[Mostly resolved] Mounting NAS in linux in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[–] Nitrousoxide 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The requirement of managing an LDAP or AD directory service just to get some auth for NFS is a dealbreaker for like 99% of people. It's such a dumb protocol for the average user and was designed with only huge corporate clients in mind.

Just give people a simple password auth or let them exchange private/public keys between the devices that need to connect!

Refederating with the world? in c/support

[–] Nitrousoxide 8 points 2 years ago

For now, I'm probably going to sub to a smaller 3rd party Lemmy instance that is neither Beehaw nor lemmy.world, so I can just see everything. I don't begrudge Beehaw not wanting to spend a ton of time moderating stuff. But I'm not so thin-skinned that I'm going to get scared off by a few trolls on .world.

(DONE) PSA : Beehaw was down for a snapshot from 23:00 UTC-5 to around 23:30 UTC-5 in c/support

[–] Nitrousoxide 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How are you running Beehaw? At least on my Proxmox VMs I can take a snapshot in a few seconds thanks to ZFS having it built in and QEMU guest agent letting the host ensure the guest is properly stopped quickly.

Meta’s Twitter competitor launches on July 6th, according to the App Store in c/technology

[–] Nitrousoxide 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is bluesky also activity pub?

What matrix client are you using? in c/technology

[–] Nitrousoxide 2 points 2 years ago

Element.

Remote Community out of Sync with Beehaw federation of it in c/support

[–] Nitrousoxide 4 points 2 years ago

Ah, I see, well thank you.

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Remote Community out of Sync with Beehaw federation of it (self.support)

submitted 2 years ago by Nitrousoxide to c/support

3 comments fedilink

There are some communites I'm seeing in which the Beehaw page hasn't been updated for a couple of weeks while the actual community page on their own home has activity recently. Example: https://beehaw.org/c/selfhosted@lemmy.world/data_type/Post/sort/Active/page/1 https://lemmy.world/c/selfhosted

Our page shows the last activity 18 days ago but if you jump over there it shows a new topic only an hour ago. I don't believe they have been defederated or anything since we can still browse it at all. Any idea what's going on here?

[UserScript] Lemmy Universal Link Switcher rewrites all links to Lemmy instances everywhere to your home instance! Now rewrites post/comment links! 1.2.0 Release! in c/technology

[–] Nitrousoxide 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why are you trying to maintain an instance list? Just ask the user to input their instance URL. It will simplify the code and make it extensible to self-hosted instances and you don't have to try to list every lemmy instance in existance.

Twitter content now behind login wall? in c/tech@kbin.social

[–] Nitrousoxide 1 points 2 years ago

Too bad this also broke Nitter now as well.

Brave aims to curb practice of websites that port scan visitors in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

[–] Nitrousoxide 8 points 2 years ago

I cannot fathom what a respectable website would need with a port scan. They should normally just be listening to/broadcasting on 80/443. Is it looking to see if the normal html ports are remapped? That's the only reason I could imagine.

Fediverse Bookmarklets in c/technology

[–] Nitrousoxide 9 points 2 years ago

It's a script that you put in place of the raw url of a bookmark in your browser. For these ones here you'd make a new bookmark and past in the script there (adjusting the fediverse url for your home community so it can correctly redirect you) and it runs some (usually) javascript that manipulates the page your on in a way to direct you to the asked for location.

Its a much more lightweight way to do a single thing if that's all you're needing and since you can see the code you can also be sure, unlike a chrome plugin, that it's not doing other weird stuff.

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Fediverse Bookmarklets (self.technology)

submitted 2 years ago by Nitrousoxide to c/technology

1 comments fedilink

Does anyone have any recommended bookmarklets that make using Fediverse services easier? I don’t really want to install a billion plugins for chrome to make them useable, so bookmarklets in a folder is preferable to me. If anyone has any ones they use that would be helpful.

I do have a few I personally use:

Share to Mastodon

https://github.com/corbindavenport/share-to-mastodon/blob/main/BOOKMARKLET.md

Redirect to Follow Mastodon Account

https://github.com/bramus/mastodon-profile-redirect/tree/main/bookmarklet

Redirect to follow Lemmy Community

https://gist.github.com/Nitrousoxide/0ad922d431749d6e4f7c9a35d40da4dc

Cities: Skylines II Feature Highlight #2: Traffic AI - Paradox Interactive in c/gaming

[–] Nitrousoxide 20 points 2 years ago

Finally, I can create a true American city filled with parking garages everywhere and a desolate downtown filled with office towers that sits vacant in the evening and weekends.

I've really liked using onenote, but would like a FOSS alternative if there is one that replicates the experience. I don't need any syncing abilities, since I prefer to store locally. in c/privacyguides@lemmy.one

[–] Nitrousoxide 3 points 2 years ago

Yeah you can copy and paste images into a note just fine.

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Ansible, become: yes, and granting access to specific sudo commands without a password (self.selfhosted)

submitted 2 years ago by Nitrousoxide to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

2 comments fedilink

Is there a good way to use the "become: yes" for the needed escalation to sudo for a handful of commands which need it while limiting the user's access to passwordless root? I've added this line to /etc/sudoers.d/$USER

(username) ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/omv-upgrade, /usr/sbin/reboot

Which should allow my user to use the omv-upgrade script (which does some apt stuff) without a password prompt for sudo. This allows it to perform the needed apt commands for an upgrade without actually giving full apt access to install whatever. Likewise with reboot, though I'm not sure which command ansible will actually try with these:

    - name: Check if a reboot is required.
      ansible.builtin.stat:
        path: /var/run/reboot-required
        get_md5: no
      register: reboot_required_file

    - name: Reboot the server (if required).
      ansible.builtin.reboot:
      when: reboot_required_file.stat.exists == true

I presume it's that reboot, but maybe it'll try the systemctl one instead. Is there a better method to give the user the needed passwordless sudo actions without the security risk of opening everything up to that user (which I don't want to do at all)

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Lemmy Follow Bookmarklet (gist.github.com)

submitted 2 years ago by Nitrousoxide to c/support

0 comments fedilink

I made a bookmarklet (with some ChatGPT help to troubleshoot) which will redirect you to your own instance’s URL for a foreign Lemmy community to easily subscribe to it.

This will not correctly redirect you if you are in a topic already. It will only work if you are on the base community page. If someone wants to tweak it (or redo it entirely) to work in a bigger variety of instances please feel free. My skills with JavaScript are… minimal.