The article gives a small number of self-hosted examples. Heres some more https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
Self-Host All the Things?
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree with your modern definition. Spam to me is unsolicited commercial emails. All email "ads" are spam. Newsletters I didn't subscribe to are spam. Anything trying to sell me something I didn't subscribe to is spam. You bet I'm going to mark it as spam and I hope it creates trouble for the sender. PS: I assume we all agree scams, "Russian singles", chain letters, "little Jessica is 4 and dying of cancer", etc,…
The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters. Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam. We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute…
> why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam?
5% seems to be about the noise floor of any human activity. Mistakes, carelessness, ignorance, stupidity, mental illnesses. You can’t assume any rhyme or reason for it.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
How much power does it take? I've realized with some services it's cheaper to use it than the electricity and hardware cost.
For homelab or self hosting, Power per watt is my favourite measure now. Depending on your need (many apps just idle most of the time) a usff pc can make an excellent proxmox server. Check out a Lenovo m920q, Dell Optiplex 7060, HP EliteDesk or ProDesk 800 series. They are easy enough to bump to 64G of ram and stack up as you need. The 8700T cpu is a desktop grade in a small shell and watt footprint and also has vpro…
The M1 Mac mini with linux will probably end up being the best self hosting hardware.
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
For accounting purposes the bank receipt will rarely have the details needed for tax (eg in Australia that don't include the ABN).
The vast majority of the things I buy don't need receipts to be kept and reported for tax. It's personal stuff like a streaming subscription, a book or a game. And the times I have tried to claim expenses as work related (in Australia) that I bought online I have run into the problem that the receipt provided by the company is ambiguous (not sufficient by itself) because amounts were just specified with a $ symbol in…
> have run into the problem that the receipt provided by the company is ambiguous (not sufficient by itself) because amounts were just specified with a $ symbol instead of USD/AUD
Claiming expenses is different to tax requirements. With tax you need the receipt as a record, but the general ledger actually records the amount in whatever currency you use.
For expense claims every company does it differently.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Incredible. The usual response to "should I host my own email" is "don't do it; you'll get hacked." Three questions: 1. Have you heard of this complaint? 2. Do you use a home ISP connection, or a commercial ISP connection? A "home ISP connection" here usually comes with a dynamic IP address; you can't get your hands on a static address without paying a very large amount monthly or getting a commercial connection. 3.…
1. Yes, most people will tell you not to host your own email, because its too complicated/difficult to get your mail delivered reliably. A lot of this is FUD. Yes, email is a bit more difficult to get right than say, hosting a web app behind Nginx. It's an old protocol, with many "features" bolted on years later to combat spam. I'm not sure how email is easier to "hack," unless there is a zero day in Postfix or somet…
Thanks for the info. This all sounds pretty reasonable.
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#136Its better to design, implement, and use local-first software: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
Very cool, and interesting that Martin Kleppmann of DDIA is an author. I am glad to come across this - I was brainstorming such a manifesto, now I can use this as a resource. One local first that I recently switched to is migrating from ynab.com to my own Libre Calc spreadsheets. It took a few days to figure out all the formulas, but now I have even more control over how I track my budget.
Interested in sharing?
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
The annoyance I felt that I was a “good” postmaster and I was punished as a part of being from a tribe of bad postmasters. Google et al. can’t tell the difference when you hit spam. We never bought or sold any email lists, we went out of our way to ensure you wanted to be on the list- we made it single link with no extra checkbox or button to unsubscribe, we emailed only occasionally and above all we did our absolute…
> why the hell are people marking the receipts for things they bought as spam? 5% seems to be about the noise floor of any human activity. Mistakes, carelessness, ignorance, stupidity, mental illnesses. You can’t assume any rhyme or reason for it.
I've heard this referred to as the "lizardman's constant" at 4%. Ie that 4% of people will respond with a trolling, malicious, or simply accidental wrong answer to any given survey question.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you backup offsite? if not, in the event of a fire, your data will live under your "poof!"
I have some automation that does a weekly archive of everything important to a ZFS-based NAS. Home directories are also stored there over NFS, with hourly/weekly/monthly snapshots. Once a month or so, I plug in two separate 5TB external HDDs and run a backup script that rsync's everything to each one (2 is 1 and 1 is none). These are stored outside my home. I should probably get some kind of cloud-based / encrypted b…
https://www.rsync.net/ does ZFS receives, so you can send those encrypted / without unlocking.
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#139Why isnt this a more widespread business model? DIY is "fun" but streamlining everything for the average household would have a much bigger audience. Offer a linux distro that is customized to provide from a menu of self-hosted services (with as little pain as possible), along with a subscription for support.
Could be offered as an extra service by the ISP provider or partners or entirely independent.
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#140> which honestly kind of upset me a lot I've seen this language more and more frequently: minimized (kind of) + maximized (a lot) qualifiers. No real insight, just interesting.
In terms of annoying-once-you-notice-it idioms, should readers assume dishonesty on all other statements made by people that prefix only some small subset of their claims with 'Honestly ...' and 'To be honest ...'?