I think the average user wouldn’t care, Linux just attracts nerds. And I think it’s totally fine and even good that people care how their computer works—it shows that users care about their software working for them, rather than just wanting to go along with whatever is given to them. I think a lot of the positions people take about these things are very silly, but I’d still prefer someone to have a silly opinion about X11/Wayland or pid 1 than to not have an opinion at all. It’s nice that users are being actively involved in deciding what they want their system to be; it’s a nice change from the average user who’s like “well microsoft is screenshotting my screen every 5 seconds and feeding it into copilot now, guess I’m going along with that”.
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My point is that raids are for the purpose of gathering evidence. The way it usually works is that the state decides they want to criminalise you for something so they search your place for anything they can use to incriminate you—not vice versa, ie they dont already have enough evidence to incriminate you when they plan the raid.
I don’t know about a majority of people, but with the rise of the far-right across many countries I think it is a significant number of people who are at risk of this, and I think it’s rather short-sighted to assume only a small number of “cool people” are affected (thank you though). Like I am a nobody, I’m not famous, and there are lots of political organisers and militants like me you’ve never heard of being targeted for their political activities. You don’t need to be a Snowden to have some degree of state interest in you, and most state repression (raids, incarceration, arrests, etc) is relatively cheap to dish out willy-nilly.
Not true at all. Governments regularly raid political dissidents. It’s a disciplinary tactic in and of itself. I’ve been raided for plenty of shit and never been convicted of any crime.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How often do you update software on your servers?English
3·15 days agoAutomatic daily updates for system packages. Automatic daily container updates with watchtower. I normally have things pinned to a reasonable major or minor release, so I do manual upgrades for new OS release branches and usually pin to a major version for Docker containers but depends on the container.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Remember that time someone repackaged Linux Lite as Windows 12?
30·1 month agoI suppose it’s targeted towards getting people who fall for these scams to get onto Linux. At least they’d probably fall victim to fewer tech scams if the scammer doesn’t know how to deal with Linux.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•2025 Self-Host User Survey: Open for SubmissionsEnglish
2·1 month agoThere was one question where it wouldn’t let me do this. I think the media streaming question I had to click “Other”.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Those who don't use dashboards, how are you managing your services?English
9·1 month agoNever used a dashboard… I just manage my services on the cli with plain docker commands.
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Software Gore@lemmy.world•A class signature does not have feelings, IntelliJ.
10·1 month agoNot really software gore. This is a setting you can toggle in Jetbrains IDEs. If you want natural language suggestions then this is what you signed up for.
Watchtower for automated updates. For containers that don’t have a latest tag to track, editing the version number manually and then
docker compose pull && docker compose up -dis simple enough.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needsEnglish
1·2 months agoYes, if you use the “task list” block. You can also have checkbox bullet points but I don’t use them, not really sure what the use-case for those are when you can just use the task list.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Recommendations for Note taking app with simple needsEnglish
1·2 months agoI self-host Notesnook and found it easy to set up. Been using it as my main note-taking app for years now and I’m really happy with it.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves?English
3·2 months agoSomeone who’s in the business of stealing computers would just stick it in a faraday bag. I guess for an entire server you’d need a sizeable cage though.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Those who are hosting on bare metal: What is stopping you from using Containers or VM's? What are you self hosting?English
2·2 months agoIdk about Immich but Vaultwarden is just a Cargo project no? Cargo statically links crates by default but I think can be configured to do dynamic linking too. The Rust ecosystem seems to favour static linking in general just by convention.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of PalestiniansEnglish
23·2 months agoThis is only because Microsoft’s employees have been relentless in their pressure on their bosses. They’ve been doing occupations of Microsoft buildings, office crashes, etc. They fire the employees who take part but then there are more employees who crop up in their place; there are just too many to fire them all. And Microsoft still provides a lot of support to Israel, so don’t be fooled into thinking that things are over.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.English
2·2 months agoNo, FreeTube is its own thing, but it can fall back to an invidious instance. Idk why it fails for me with inv.nadeko.net as my default instance though.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Google just broke *all* third-party YT clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required.English
19·2 months agoYeah have been using https://inv.nadeko.net/ as FreeTube broke for me. Unfortunately there seems to be some kind of bandwidth throttling as I’m getting 720p videos only (my internet is fine for 1080p and I was getting 1080p on FreeTube).
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Looking for a simple personal homepageEnglish
72·2 months agoI don’t think there is really any learning curve to “learning HTML” if you are not trying to do anything funky and you just want a simple static website that functions, like OP said, “like a business card”. You may as well just type it out yourself. If you’ve never written HTML before just look at w3schools.
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Cooking @lemmy.world•Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes
6·2 months agoYeah but a can is basically one unit. Once a can is opened it usually has to be used relatively quickly, so I would much rather use an entire can than measure out a fractional number of cans to be precise with measurements. It depends on the ingredient of course but eg with beans it really doesn’t matter to get the exact weight.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Beginners Questions about Audiobookshelf, DNS and nginxEnglish
21·2 months agoYou get a domain name, and use an A record to point it towards your server’s public IP address.
You tell nginx to forward requests to a given domain. For instance, you could tell nginx to forward requests to foo.bar.com to 127.0.0.1:1337. To do this:
http { server { server_name foo.bar.com; listen 80; location / { proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:1337$request_uri; } } }Note that this is a very basic setup that doesn’t have HTTPS or anything. If you want an SSL certificate, look into Let’s Encrypt and Certbot.
Also, the service you’re hosting (which I’m not familiar with) may have an example reverse proxy config you should use as a starting point if it exists.


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