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lenovaon Just want simple TLS for your .internal network?

Out of curiosity, which software/app are you using to MitM on your home network?

lenovaon Send: Open-source fork of Firefox Send

https://github.com/localsend/protocol

Defaults:

- Multicast UDP for discovery

- HTTP for file transfer

Will work in an office, but not for a email transfer to a customer

lenovaon S3 as a Git remote and LFS server

I haven't heard of dvc, so I had to google it, which took me to: https://dvc.org/

But I'm still confused as to what is dvc is after a cursory glance at their homepage.

lenovaon [dead]

Linkedin is doing the same: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339

LinkedIn AI Opt-Out link: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...

lenovaon LinkedIn: Opt-out of using personal data for AI

LinkedIn has updated its User Agreement to allow it and its affiliates to use personal data for training its generative AI. If you are outside of the EU, you are opted-in by default.

LinkedIn FAQ: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a5538339

LinkedIn Opt-Out link: https://www.linkedin.com/mypreferences/d/settings/data-for-a...

lenovaon [Dupe, please delete] How an Uber Eats Order Unraveled a Couple's Injury Lawsuit

My bad!

lenovaon [Dupe, please delete] How an Uber Eats Order Unraveled a Couple's Injury Lawsuit

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20241004104505/https://www.nytim...

lenovaon AMD GPU Inference

Why ROCm 5.4, and not the latest (6.2)?

https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference/blob/main/Dockerfil...

Also looks like the Docker image provided by this project doesn't successfully build: https://github.com/slashml/amd_inference/issues/2

lenovaon We fine-tuned Llama 405B on AMD GPUs

I just recently went down the AMD GPU + ROCm rabbit hole as well. ROCm 6.2 was just released in August of this year and introduces a lot better support, though as the above poster mentioned, isn't merged into most recent OSes.

This Github repo is good for tracking the latest Ubuntu + ROCm install process: https://github.com/nktice/AMD-AI

lenovaon Ask HN: Is Nextcloud a Great Alternative to Dropbox/Google Drive for Startups?

OwnCloud is popular in the /r/selfhosted scene on reddit, and is worth doing a search there: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/search?q=owncloud

OwnCloud and such wouldn't be considered a mainstream resume skill, and comes with its own upkeep and maintenance, along with ownership of the entire backup/restoration process.

lenovaon Ask HN: How do you share and sync .env files and secrets with your team

Agreed, SOPS can be great for small teams and requires very little setup. We followed this demo's example when setting it up:

https://github.com/CaseyLabs/kcUtils/tree/main/utils/kcSops

lenovaon Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution

GUI driven is the primary differentiator I believe.

Repo: https://github.com/tobychui/zoraxy

lenovaon Zoraxy: Open-Source, All in one homelab network routing solution

I've actually been watching this project develop over on /r/selfhosted over the last year at least. The author has put a lot of work into it, and it's definitely worth giving a shot for a homelab/self-hosted project.

lenovaon Photobox – Free Open Source Google Photos Clone

+1 for Immich, it's been cool watching their development journey on /r/selfhosted the last year or so:

https://github.com/immich-app/immich

lenovaon Any Technology Indistinguishable from Magic Is Hiding Something

> I'm 14 and this is deep.

I'm 41 and that response is original ;-)

lenovaon Any Technology Indistinguishable from Magic Is Hiding Something

For those lamenting the writing style: I agree that this article could use some editing, but in the same way the author laments the passing of the Unique Web, I too am saddened that an off-beat tech rant like this is hard to find these days in a sea of SEO-optimized or AI-generated content.

I don't necessarily agree with the author's conclusions, but I absolutely loved the writing style here:

Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta (GAMM) now own most of the steel and glass that makes the internet go vroom. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft control seventy-five percent of the cloud computing market. Meta and Google own half of the fiber optic cables supplying internet services across continents. Most of our favorite productivity apps, retail websites, and social media platforms are beholden to proprietary infrastructure controlled by these four corporations. They own the most heavily trafficked server networks, all the GPUs, and gigawatts, and whatever.

They call it the cloud, but really, that’s just the internet.

So, what we know as the cloud doesn’t actually exist. It’s a euphemism that obfuscates the consolidation of critical infrastructure. The cloud is metaphysical porn for wild-eyed technocrats in Allbirds who say things like “I’m making a dent in the universe” without a whisper of irony. It’s bullshit. It’s fugazi. There is no spoon, Neo. The cloud is a lie.

lenovaon Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

Google Cache link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttps...

lenovaon Nebula is not the fastest mesh VPN, but neither are the others

Nebula (a distributed mesh overlay network first developed at Slack) released their own network benchmarks today:

https://www.defined.net/blog/nebula-is-not-the-fastest-mesh-...

