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Ooooh! Totally not useless, but I have a version of this.
I have a cheap, but powerful, amp for the home audio system, and discovered it burns out if left perpetually on (yeah, I’m on my third). So I got a wall switch that’s turned off after 10 minutes of no audio streaming to that snapclient.
All year? Please tell me “Halloween eyes” is just “scary eyes” and that you do this all year.
Interesting. Our sensors don’t see the cats. Unless I place once of the basement ones directly opposite the stairs; it can apparently see them if they’re a couple of feet away at sensor eye level.
But the one that sees people in the kitchen doesn’t see the cats on the counters when they get up there in the night.
I think if they saw the cats, I’d have to figure something else out, because our’s get everywhere.
My recommendation is to put all of the variables in an environment file, and use systemd’s EnvironmentFile (in [] to point to it.
One of my backup service files (I back up to disks and cloud) looks like this:
[Unit]
Description=Backup to MyUsbDrive
Requires=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
After=media-MyUsbDrive.mount
[Service]
EnvironmentFile=/etc/backup/environment
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/restic backup --tag=prefailure-2 --files-from ${FILES} --exclude-file ${EXCLUDES} --one-file-system
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.timer
FILES is a file containing files and directories to be backed up, and is defined in the environment file; so is EXCLUDES, but you could simply point restic at the directory you want to back up instead.
My environment file looks essentially like
RESTIC_REPOSITORY=/mnt/MyUsbDrive/backup
RESTIC_PASSWORD=blahblahblah
KEEP_DAILY=7
KEEP_MONTHLY=3
KEEP_YEARLY=2
EXCLUDES=/etc/backup/excludes
FILES=/etc/backup/files
If you’re having trouble, start by looking at how you’re passing in the password, and whether it’s quoted properly. It’s been a couple of years since I had this issue, but at one point I know I had spaces in a passphrase and had quoted the variable, and the quotes were getting passed in verbatim.
My VPS backups are more complex and get their passwords from a keystore, but for my desktop I keep it simple.
I hope this isn’t a step towards replacing the native app with an SPA.
This seriously got an out-loud chuckle from me. It’s funny, because it’s true! Thanks!
Sourcehut also supports Mercurial, so you also have an option to the herd mentality.
Sourcehut also has zero, or almost zero, JavaScript in the interface, so it doesn’t suck
Sourcehut is also componentized, so you can mix and match the pieces you want or need:
Sourcehut is by far the best hosted VCS option at the moment. The Mercurial support alone puts it miles ahead of the others, which are all hobbled by tight coupling to git.
Are China Parties like Tupperware Parties, where friends get together and one shills a pyramid scheme? That’s what CP is, right?
E2E usually suffers from the same thing HTTP does: the MITM might not be able to read what you’re saying, but they know who you’re saying it to, and they may know in what context. This is a lot of information that can be used in profiling.
So you end up with systems like SimpleX, where everyone has a different UID for every contact, but that has its own problems, as anyone who’s used systems like that are aware. We haven’t really solved making that a good user experience for messaging; I don’t see it translating to broader social media any time soon.
Nostr has some really good specs and tooling that neatly addresses these topics, including great cryptography support, signing, ad-hoc IDs, and an entirely voluntary simple naming lookup; it doesn’t exactly solve zooko’s triangle, but it provides a toolset sufficient to mix and match characteristics for whatever your threat model is. Sadly, Nostr is utterly dominated by the crypto crowd (and is associated with some controversial personalities), and even if you’re not cryptocurrency-hostile, it’s a really dull echo chamber with little other content that has prevented people who might otherwise build interesting platforms in it from doing so.
Mastodon was around for ages before (the in practice centralized) Bluesky; why did it take Bluesky to open a mass exodus from X?
This is a hard problem to solve. Throwing E2E at it doesn’t make it easier; it’s just tossing a buzzword in.
What do you mean by “all right?” What are your concerns?
restic backups are encrypted by default; it should be safe to store them almost anywhere in the cloud. The container needs the credentials, but you can improve security with something like OpenBAO (Hashicorp Vauly fork, github.com/openbao/openbao), SOPS (gitgub.com/getsops/sops), infisical (github.com/Infisical/infisical), or any number of other secrets management tool.
Why don’t you like LDAP? OpenLDAP is a PITA (necessarily, I guess, to be considered “enterprise”), but lldap has been pretty nice to me. I mean, it’s the identity protocol, it’s just that the server software has been complex until relatively recently.
What would you use instead? A SQL DB with some custom schema, that just re-invents LDAP?
I like the motivation behind this, but have a allergy to running critical infrastructure like authentication on node.
To each their own, though, and good luck with the project. Diversity is life.
Do any of you know another solution to stream audio from my phone to my server
I use snapcast throughout my house and devices, but there’s no snap_server_ for Android.
I’ve been meaning to try roc, for which there is an Android client that will both play and serve.
Sonobus also claims to be many:many; I haven’t tried it either and it doesn’t look particularly active.
I don’t use UPnP or DLNA because of the security issues, so I can’t offer a suggestion about that. I thought DLNA was a pull oriented protocol - like, to send music from your phone you’d have to select and play on your computer with a DLNA client. Can you push media with DLNA?
None necessary, but thanks.
Lamenting that a phone or tablet can’t use zwave for networking is really strange.
It would be, if anyone were doing that.
So Thread is a low-power radio, and Matter is the protocol? Does it is the same frequency ranges - 2.4 and 5 GHz? Or does it have a different spectrum? One of the reasons I chose zwave initially was because the standard allows far more devices in the spectrum than ZigBee, and WiFi crowding is already an issue with only all of the phones, tablets, computers, and devices that I couldn’t get in zwave.
I also have the prompt set to the host name. I’ve never understood why people included their usernames; I don’t log in to more than one account on each machine.
How are the battery lives of your devices? I have motion sensors throughout my house connected via zwave, and I replace their button batteries about every 18 months. Does Matter run over a low energy technology?
As long as it isn’t github.
It’s not pointless, but needlessly silly: as part of the alarm system, in addition to the standard siren, the home audio system turns on and plays Rockwell’s “Somebody’s Watching Me” at full volume.
At 7pm on school nights, one of a number of versions of “Hushabye Mountain” is played, if music isn’t already playing.