Unrelated but I’m very impressed with how well this posted to Lemmy from Mastodon. Exceptional

I have a racknerd KVM VPS running a socks5 proxy and a mastodon instance. It’s been great!

I used this: https://redact.dev/

I checked earlier today and, at a cursory doomscroll, everything appears to remain deleted so far

It surprises me too on some level because it does seem very obvious.

I’ve also learned on multiple occasions over the years that I value different things and I value them much more strongly than a large swath of the selfhosting community. That may speak to whether or not people selfhost for ideological, practical, or other reasons that I am unaware of but, at the end of the day, I find myself disappointed that the version of the selfhosting community that I imagined and thought I was on the same page with is simply not the selfhosting community that exists.

Lol I used a script to overwrite my 13 years of fairly active redditing with a join-lemmy.org link

If what you need to accomplish can be achieved via shell commands, it would be hard to beat OliveTin for this use case.

If I’m going to have an actively unhinged sleep schedule, I figure I might as well put it to good use

I don’t believe FMHY was affected. For me, the timeline went:

1. I found out about the hack pretty much immediately when it happened
2. I immediately hopped into the Lemmy dev matrix channels to get an idea of what was going on
3. I crossposted the news of the hack in [email protected] about 20 or 30 minutes after it happened
4. In the dev channels, right around when I made the post, a couple of users were able to pin down the exact vulnerability and which server the user that perpetrated it originated from. A user (that I won’t name) sent test instructions (that were quickly deleted and I will not share on the off chance that there are servers that don’t know about the vuln and haven’t patched or mitigated) that verified the vulnerability.
5. A pull request for the fix was submitted to github (and, from a cursory look at the PR, it closes the hole that was used for the hack solidly) while, simultaneously, a couple of other devs stated that 0.18.1 is not affected by the vulnerability (which I have not taken the time to verify since they’ve already PRed a patch)

For those reasons, I don’t think FMHY was ever at risk because of how quickly it was updated to 0.18.1 coupled with the fact that I don’t think custom emojis are a thing on here. It’s very possible that I am wrong about that because I’m an idiot but I don’t believe there’s anything to worry about.

I solved that for myself by making genre folders and just tossing books in them haphazardly as I download them.

I gave Calibre a brief shot and was immediately put off by how big and clunky it was. I’m sure it would have been perfect if I gave it more of a shot and spent time tweaking.

Kavita has been my solution for the last probably 7 months and I’m loving it. I don’t need anything outside of “put book in place” and then “Open Kavita, see book” and it has been perfect for that. It’s essentially plex but with books in terms of how using and maintaining it has been.

“Youtube considering incentivizing piracy”

If I’ve already run the last version recently is there a reason to run this new version immediately?

For me:

• Document things (configs, ports, etc) as I go
• Uniform folder layout for everything (my first couple of servers were a bit wild-westy)
• Choosing and utilizing some reasonable method of assigning ports to things. I do not even want to explain what I need to do when I forget what port something in this setup is using.

I definitely don’t blame you for that. Dogwhistles come with that little bit of plausible deniability so it’s impossible to draw a hard line on this type of thing.

While I’m with you on that, I am definitely getting more of a “sneaky snake” vibe from this comic, personally.

Ubuntu Server (Or really just Ubuntu) is probably going to be the easiest in terms of package support, general support, and usability. It’s pretty straightforward and there’s infinite tutorials for everything you could possibly want to do

holy shit EDIT: Just got a pretty sick little vps for a year for like $40. Thanks!

HUZZAH!