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I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project
  • So that's admittedly not a good look for canonical, but my read of that is that if you're getting widely-known software from a developer who's publishing it to snap themselves, and you're cautious about your usage, snap is fine.

    For example, essentially my only use of snap is to install certbot. If I follow the directions from certbot.eff.org precisely, then I'll get certbot installed and no issues.

    I certainly agree that (a) the system is ripe for abuse and (b) should be self-hostable to support Free software. Both of these could be fixed by canonical opening it up.

  • I respect people who don't like snaps, but Canonical will not abandon a successful project
  • Why? I've heard this for years at this point, but as someone who rarely uses snaps because they're the only convenient option for software I'm using, I'm generally ambivalent about them.

    People seem to hold really strong opinions about snap but I've never been able to get a straight answer, just a bunch of hand waving.

  • Email services for self hosters
  • I use Mail-in-a-Box on a small VPS. Have been doing so for about 10 years. It takes care of basically everything.

    Last year I subscribed to a small-time email provider, anydomain.net, because I got tired of playing whack-a-mole with services blocking my entire subnet due to spammers on the VPS. All told I probably spend ~US$20 per month to host it.

  • What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.
  • You're right. I was angry when I posted this, and couldn't help but read glee in the repeated ways they described generations of people who are on track to simply never be able to save up for a comfortable retirement.

    It does feel hopeless, though. I love my job and earn a decent wage, but if I had the money to retire, I'd do it today. I definitely don't want to work until I drop.

  • What the hell is this shit? Instead of pushing for the return to traditional pensions, capitalism is celebrating the idea that Millennials and Gen Z may simply never be able to stop working.
    www.cnbc.com Say goodbye to retirement? A 'soft saving' trend is emerging among young people

    Generation Z is leading the "soft saving" trend, a new financial approach that prioritizes personal growth and mental wellness over aggressive saving goals.

    Say goodbye to retirement? A 'soft saving' trend is emerging among young people

    >Traditionally, retiring entails leaving the workforce permanently. However, experts found that the very definition of retirement is also changing between generations. > >About 41% of Gen Z and 44% of millennials — those who are currently between 27 and 42 years old — are significantly more likely to want to do some form of paid work during retirement. > >... > >This increasing preference for a lifelong income, could perhaps make the act of “retiring” obsolete. > >Although younger workers don’t intend to stop working, there is still an effort to beef up their retirement savings.

    It's ok! Don't ever retire! Just work until you die, preferably not at work, where we'd have to deal with the removal of your corpse.

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    It's real! He did exist!
  • #😀

    You mean the latest masterpiece of fantasy storytelling from Lucasfilms™ Brian Moriarty™? Why it's an extraordinary adventure with an interface of magic, stunning high-resolution, 3D landscapes, sophisticated score and musical effects. Not to mention the detailed animation and special effects, elegant point 'n' click control of characters, objects, and magic spells.

    Beat the rush! Go out and buy Loom™ today!

  • Why does everyone swear so much in The Witcher 3?
  • Gotta wonder how many people are down voting because they think the title is moralizing, when it's anything but that.

    There's nothing like going for a nice long walk around the world of The Witcher 3 and meeting some of the locals there. They say the nicest things. "Sod off, you misborn clod," a guard will tell me. "Got so fucked up once, blood came out me ears," a chap at the docks will announce. Or if I'm really lucky, "Go fuck your mums tits!" What a world to live in.

    The thing is, I love this about the game. Being scolded by the ruddy-faced inhabitants of The Witcher 3 has long been one of my favourite things, ever since I first played it eight years ago.

  • I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie/tv content from Sonarr/Radarr/Tautulli. (update)
    github.com GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic: Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics

    Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics. Contribute to ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic: Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collections of seasons" of media, but the reality is, if nobody has watched anything related to a TV show in a while, the whole thing can go! And that's what this does:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.tv.unwatched.py

     

    No more editing python, either. Create yourself a .env file, set up all of your config, and even enable dry run mode, so you can test to your heart's content:

    $ docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py DRY_RUN enabled! -------------------------------------- 2023-08-25T12:40:57.288608 DRY RUN: Chaos Walking | Radarr ID: 1445 | TMDB ID: 412656 DRY RUN: Captain Marvel | Radarr ID: 885 | TMDB ID: 299537 DRY RUN: Captain America: Civil War | Radarr ID: 1768 | TMDB ID: 271110 DRY RUN: Black Widow | Radarr ID: 1517 | TMDB ID: 497698 DRY RUN: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Radarr ID: 1092 | TMDB ID: 495764 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Radarr ID: 1777 | TMDB ID: 1648 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Radarr ID: 1778 | TMDB ID: 1649 DRY RUN: Big Hero 6 | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Big | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Batman Begins | Radarr ID: 1745 | TMDB ID: 272 DRY RUN: Assault on Precinct 13 | Radarr ID: 1212 | TMDB ID: 17814 DRY RUN: 21 Jump Street | Radarr ID: 1096 | TMDB ID: 64688 Total space reclaimed: 164.88GB

     

    To use protected mode, just create a text file with one TMDB/TVDB ID per line and volume mount it as /app/protected like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py  

    Good luck! Please let me know if you have questions or problems and I'll do my best to help out!

