I have a yubikey setup to autounlock my laptop luks. It’s a bit of a pain to get setup the first time then it just works. Not sure it’s worth it for a home server unless it has some real valuable data on it. And in that case you wouldn’t want the key stored anywhere near it.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Hosting a matrix server with synapse, how do you handle registration?English
4·3 months agoWe allow registration with a one time token only and a hidden registration page. The token is generated via bot by an admin/mod.
You can get started pretty easily with Podman desktop and kind. Then you have a small self-contained cluster to mess around with, that also functions as a dev environment. Another option, and how I first learned, was with free credits from GCP. I realize this is self-hosted, just providing options for learning…
I’ve always liked Digital Ocean tutorials for getting stuff done. This one shows you how to deploy some things and links out to official documentation for further details: https://k8s-ops.net/posts/getting-started-with-kubernetes-digitalocean/
These are also good free tutorials: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/devops/kubernetes-tutorial/
Once you are comfortable with kubectl and basic deployments, then look into helm.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Anybody out there self hosting Searxing?English
2·7 months agoI host and use it as my default search on all devices. Bare metal deployment. The maintenance is pretty low, I just run the instance update script from to time.
Results have been worse lately, I think it needs some tuning in regards to weights and what engines are in use.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Could somebody recommend me a reliable and safe email service to use instead of Google and Microsoft ones?English
7·9 months agoPurelymail. Really good and cheap it all you need is email. No extra cost to bring your own domain.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•PDF4QT: Open source PDF editorEnglish
5·10 months agoReading through the info on the main page is concerning. It sounds like AI slop, or someone writing in that style. No developer writes like that about their project.
If it actually does all the things it says, great. Let me know.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol)English
3·10 months agoFollow up: this is the calculator I use on Linux. I didn’t realize it had Windows builds available.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•pfBlockerNG and using ASNs ... maybe I don't understand them ...English
4·10 months agoI’m guessing that pfBlockerNG is using the IPInfo database to query what IPs the ASNs own, so I think it would be required. ASNs are not static, so it wouldn’t make sense to ship a database of them, it would immediately be outdated.
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Privacy@lemmy.ml•Privacy-focused code editors for beginnersEnglish
2·10 months agoI would check out Lapce and CudaText. They are both solid editors. If you are comfortable in the terminal, then nvim as well, of course.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol)English
4·10 months agocudatext as a notepad replacement. It’s closer to a full featured text editor, but is very quick to startup with no extensions installed.
I have no idea about replacing paint, but irfanview for simple viewing, cropping, resizing, swapping formats, etc.
For calculator stuff I sometimes just open the Python REPL. If you know the language (even a little bit) it does all the things and more. Every time I try to use the Windows calculator it annoys me trying to find the right button and them accidently putting another operator instead of equal or vice versa.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Is there a self-hosted project that does url decoding in a privacy respecting fashion?English
4·11 months agoI wrote this little webapp thing some time ago. It’s not exactly what you asked for but is a good example.
All it does is base64 encode a link and adds the server url in front of it. When someone visits that link it will redirect them to the destination. The intent is to bypass simple link tracking / blocking in discord and other platforms.
There are also checks for known bad domains and an attempt to remove known tracking query parameters.
Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.
I clicked on this because I thought it was a mouse with an interesting design and microphone.
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Open Source@lemmy.ml•Favourite software that "sucks less"English
13·1 year agoThe one thing I wouldn’t agree with is ffmpeg.
It does not do one thing. It does a thousand things. The way different functionality works is inconsistent. In some cases you need to read the source code to understand how or why something is happening, as it’s not generated in the already expansive documentation. To me, it’s the antithesis of the UNIX philosophy.
That said, it’s a brilliant piece of software.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?English
2·1 year agoAdmittedly I’ve only used it with a preconfigured theme and no need for real customization. If you do need those features, I’d imagine the other commenters are correct.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•[Debian Stable] Which Static Blog Generator: blag, Jekyll, Hugo, Lektor, Pelican, staticsite?English
6·1 year agoI would also recommend Hugo, and believe it meets your requirements. The header markdown looks very similar to what you wrote, and it has tags. I’m not sure about a tag “cloud” the way you imagine it, but it’s worth looking into.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?English
21·1 year agoI have a storage VPS and use Borg backup with Borgmatic. In my case, I have multiple systems in different repos on the remote. There are several providers, such as hetzner, borgbase, and rsync.net that offer borg storage, in the event you don’t want to manage the server yourself.
It’s increasingly harder to exchange for fiat anonymously, especially when you consider XMR or other privacy coins. Once the people in charge of money realized they were a bit subverted, you got the huge crackdown.
I still use it for various things. Buy LTC from a legit licensed exchange. Move it around a bit. Change to XMR through an exchange that doesn’t care. Maybe move it around some more. It’s a giant pain, but I don’t know a better way. This method isn’t perfect, more of a balance of risk, but it’s better than just handing your entire entity over for a simple transaction.
yetCalc?
I don’t know if it’s on the play store.

I’ve been using purelymail with my own domains. It’s cheap and it works. Depending on the receiving service, sent items do sometimes end up in spam.