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- sysadmin@lemmy.world
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- sysadmin@lemmy.world
I hate how Signal went down because of this… Wish it wasn’t so centralised.
I have been able to use Signal like any other day. I haven’t seen any disruption in sending or receiving.
For me it was not possible to send or receive messages for a couple of hours.
Signal’s love affair with big tech is deeply disturbing.
Started moving to Element/Matrix this weekend when I attended a protest and wanted to have some kind of communication, but also wanted to leave my primary phone at home. I was using a de-googled android fork and an e-sim, but being a data-only e-sim, I couldn’t use Signal due to the phone number requirement.
Annoying to have try to get contacts to get another app, but at least it’s decentralized and comes with the option of being self-hosted once I’m ready to tackle that.
Hey, note that you can use mautrix-signal to access your Signal account within Element on this phone.
@MrMcGasion @Sunny Come to the dark side (xmpp, and jmp.chat) and get decentralized messaging and SMS support with that data-only sim!
@Sunny@slrpnk.net already has an XMPP account, as that is included in every slrpnk.net account automatically. It is very easy to set that up for most Fediverse software, and the user id is identical between Fediverse and XMPP.
Oh damn i did not even know about this! I will defo have a play around with this tomorrow, how very neat!
However, it isnt me im really worried about in the grand picture, its family and friends. It was already difficult enough to convert them to using Signal.
Matrix is way more dark side in my opinion (this is a joke about how often it fluffs up, leaving you in the dark).
Why do we place so much reliance on one mega company? This level of importance. It should be seized by the government.
It should be seized by the
governmentpeople and mercilessly decentralized.Agree
Agreed same for Facebook then call it Readabook
AWS aggressively pursues high priced and years-long spending commitments with large customers, and they incentivize it with huge discounts for doing so.
And when AWS does this they intentionally incentivize these large customers to migrate existing workloads away from other cloud service providers as well, going so far as to offer assistance in doing so.
And when they hit their end inevitable enshittification, what then?
At that point you’re completely invested in their ecosystem and it’ll cost you triple to get out.
That’s next quarter, after I’ve got my bonus for all these savings.
IbM has entered the chat
Way above my pay grade! I would never suggest or support making such agreements, but I also don’t want to be in a position where I’d even be asked, so I’d just sit back with a bowl of popcorn
Why do we place so much reliance on one mega company? This level of importance.
Because it’s cheaper and (in broad terms) more reliable than everybody having a data centre.
It should be seized by the government.
Oh yeah, what could possibly go wrong if the US government owned Amazon!
So, you changed one cloud provider to another…
But let me rephrase: cloud can be significantly cheaper - if you know what you’re doing and what you’re putting on the cloud.
I’ve been to data centres that cost as much as a decade of cloud hosting the service they were supporting (and that’s without operational costs).
Cloud is especially great for small businesses where you have two alternative options: either build your own data centre which you absolutely cannot afford (or risk making it barely operational and unreliable) or host your company at someone else’s DC - which is what cloud is, but worse (because nobody can set up so much resiliency and have so many DC techs/admins as Microsoft or Amazon).
There absolutely are situations where self-hosting is preferable, and even cheaper, but wondering “why do we place so much reliance” on cloud service providers just shows that people have no clue what cloud actually offers.
Leta give it to Trump and Elon Musk, they will take good care of it… Lol.
Trump will isolate aws to America only, claiming other countries are ripping him off.
Aws becomes American Web Services.
Put tariffs on everybody who doesn’t host US data on their own cloud services.
Yeah. :) 100% tariffs on data transfers out of American Web Services…
Best alternatives is making Amazon something owned by the people and not any corporation/government but who knows if that would ever happen
Do you really want someone like the magahats having control over something like that?
God no, not the government!
They couldn’t organise a paper bag party
Large corporations and oligarchs are better? I’ll take the government. At least we can vote on them.
