Elvith Ma'for

Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.

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  • There are many layers and interpretations of confidence there that you mix up. I’m assuming this works somewhat like where I live. Its the confidence that the government is in a functional state/working somewhat efficient vs the confidence of fair elections. There are mamy ways where parties can essentially block progress or the government in general. That’s somewhat fine and can be an important instrument to use (especially when in the opposition). But that doesn’t necessarily mean that the people causing it want to get rid of fair and free elections. Some kind of “shutdowns” and other grind locks can be very detrimental to a government and there need to be a mechanic to be able to solve them. In this case: We have no confidence the current parliament with the current distribution of seats is working as it should be. We tried everything, we need to restart.

    Since it’s a quite drastic process, it’s not something invoked lightly.










  • There are some projects, that do not offer latest or a general tag to pin a major version. So you might need to account for that.

    Also since a few years ago you can specify pull_policy: always in the docker-compose.yaml to always pull the images on start. That should at least auto update the containers on a server reboot after OS/Kernel updates.







  • Other than Friendica, Mastodon, Matrix, PeerTube and PieFed, what’s worth running

    Maybe Nextcloud (not only for storage, but also calendar, video conferences, office, when combined with Collabora,…)? Also Immich (basically Google Photos) comes to mind. Your own instance of SearXNG.

    Any kind of ToDo-list, Kanban board, …?

    A ticketing system?

    A Wiki to host your documentation? Note, that you may want to access it if the server fails, so…

    Some stack of components around Grafana or such to visualize some data? Since you mentioned Hetzner, I’m guessing you’re from Germany. You could build a small container, ingest the gas prices that the gas station are required to publish and build a dashboard for the gas prices in your area? (Hint, here’s an API licensed under Creative Commons - https://creativecommons.tankerkoenig.de/ )



  • My journey:

    Had some form of Linux for a long time. Either in a VM (Oracle Virtual Box, then switched to S HyperV for compatibility reasons as I had Windows Pro anyways) or sometimes as dual boot.

    Then came WSL which eased some things and complicated others. What this makes really easy is to start and play around with docker containers on your PC.

    Then I experimented with Linux in a VM and put docker and other software there to practice.

    Up until here, there were no costs involved (besides having Windows Pro, but depending on where you get your windows key, there’s not a real difference between pro and home anyways…).

    After that I got my own VPS. As much as I don’t like AWS, Google Cloud (GCP), Azure and such, they usually offer a very small VPS for free and these can be a good point to start. If you want to really go and host things, it can be beneficial to look for a hoster that isn’t one of the big 3 cloud providers and pay for a VPS there.

    For hosting at home: You could start with a raspberry pi, but looking at current prices, you usually get more flexibility and bang for the buck by buying a refurbished mini PC or repurposing an old notebook/PC. You can just put Yunohost or Proxmox on it and get going.