@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. Itâs very simple, I like it.
Yes, my backup target is my home server. I have a hard drive dedicated to Restic repositories. Itâs still not a real backup as I donât have anything offsite but itâs 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, Iâve 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 shouldnât discourage them so strongly. On the other hand, I think itâs 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? Iâd call that noise, for sure.
@bender@twtxt.net Standard twtxt is a microblog in its purest form. A blog, but smaller. Itâs just a list of posts to read, and thatâs an echochamber in the same way my regular blog is an echochamber. I donât think thereâs 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? Thatâs pretty much what twtxt was made for. I donât like the âLegacy feedâ 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 âs suggestion. It gives the users the information and lets them make their own decision instead of putting a big scary warning in their face. Thatâs what Microsoft does, and we shouldnât 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, Iâm backing up the entire root filesystem to a repository using the REST backend so I can run Restic as root without breaking the permissions.
Iâm working on automating it now and Iâm 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 /
Iâm curious to see how everyoneâs backup solutions have changed since last year.
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Iâve 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. Itâs probably fine if youâre deliberate enough, but I donât think it would take long before Iâd 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 donât like that service names are visible on the filesystem. pass-tomb might mitigate this somewhat but it seems messy and I donât know if it would work with Git without compromising the security of the tomb.
Whatâs so good about Bitwarden? Everyone seems to love it. I like that it can be self-hosted. I certainly wouldnât 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 youâll 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 Iâm very grateful for that. :)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Itâs 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. Itâs 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 itâs still a cryptocurrency and itâs 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, wonât accept Monero for the same reason they wonât accept Bitcoin from a mixer.
Monero shouldnât be banned just because people use it for bad things. Itâs just a tool and it can be used for good or evil. Itâs the same reason countries use when they ban or restrict Tor usage.
@prologic@twtxt.net Iâm 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
@prologic@twtxt.net That sounds great. The only other container-level hosting service Iâve 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 ÂŒ of a CPU core, 256 MB of memory, and âabout 100 MBâ of storage for $1/mo which seems awfully steep compared to a low-cost VPS. I donât 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 wonât accept Bitcoin that comes from a mixer because they assume youâre doing something untoward.
With Monero, itâs not possible to trace any transactions with just an address. People canât see what youâre spending your money on or where your coins came from. Transaction fees using Monero are also very small. Itâs 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 âdigital cashâ than Bitcoin, which I think is better described as âdigital goldâ.
@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. Itâs a completely self-hosted backend service for receiving and tracking Monero payments and itâs 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 theyâre finished so you donât 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 wouldnât be worth it if you didnât need the extra resources as a VPS wouldnât 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. Itâs a shame itâs 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.
QOTD: How do you listen to your music?
Iâll start. I have a meticulously organized FLAC library stored locally on my laptop and played with cmus. Everything is manual but I have a collection of home-grown shell scripts that help me maintain folder structure, manage metadata, calculate information about the recording like dynamic range and spectrograms, and do transformations like cue splitting. Once an album has been processed, it goes into the music folder on my laptop with a duplicate copy stored on my server.
I have been thinking about letting beets do all of that boring stuff, but Iâm not sure I can trust it to do it right. I also really want some kind of (self hosted) algorithm to pick songs for me. As it is, I canât just shuffle my library or even genres because there are a lot of songs that donât go well together as well as songs I just donât like. I havenât found anything that can do that.
Anyway, Iâm curious to see how you guys do it.
@prologic@twtxt.net He didnât like LibreOffice Writer? Is he used to Microsoft Word or Apple Pages? Iâve had success getting non-technical Office refugees on LibreOffice, specifically Writer. Most people donât need any fancy features and most things are located close enough to their counterparts on Word.
I show them how to export their documents as PDF before they share them with others and I use the (somewhat) immutability of PDFs and their portability (bundled fonts, rigid formatting, etc) to sell it. Those are two real benefits, but the main reason is that I donât trust other software to handle ODTs and I donât trust LibreOffice to write DOCXes. Although, I donât know if I really need to be worried about either of them with basic documents. Itâs probably worth investigating.
@prologic@twtxt.net Nice. I hope he likes it.
@prologic@twtxt.net What does he use now?
@sorenpeter@darch.dk Done
@bender@anthony.buc.ci Check out https://darch.dk/timeline/, itâs an honest-to-goodness Yarn-like Web UI. Very impressive, @darch@neotxt.dk. Do you want it listed on groovy-twtxt?
@prologic@twtxt.net Youâre right, but theyâre not going to stop until people vote with their wallets.
@bender@twtxt.net Iâm not suggesting that people should use an old Windows version to avoid this. Iâm saying that Windows in general should be considered a legacy operating system, and continued usage will only make you subject to more of this tracking and unnecessary garbage.
In other words, the situation will never improve. It will only get worse from here, so you might as well get out now while there are still plenty of life boats. Otherwise, when they do something thatâs really over the line, you either have to go along with it or dive right into the cold ocean.
Windows is only kept alive at this point by a lack of knowledge about the alternatives, apathy, fear, and some enterprise software and games with support in Wine improving by the day.
@prologic@twtxt.net Only if you stick with legacy operating systems
Cutting edge server monitoring from McKinley Labs: Detect when the heavy compute task on my server is done and play a sound on my laptop
ssh server 'while true; do test $(</proc/loadavg cut -d . -f 1) -lt 10 && break; sleep 10; done' && qmpv sound.opus
@bender@twtxt.net I also use the Discover tab and I do wish I could mute some of them that only post in Portugese. I just didnât know they were on Mastodon.
Ah, the Ciberlandia people are on a Mastodon bridge. I thought we got rid of that.
@@villares@ciberlandia.pt Sounds like a great use for Monero: https://www.getmonero.org/
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Paper shopping lists are much better than phones. They donât turn off every 30 seconds so you have to push a button and type in a code.
@xuu Nice. Iâve been thinking of doing something similar for my website so I can host more services at mckinley.cc.
@prologic@twtxt.net Usable? Impressive. You can fit a lot of ISOs in 22 TB. Are you doing ZFS?
@prologic@twtxt.net I looked up BurmillaOS and this is definitely one for my thread about unique Linux distributions. Very interesting.
Everything in BurmillaOS is a Docker container. We accomplish this by launching two instances of Docker. One is what we call System Docker and is the first process on the system. All other system services, like ntpd, syslog, and console, are running in Docker containers. System Docker replaces traditional init systems like systemd and is used to launch additional system services.
@eapl.me@eapl.me @movq@www.uninformativ.de I have an E1505 in my box of laptops and its keyboard is pretty great, especially by modern standards. Iâd say itâs almost on par with that of a contemporary ThinkPad (T43).
@xuu Wow. txt.sour.is has IPv6, so are you hosting it on one of those VMs or is it a reverse proxy back home?
curl | sh
. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Maybe itâs just a cargo cult thing (pun intended) because itâs somehow an accepted way to install a piece of software.
@quark@ferengi.one Maybe 1.8 is a bit excessive. Iâll give 1.5 a try. Thanks!
Thank you @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, that means a lot. :)