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Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? (lemmy.nocturnal.garden)

What's up, what's down and what are you not sure about?

Let us know what you set up lately, what kind of problems you currently think about or are running into, what new device you added to your homelab or what interesting service or article you found.

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[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Oh, I've just been tinkering around with LangFlow specifically as a news aggregator.

The flow: https://i.imgur.com/5HqznQm.png

Then asking AI to go get me some news: https://i.imgur.com/ltZPBwC.png

Still needs a little tinkering and as the final step, to send said news stories to my Telegram. I really have a blast with automation platforms like N8N, Flowise, Gotify, DopplerTask, & Kestra.

Afterwards, I smoked a small bowl and worked on a couple songs I have in the works.

HBU?

[-] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Building a simple workflow with AI agent for our community watch group. Also building an open source automation platform, currently working through GUI templates for it.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

I've been learning bash and working on scripts to automate stuff in my homelab. It's been a lot of fun. I'm currently working on a script that will rename the movies and TV shows I rip from my DVD collection.

The script queries the tmdb api, presents me with a mwnu of matches if there's multiple matches, renames the media files according to jellyfin spec, and then places them in the proper folders to be indexed by Jellyfin and Kodi.

[-] scrooge101@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Would you mind sharing the code?

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

More incus:

  • mounting persistent storage into containers (cheating by exporting NFS from my proxmox zfs into the incus host.
  • wrote a pruning backup script for containers, runs daily, keeps last 7 days and the first of the month
  • passed through hardware (quicksync) into jellyfin container (it works!)
  • launched an OCI container (docker home assistant) natively in incus (this is a game-changer!)

Next:

  • build 2nd incus node
  • move all containers from proxmox to incus
  • decom proxmox
  • setup Debian with NFS export
[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I hear about Incus being the next best thing. I've never played around with it. Is it all that and a bag o' chips?

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I think so.

It is LXD + KVM, so way more and finer tune control on lxc instances. It can run OCI images as well, so for docker instances with only a few configs and no persistent storage, it is actually quite handy. For docker instances that need pretty complicated compose files, I just run docker inside an lxc for now, until I figure that out.

[-] GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Does Incus allow you to use a VM with a GUI? One thing that's nice about Proxmox is I have one VM with a very basic lxqt setup for when I need that, and I can either use remote-viewer + the spice protocol to access it or access it through the Proxmox web ui. That's been very handy.

[-] non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It can manage KVM, so I don't see why not .

[-] Darkmoon_UK@lemm.ee 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Are there any AI apps that will index markdown documents with a vector DB, then allow you to run natural language queries using some kind of RAG approach with a local LLM?

Closest I've found is LlamaIndex, but this is still more of a 'foundation' than a turn-key solution and right now I'm too time-poor to do the assembly required...

I realise I'm describing close-to-frontier tech, but is there anything more turn-key (Dockerised) out there yet?

My use-case is pretty 'vanilla' in this space: Having a knowledge base and wanting quick answers to questions like "How should screen X behave if I am not a registered user?".

Thanks for any suggestions!

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[-] Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com 1 points 3 weeks ago

I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don't think I did) and it'll be console and DB queries for a fix.

Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.

[-] Mobile@leminal.space 0 points 3 weeks ago

I really need to figure out how to get Jellyfin to use SSL certs and assigning a domain to the instance.

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[-] kcweller@feddit.nl 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

As we received new network hardware from our ISP, and inevitably are getting a new IP address again with that, I'm looking into setting up a DDNS. I've wanted to check out DuckDNS.

They run their (free) service on AWS EC2 instances, though, and as I am currently also trying to end my reliance on Google and Amazon, I've got some more digging to do. If anyone has a good, European (or heck, federated?) solution, hmu!

[-] ueiqkkwhuwjw@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have been very happy with desec.io, they are a nonprofit based in Berlin.

[-] airgapped@piefed.social 0 points 3 weeks ago

This week I finally managed to route torrent traffic through a VPS that was sitting around gathering dust. I am behind CGNAT so was taking me 6 weeks to do the kind of traffic I do in a day now. I couldn't be more chuffed.

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[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 0 points 3 weeks ago

Email... My wife really wants to further de-google, this means moving custom domains off gsute.

Do I move to proton/tuta or go back to self hosting email again like I did for years until about 2010?

If I self host, do I do it at home or on the server that runs my lemmy instance?

[-] Await8987@feddit.uk 1 points 3 weeks ago

Cool your wife is into de googling! My wife thinks I’m a conspiracy nut. I have custom domains on proton and its been great, but with their moves toward AI and crypto who knows. I would probably try tuta if I was setting it up now - but who knows if they will eventually go wonkey then you will wish you self hosted anyway 🤝

[-] dan@upvote.au 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I self-host my email using Mailcow, and use a VPS for it. I don't trust my home server to be reliable enough, and the VPS providers have nicer equipment (modern AMD EPYC CPUs, enterprise SSDs, datacenter-grade 10Gbps or 40Gbps connections, etc). I use a separate VPS just for my emails - it's the one thing I want to ensure is secure, so I didn't want any other random software (that could potentially have security issues) running on it..

I also use an outbound SMTP relay to avoid having to deal with IP reputation. Very easy to configure this in Mailcow. SMTP2Go has a free plan for sending <1000 emails per month.

[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It kind of amazes me that, in this day and age, email has turned out to be the lynchpin of security. Email as a 2FA endpoint. Email password reset systems. If email is compromised, everything else falls. They used to tell us not to put anything in email that you wouldn't put on a postcard...how did this happen?

[-] dan@upvote.au 1 points 3 weeks ago

That and email protocols are outdated and aren't too secure. For example:

  • Neither SMTP nor IMAP have no way to use two factor authentication.
  • Spam blocking is so hard because SMTP was not designed with it in mind.
  • SMTP has no way to do end-to-end encryption which is why you need to layer things like GPG on top.

IMAP has a modern replacement in JMAP, but it's not widespread. SMTP is practically impossible to replace since it's how email servers communicate with each other.

The "solution" has been for companies to make their own proprietary protocols and apps, for example the Gmail and Outlook apps combined with a Gmail or Microsoft 365 account respectively.

[-] rastacalavera@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

I’m trying to figure out a basic CRM for my local sports club. I use docker to self host a voting platform called RALLLY that we use a lot and enjoy. If people can recommend a CRM I’d give it a go today. I tried a platform called twenty yesterday but couldn’t get it off the ground

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[-] randombullet@programming.dev 0 points 3 weeks ago

I'm switching my immich instance to an SSD one and switching my VPN from zerotier to tailscale.

Hopefully that means my Immich will be a little more reactive.

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