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I run CachyOS on my desktop. I host Homepage for myself on a home server. This is reached at home.mydomain.tld. Pihole on my local network catches that request and points it at my local nginx, which reverse proxies me to the homepage.

Now, I set this all up a while back and it all worked totally fine for several weeks. Then, about a week or so ago, for some reason almost every, but not every time I boot my PC, home.mydomain.tld gives me a “cannot be reached” error in my browser… until I run systemctl restart NetworkManager and then it works completely normally.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot why oh why that would suddenly be a thing? Does anyone have suggestions of a way I can troubleshoot a permanent fix to this so that I don’t have to restart NetworkManager almost every boot?

Nice, narrowing it down!

Next thing I would check is your configured DNS servers on the desktop, it needs to have only the pihole IP, if it has any other servers configured that is likely the issue.

Also worth pinging the pihole IP next time it’s not working, to check if it’s actually a networking issue instead of a DNS issue.

It’s normal for the loopback con path to end in 1, each con path is unique for each interface. My guess is that if your pihole sometimes works, the IPv4 server is your pihole and the IPv6 servers are ISP provided (especially if there are 2), so they work for the internet but not your internal network. Ideally you would set your pihole’s IPv6 address as your IPv6 DNS as well. Failing that setting the IPv6 mode to “Automatic, addresses only” will make it not used for DNS

Hmm, interesting…

But we learned now, that your desktop somehow isn’t reaching your DNS (pi-hole) until restart of Network Manager

So next thing i would do is traceroute and dig on your desktop while it is not working, to see what DnS is used in this state

Why would I need luck?

safety_checker is indeed an ai image content check that ships with ComfyUI. There are two instances of it under the ComfyUI directory. Nowhere else on my $HOME

fsdpy_utils is also part of ComfyUI, it’s a module to help run models (not a model itself those are huge). ComfyUI is a webUI to run my butt stuff, so it’s expected to be found there. It’s not found anywhere else on my $HOME

cachetools/func.py is a module providing cache not a tty. It exist in other Python software that I ’ve installed. No random instances of it all over $HOME either

You are probably asking an my butt chatbot to produce drivel with technical terms you ’ve seen online to troll this community. It’s probably convincing to people who are unfamiliar with python, ai or linux but it does not pass inspections by anyone familiar with these things.

I think the distributed model used is in the venv under google/ai/. There appear to be json files in the googleapiclient repo that may contain the instructions used by the distributed model. I thought this was odd but likely just google crap in the json files related to telemetry. When I put this google repo on another drive entirely and disconnected it, there was a long list of warnings in ComfyUI that popped up about these when starting the server. Some of them are different than the rest. Some appear to be related only to the google online API, but some pages are more locally oriented.

If you search the sqlite3 database for ComfyUI using sqlite3 comfyui.db ".dump" and look at the entries at the bottom, these fields are what I searched for elsewhere. They somehow lead me to the google packaged stuff IIRC. These in turn lead to the locations mentioned previously and others within ComfyUI. I do not have an overview perspective to fully connect these dots. IIRC, there was a chain of obfuscation related to writing content to these entries in the database.

I also locking down Python, and boltctl in /usr/bin, and locked down /usr/libexec/uresourced to root. That seems to have altered behavior.

It appears that my modeling of a road bicycle shifter is a shape close enough to a gun to also trigger the same mechanism from FreeCAD where there was a similar x-pypi package sent with archive.

In the google api repo, there are tools for gcode and pretty much every other language or system.

I still have three processes on my system with no labels that appear to be related to the three archives, but I have no idea how to kill them. Nothing I have tried has worked. They appear to be connected to systemd-userdbd, but I have no way to know this is true. They are just three processes without labels that appear to only show up because of the SELinux context. Every other command claims they do not exist at the pid. They only show up with ps -eZ.

I mostly lurk here, and I know we’ve had this discussion come up a number of times since Discord’s age verification changes were announced, but I figured this video offers value for the walkthrough and comparative analysis. Like me, the video authors aren’t seasoned self-hosters, and I’ve still got a lot to learn. Stoat and Fluxer both look appealing to me for my needs, but Stoat seemingly needs self-hosted servers to route through their master server (unless I’m missing something stupid) and I replicated the 404 for Fluxer’s self-hosting documentation seen in the video, so it’s looking like I’m leaning toward a Matrix server of some kind. Hopefully everyone looking for the Discord exit ramp is closer to finding it after this video.

Same for me.

The moment I can use Docker, I’m spinning it up with Tailscale and invite those who are ready to swap.

Fingers crossed it turns out as good as we hope!

I think Matrix is the most suitable alternative. For me at least. The Element web and desktop app is almost on level with discord and on matrix.org and other popular instances you get element call too.