This is in response to this oft-cited benchmark post by Netmaker:

https://medium.com/netmaker/battle-of-the-vpns-which-one-is-...

Previous discussions on encrypted overly mesh networks here:

"Would we still create Nebula today?" (Oct 2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37871534

lenovaon Show HN: I made an app that consolidated 18 apps (doc, sheet, form, site, chat…)

> Your pricing is reasonable for small biz, but I'm unclear on what "Email" in https://nino.app/pricing means. Does that mean you offer email hosting like Outlook/Gmail or email support?

That's under their `Support` section (as in, they're offering support via email).

lenovaon Go: What we got right, what we got wrong

I agree. As someone unfamiliar with Go's history, that was incredibly well written. It felt like I cathartically followed Go's entire journey.

lenovaon Linux 6.6.6 Released Due to WiFi Regression

That's a hell of a release number.

lenovaon Would we still create Nebula today?

Replying to my own comment as I can no longer edit it:

The folks over at the Nebula team had an interesting discussion regarding the the "battle of the VPNs" article published by Netmaker I sourced in my parent comment:

https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/discussions/911

lenovaon Would we still create Nebula today?

> No love for tinc[1]?

I actually looked into tinc, and really wanted to love it because of its simplicity.

Unfortunately though, it seems that the development scene around it has been stalled for several years now, and benchmark reports show that it can't keep up with cloud speed tests when compared with Wireguard:

- Wireguard: 390.3 Mbps

- Netmarker: 369.3 Mbps

- Tailscale: 62.5 Mbps

- ZeroTier: 56.8 Mbps

- Nebula: 38.4 Mbps

- Tinc: 34.7 Mbps

- OpenVPN: 22.3 Mbps

Source: [disclaimer, article written by Netmaker CEO, so implicit bias]

(https://medium.com/netmaker/battle-of-the-vpns-which-one-is-...)

lenovaon Would we still create Nebula today?

In the self-hosted space, I've been really enjoying playing around with decentralized encrypted overlay mesh networks like Nebula. Here's the current list of my faves (all Wireguard based).

Open-source projects not-quite-prod-ready:

- WebMesh: Golang, decentralized nodes https://github.com/webmeshproj

- InnerNet: Rust, with subnet ACLs https://github.com/tonarino/innernet

- Wesher: Golang, simple mesh with pre-shared key https://github.com/costela/wesher

- Wiresmith: Rust, auto-configs clients into a mesh https://github.com/svenstaro/wiresmith

Open source projects with company-backed SaaS offerings:

- Netbird: Golang, full-fledged solution (desktop clients, DNS, SSO, STUN/TURN, etc) https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird

- Netmaker: Golang, full-fledge solution https://github.com/gravitl/netmaker

Honorable mention:

- SuperHighway84 - more of a Usenet-inspired darknet, but I love the concept + the author's personal website: https://github.com/mrusme/superhighway84 https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/superhighway84

lenovaon Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

> The filesystem is super slow, and git commands take multiple seconds.

Ugh, this is a known issue in WSL if you try to use git on the host operating system (/mnt/c/Users/path/to/repo)... there are cross-system file system virtualization issues in WSL2 when reading from the Windows hosts.

Workaround is to have your git repos within WSL itself (~/my-git-repo) to have native performance.

lenovaon Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback

> In your Dockerfile, add a non-root user with UID and GID 1000, then in the end of your Dockerfile, right before a CMD or ENTRYPOINT you change to that user.

I'm not certain, but would it be more secure to create a non-root user in the Dockerfile, but _don't_ use UID 1000. Use volume mounts to grant host disk access instead.

lenovaon Musl 1.2.4 adds TCP DNS fallback

I decided to benchmark these scenarios out of curiosity, because I hadn't heard of eatmydata before or of force-unsafe-io.

- Docker image: `debian:stable-slim`

- `docker system prune -a` ran before each test.

- Packages installed: `build-essential ca-certificates libssl-dev software-properties-common wget curl git`

Results:

Default Debian settings: 48.32 seconds

force-unsafe-io enabled: 55.86 seconds

eatMyData enabled: 35.04 seconds

lenovaon Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix

Shall we meet at the middle ground and call it DevOps? ;-)

lenovaon Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix

Oh god you're right.... me + joke + whoosh ;-)

lenovaon Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix

The landing page is pretty good if you are familiar with Matrix.org, and I'm assuming that it's aimed at Matrix developers. Personally I appreciated the brevity, simple declaration of the problem it's trying to solve, and a quick link to the real call to action (the Git repo).

EDIT: realizing that the landing page may have been updated with new content itself since your original post.