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Love it, have 0 complaints! I got DS220+
Happy w my DS-220+ too
Thanks!
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I understand that HN hates crypto but calling everything a ponzi scheme is just absurd. They just made a currency to pay users with.
The home made currency is the ponzi scheme.
I don't see how it's a scam or ponzi scheme. It's completely opt in. You don't put in any money yourself. There is no referral nonsense.
It's just a little token they pay you with should you decide to turn on ads. It's actually a rather interesting cryptocurrency given that it's actually being used for something.
BAT is even traded at Binance. At the height of the cryptocurrency bull market, it was worth almost 2 US dollars.
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Do you expose things like photos/videos/pdfs through a public web server? I thought about using Yacy for something similar, but wasn't sure about wanting to just leave everything available unauthenticated on the local network.
I've configured my web server so that it's accessible over the Internet, but only if you have a client certificate issued from my certificate authority.
Any pointers on how do this at home? It’s the basic premise of “zero trust” but also managing phones etc seems a pain for home use.
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#84Recently installed YaCy on my Synology via docker image the provide. Already saved about 10Gb of content interesting to me. Now, I have a personal Search Engine. Awesome.
Off-topic, but how do you like Synology? I'm familiar with one of their units for work, but I'm looking into a new NAS for my home, and I'm trying to decide between Synology or building my own and putting Nextcloud on it.
Not OP but counter to what everyone else said, I don’t like mine. I bought the cheapest one available when it was on sale. It validated I wanted a NAS but it was too weak. Any usage would be slow and all the apps dragged it down. The apps are nice with how easy it is to install and get working, but if you wanna use it as a server not just NAS… you get what you pay for.
I still use it but plan to build a server this winter and gift the synology yo my father.
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Grearly depends on what you are expecting from it. After $300 per unit S. has only two advantages: 1. Form-factor: you can build a comparable small enough unit from OTC/OTS parts but usually it costs at least $200 more 2. Basic functionality (ie filesharing eg with SMB) just works, with a nice webgui to configure it. If you need something more...
Expectations: file/photo sync, media server, ad blocking (Pi-hole). I saw that Synology has first-party apps for most of this (Synology Drive, Moments, Video).
> file/photo sync
It's photo app is NPM garbage. Sure, I have an ancient ds115j (armv7@800Mhz, 256Mb RAM), but I couldn't use it.
But despite it's ancient-ness I was able to update it to the latest Synology OS (DSM), which tells how S. is supporting their products.
So be sure to get a version with enough RAM, I would go for 2Gb+ versions in your place, so avoid ds220j and ds218play, look at ds218 (without 'play' suffix) or ds220+. Oops, their site says VMM is supported only on DS220+, so I think you have no choice there, but 220+ has an additional memory slot, which could be handy.
For literally $300[1] you can't do better.
However, there is a way to install DSM on non-Synology hardware, so if have a desktop PC to run it I would advise for you to test it out.
[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/products?chassis=Desktop&...
[1] https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1570595-REG/synology_...
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I like Synology a lot but mainly use it for storage/backup. It's a very expensive way to host containers IMO. I would look to a Mac Mini for something like that.
Thanks. My main use-cases are file/photo syncing, media server, etc. I saw that Synology has first-party apps for those things, so that would be the main draw for me.
Even as a media server I personally find it too expensive to buy one that can handle 4K transcoding, frequently needed for subtitles. I just use Synology to server the files and run Plex on a separate machine.
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#87It's interesting that this uses a distributed P2P index. That's a very good idea and one of the things that has held me back from even thinking about trying to build my own tech-focused search engine. One thing I was hoping to see in the FAQ was how they prevent rogue nodes from inserting spam or other kinds of mischief into the public index.
I doubt that it is a problem yet but if I were i charge of building a solution to said problem I would try to build a distributed trust system where bad nodes could be flagged and that flag spread to the rest of the network. Those that trust your node would lower the trust ranking of the flagged nodes the more flags against them the lower the ranking the rouge node would get.
Unless node identity were stable, which doesn't match my mental model of "crypto," then flagging Node 0x42e7a28dd454 doesn't prevent the Node owner from just starting a new one. See also: reddit spam accounts
For something as dynamic as "fetch HTML into the index," that actually turns into a really hard problem to solve since there's for sure not one agreed upon "correct" answer, and even with "the html must differ only by ${foo}%" or whatever, the amount a malicious actor would need to alter HTML to achieve bad outcomes is actually comparatively small
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Self plug - If you want to skip bookmarking and go straight to indexing, I have a firefox extension for it - https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it
> Adds the current webpage to the local YACY index. This assumes you are running YaCy in localhost:8090. Is there a way to use this plugin with an instance of Yacy hosted somewhere other than localhost? I tried making a bookmarklet to do something similar, but never ended up getting it working.
They seem to have a configuration option for it: https://github.com/tecoholic/yacy-it/blob/main/options.html#... but that file isn't present in the most recent tag, so it's possible it just needs a release or you'd need to build the extension from source
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#89I've looked on the website but can't find the answer... Can YaCy index SMB file shares?
It certainly seems so, based on jcifs: https://github.com/yacy/yacy_search_server/blob/master/sourc...
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Thanks. My main use-cases are file/photo syncing, media server, etc. I saw that Synology has first-party apps for those things, so that would be the main draw for me.
Even as a media server I personally find it too expensive to buy one that can handle 4K transcoding, frequently needed for subtitles. I just use Synology to server the files and run Plex on a separate machine.
Ah, I see. Roughly what kind of hardware do you need for 4K transcoding? (Sorry if it's a beginner question, this is totally new to me.)