smiletolerantly

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[Sephko] ZORORO in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 hours ago

A Short Stay In Hell

Short novella based on this exact premise. If you have never encountered it before, I urge you to give it a read. It's excellent. Also very disturbing.

Who the hell can afford a printer in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Got a simple brother laser printer. Duplex, BW only, works flawlessly with Linux and as a network printer.

4-5 times a year I'll need to print 10 pages. Add an additional one every two weeks.

The printer definitely paid for itself in convenience.

What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 9 points 11 hours ago

I mean, yea. But it is also easy to buy them, they're everywhere and fairly cheap. The Galbani one is also just 1€ or so more expensive.

To be clear, making your own is fantastic, it's just not anything I'd want to do 2x/week

What grocery items are always worth the extra $1-$5? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 13 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Mozzarella (talking about the balls of fresh mozzarella you get sealed in with their brine).

Can't do store brand anymore after having tried Galbani.

Murderbot - thoughts in c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Ugh yeah, it feels like the show is making fun of Preservation, which kinda undermines the show. Contrary to what others seem to think here, in my opinion the added goofiness really detracts a lot from the show.

Objectively false. Checkmate, libs. in c/enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Are you having this argument on the principle of defending the undergrounded-ness of bands, or do you actually believe LLMs always get the facts straight?

Nearly 800 infant remains found in septic tank at nun-run Irish unwed mother and baby home in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine reading this headline and instantly jumping to this in your head.

Are drink coasters for people who frequently spill their drink or have trouble drinking without dribbling down the cup? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Treat yourself rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago

Eh. There's memories I cherish a thousand times more because I made them with my partner.

But there's also memories I cherish because they're mine alone.

For traveling specifically, just having someone with you also isn't enough; you need to want to do the same things, in roughly the same way.

Plex has paywalled my server! in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 2 points 2 days ago

OK, add step above: use wildcard certificate for your domain.

Terminating the TLS connection at your perimeter firewall is standard practice, there's no reason your jellyfin host needs to obtain the certificate.

Plex has paywalled my server! in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Actual answer for 3:

  • put jellyfin behind a proper reverse proxy. Ideally on a separate host / hardware firewall, but nginx on the same host works fine as well.
  • create subdomain, let's say sub.yourdomain.com
  • forward traffic, for that subdomain ONLY, to jellyfin in your reverse proxy config
  • tell your relatives to put sub.yourdomain.com into their jellyfin app

All the fear-mongering about exposing jellyfin to the internet I have seen on here boils down to either

  • "port forwarding is a bad idea!!", which yes, don't do that. The above is not that. Or
  • "people / bots who know your IP can get jellyfin to work as a 1-bit oracle, telling you if a specific media file exists on your disk" which is a) not an indication for something illegal, and b) prevented by the described reverse proxy setup insofar as the bot needs to know the exact subdomain (and any worthwhile domain-provider will not let bots walk your DNS zone).

(Not saying YOU say that; just preempting the usual folklore typically commented whenever someone suggests hosting jellyfin publicly accessible)

we are not the same in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 33 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Holy fucking shit I am not alone. Oh god. It's real. I'm not alone.

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ich 🌶️🌶️🌶️ iel (awful.systems)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by smiletolerantly@awful.systems to c/ich_iel@feddit.org
22 comments fedilink
 

Danke!! Endlich sagt wer was!

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Devin, the "$2 Billion AI software engineer" turns out to be a complete scam. Who could have thunk! (www.youtube.com)
 

Schadenfreude 🙂

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How would I go about gaining access to a locked-down Linux device I own. (awful.systems)
 

Five years ago, I bought a Supernote A5. It was (and mostly still is) a great device for reading and writing on an eInk display, and it runs plain old linux.

The deciding reason I went for this device instead of the competition is that I was "under the impression" that they were about to enable full SSH access to the device! Awesome!

