https://piefed.social/u/Rekall_Incorporated posted on Mar 3, 2026 16:14
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
The scary part of this is that they have all the time in the world to perfect this while my Reddit comments are just sitting there, waiting.
And now you understand why they are pushing for my butt data centers everywhere.
So they can spy on everyone, figure out who is talking about what, and have it quickly identified and summarized, at all times.
Don’t just imagine this being about you and your own nothing to hide.
This is about squashing dissent, lying to voters/hiding vote manipulation, manufacturing consent, corporate espionage/market manipulation, basically anything you can think of that having advanced knowledge of would benefit them.
There is a reason they named the company Palantir.
My goal is to to fully ditch Google Photos for Immich. I have about ~3TB of photos and videos. Looking for a super simple way of backing up the library to cloud storage in case of a drive failure.
Ideally, this will require nothing on my part besides copying files into a given folder. And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.
Also if it matters my home server is running Debian.
I think they are analogous. If you like your setup keep using it ;)
JFYI - after many years of trusting Borg with my backups, I found Kopia to be MUCH faster, in both snapshots creation time and browsing/diffing. I backup my whole home every 6 hours, so going from ~20min down to ~3min is an appreciable win. There’s also a web endpoint to Kopia that may make backing up on the go easier when you can’t trust your tunnel to home.
Microsoft is probably managing the Discord server to the best of their CoPilot recommendations.
Baned!
Hi,
I want to make some of my services (like Nextcloud, Immich, Komga, Jellyfin and FreshRSS for example) on my home server easier accessible from remote. For that I want to use a VPS where I install Nginx and Wireguard on it and establish a VPN connection between it and my homeserver. So far so good.
My first question: For the services that I don’t want to expose for remote access over that setup, can I just keep my Nginx instance that I have running now for these services. For example my budgeting service is available under finance.example.com as long as I’m in the same network as my home server right now. Would that still be possible when I have 2 Nginx instances running (one on the VPS and one on the home server directly) or would I need to configure it differently for that to work?
My second question:
Do I need to install Fail2Ban on my VPS or can I also install it on my homeserver?
Install yes, configure not really.
It has to be setup therefore it has to be configured.
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
Have you been rocking an old classic? Discovering something new? Revisiting some nostalgic bands from the past?
If you’ve got links, post ‘em up!
A fun tool for discovering new bands: https://www.music-map.com/
A friend of mine sent me some of his his recent find, Seb Lowe. A bit on the nose for me, but catchy.
Been listening to early In Flames, before they turned alt metal.
While I couldn’t possibly choose between Clayman (2000) and Colony (1999) for a prolonged period of time, these 2 albums have really shaped my music tastes.
As for the past week, I can’t stop listening to Colony. It’s just too good. If you want a sample, the most well-known song is Zombie Inc. Failing that, I really recommend Colony (the track).
Trump’s bizarre pronunciation of the word “soldier.”
is it referring to something real?
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Really? Have not noticed anything, but will check metrics at home… And thanks!
Looks like it’s back up, may have been a temp issue.
The kernel can wait. Kernels are good at that.
My guess is it’s an Independent Beer Maker.