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    I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie content. (update)
    github.com GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic: Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics

    Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics. Contribute to ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic: Delete movie/tv data based on watch statistics

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collections of seasons" of media, but the reality is, if nobody has watched anything related to a TV show in a while, the whole thing can go! And that's what this does:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.tv.unwatched.py

     

    No more editing python, either. Create yourself a .env file, set up all of your config, and even enable dry run mode, so you can test to your heart's content:

    $ docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py DRY_RUN enabled! -------------------------------------- 2023-08-25T12:40:57.288608 DRY RUN: Chaos Walking | Radarr ID: 1445 | TMDB ID: 412656 DRY RUN: Captain Marvel | Radarr ID: 885 | TMDB ID: 299537 DRY RUN: Captain America: Civil War | Radarr ID: 1768 | TMDB ID: 271110 DRY RUN: Black Widow | Radarr ID: 1517 | TMDB ID: 497698 DRY RUN: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Radarr ID: 1092 | TMDB ID: 495764 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Radarr ID: 1777 | TMDB ID: 1648 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Radarr ID: 1778 | TMDB ID: 1649 DRY RUN: Big Hero 6 | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Big | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Batman Begins | Radarr ID: 1745 | TMDB ID: 272 DRY RUN: Assault on Precinct 13 | Radarr ID: 1212 | TMDB ID: 17814 DRY RUN: 21 Jump Street | Radarr ID: 1096 | TMDB ID: 64688 Total space reclaimed: 164.88GB

     

    To use protected mode, just create a text file with one TMDB/TVDB ID per line and volume mount it as /app/protected like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py  

    Good luck! Please let me know if you have questions or problems and I'll do my best to help out!

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    I made a thing! A python script to delete old, unwatched movie content. (update)
    github.com GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Contribute to ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic development by creating an account on GitHub.

    GitHub - ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    About a year and a half ago I posted a script I made for deleting movie content in your library not being watched. Folks really seemed to like it, and I still get comments on that thread every so often. So I've updated it!

    Far and away, the two biggest requests I got were:

    • Make it do TV, too
    • Make a dry-run mode
    • Edit: Added just now: a protected mode when you volume mount a protected file!

    The code is now available on github here:

    https://github.com/ASK-ME-ABOUT-LOOM/purgeomatic

    Even better, no installation is required. You can run it as a docker container like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py

     

    It now supports TV series as well. Thanks to a suggestion from /u/JimLahey-, I was able to get my head around the idea - I had always thought of managing TV shows as "collections of seasons" of media, but the reality is, if nobody has watched anything related to a TV show in a while, the whole thing can go! And that's what this does:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.tv.unwatched.py

     

    No more editing python, either. Create yourself a .env file, set up all of your config, and even enable dry run mode, so you can test to your heart's content:

    $ docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py DRY_RUN enabled! -------------------------------------- 2023-08-25T12:40:57.288608 DRY RUN: Chaos Walking | Radarr ID: 1445 | TMDB ID: 412656 DRY RUN: Captain Marvel | Radarr ID: 885 | TMDB ID: 299537 DRY RUN: Captain America: Civil War | Radarr ID: 1768 | TMDB ID: 271110 DRY RUN: Black Widow | Radarr ID: 1517 | TMDB ID: 497698 DRY RUN: Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) | Radarr ID: 1092 | TMDB ID: 495764 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure | Radarr ID: 1777 | TMDB ID: 1648 DRY RUN: Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey | Radarr ID: 1778 | TMDB ID: 1649 DRY RUN: Big Hero 6 | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Big | Radarr ID: 71 | TMDB ID: 177572 DRY RUN: Batman Begins | Radarr ID: 1745 | TMDB ID: 272 DRY RUN: Assault on Precinct 13 | Radarr ID: 1212 | TMDB ID: 17814 DRY RUN: 21 Jump Street | Radarr ID: 1096 | TMDB ID: 64688 Total space reclaimed: 164.88GB

     

    To use protected mode, just create a text file with one TMDB/TVDB ID per line and volume mount it as /app/protected like so:

    docker run --rm -it --env-file .env --network=host -v /home/user/protected:/app/protected ghcr.io/ask-me-about-loom/purgeomatic:latest python delete.movies.unwatched.py  

    Good luck! Please let me know if you have questions or problems and I'll do my best to help out!

