I keed I keed

Bit Warden, one password, whatever float your boat just not last pass.

For SHTF stuff GPG.

S***, I’ve been meaning to learn Rust but didn’t know where to start, thanks

You get some coverage for free but if you’re really getting slammed I wish to stay up they’re not going to do everything for free. I believe They click here to prove you’re not a butt is gratis.

https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Encode/H.265

Most of the “commercial apps” are just wrappers for ffmpeg.

I’d start with FFmpeg. Once you see what your output is like you can then decide to move over to something more fancy.

The DMZ is the right idea. But it’s the old way. You definitely want whatever is serving your website to be separated out from your house. You’re hosting should be on an isolated VLAN. The internet should only be able to talk to the server it needs to talk to, no other ports. That box should only be allowed to talk to what it absolutely must talk to and only on the ports that are required. You should run an independent firewall on each one of the boxes that are involved in the hosting with only the proper ports open.

Giving up your private IP Will definitely give away your general location to everyone and your precise location to the authorities.

I would highly recommend using cloudflare or one of the other funnel options. A lot of people don’t like cloud flare because they can capitalize on your traffic, The cloudflare also just won’t shut you down and sell you out like your ISP will at the first request, They don’t do shit about anything until there’s a warrant or a court filing. On the upside you don’t give out your private IP to anyone. You have DDOS protection, and a reasonable layer of anominity.

You need to check daily to make sure all of your software is updated. We’re talking OS, middleware, plugins, application. Preferably via automation. All of the software and plugins you use for this type of hosting end up getting vulnerabilities.

Security is especially difficult on forums. There’s lots of opportunities there for skilled people who are pissed off at what you or someone else is saying to get butthurt. People know exactly what you’re running, then they do some magic behind the scenes next thing you know there’s a bunch of admins you didn’t create.

You don’t need to be hosting your own email but you are going to need an SMTP provider, most free services won’t let you masquerade the from address.

After following up on a post on Reddit and two years of investigation, the reporters came to the conclusion that Tor users can be de-anonymized by correlating the timing patterns of network traffic entering and exiting the Tor network, combined with broad and long-term monitoring of Tor nodes in data centers.

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s an open system, all you need are entry notes and exit nodes and you can launch exits for a pittance.

It’s your media you do what you want with it.

Pick a busy movie with a bunch of stuff going on, and then pick a really dark movie.

Try different encodings with each one of those. You’re playing a game of time versus quality. And you keep in mind, the electricity for those encodes isn’t free either.

Try them with a fixed bit rate, try them with the two pass. If the fixed rate doesn’t look good try bumping the rate up. You’ll get a feel for it eventually.

Back when I was hard up for disc, I made everything 1080p HEVC single pass constant rate. I don’t even remember exactly what the bit rate was but I would just encode everything and then watch a sample out of it. If one of them turned out bad I would reincode it with better settings.

Dual pass will get you a little smaller and better output, But it takes forever, and you’re sitting there burning watts all night long.

In the end you just need to fiddle with it, and weigh the output versus your resources.

Different people have different needs.

If someone has a lot of time and not a lot of money re encoding video is a decent answer.

I’ve been there and done that before.

Replacing (or adding a 10TB USB to your ) single 2 tb drive isn’t a horrible idea. It’ll take you quite a while to go through that 10 tb. In the meantime you look toward getting an old case and some kind of modest motherboard and setting up an Unraid. It’s a journey, and unless you are made of cash you’re not going to get to your endpoint all in one jump.

Unraid is budget friendly because you can add whatever size disc you want to do it, It supports a parity drive so you have some support against failure. The only truly difficult part is that the parity drive must be as big as the largest drive in the box.

In the end only you can decide what works for you. If you want to re-encode your stuff, 2 pass is best. You are going to lose quality, that’s unavoidable, But if you’re watching it on a TV 12 ft away, You’re going to forget about any quality as soon as you get in grossed in anything you’re watching.

It’s hard to read because people lack background knowledge. Man pages were horrible for my first 15 years or so.

Once you have the skills that you hardly need to read them they’re fine.

That’s why everyone wants to look it up on stack exchange, they want the answer, not an unending series of lessons

I’ve seen as more distrust over matrix/new vector (exposing ID without content) as I have Signal. There’s stink around it being an Israeli government run company in a trenchcoat.

I think most of it is as baseless as anything said about signal, but at least they have real incidents that make matrix questionable.

100% of my office relies on at least WSL.

All our servers are Linux.

Tons of huge multi-national companies are already using Google Docs which run great in Linux.

It’s coming.

Who is boycotting signal?

Unfortunately for a crossfading they need to wait for jellyfin to provide it on their side.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find a normalization plugin though.

Remote access is definitely a pain, and just surfacing the ports is a bad idea.

Finamp is close. No visualization, No normalization, and there’s gapless playback but no crossfading.

I use tailscale to watch videos and play music remotely.

There’s errors on the new one too but the one you’re looking at is slightly old

https://bsky.app/profile/purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social/post/3ll2ak7nr722x

DLP can pull audio tracks and drop you mp3s as well.

Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don’t want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.

I’m not saying that Mastodon can’t survive without an algorithm but they don’t make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It’s all organic discovery and that’s very 00’s ish.

Imo yt-dlp and self-host that stuff while you’re still can.

U.S. citizen here

The administration is putting tendrils into things, heading toward fascism.

US companies are being forced to bend the knee. Government agencies are sucking up information to be used against people the future or sold at an alarming rate.

If you can find a one to one alternative to a US-based service it’s a really good time to head that way. I know I am.