"Why were you under that impression?", I hear the skeptics ask. Well, their spokesperson has stated that they would do so. Via mail, and on reddit, publicly, multiple times. I was still torn, so sent them a DM, asking if this was ineed factual. "Yes", they said, "the next quarterly update will enable SSH access!".

Great!

Well, it's been 5 years. They did not follow through. A couple updates were published, none contained the promised functionality, the spokesperson stopped answering questions about SSH. The last software update I received is from 2.5yrs ago. Mentions of the original Supernote A5 have largely been scrubbed from their website.

Let me be clear, the device still functions perfectly. But it is in danger of becoming e-waste because it is so needlessly complicated to get stuff on the device. I'm currently in need of an ebook reader with (ideally) OPDS capability, and I am pretty confident I'd be able to get something like koreader running on this, or at least just run a script to sync files over SSH. Also, I frankly feel wounded in my pride having a Linux device in my possession which refuses to do my bidding (I'm joking of course, but also I am 100% serious).

Here's all I know:

  • plugging it in via USB, the device reads as an MTP device, with access only to the documents/books/... stored on it
  • you can place an update.zip file (obtained from the SN website) into the root of that MTP directory, and upon reboot, the device will update. To me, this appears to be the most promising route of gaining access.
  • unfortunately, the zip file is encrypted. The decryption key clearly has to be known to the device, but since I have no access to it,...

I'm a software engineer, but I have zero knowledge of the "dark arts", so to speak. If anyone could help me (or point me into the right direction!), I would really be grateful. I don't want this (generally nice) product to turn into a paperweight instead of a paper replacement :(

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Self-Hosted setup for remote music lessons? (awful.systems)
 

Basically, the title. After years of inactivty, I'll be taking music (cello) lessons again, with my teacher of yesteryear, from whom I've moved half a country away.

She has suggested Zoom but is open to alternatives. I don't particularly like Zoom, plus I have a feeling better quality can be had through a custom solution - but I'm at a bit of a loss as to what exactly would be a good fit for this project.

Maybe Jitsi? Does someone here have experience with it and could tell me if it's possible to set something like a "target" audio quality?

For hardware, I basically have two options. Both are already in use, for different things, and have sufficient processing capabilities - albeit no GPU:

  • host everything at home. Plus: lowest possible latency from me to the server. Not sure how much that is worth though.
  • root server in the Hetzner cloud: much faster network speed. Again though, not sure how beneficial that is, the ultimate bottleneck will always be my upload speed (40Mbit)

OK, I realize that this post is a but of a random assortment of thoughts. I'd be really happy about suggestions and / or hearing about other's experiences with similar use-cases!

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Can someone rule-splain this (i.redd.it)
 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25155152

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Can't use Crunchyroll via WireGuard (awful.systems)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by smiletolerantly@awful.systems to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
19 comments fedilink
 

Hi,

not sure where else to post this. For a while now, I've unsuccessfully been trying to get WireGuard to work with Crunchyroll.

Setup is as follows:

  • dedicated server hosts a wg-quick instance in [neighboring country]
  • OPNSense acts as peer on a single IP
  • I have a rule for routing the entire traffic of some source device via that IP

This works just fine. Handshake successful, traffic is routed via the server. traceroute shows the server as the hop immediately after my device's local gateway. The connection is stable, and fast.

...except for Crunchyroll. The site / app itself is fine, but I can not, for the life of me, get a video to play. It just keeps loading forever.

I don't think this is an issue with CR recognizing that I'm not where I say I am - looking online, it seems pretty easy to use CR with a VPN. I've also tried from multiple other devices, all with the same symptom.

If anyone has suggestions, I'd love to hear them 😅

EDIT: ~~It was MTU. Had to manually set it to 1500 on both devices.~~

Nope, still the same issues. I was using the fallback interface there briefly.

EDIT: It WAS MTU related, I had to enable MSS clamping on the OPNSense.

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