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Raylan Givens Returns in an Uneven but Still Enjoyable Justified: City Primeval (www.pastemagazine.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gamera8ID@lemm.ee to c/television@lemmy.world

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In over my head by Gamera8ID in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Good tip. Thanks!

In over my head by Gamera8ID in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Now I feel dumb.

That didn't work earlier.

I just went to copy the error message I saw before and... it's working.

Maybe because I switched back to Namecheap's nameserver? Or maybe because I cleared my cache again? Or maybe because I game it some more propagation time?

Or maybe magic?

Each potential reason seems equally likely to me.

Thanks

In over my head by Gamera8ID in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy Easy Deploy. I didn't know where to find any tutorials for using an Oracle Cloud VM. Did the official have that?

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In over my head (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by Gamera8ID@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Today I decided to get an inexpensive custom domain from Namecheap and try self-hosting Lemmy. A few bucks later I was thinking, "Hey, this is going to be cake."

I'd read some of the warnings about Oracle Cloud free tier, but figured I'd still give it a shot for hosting. I found a simple how-to for quickly getting an Ubuntu instance spun up with Docker and Portainer. A few minutes later I'm thinking, "This is so easy!"

Then I try to access Portainer using HTTPS and see my first "Your connection is not private," warning. "No worries," I think. "Advanced>Proceed. I'm in."

So I run Lemmy Easy Deploy. "The lights are green, the trap is clean! Boom. Here we go!"

Nothing.

Ports seem to be open on Oracle, but no Lemmy at either 80 or 443.

"Maybe Lemmy is more particular about SSL certificates and such?" I think, for the first time getting worried.

"Err, I think that if I change my nameserver to Cloudflare I can destroy my Lemmy containers, re-run Lemmy Easy Deploy with a Cloudflare API token, and maybe fix it?

Four hours later, after repeatedly starting over, clearing my browser cache every 5 minutes, switching back and forth between nameservers, even deleting the whole Oracle Cloud VM and starting from scratch, I realize that an HTTP connection to port 443 is returning "Client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server."

"Were you there before, message?" I wonder.

Lemmy friends, can you help me? Or am I better off just deleting the VM and giving up the whole idea?

What file-sharing and media organizing software do you wish that existed? by Gamera8ID in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Something Overseer-like for requesting audiobooks for Plex.

What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy? by Gamera8ID in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 69 points 1 year ago

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I'm using Liftoff.

Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. by Gamera8ID in c/python@programming.dev

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

TIL!

Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. by Gamera8ID in c/python@programming.dev

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That was it exactly. Thank you.

This was a journey, so I'm documenting it here for anyone who might run into a similar situation.

I'm using a Chromebook with Linux enabled.

To confirm my version of Python I ran python --version:

Python 3.9.2

OK! Getting somewhere. So I have to check what distribution of Linux is installed with grep '^PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"

Alright. Google says if I want to upgrade Python on Debian 11 I have to compile it from source. Yikes! But, wait, there's a PPA - Yay! But the PPA is for Ubuntu - Boo.

There isn't an active community for ChromeOS on Lemmy yet, but that other website has directions for replacing Debian with Ubuntu.

I'm lazy so I'm not doing that. I'm just going to spin up a temporary Ubuntu container that I can delete later, so my directions are much simpler:

Ctr-Alt-T to enter crosh, the ChromeOS developer shell.

vmc start termina
lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 ubuntu
lxc exec ubuntu -- bash
apt update && apt -y upgrade
add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt update
apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv
python3.11 -m ensurepip
git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip3.11 install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3.11 src/lemmy_sync.py

Success! I had to escape some special characters in my passwords, but that's easily Google-able.

I'll be keeping the container around for a little while to do some periodic syncs. Then I'll remove it using crosh.

vmc start termina
lxc delete ubuntu --force

Is there a major difference between Lemmy and Beehaw (or other federated instances)? by Gamera8ID in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago

You might want to check out https://github.com/amirzaidi/lemmy. I stumbled upon it. Beehaw defederated Lemmy.world (info.) This section on defederating may help you understand that if it's unclear.

Most of us are also new to the Fediverse, but learning every day. Welcome!

Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. by Gamera8ID in c/python@programming.dev

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I'm getting a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType' when I do:

git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3 src/lemmy_sync.py

I've confirmed that my [Main Account] and [Account 2] details are correct in myconfig.ini, but beyond that I don't really know what I'm doing.

What would cause a large swarm of wasps to fly through a neighborhood? by Gamera8ID in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

TIL wasps swarm, and now I have a new fear.

According to this site wasps might swarm if their nest is disturbed, at a change of season, or to establish a new colony (like @fubo@lemmy.world said.)

is there a simple way to determine who is federated with/defederated from who? by Gamera8ID in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've seen this site suggested in posts like this:

spoiler

https://fba.ryona.agency

I'm using the spoiler tag because elsewhere I've seen this warning about the site:

run by people from kiwifarms (a known bad actor on the fediverse).

I'm unfamiliar with "kiwifarms" but the site currently does has some offensive language at the bottom that's associated with 4chan, so be warned.

That said, it appears to be the only site currently available to see which instances in the fediverse have blocked/defederated your instance. (The reverse of <instance domain>/instances, which only shows which instances your instance has blocked/defederated.)

What is this button for? by Gamera8ID in c/liftoff@lemmy.world

[-] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

A Google image search of the icon wasn't super helpful, but did return a similar-looking image named "style" among the results.

Knowing that Liftoff is written in Flutter, I confirmed that it is called the "style" icon.

A search of the Liftoff code on GitHub for the "style" icon turned up a match with the comment:

// TODO: change styles?

So the answer is that it does nothing now, but appears like it might be used in the future to "change styles." Maybe as a shortcut to the "Post Style" screen in "Settings."