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Drone maker DJI facing U.S. FCC ban — the national security risk and part China-state ownership are key issues
  • Yeah, right? Gooooood luck telling, idk, my uncle to do that. He’s approaching seventy but uses drones as a hobbyist photographer and to do the occasional surveying for work. He’s not going to be able to “lol just build your own”. And afaik there’s nothing remotely competitive by us manufacturers

  • CalMatters is acquiring The Markup
  • The Markup has done some of the best reporting outside 404Media on data brokers, and that work was instrumental in getting the California Delete Act passed last year that will let you one click delete your information from every registered data broker in a few years when it gets implemented. CalMatters is a good org but I hope The Markup gets to keep doing what they’re doing.

  • 5E Player Character builder

    As far as I’m aware, the only self hosted player character builder is the charactermancer in plutonium, the patreon-accessible Foundry VTT plugin made by the 5e.tools folks — but man. My kingdom for a dndbeyond alternative, something self hosted that can take open 5th edition content and allow my players to build and save their character sheets. I don’t suppose I’m just missing something already out there, or are there any projects I should be following?

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    Loving PopOS but apparently I can't get the latest Nvidia driver? (Your regularly scheduled "What Distro should I use" thread)

    Basically the title. Loving PopOS as my daily, but I understand that PopOS uses their own process and makes sure that only a checked driver gets wide release. Great for stability, less great for playing games that just came out. Is there a distro that this community generally recommends for gaming?

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    What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down?

    In my ever-ongoing struggle to disentangle myself and my family from our corporate overlords I have gleefully dived into self-hosting and have a little intranet oasis available; media, passwords, backups, files, notes, contacts, calendars -- basically everything I needed the Big G suite for at one point, I'm hosting locally, and loving it. But Unfortunately... my ISP can be shitty. Normally its' fine and no complaints, but every now and then the network itself goes down for maintenance for a few hours, half a day, a day. When those outages happen even though I have a battery backup/generator, I'm basically stuck treading water, unable to even listen to podcasts. I'm wondering what the folks here' have as a contingency plan for these kinds of outages. Part of me is considering pricing out some kind of VPS for barebone, password manager, podcast player, notes etc for outages; but I haven't dipped my toe into that world yet. Just wondering what folks are doing/recommending/

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    Privacy hardening Grafana / Prometheus ?

    cross-posted from: https://ttrpg.network/post/980439

    > I have enough machines on my network that I've long wanted to get better monitoring going on, and I finally bit the bullet and I'm trying to push through learning my way around grafana and prometheus/node extension. I have been following this guide: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/metrics/metrics-prometheus/prometheus-config-examples/docker-compose-linux/ (great, btw!) but after importing the dashboards so I have three dashboards providing some intense readouts of three different machines, it got me wondering: how privacy protective is this? Is Prometheus just sending out a steady stream of diagnostic data for anyone to snoop on if they get access to my LAN? How can I/should I harden these setups to be privacy conscious?

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    Privacy hardening Grafana / Prometheus ?

    I have enough machines on my network that I've long wanted to get better monitoring going on, and I finally bit the bullet and I'm trying to push through learning my way around grafana and prometheus/node extension. I have been following this guide: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/metrics/metrics-prometheus/prometheus-config-examples/docker-compose-linux/ (great, btw!) but after importing the dashboards so I have three dashboards providing some intense readouts of three different machines, it got me wondering: how privacy protective is this? Is Prometheus just sending out a steady stream of diagnostic data for anyone to snoop on if they get access to my LAN? How can I/should I harden these setups to be privacy conscious?

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    TTRPG Players and DMs, what's in your self hosted toolbox?

    Personally I’m running Foundry and have been meaning to spin up Owlbear 1.0 now that it’s self hostable - but I feel like there’s more i could be doing. Is anyone aware of a self hostable character sheet/character builder? I suppose i could go next cloud for storing folders and files but I don’t think anyone would use it - what self hosted services are you using at your tables?

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    Self-hosted Anki/Spaced Repetition

    I'm looking for a spaced repetition alternative to Anki, ideally something that I can self host and expose like any other webapp, and that is compatible with .apkg Anki decks (or at least that is compatible with something I can convert .apkg decks into). I'd like to not have to create an account with Anki or some other third party, and wasn't super happy with anki-web and the anki-sync-server container -- but maybe I was just using that wrong...

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    Is it possible to set up 2FA on my self-hosted services?

    I have a suite of services exposed using a reverse proxy (npm) protected with passwords, but I'm always a bit nervous that username/passwords aren't enough -- is there a way to set up 2FA either on Nginx Proxy Manager side or on, e.g., the 'arr suite of apps?

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    Owlbear Rodeo Legacy virtual tabletop released under a noncommercial license for self hosting
    github.com GitHub - owlbear-rodeo/owlbear-rodeo-legacy: The source code for Owlbear Rodeo 1.0 released for your non-profit use

    The source code for Owlbear Rodeo 1.0 released for your non-profit use - GitHub - owlbear-rodeo/owlbear-rodeo-legacy: The source code for Owlbear Rodeo 1.0 released for your non-profit use

    GitHub - owlbear-rodeo/owlbear-rodeo-legacy: The source code for Owlbear Rodeo 1.0 released for your non-profit use

    With Owlbear Rodeo 2.0 getting officially released the developers haven't quite made made good on their promises to open source the original Owlbear Rodeo (releasing under a non-commercial license instead of a proper Open Source license what they are now calling “Owlbear Rodeo Legacy”), but the source is available on GitHub, complete with a docker-compose file to spin up your own instance.

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    Where's the Shadowdark folks at?

    Discord ain't it. There's got to be folks over on this instance e.g. that would be interested in setting up a Shadowdark community, right? Right?? I don't want to contribute to enshittified reddit's bottom line, but the Shawdowdark subreddit is one of the only reasons I still open up that tab every now and then...

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