joeyrobert

Lots of noob chess players out there to beat!

Seafile + Samba + OpenVPN is my stack. I use Seafile for a dropbox style file sync on my devices, and Samba for direct access. OpenVPN for remote access on all devices. Works quite well.

I didn't follow the whole session (only saw the memes about it on TikTok), but in the recent congressional hearing, was the TikTok CEO grilled on misinformation on his platform? I see tonnes of astroturfed content on TikTok, significantly more than other platforms. Russia bots, flat earthers, moon-landing deniers, 9/11 truthers -- obvious misinformation. I've reported these before under misinformation but the report is usually rejected. Does TikTok turn a blind eye to these things, or is it the nature of the algorithm that I'm exposed to more content outside my "bubble"?

I recommend this method for self-hosting too. I have gigabit Internet and cloudflare proxying unlocks the ability to host locally without exposing my home IP. Plus all the advantages of DDoS mitigation.

There's a lot of bad websites too. I guess people should stop making them.

Seafile. Locally hosted Dropbox alternative which works well for my needs (300GB+ stored).

Emby. Network media streaming.

qBittorrent with the web server enabled. Downloading Linux ISOs.

Airsonic. Music library streaming, though I find myself using Emby for this more often.

All running on Ubuntu 20.04 on an Intel NUC with 16GB RAM.

I agree with the general sentiment of this & wish I had a better view. My office is currently in my basement (only practical place in our house for it). I probably spend around 60% of my working hours there, the other 40% I'm on my laptop in various locations around the house to keep it fresh.

One thing I've found to help is growing some plants indoors. I have a few grow lights on 12h timers that keep me a little grounded to the rhythm of the Earth. However nothing beats the energy you get from a natural view.

I know Minio can be used for production workloads, but Minio as a localhost substitute for an S3-like store is underrated. S3 dependent projects I work on spin up a Minio instance via docker-compose to get a fully local development experience.

Yeah, let's get that weather app engineer working on NTFS privilege flaws.

Might as well get the software ready now for the RPi 5 and beyond.

Helps if you only have one platform you're developing on and deploying to (e.g. x86-64 Linux). If developing on macOS there can be Mac specific binaries installed, depending on the package.