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    Can you recommend a service or container for doing disk analysis and reporting failure conditions?

    I recently stood up a new file server using ZFS on linux. I'd like to automate the disk checking in such a way that I can essentially ignore and have a service notify me when SMART or other indications are hitting failure or pre-fail levels.

    I'm not looking for a fancy GUI or web UI - a plain old config file would suit me just fine. In my ideal world, it would be a container I could simply spin up with minimal configuration, but I'm willing to give anything a try.

    5
    Is it possible to set the default view on Profile?

    I comment more frequently than I post. Is there any way to set it to view comments by default? Even better, can we display a merged view of comments/posts in a single listing?

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    The CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS environment variable doesn't appear to work

    When I connect to it, I always get lemmy.world as the default instance. Any ideas?

    My docker-compose.yml:

    ```version: "3" services: voyager: image: ghcr.io/aeharding/voyager:latest restart: always volumes: - "/etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro" environment: - CUSTOM_LEMMY_SERVERS=sh.itjust.works labels: - com.centurylinklabs.watchtower.enable=true - autoheal=true healthcheck: test: ['CMD-SHELL', 'nc -z localhost 5314 || exit 1'] interval: 2s timeout: 1s retries: 10

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    Bitwarden - The unofficial Bitwarden community @lemmy.ml ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works
    PSA: self-hosting Bitwarden is NOT a security feature

    The fact that BW is open-source allowing the ability to self-host is a very awesome and unique feature. The fact that Dani Garcia ported the code and allowed you to host vaultwarden on a low-power device like a Pi or a small VPS is even more awesome. The fact that they both made it easy to install and run the service with Docker etc., and that there are a lot of guides on how to set the whole thing up is super awesome. You can play around, learn some things, and get control of your own data. It's all awesome. But none of that is a security feature.

    BW started as a tool for enthusiasts, people who probably can review and compile source code, set up a server, and run services securely -- seasoned c/selfhost@lemmy.ml folks. Maybe in their hands, a self-hosted instance of BW can come close to the security provided by the official service. If they are experts in the field, maybe they can make it even more secure. Maybe.

    For most people visiting this sub today that is patently untrue!

    Most self-hosting posts today are chock-full of comments asking how to register a domain or set up dynamic DNS, or asking what is Docker. Do you honestly think that these people are knowledgeable enough to set up their own BW service securely? Are they knowledgeable enough to evaluate the original team, their product, its source, and its security; to evaluate a completely different team, with a different source; to set up a secure server and host a service without succumbing to all the pitfalls of novice self-hosting; and to do it better than the guys at Azure?

    Hell No!

    The fact remains that for the greatest majority of people coming here, using the official BW service hosted by Microsoft remains the most secure way to use Bitwarden. That should be the default advice on this sub. To state or imply otherwise is misleading at best and a patent lie at worst. Please stop recommending self-hosting as a security feature. Please stop leading the lemmings off the cliff.

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    Have you ever stopped listening to an audiobook because the tone of the narrator was so annoying?

    I definitely noped out of a sci-fi audiobook (can't recall the title) a few minutes into one. And I hated the one Expanse book that was narrated by Erik Davis - it was like listening to a robot.

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    Getting stuttering playback on a Roku 3 when Direct Playing some content

    I've recently upgraded my Plex instance to separate out the storage side and the compute side. In general, I couldn't be happier - the compute side is a little HP prodesk with a quicksync-capable CPU, and the results have been phenomenal.

    I have one user who has been complaining about stuttering playback when doing Direct Play on a Roku 3 (2015). When they switch to transcoding, it works perfectly. The only time I've seen it, it has been doing a direct stream of MKV -> MPEGTS for the video container with a transcode of DCA 7.1 -> Stereo audio.

    Bandwidth is not the issue and they were the only ones streaming at the time.

    Do you think the Roku choking on it somehow? My 2017 Shield TV can fully direct play it without issue.

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    Bitwarden - The unofficial Bitwarden community @lemmy.ml ASK_ME_ABOUT_LOOM @sh.itjust.works
    Bitwarden Windows Client vulnerability prior to 2023.4.0: CVE-2023-27706

    https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27706

    Bitwarden Desktop v1.20.0 and above stores the biometric key in plaintext which allows a local attacker to decrypt the entire local vault if you are using Windows Hello and are not on the latest version. The Bitwarden Windows client before version 2023.4.0 is affected.

    Details here: https://hackerone.com/reports/1874155

    (shamelessly stolen from reddit)

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    What are you listening to now, and how?

    I'm a little over halfway through Children of Memory and loving it, listening on Audiobookshelf (🥰)

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    Hello from Reddit!

    I think Lemmy is going to see lots of users soon (including this community) getting folks coming from Reddit. I hope to see just as much engaging and interesting conversation here!

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