c "printf '"'"'GETPIN\n\'"'"' | WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 pinentry-qt5 | grep ^D | sed '"'"'s/^D //'"'"'" mckinley' --repository-file /root/restic-repo backup --exclude-file /root/restic-excludes --exclude-caches --one-file-system /

I’m curious to see how everyone’s backup solutions have changed since last year.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’ve never had a use for Syncthing but I hope I get one at some point so I can see how it works. Do three-way merges work on Keepass database files?

I use KeePassXC because I really only use one device. I imagine it would be challenging to rsync the database around if I needed my passwords on more machines. It’s probably fine if you’re deliberate enough, but I don’t think it would take long before I’d lose a password by editing an outdated version of the repository and overwriting the main copy.

I like the simple architecture of Pass, and it would indeed lend itself well to a Git repository, but I don’t like that service names are visible on the filesystem. pass-tomb might mitigate this somewhat but it seems messy and I don’t know if it would work with Git without compromising the security of the tomb.

What’s so good about Bitwarden? Everyone seems to love it. I like that it can be self-hosted. I certainly wouldn’t want a third party in control of my password database.

@prologic@twtxt.net This seems like it would drive a wedge between Yarn.social and the people on regular old twtxt.

@prologic@twtxt.net I use LocalMonero (onion) to buy Monero with cash sent by mail. You can sell on there if you want to convert back to fiat. People also like Bisq, which is peer-to-peer software for buying and selling cryptocurrency.

To accept Monero, all you need is a wallet program. I recommend Feather Wallet. Create your wallet in there, then you’ll copy the wallet files into monero-wallet-rpc for use with MoneroPay, see docker-compose.yaml.

@prologic@twtxt.net Is it really banned? I thought the regulators just pressured the centralized exchanges to delist privacy coins without actually banning them outright.

@prologic@twtxt.net I concur. This little community of ours is here because of you, and I’m very grateful for that. :)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de It’s very useful. I always start my music player in a tmux session so I can SSH in, attach it, and control the music from another computer. It’s also handy for letting long-running tasks on a remote machine continue in the background even if the SSH connection is broken.

@prologic@twtxt.net Monero has stayed a little more stable than Bitcoin but it’s still a cryptocurrency and it’s still going to fluctuate quite a bit. It also uses proof-of-work algorithm so it still consumes quite a bit of electricity. I think the value of being able to send any amount of money, any time of the day, to anyone on the planet in 20 minutes (appears in 2 minutes, spendable in 20) completely privately with near-zero transaction fees exceeds the drawbacks.

Unfortunately, the characteristics that make it useful as a global currency for day-to-day transactions also make it useful for people doing illicit things. Many exchanges, fearing regulatory action, won’t accept Monero for the same reason they won’t accept Bitcoin from a mixer.

Monero shouldn’t be banned just because people use it for bad things. It’s just a tool and it can be used for good or evil. It’s the same reason countries use when they ban or restrict Tor usage.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m in if you accept XMR

Actually, kyun.host might offer container hosting at some point.

On-demand Linux containers.
Run almost anything, without having to touch the command line.
Coming Soon

https://kyun.host/services

@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds great. The only other container-level hosting service I’ve heard of is PikaPods which seems much more managed than cas.run would be. It has customizable tier-based pricing and the minimum specs are ¼ of a CPU core, 256 MB of memory, and “about 100 MB” of storage for $1/mo which seems awfully steep compared to a low-cost VPS. I don’t know if PikaPods offers an IPv4 reverse proxy or not.

Monero uses cryptography to make transactions anonymous and the coins completely fungible. With most cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, the transactions associated with an address are public and you can trace those coins all the way back to their origin. This means that not all coins are the same. For example, some exchanges won’t accept Bitcoin that comes from a mixer because they assume you’re doing something untoward.

With Monero, it’s not possible to trace any transactions with just an address. People can’t see what you’re spending your money on or where your coins came from. Transaction fees using Monero are also very small. It’s less than the equivalent of 1 cent in USD.

Minuscule transaction fees and anonymity make it the best choice in my opinion for buying goods and services online. Monero is much more like “digital cash” than Bitcoin, which I think is better described as “digital gold”.

@prologic@twtxt.net I might have mentioned this already but you might want to look into MoneroPay for payment processing when you get to that point with cas.run. It’s a completely self-hosted backend service for receiving and tracking Monero payments and it’s written in Go.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You could always keep it running in a detached tmux session and attach it when you see the spike. Processes that were recently using the netwotk stay in the list for 10 or 15 seconds after they’re finished so you don’t have to catch it in the act.

@prologic@twtxt.net $0.15 sounds great but you need to make money doing this. Is it still going to be use-based pricing or will there be tiers like conventional VPS providers?

You could get better value for money with a super cheap VPS without IPv4 connectivity but it wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t need the extra resources as a VPS wouldn’t be practical with such low specs. It would also require significantly more effort on the part of the operator.

I would understand paying a small premium for using the lowest-cost tier, convenience, and especially if you operated a reverse proxy with IPv4 connectivity.

@prologic@twtxt.net $0.50/month seems reasonable. Is this for cas.run?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I use nethogs for this sort of thing: https://github.com/raboof/nethogs

@prologic@twtxt.net What is an mCore? 1/1000th of a core?

@prologic@twtxt.net Plexamp has some really cool features. It’s a shame it’s proprietary and dependent on central services.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Interesting. mpd + ncmpcpp seems to be a common setup among our type but I really like cmus. Whipper is my CD ripper of choice and it is excellent. It queries AccurateRip for checksums and MusicBrainz for metadata, and can encode to any format you want. It also creates a nice log file like EAC does (it can even create EAC-compatible logs with a plugin) so you can verify that it was ripped properly.