Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Self-Host All the Things?

tedium.co

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

221–230 of 295 posts

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#221

Post by triyambakam »

triyambakam wrote: post #74
fabianhjr wrote: post #43

Its 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.

bordercases - I can't reply to your comment, it's dead.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#222

Post by dijit »

chillfox wrote: post #219
dijit wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When I buy something in a physical store they have the decency to ask if I want a receipt. I don't understand why that's such a hard concept for online stores/services to get, ask me if I want a receipt 2 things though. 1) Your goods arent given to you at point of sale with online transactions. what happens then if it doesn't show up? tracking numbers aren’t always generated on the fly (it depends mostly on the pos…

1) A lot of the things I buy are electronic, so yes, I get them immediately at point of sale. And if that's not the case then how about asking me if I would like an email with a tracking number when it ships? 2) I have never had to show an email as proof when returning something, usually they know damn well that I bought and paid for it. In general it seems like you are conflating all the different kinds of email as…

Im not understanding something here.

if you buy something online, IE via an ecommerce site like aliexpress or amazon, how do you get a receipt if you dont have an account.

returning an item requires a receipt in the majority of cases unless the product ships directly with a return label.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#224

Post by triyambakam »

r1cka wrote: post #169
triyambakam wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Care to share your Libre Calc spreadsheet formulas?

I'd be glad to, but I'm not sure yet how helpful it would be to do so here, without just sharing the full spreadsheet. Which I would need to clean up and anonymize first. It may be very particular to my needs. I drew inspiration from many other "YNAB spreadsheets" (searching reddit etc.) I can say that learning the SUMIFS formula to sum the relevant transactions for a given envelope was a big key to making it work well. The other details are polish around it. I'm afraid that this might not come across very clear. I found that the more that I desired a certain feature and searched for how to do it in Excel or Google Sheets (or Libre Calc, but there is less specific resources for that) then it gave me the next bit that I needed.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#225

Post by thr717272 »

dijit wrote: post #15
Nextgrid wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, if people are marking your emails as spam frequently enough to get your IPs/domains blacklisted then it suggests the system is working as designed and you shouldn’t be sending whatever you’re sending to those people.

Nah, about 2% of my "Thank you for ordering, here is your receipt" mails also get marked as spam. Some number of people just smack the "spam" button for nearly everything that is automated, and those "spam" buttons seem to work on absolute numbers not percentages; so if you have a high number of people in the pool then you will be false flagged eventually. We had a very explicit double opt-in system, made it super ea…

Can confirm. A few years ago and my coworker caught our boss using the spam button instead of delete, even on customer mails discussing (I think) an upcoming project.

He was otherwise highly functional, spoke and wrote fluently in three languages but hadn't noticed the difference between spam and delete.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#226

Post by cobertos »

zwilliamson wrote: post #129

I love self hosting. Here’s my home setup. Hardware (you don’t need much!) Mini atx tower, 8TB usable storage, Debian, AMD processor, 8GB memory Pfsense Firewall (Tailscale exit node) Plume Wi-Fi (would like to replace, owned by comcast now) Solution stack: Portainer + Docker Compose to manage everything Nextcloud Photo Prism Tailscale (remote WireGuard based access from all my devices. Integrates well with Pfsense)…

Do you find that your Matrix integrations with other services are flaky at all? Or have trouble integrating specific features from other types of chat?

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#227

Post by triyambakam »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #119
triyambakam wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the app?

It's a protocol for crowd sourced annotation data. So an example app that uses it would go something like this: Suppose you have a food allergy, and you have a reaction to something in a restaurant. You want to leave a note on that menu item "contains allergen XYZ" but you don't want to write on that menu, you want to annotate all such menus. You'd take a picture, OCR happens, some algorithm thinks about line wrappin…

Wow, fascinating. Thank you for detailing that. Do you have somewhere to follow its development?

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#228

Post by cobertos »

fareesh wrote: post #212

Is there a feasible way to self host a dropbox clone? It doesn't seem possible to match their pricing - I suspect they assume most folks won't use the GB/TB they pay for

Seafile works well as a Dropbox clone. Been using it for a couple years now without much issue. My files are replicated to my main computer and I push files from my phone to the Seafile instance over WebDAV (automatically with Autosync in Android) and download specific files through the app.

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#229

Post by ParetoOptimal »

simongray wrote: post #211
bsnnkv wrote: post #112

My experience has been that after having become comfortable with Nix, self-hosting is the path of least resistance for the majority of "mainstream" tooling where you can pick between paying for a SaaS or self-hosting. So nice to not have to deal with Docker containers to deploy (most things) anymore. I see a lot of people suggesting hosting on a VPS, but I feel that a Hetzner Auction box is often much better bang-for…

One of the main reasons I use Docker is being able to run the exact same Dockerfiles locally and in prod, with virtualisation taken care of automatically on e.g. Mac. Is Nix a viable alternative to that?

> Is Nix a viable alternative to that?

Yes, it even provides stronger reproducibility guarantees that what you build locally and what's on prod are exactly the same.

You can also build a docker container from the Nix expression, see:

https://nix.dev/tutorials/building-and-running-docker-images

If you are interested, I recommend then also checking out https://zero-to-nix.com/

Re: Self-Host All the Things?

#230

Post by flakeoil »

If you have a family and your family uses all this self-hosted stuff (backup, file storage, email etc), what would happen when you die or get a serious health issue? Do you think your spouse or kids can get the data out themselves? No-one will have a clue where the backups are, how the emails are stored, where those pics are etc. And even more difficult in case you have implemented some clever encryption and 2-factor etc.

We all think it's simple. It's just to copy the files from "that" folder on the server to your own machine or a USB disk, but it is not so easy in practice for most people. Even for someone competent it can be difficult to sort through the mess if it is not well documented.

I say this as someone who hosts the backup and all the pics on a NAS.

Post reply on HN