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Here is a scraper I made for downloading my kids daycare photos from the Storypark app (github.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by AustralianSimon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I had a problem, my wife wanted to be able to download all the images of our kids from Storypark so that we can add them to our Immich instance. To download them you had to in the app or website click open each image then go through the menu to download. Because we have 2 kids that could be upwards of 60 photos.

Being someone that works in the automation field, I couldn't have such a clunky process for photos sent to us daily.

Initially I built a quick an dirty script that opens the current page but then I thought why not expand it to not only get the images but all of the posts that have not been downloaded yet. Then I had the idea of updating the EXIF data so that Immich can put the images on the correct date.

I run a lot of docker containers so next step was to enable me to run this on my own NAS and have it save the files directly to where Immich is looking and here we are. I realised other parents could use this so I've cleaned up my code and put it up for others to use.

Hopefully those other parents with RSI will appreciate the script. You can run it locally or in docker.

Next phase will be to have it find the images with my kids and archive the ones without their faces for review.

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Recommendations after the Murder bot Diaries (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by AustralianSimon@lemmy.world to c/sciencefiction@lemmy.world

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I'm normally a bit more of a hard scifi reader with the likes of Bobiverse and Expanse (and Andy Weir/Thaichovsky/IanMBanks/Herbert etc) but I really enjoyed this humerous take on a rogue cyborg.

Is there anything out there in this vane I should look into?

Good News! Redis is Open Source Again 🕺 by AustralianSimon in c/linux@programming.dev

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

I'm working to move what I have to Valkey, no more rugpull games tyvm.

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Low resource, Performant WAF (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by AustralianSimon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I'm running a website that is getting a lot of bot traffic and found Cloudflare free rule tier to be a bit limiting. (5 custom rules with length limits)

Ive got subnets for major VPS providers to block and will run analysis against my traffic to build on these lists.

What do others do?

I'm contemplating my Cloudflared tunnel into Crowdsec to my app.

Edit: Adding in image of my analysis of the IPs scanning for vulnerabilities.

Proton's biased article on Deepseek by AustralianSimon in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

To be fair its correct but it's poor writing to skip the self hosted component. These articles target the company not the model.

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Foss webscraper (github.com)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AustralianSimon@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Not OP. This was posted to self hosted on reddit and might be useful to some.

Original post - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1glf06d/comment/lw1e4zd/

SF ads call out tech firms for not paying for open source by AustralianSimon in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago

The whole contributions piece ignored a lot of bigger companies use their own developers to work on open source as well so monetary contributions aren't always necessary.

Looking for some kind of local DB manager? "application" with a gui by AustralianSimon in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 30 points 7 months ago

I use dbeaver on ubuntu and windows.

https://dbeaver.io/download/

What's up with Epic Games? by AustralianSimon in c/games@lemmy.world

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

This. Steam also offers reviews, achievements, workshop, communities, groups, streaming, etc, etc

Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads by AustralianSimon in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 65 points 1 year ago

Yeah so many people misunderstand data on ActivityPub.

Films where a Predator dies are a failed coming of age films. by AustralianSimon in c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

According to material online to become blooded they need to hunt and kill a xenomorph to mark themselves with the acidic blood. This allows them privilege to hunt solo.