Yeah… After a user here on Lemmy pointed out that the AdGuard app on mobile made a lot of strange requests to ads services, I gave it a try myself with PCAPdroid and seeing all thoses requests made by only opening the app made me think twice about AdGuard…

Removed all their services from my network and a happy piHole + quad9 user since !

i ended up choosing GitHub primarily for the automated binary builds and releases through GitHub Actions. the Pro tier for students gives me generous build minutes, and the Trippy maintainers helped me get the release process set up properly

I’m not into programming so I wasn’t aware of this kind of argument and have no idea of all those Pipeline, release, automated binary process… etc ! I’m probably biased by my open source & self-hosted crusade but as long as you are aware of this stuff that’s allready a good point :))) (why wouldn’t you, you’re on lemmy :D) !

Congrats and thank you for sharing your project with the community ❤️!

Just a personal opinion, I think all new projects should be hosted on alternatives git hosting sites (something like codeberg :p). Specially project which have alot of already very well implemented and popular alternatives.

Yes, this will reduce visibility and probably reduce interaction. But if you’re on Lemmy you’re probably already aware of this… But it will also provide the switch to a more privacy respecting and competition to more agressive invading monopoly companies.

Another positive thing I can think of is that if there is a big GitHub exodus and popular alternative who need to switch their database/user base to an alternative hoster will lose a bit of momentum and users may come across your project :).

Good luck and keep it up 🙏💪

Yeah, some consider a room in a Prison a luxury resort 🤷‍♂️!

Not a dev here so I have to trust what I’m hosting on my server…

I do check the issue section and base my opinion on how healthy a repo is and how long it hasn’t been update.

Based on popularity also helps a bit? Check how san their docker-compose is and how complicated and what closed source thing they integrate in the image, but that’s it !

However, on android I do some app analysis with PCAPdroid to check what strange communications is happening behind the scenes.

Thanks for the pointer, but this happens even on a fresh reinstall. I guess it’s somehow related to my MacOS version I haven’t updated for a while :/.

Anyway, I going for Asahi Linux in my next install so I don’t want to tweak further into macOS. I’m getting tired to fight my system instead of working with it !

I can’t complain, but I do have a weird issue when I close qbittorent it doesn’t quite or stop… It freezes and shuts down unexpectedly :/ Very strange.

I only use it for public trackers tho, but after testing all the alternatives on Mac, qbittorrent is probably the best feature wise.

Sorry can’t help, I self-host piped and it seems to still work on the version I’m on, however some people report a non working instance even when self-hosting…

Yeah, if you self-host only for yourself you lose the privacy feature public instances provide. The purpose when self-hosting is to watch youtube with no-ads, sponsor block…

As you guessed it, YouTube went on frontend crusade and only a few public instances remain (if any?) and those who still work are kinda janky, unstable.

If privacy is an important feature you’re looking for, you need to wait until those btillant people behind those frontend find a working workaround :)

They are the same thing (YouTube self-hosted frontend alternative) with their own features I guess?

You should test Piped, Indivious and Viewtube and make your own opinion, however Viewtube has been paused so this one is probably not going to have the SABR workaround update Piped and Invidious are working on ?

Right now they are all a bit janky and unstable because of YouTube’s new update (SABR, don’t know the details) so find one that works as self-hosted and keep tuned.

If you’re able to contribute as a dev though, give them some help to speed up the process and contribute to the best YouTube frontend alternatives projects !

There is… But it’s miles away from beeing a private clear net tracker though. That’s why I have high hopes people would switch to I2P and the likes :/ but that doesn’t going to happen any time soon… They all feel too comfortable in their paywalled wallet garden.

I have seen better long term seeding on some rare stuff on public trackers than private trackers.

I do agree on the sentiment that the actual piracy community is turned into some cash grab milking thing to the limit where if you don’t buy a seedbox you will not have a great time competing angainst other seeders on some private trackers !

The best thing that could happen is that everything gets shifted to i2p or similar tech, away from private trackers and the government !

Lucida but self-hosted? Very cool ! Thanks for sharing your work !

I’m interested in why so many downvotes? Because of the gitea instance or something related to the project?

The project seems like a cool idea !

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_world

Yeaaah this sucks… EU are such dumbass idiots…

I really hope for a EAST alliance and have high hope for EU becoming independent from US’ bullshittery…

They are just parasites taking what they want to produce what they need… When things gets complicated they come to “lend us a hand” but only if it benefits them.

I would prefer an aliance with all the eastern countries and take once and for all the US domiance down…

Hey :) I’m not giving you any recommendations but want to give you my personal experience !

5 years ago I had absolutely no clue about Linux/CLI/networking/docker… You name it ! And I also wanted to repurposed and old laptop as a server.

The first distro I installed on my server was Debian ! Why? Because I remembered my brother said something along the line: “Every server infrastructure is run by Debian or a Debian derivative”. So this sounded like the perfect thing to install as a server distro :) !

5 years later I’m still running Debian on this old laptop and it’s going strong ! Never did it failed me except if I did something wrong over the CLI !

As you guessed it, you will need some degree of proficiency on the command line specially if you install your distro without a graphical user interface, which I would recommend… Yes, the CLI isn’t easy to beginning with and you will do some mistakes that will need a full reinstall of your system… But before you learn to move, you learn to stay up right on your legs and this involves a lot a failing !!

It’s not mandatory, you can install a lightweight GUI and take your time. There are a lot of application with good UI which will help you out ! However, not once did I regret to take the harder route and learned so many things along the way ! After this amount of time in the CLI, I can say I’m getting quite good In navigating my system, keeping it healthy and alive :p !

Okay, If it’s a matter of time I get it ! We only have 24h a day and most of this time is already spend at work/school, family time, friends, sleep, eat ! If you’re lucky enough to have 2 hours to spare to tinker arround, a UI is a good idea to keep a healthy balance between all your personal activities ! But keep in mind, both are thorny and have their fair share of issues and debug time.

Last words, have fun with your system :)

Production is my testing lab, but only in my homelab ! I guess I don’t care to perfectly secure my services (really dumb and easy passwords, no 2fa, not hiding plain sight passwords…) because I’m not directly exposing them to the web and accessing them externally via Wireguard ! That’s really bad practice though, but any time soon will probably clean up that mess, but right now I can’t, I have to cook some eggs…

There are 2 things though I actually do have some more complex workflow:

• Rather complex incremental automated backup script for my docker container volumes, databases, config files, compose files.

• Self-hosted mini-CA to access all my services via a nice .lab domain and get rid of that pesky warning on my devices.

I always do some tests if my backups are working on a VM on my personal desktop computer, because no backup means that all those years of tinkering for nothing… This will bring up some nasty depression…

Edit: If have a rather small homelab, everything on an old laptop, still quite happy with the result and works as expected.

Really cool stuff !! Something I need to try out for sure !

Just to bad they didn’t add a multiuser setup example :( !

If you are doing any kind of multiuser mail node, you should have a separate SMTP system in front of this one that performs any necessary validation.

That’s some crazy stuff ! Being able to completely change/repair every part is something every smartphone should be capable off…

We are in a buy/throw away generation amidst a big climate change issue/rare ore depletion… That’s depressing.