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mekster··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Biggest problem being not being able to paste much of the complicated code found online. You can save it and run it via bash command though.

oh my zsh can recreate much of the fish functionality while maintaining good bash interoperability.

mekster··on N8n raises $180M
You could let your team mates to star as well.
mekster··on The End of Tt-Rss.org
NextCloud news did just fine as a replacement.
mekster··on PuTTY has a new website
Come on, AI can make a better looking site in 10 minutes these days.
mekster··on Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS
I haven't tried the app yet but I have managed Linux servers for 20 years and still think this app can be pretty useful.

You can use whatever tools to set up the initial state of a server using this app.

mekster··on Show HN: ServerBuddy – GUI SSH client for managing Linux servers from macOS
Tell me how you use Ansible to check cron jobs, docker container states and read logs.
mekster··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Use SeaTable.

Rows can be very flexible and I've been using it for years for my to-do list (also issue tracker on smaller projects) and it works very well.

Works well on mobile as well.

mekster··on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
How do you mean can’t be sure if it recovers? It’s not hoping for inconsistent states to be recovered by the db but they’re supposed to be in good state with file system snapshotting.

https://serverfault.com/a/806305

https://zrepl.github.io/v0.2.1/configuration/snapshotting.ht...

mekster··on Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project (2024)
Since when did LAMP go down? Maybe only Apache is getting less popular but still has no problem.
mekster··on Borg – Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption
How is the performance for both?

Last time I used restic a few years ago, it choked on not so large data set with high memory usage. I read Borg doesn't choke like that.

mekster··on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
For regular DB like MySQL/PostgreSQL, just snapshot on zfs without thinking.
mekster··on Make Your Own Backup System – Part 1: Strategy Before Scripts
3-2-1 analogy is old. We have infinite flexibility on where we can put data unlike before cloud servers existed.

I'd at least have file system snapshots locally for easy recovery in case of manual mistakes, have it copied at a remote location using implementation A and let it snapshot there too, copy same amount on another location using implementation B and let it snapshot there too, so not only you'd have durability, implementation bugs on a backup process can also be mitigated.

zfs is a godsend for this and I use Borg as secondary implementation, which seems enough for almost any disasters.

mekster··on Incus – Next-generation system container, application container, and VM manager
Not to mention the easy to use web UI.
mekster··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
Why not?

I have unbound with upstream set to 1.1.1.1 and 9.9.9.9.

mekster··on Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
Which one is as feature packed as Pangolin with a working web UI?
mekster··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
Who are looking up PTR records?

54.in-addr.arpa looks to be Amazon's range and there are several others.

mekster··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
This just shows that domain is incorporated not just in documents but on systems that actually trigger accessing it all over the world.
mekster··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
Isn't part of the reasons to run a public DNS to sell these hard earned info for profit to marketers etc but they just release publicly? Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg of the information they gather.

Really interesting to know though.

Some just look way high up and could mean buggy implementation without proper cache usage or persistently banging the domain.

mekster··on Top DNS domains seen on the Quad9 recursive resolver array each day
So are YouTube, Wikipedia and GitHub.
mekster··on Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
You found it early enough. I guess it's not even 1 year old.
mekster··on Show HN: Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
What can you even do if you can't trust a VPS provider?
mekster··on Kea 3.0, our first LTS version
Back then, I used ISC's DHCP server, but nowadays you have other options like AdGuard Home which includes a nice web UI that is simpler to manage than just a daemon implementation.
mekster··on Show HN: Somo – a human friendly alternative to netstat
How is it possible to live without aliases? Typing the original command every time, even though history lookup may help, would totally ruin me.

I have `netstat -lntpu` aliased as `nst`. (Along with `s` as `sudo`.)

mekster··on OxiCloud – lightweight alternative to Nextcloud file sharing (Rust)
Sure. Most of the third party plugins are a joke that barely work or have serious UI problem and the core is like amateur work finally stitched together to work.

Recently Stalwart got a grant to work on adding WebDAV, CalDAV and CardDAV and I’m looking forward for their progress as they seem to be talented by the look of their email server implementation. Hopefully they can develop good client side software too if it’s in their scope but slightly worried that their scope is getting rather big to be a replacement of the Exchange environment.

https://stalw.art/blog/nlnet-grant-collaboration/

mekster··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
You mean privacy.
mekster··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers
You’re leaking all the domain you’re accessing? Are all your data in clouds that are scanned for AI training etc? All your email are belongs to the big corps? By now they know about yourself more than you do. You’re not the one missing, you’re just giving it away.
mekster··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
My zfs never broke under Ubuntu and installation is easy by installing 1 package.
mekster··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
I have had BSD as my router for a few years in the past and used Linux for a few decades but I never got this “BSD is cleaner” argument. Linux has man pages and Google gives you plenty more practical resources when in doubt and nothing felt unstable compared to “BSD is more tightly integrated” statement.

Lack of community resource such as documents, blogs, StackOverflow answers and docker ecosystem just drove me away from BSD as I lose nothing by using Linux. The only thing I miss could be OpenBSD’s pf.

mekster··on Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)
Ubuntu can have zfs with an install of a package.

BSD’s inability to utilize docker ecosystem had me decided to stick with Ubuntu for a decade, unless things change and BSD gets clear advantages over Linux.

mekster··on When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via SSH (2022)
Use trash-cli and additionally git commit the target if you’re nervous before deletion.
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