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Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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Kasm [1] also has ready-to-use images that work similar. They are also customizable to contain own applications or configuration. Intended to be used with their Kasm Workspaces solution, but they also work standalone just fine. [1] https://hub.docker.com/u/kasmweb

The images described in the original post are Kasm based: https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop/#options-in...

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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Just put up basic auth infront of your services and be done with it.

Good luck when the TCP or SSL stack has an issue. These bugs are rare but they do exist and you're getting fucked royally if your entire perimeter defense was a basic auth prompt. Windows and Linux have both had their fair share of network stack bugs, OpenSSL had Heartbleed and a few other bugs, and hell you might even run into bugs in Apache or whatever other webserver you are using.

It would have taken several days to heartbleed your private key in 2013 if you also added fail2ban. Your home lab probably isn't on the high priority target list.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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> The only reason I don't have it set up is because I made the mistake of closing my free teir oracle cloud thinking I could spin up a fresh new instance and since then I haven't been able to get the free teir again. People are automating the process of requesting new arm instances on free tier [1]. You would find it near impossible to compete without playing same game [1] https://github.com/mohankumarpaluru/oracle-f…

Well, I know what I’m doing tomorrow when I get up.

I had the same thing happen to me. I tried running a script for a month without luck (Sydney region). What did work was adding a credit card to upgrade to a paid account - no issues launching an instance, and it's still covered under the free tier.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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But you can have Obsidian access from any device already if you easily setup syncing using the official method (and support the project by doing so) or one of the community plugins. Doing it this normal way avoids opening up a massive security hole too.

* any device you have admin rights to install software on, they are talking about being able to log in from any computer, not just their own It surprises and annoys me that obsidian, logseq, etc don't have self hosted web front ends available. I think logseq will once they wrap up the db fork, and maybe someday we'll have nuclear fusion powerplants too.

Ahhh that makes perfect sense, thank you. I'm so used to always having my phone this didn't even cross my mind.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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My pipedream is to have a containerized desktop environment like this that outputs directly to a physical monitor over HDMI/DP without needing an X server on the host machine. So far I haven't found any clear answers on whether that's possible at all.

My desktop environment does exactly this: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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My pipedream is to have a containerized desktop environment like this that outputs directly to a physical monitor over HDMI/DP without needing an X server on the host machine. So far I haven't found any clear answers on whether that's possible at all.

I feel I've been nerdsniped or, some other term for your quest being contagious, I also now need to know if this is possible I found a thread from someone who seems to know what they're talking about saying it's not going to happen "on your hardware", but doesn't mention what hardware might be required https://forum.level1techs.com/t/can-intel-integrated-gpu-out... Edit actually reading that link again it sounds like…

This runs with on all hardware with no X server on the host: https://github.com/sabrehagen/desktop-environment

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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What the heck is the webtop logo? Am I just dense? I can't make out what its supposed to be? Maybe a penguin somewhere in there, but... I dunno. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxserver/docker-templat...

Looks to me like an AI generated Firefox-ish logo with a Linux / Penguin motif to replace the Fox motif.

Re: Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs

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I've done that in the past, even for securing the admin pages of some software (there was once an issue where the admin page auth could be bypassed, this essentially adds another layer). With TLS it's okay for getting something up and running quickly. Of course, for the things that matter a bit more, you can also run your own CA and do mTLS, even without any of the other fancy cloud services.

After coming across a brief tutorial of mTLS in this tool for locking down access to my family photo sharing [0] I have bounced around the internet following various guides but haven't ended up with a pfx file that I can install in a browser. Can you recommend any resource to understand which keys sign what, and what a client certificate is verified against? The guides I find often contain the openssl incantations wi…

Honestly, the most approachable way will be to use something like Keystore Explorer: https://keystore-explorer.org/

Alternatively, this guide focuses on Apache2 configuration but also goes through the certs https://www.openlogic.com/blog/mutual-authentication-using-a... (it’s a little dated though)

Here’s also something a bit more recent for Nginx https://darshit.dev/posts/two-way-ssl-nginx/

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