I'm starting to get in to self hosting and am looking at self-hosted blog solutions. It looks like WriteFreely is the main fediverse blog platform, with Plume as second though I don't see it used much.

But that got me thinking that it'd be good to follow federated blogs and have some long form reading that I follow, like we did back when RSS was the main way of doing things.

But how do I actually find bloggers? It looks like WriteFreely can federate with Mastodon, but it doesn't look like there's a federated blogging platform like lemmy or mastodon. Is this correct? Where I can I go (other than Medium) to find blogs and bloggers in the fediverse?

I previously posted about an issue where the nginx container for the Collabora application logs a GET to /robots.txt every 10 seconds. I tried modifying the files in the container, but they were reset on restart. I also tried to run the container with --log-driver=none, but was unsuccessful. Despite being a software dev, I'm new to the homelab world and trunas.

I solved it by changing the docker image and then committing those changes. The change I made was to set access_log off; in the nginx config. I did it at the server root because I don't really care about those logs for this app, but it could be done on the location level.

Here's how I did it: Here's the reference SO post that I used: https://stackoverflow.com/a/74515438

What I did was I shelled into the image:

• sudo docker exec -it ix-collabora-nginx-1 bash
• apt update && apt install vim
• vi /etc/nginx/nginx.conf and add the access_log off;
  • if you're not familiar with vim, arrow key to the line you want then press 'a' to enter "append mode". Make your change, then esc, :wq!. You need the ! because the file is read only
• apt remove vim
• exit
• sudo docker commit <image id>
• sudo docker restart ix-collabora-nginx-1

I'm running TruNas Scale with a docker image for NextCloud and Collabora. Under Collabora, the nginx application is logging a GET to robots.txt about every second and I'm having a hard time filtering this out because it looks like the conf files for nginx get replaced on every restart. I also tried mounting my own version of the nginx.conf file, but that didn't reflect any changes.

I came back across this homage to 80's anime

I don't know if it's because I've been watching Factorio on YouTube or not, because I have not been searching for peanut butter. But anyway, so that's how you do it.

Original link: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cost-of-the-american-dream-in-2024/

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