stonewall

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by stonewall 2y ago
Seems like this is becoming the terminal phase of the FOSS lifecycle for many projects. I wonder what makes some long-lived communities immune to this behavior...OpenBSD comes to mind.
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by stonewall 2y ago
It's been what, over twenty years now? If a technology is useful, you don't have to shame people into using it. At some point we will have to admit we made a big mistake.
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by stonewall 3y ago
(Author here.) Sadly its a lot less interesting: my home ISP still doesn't support IPv6.
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by stonewall 4y ago
Do people not use Linux anymore? General Linux admin skills were common knowledge when I was in university ~10 years ago, and many people ran Linux as their primary OS. Most of my friends had their own VPS with little pet websites. Has the
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by stonewall 4y ago
I regularly back up to some external HDDs that I keep outside the home. For pictures specifically, I recently discovered M-Disc [0], which are (allegedly) archival-quality, writable Blu-Ray discs. I'm considering burning an M-Disc of e
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by stonewall 4y ago
Thank you for the kind words :)
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by stonewall 4y ago
Your perspective resonates with me! I have 3 kids under 6 years old, and I can definitely see this easily creeping up in my future. My family situation is partly why I just went with plain old VMs and a Linux Distro with a 10 year support c
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by stonewall 4y ago
Nope, that would totally work.
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by stonewall 4y ago
I have some automation that does a weekly archive of everything important to a ZFS-based NAS. Home directories are also stored there over NFS, with hourly/weekly/monthly snapshots. Once a month or so, I plug in two separate 5TB ex
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by stonewall 4y ago
1. Yes, most people will tell you not to host your own email, because its too complicated/difficult to get your mail delivered reliably. A lot of this is FUD. Yes, email is a bit more difficult to get right than say, hosting a web app
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by stonewall 4y ago
I almost certainly don't save any money considering electricity cost. I have a dell r630 for compute and an r730xd that I use as a NAS. Then I have one switch for the rack and a POE switch for the house. Probably 3-5amps total? If I st
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by stonewall 4y ago
I plug my cable modem into a server running the OPNsense firewall [0], which has a wireguard plugin. I set up a wireguard VPN in OPNsense. Then I downloaded the wireguard app in F-Droid, and pasted my credentials from the wireguard Android
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by stonewall 4y ago
I self-host literally everything (email, calendar/contacts, VOIP, XMPP, you name it) from by basement with used 1U servers from eBay and a cable internet connection. It was probably more hassle than most people would want to bother wit
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by stonewall 4y ago
I get the impression that sabre/dav markets itself more as a platform on which one can build their own CalDAV/CardDAV applications. I run it standalone, because I wanted a CalDAV system that could integrate with my local FreeIPA d
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by stonewall 4y ago
That may be true for the older version of sabre/dav that Baikal seems to depend on, but the current version of upstream works just fine with PHP 7. I'm currently running sabre/dav with PHP 8.0 with no issues, and previously r
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by stonewall 4y ago
I self-host my family's calendar and contacts using sabre/dav, and I've been very happy with it. It provides CalDAV, CardDAV, and per-user WebDAV shares. For clients, I use Evolution on Linux and DAVx5 [1] on Android. I wrote