I think co-ops are the way to go, but I can understand that someone “just” wanting to purchase the good/service might not see the difference between a co-op and corporation like Amazon.
I don’t think it’s a size issue really, but co-ops generally stay smaller in part due to how they are internally organized compared to a “median” corporation.
I also think that the government actually does a pretty good job at managing things; it’s just their failures are public. Private boondoggles might drive many people into bankruptcy, but they aren’t publicized any more than absolutely necessary.
We could really use an Open Source app that partners with and displays all kinds of websites/stores to buy stuff and pay from the app
Oh, don’t worry, open source (or, worse, Free Software) apps won’t be allowed on Android or Apple devices, soon. /s
It would be a more meaningful discussion if the government wasn’t controlled so much by large corporations and oligarchs.
Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don’t like what you have to say.
Sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What entity has dropped nukes on an entire population? Who is the current president of the US? Insane take.
Do you literally hear yourself? You think large corporate and oligarchs run insurance, tech, etc., is a better route than a public option? 💀 Jeff Bezos, Musk, Thiel, and Ellison for everything?
An idiot bought by corporations.
Oil companies are private. Wars are started for oil.
Also government distrust and heavy focus on its inefficiencies is a tried and true right wing/authoritarian tactic. The public gobble it up because they dont take 6 seconds to actually think.
This is literally just a US skill issue, and just so you’re aware, folks in the rest of the world do exist on the internet.
What are you actually arguing with the president thing? I literally don’t understand how that’s supposed to support your point.
When was the last time you heard about a large government computer outage? (I don’t count the VA because that’s broken on purpose.)
Launch of ACA markets? But that seemed more like the company paid to make it under sized it or just did shit code.
Which goes back to somethings shouldn’t be done for profit
Government’s also shouldn’t be incentivised to always go with the cheapest option during procurements and tenders. Price is not the only factor in a value calculation and it is insane that we just ignore that fact.
CrowdStrike, but that hit private companies too.
This gif is audible
The one that hits us in self hosted is https://auth.docker.io/
You guys don’t selfhost a registry?
I know this is selfhosted so most people here are hobbyists, but it’s a ton of work to selfhost in enterprise setting. I’d wager 90%+ of people using image registries are using Docker Hub, GHCR, or AWS ECR.
For your personal use, you don’t need an enterprise setting. It’s just a simple compose file that you run.
You can host a registry in pull through mode, so you still have all the images you use locally, but if it’s not in your registry yet, it pulls it from docker hub or whatever.
The only pain point is that a single registry can’t do both. So if you want to push your own docker images AND have a “cache” of stuff from docker hub, you need to run two registries in two different modes. And then juggle the url’s.
Pretty sure you could run Pulp in pull-through mode and add your local Forgejo/whatever registry as a remote, which would at least give you a unified “pull” URL. Then just use Forgejo actions to handle the actual build/publish for your local images whenever you push to main (or tag a release, or whatever).
Pulp might actually be able to handle both on its own, I haven’t ever tried though.
I hadn’t actually considered that before. What’s your preferred way to do that?
Harbor
I have just this (which ironically won’t work now cause docker hub is down)
services: registry: restart: always image: registry:2 ports: - 5000:5000 dns: - 9.9.9.9 - 1.1.1.1 volumes: - ../files/auth/registry.password:/auth/registry.password - registry-data:/var/lib/registry environment: REGISTRY_STORAGE_DELETE_ENABLED: true REGISTRY_HEALTH_STORAGEDRIVER_ENABLED: false REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET: ${REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET} REGISTRY_AUTH: htpasswd REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM: Registry Realm REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH: /auth/registry.password # REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL: "https://registry-1.docker.io/" volumes: registry-data:I don’t even remember how and when I set it up. I think it might be this: https://github.com/distribution/distribution/releases/tag/v2.0.0
Recently somebody has created a frontend, which I bookmarked but didn’t bother to set up: https://github.com/Joxit/docker-registry-ui
How does using Podman help when the registry is down?
mirror.gcr.io is google’s public mirror of dockerhub.
