Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWatchTower Issues
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    2 hours ago

    Day 1. It seems to work:

    time="2025-07-01T17:28:21Z" level=info msg="Found new netdata/netdata:edge image (7cbd870f51b0)"
    time="2025-07-01T17:28:42Z" level=info msg="Found new influxdb:2 image (b4355848b856)"
    time="2025-07-01T17:28:54Z" level=info msg="Found new ghcr.io/karakeep-app/karakeep:latest image (c5fcb1a653c6)"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:03Z" level=info msg="Found new redis:latest image (ed3a2af6d0d4)"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:04Z" level=info msg="Stopping /CADVISOR-REDIS (84a28cf8904d) with SIGTERM"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:06Z" level=info msg="Stopping /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1 (a14e51a1b7db) with SIGTERM"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:07Z" level=info msg="Stopping /NETDATA (bde1241c0073) with SIGTERM"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /NETDATA"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:09Z" level=info msg="Creating /ROOT-INFLUXDB2-1"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Creating /CADVISOR-REDIS"
    time="2025-07-01T17:29:10Z" level=info msg="Session done" Failed=0 Scanned=38 Updated=4 notify=no
    

  • I’ve seen captchas for years before the recent influx of AI. It’s the way I go about obfuscating network activities that the site security cannot determine if I am a bot on not. There is a Captcha Buster extension for Firefox. If the captcha is ‘Pick the three busses from these blurry, pixelated set of pictures’ then I can solve those easily. It’s when the captcha is a full page of a motorcycle and you have to check all the relevant pieces, then on to the next full picture, that chap me. So you click Captcha Buddy and it ‘listens’ to the audio portion of the captcha, then solves it. It’s not 100% on all types of captchas, but it 90% of the time it works every time. It’s interesting to me that after a while, you start to notice patterns in the captcha images. For instance if the directions are ‘Pick the fire hydrants’, there will be at least 5 you have to pick. Crosswalks are the same way too.

    I’d much rather have to do captchas than have my jimmy out in the ether traffic. Anecdotal, but Stack Overflow doesn’t trigger a captcha for me. All I get is the cookie popup.


  • If you gave it a good push you could start marketing self-contained home server boxes as a mainstream product,

    When Microsoft released Windows Home Server, I felt for sure that would ignite the flame. Yeah, it’s windows, but in the right direction I thought as far as home servers go. I’ve always felt that every home should have a server of some type. We have so much digital data now that has replaced the filing cabinet full of birth certificates, deeds to properties, financial documents, pictures, media, etc. that not having one seems to me to be a bad idea.

    I think if a home server package were simple enough even a cave man could do it, and it got the average non-tech person over the hump of scary computer tech they don’t know, it would become a common appliance in homes and not the exception.





  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldOPtoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldWatchTower Issues
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    1 day ago

    Thanks, I’ll give it a go

    time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Watchtower 2.3.2"
    time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Using no notifications"
    time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Checking all containers (except explicitly disabled with label)"
    time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Scheduling first run: 2025-07-01 17:27:53 +0000 UTC"
    time="2025-06-30T17:27:53Z" level=info msg="Note that the first check will be performed in 23 hours, 59 minutes, 59 seconds"
    

    We’ll see.





  • Well, I’m not one to get all uppity about nomenclature. Home lab, home server, self host, what ever. I call the room all my toys are in, ‘The Lab’. It has musical instruments, keyboard controllers, servers, computers, electronics, et al. So ‘The Lab’ seemed to fit.

    He’s so stacked that he knows, when he goes back to his mobile home, that’s when its Back to the lab again yo


  • I look at it like this:

    • I don’t absolutely trust the security of my server. Sure, it hasn’t had a breach…yet, but that possibility is inevitable, given the amount of bots that keep trying to get in by the minute. It’s secure, yes, but is it secure enough to entrust the keys to my bank account, my business ventures, et al? IF somebody got the key to my Lemmy account, it would be bothersome, but not cataclysmic since all online accounts are silo’d with only a couple that are linked.
    • Bitwarden spent a lot of time and money building a large infrastructure that is, imho, far more secure than my little server. Bitwarden has a pretty good track record. They have had some vulnerabilities, even as recent as '23 but these have been remediated.
    • Confirmation bias…I’ve been using Bitwarden for untold years now and have never had an issue, other than the recent UI theming schema that was so castigated by users that they offered a way to switch back.

    While hosting my own password manager would fit right in with the rest of my selfhosting, I think sometimes it’s better to defer to more secure options when dealing with highly sensitive data.