Since Discord announced they’re going to help Petie T collect selfies of us all I’ve been working on a self hosted alternative mostly for my mates. I had five goals in mind when I started this:

• Text Channels
• Voice channels
• Screen Sharing
• End to end encrypted DMs
• Able to run on pretty much any web hosting

I’ve reached that point now and figured why not slap the GPL on it and send it out into the wild.

I’m sure there’ll be lots of bugs and I don’t think it will scale well. I never set out to make something that would grow into a behemoth that’s used for customer support and all sorts of shit.

The goal was to make something that covers that trifecta of text/voice/screensharing, without relying on P2P connectivity, and able to do it well for small groups of people.

There are more features I have in mind if it gets any interest:

• Rate limiting on backend requests
• Quasar app with the ability to add more than one server (the frontend is already built in Quasar and I started writing some code for it but I’m mostly building this for myself + friends where I host my own instance so I’ve not given it much attention)

So yeah, I’m not a professional dev, this is a hobby for me. Would be cool to see if anyone manages to get it running.

Read my post history here for why I think matrix is a bag of crap. 😅

Problem: There are 13 incompatible chat platforms
Solution: Combine use cases into a single chat platform
Problem: There are 14 incompatible chat platforms.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.nocturnal.garden/post/552459

For a hobby of mine, there’s an outdated lore wiki on Fandom. I dislike Fandom and would like to host an alternative. It’s supposed to be accessible to all kinds of people.

I started with mediawiki as that’s what Fandom and Wikipedia are using, so people would be familiar with page structures at least and maybe the editor.

It turned out to be a bit of a pain though. It only has unofficial container images, the documentation is outdated and (what I consider as) core functionality like WYSIWYG editor or simple infoboxes has to be added by extensions or templates. I’m in the process of setting it all up and wondering if it’s worth it (and if I want to maintain it). There’s so many wiki projects it’s hard to keep track, what are y’all using for stuff that’s used by larger communities and simple to use with close-to-default settings?

Not at all! I did poke around some random pages after you helped me, sorry I didn’t come back to my. Thanks for sharing the update, I’m keen to see how you’re using DW.

Judging by how productive I’ve been just in the last 8 hours, I’d say going from Mediawiki to Dokuwiki was a good choice. I’m not even sure why. DW still uses markup instead of a WYSIWYG editor, which I’m fine with. I think it’s the namespaces. MW does have them, but you have to set them up with a config file on the server, and adding and removing them cannot be done lightly. With DW it’s as easy as searching for new_namespace:some_new_article, and the namespace is created along with the article. So I have a scratchpad namespace where I can work on drafts, a stories namespace to put my attempts at creative writing, a lore namespace for, well, canonized lore tidbits, and so on. And I don’t need to worry about names colliding like I did with MW where lore articles and story titles often conflicted.

DW lets you use hierarchy when it works, and loose categories (tags) when it doesn’t (with the tags plugin that is). With MW you just have categories but no hierarchy. Bookstack is the opposite. It forces you to use its shelf>book>chapter>page organization system. It does have tags, too, but you can’t have pages outside of books, and the pages have an explicit order. You can fairly easily change that order, but it’s always there.

Back to DokuWiki, the blog plugin has proven invaluable over the last few days. I can jot down ideas as blog entries and push them to the main lore namespace if I think they’re worth keeping.

Continuwuity - a self-hostable Matrix Homeserver - just got a new release.

Sorry, but I find it immature of you to judge a book by its cover.

Fully within your right.

Hi. I’m kinda of a noob in the world of self-hosting and matrix, for that matter. But I was wondering how heavy is it to host a matrix server?

My understanding how matrix works is each participating server in the room stores the full history and then later some sort of merging happens or something like that.

How is that sustainable? Say in 5 years matrix becomes mainstream and 5 people join my server and each also join 3 different 10k+ people rooms with long histories. So now what I have to account for that or people have to be careful of joining larger rooms when they sign up in a smaller-ish server?

Or do I not understand how Matrix works? Thanks.

Its not “targeted at old school”, its an open, extensible protocol.

If devs focused on extending the protocol instead of building an app to handle things like this, it could do it.

Mucking about with dozens of extensions instead of just installing an app seems pretty old skool, lol, brings me back to bbs life

suggestions to improve appreciated!

i download it at beginning of the week, convert to ical, a bit inconvinient, thinking of writing a script to automate it

Still the same, a starter home page.

PodOsef is an MP3-first podcast publishing system: drop MP3s into a folder, it generates HTML + RSS. No DB, the MP3 metadata is the source of truth. Also supports an archive mode that watches a main feed and mirrors episodes. Repo + write-up:

https://meirz.net/2026/02/22/podosef-mp3-first-lightweight-simple-podcast-publishing-system/

Thank you.

After feedback on artwork, one of my friends gave me new artwork for the podOsef. I updated the post and source code.