Yeah I ran into this as well. Wondered why it needs a call to auth for public container images in the first place.
Oh god, that just 404s for me
Who wants to bet Amazon gave AI full access to their prod config and it screwed it up.
Or some engineer decide today would be a great day to play with BGP
That’s a good theory haha
A bad day for Jeff Bezos is a good day for all of us
Yeah, was reading about it here too
Ring doorbells, Alexa, ahh… the joys of selfhosting.
Is there no way to check the doorbell video locally?
An Amazon employee misconfigures something and now your doorbell doesn’t work
I don’t have one (because of that point), so I don’t know…
Presumably the app and doorbell are hardcoded to go to an AWS URL (so it’s “easier” for consumers), but in theory the data’s all on your wifi.
I would be very surprised if there was
according to that page the issue stemmed from an underlying system responsible for health checks in load balancing servers.
how the hell do you fuck up a health check config that bad? that’s like messing up smartd.conf and taking your system offline somehow
Well, you see, the mistake you are making is believing a single thing the stupid AWS status board says. It is always fucking lying, sometimes in new and creative ways.
I mean if your OS was “smart” as not to send IO to devices that indicate critical failure (e.g. by marking them read-only in the array?), and then thinks all devices have failed critically, wouldn’t this happen in that kind of system as well…
If your health check is broken, then you might not notice that a service is down and you’ll fail to deploy a replacement. Or the opposite, and you end up constantly replacing it, creating a “flapping” service.
That explains why my Matrix <-> Signal bridge was complaining about being disconnected.
You can connect Matrix with Signal?
Sure, I got all my Signal/Telegram chats synced to my Matrix server.
I think I’ll be heavily looking into this then! Thanks
Does this break all the various security features that are the reason to use Signal in the first place?
The Matrix server is a normal Signal client that can encrypt/decrypt messages from your account.
Assuming you trust your server, no. I would not use it on a third party Matrix server.
that is an understatement 😂
This kind of shit will only increase as more of these companies believe they can vibe-code their way out of paying software devs what they are worth.
For some reason I hear Gilfoyle pontificating about what he does
It makes me wish I was selfhosting more services, music & chat in particular. It wasn’t important enough to set up yet
Can recommend Jellyfin, I use it for both music and tv/movies. Not sure on the chat bit, there are so many option it could get a long list
I have Jellyfin, but I haven’t tried it with music. How does it compare to Navidrome?
For chat, I was thinking something super simple for the weird situations like this. Alternatively, Briar if you’re near the person you want to contact
I moved from subsonic to jellyfin years ago, cuz subsonic didnt do video very well.
Jellyfin looks to do all the stuff Navidrome does, plus video in the same way
Finamp as a music specialized client is really awesome. Just get the beta version as they are reworking it deeply and the stable one is not really updated (also app password make it easier to use OIDC sso plugin on jellyfin)
I’d provide a plug for LMS! If you don’t give much of a damn for music video type stuff, it’s pretty solid and exposes more metadata through the Subsonic API than Navidrome does. My use case required Composer tags in addition to the usual smorgasbord. Bonus is that it combines SUPER well with Symfonium and is compatible with Audiomuse AI.
All that said, I would switch over to Jellyfin for music if they upped their music metadata game and made genre exploration a bit easier (assuming you have hundreds of distinct genre tags like I do).
Is this the LMS you’re talking about?
yes, also recommending it
important enough to set up yet
FWIW for music LMS is 1 container command including it in the location in real-only of you music directory with all your files, that’s it. So… if you are used to self-hosting (e.g. already have a reverse proxy and container setup) that’s maybe 1h top.
It takes 5-10 reloads to get an page from IMDB lol
OMG, IMDB too
They are an Amazon company, so it makes sense they’d be using AWS.
A fun game to play right now is to try to hit any of your regularly visited sites and see which ones are down. 😂
themoviedb.org unfazed
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