You like deploying infrastructure, probably in a cloud environment, but you don’t want to push a bunch of buttons in their web interface, so you use Terraform to declaratively define the things you want, and it goes and builds them for you. Super useful for when you need to build resources often, to detect and correct config drift, and get started down the path of Infrastructure as Code.

I’m running the following SQL, although I’m not actually sure it’s as necessary since 0.18.3. It doesn’t delete any post history or anything.

DELETE FROM activity WHERE published < NOW() - INTERVAL '1 day';

I think the Kindle Scribe has a lit screen, if e-ink is what you’re after.

I love my ReMarkable 2! I use it everyday for handwritten notes and for e-reading. It doesn’t support the major stores, but it loads epubs just fine. I’m also self-hosting rmfakecloud cause I’m that kind of nerd. You mentioned night use, so definitely be aware it does not have any lighting built in.

Hugo calls these sorts of things “frontends” and has a list here: https://gohugo.io/tools/frontends/

I haven’t had great luck with any of them personally.

I wouldn't want to host anything on Windows unless you have to, or you want to learn more about Active Directory / Exchange / etc to help with a day job (assuming your day job is sysadmin / IT). Even then I'd do that inside Windows VMs on a Linux / ESXi host.

I personally wouldn't (and don't) host authoritative servers externally to the internet. I do split-horizon DNS, so that my internal BIND server handles my LAN, but I have outside DNS handled by someone that has an ACME (Let's Encrypt) module, so that I can do wildcart certs.

One thing to look into as you spin up services at home would be some sort of VPN like Tailscale, WireGuard, or even something like Cloudflare Tunnel so that you're not exposing services directly to the internet if you don't absolutely have to. I believe some of these projects/products let you specify DNS servers so that when your phone (for example) is connected to the VPN, it uses your home DNS servers instead of public ones.

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Here's a map from University of Alaska Geophysical Institute: https://www.gi.alaska.edu/modules/custom/aurora-forecast/images/idl_graphics/north_america/NorthAmerica_6.png

Yep! Just for whatever the abuse contact was in whois. Could have been coincidence, or maybe just whoever was on shift in Azure town at the time. I don’t remember if I got a response or not from MS.

I’ve actually done this for a Microsoft owned IP before. Someone was Wordpress-scanning a particularly fragile application of one of my clients (which was not Wordpress) which was causing it to fall over. The scan stopped within an hour of sending the abuse email.

Edit to add: I used to work in a NOC for a tier 1 ISP. We had an “abuse department” (a couple people) that investigated these and opened tickets with the NOC. I’ve emailed customers and disconnected circuits as a result of abuse emails, so I wouldn’t say they’re totally useless, but I’m sure it depends on the company involved.

Link thumbnails do get mirrored. My understanding is the front end of Lemmy is pretty heavy for the big instances and the burden of federating to another instance is pretty small. One thing I’ve noticed on my instance is that sometimes inbound federation can be pretty annoyingly slow.

Emby is not open source any more.

It’s free as in “paying zero money”. It’s still distributed via leanpub. Requires an email address to get to the download page, it doesn’t verify it in any way other than being a valid email format. Links are to DRM-free epub and PDF.

I think the question about “being on Beehaw” is because you’ve been commenting on a post in a Beehaw community.

I believe the activity table in Postgres is retained for 6 months (although I’m purging mine daily) and the pict-rs cache is 168 hours (1 week).

What Zigbee thermostats do you have?

I think the larger issue was users from those external instances interacting with posts / comments in Beehaw’s communities. Since they’re open registration, bad actors could just create new accounts after being banned from Beehaw.

Here's what I did for humidifiers in my house:

• Dumb, analog-controlled humidifiers (like with the knobs, no digital displays, buttons, modes, etc)
• Local control smart plug (Tasmota flashed Sonoff S31 in my case, but it can be anything)
• Humidity sensor (I use the Zigbee Aqara ones)
• Create a Generic Hygrostat entity

Now you've got a smart humidifier in Home Assistant. You can set the desired humidity, and when the sensor detects it's below this, it'll kick on the smart switch. When it passes the threshold, it'll turn off. It's been great! My humidifiers shut off when the water level drops, so I can even use the power monitoring in the Sonoff switch to send me a "low water" alert when the humidifier should be running, but it's drawing no power!

Yep, using ingress-nginx on k3s as well.

We're using it in production at my day job in a couple of places.

I use ingress-ngnix for all my ingress controllers, I've only messed with Traefik a bit in Kubernetes and it felt like it was fighting me the whole time.