early_riser

joined 2 years ago
 

I've wanted to do this for a long time. My current ADHD hyperfixation is NodeBB, but I think my questions fit most anything that you want to be available to the general public and not just yourself and your friends.

Basically, I want to host a NodeBB instance intended for the general public out of my house. What are the risks of doing this? In particular, what are the risks of doling out a web address that points to my personal IP address? Is this even a good idea? Or should I just rent a VPS? This is 80% me wanting to improve my sysadmin skills, and 20% me wanting to create a community.

I have a DMZ in place. Hosts in the DMZ cannot reach the LAN, but LAN hosts can reach the DMZ. If necessary, I can make sure DMZ hosts can't communicate with each other.

I have synchronous 1 Gb fiber internet. Based on the user traffic of similar forums, I don't anticipate a crush of people.

I know the basics of how to set up a NodeBB instance, and I've successfully backed up and restored an instance on another machine.

I'm not 100% on things like HTTPS certs. I can paste a certbot command from a tutorial, that's it.

Anything else I should know? Thanks!

EDIT:

I also have a domain, a couple of them, actually. They're like potato chips; you can't stop at just one.

I don't plan on self-hosting email used for forum registration and announcements. I'm not a masochist.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 2 days ago

fixed the link

 

Why are there three of these? I only posted it once.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 5 points 3 days ago

If it exists, a ham will try to bounce radio waves off it, or use it as an antenna.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 8 points 4 days ago (3 children)

That's what I warned everyone about during our weekly net. We're tiny fish compared to the telecom giants. Everything above 6 meters is in jeopardy.

 

So I've seen these things mentioned around various ham related communities, and my immediate thought was why is this its own thing instead of an app/website/software? They go for nearly $500 at HRO. At that price it'd better cure cancer.

Yes I did recently learn geochrons used to be mechanical time displays and have been around for a long time, but in a vacuum I don't understand their utility when stuff like ham clock exists.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 days ago

Also, remote printing and monitoring are nice features, which would be a pity to lose.

I don't see an easy way to accomplish this independent of Bambu's servers, especially if you use the handy app on your phone.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Slightly harder: add exceptions for bambus servers in your routers firewall so that requests to that domain are blocked

I assigned a static IP address to my A1 mini in my router, and made a firewall rule preventing all traffic originating from that IP from going to the internet. The printer is also in LAN only mode, but I periodically have to reconnect it to Bambu studio which is annoying.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 2 points 4 days ago

This is correct. I use "ASCII art" to refer mostly to fancy CLI welcome messages

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 2 points 5 days ago

I miss those thin serif fonts that were all over tech magazines in the 80s and 90s

 

Some text from a constructed world I play around with that leans into an 80s tech aesthetic. FTL communication exists, but the data rate is comparable to a dial up modem. Vibrant multimedia experiences like we see on the modern web do exist, but isolated to planet-wide internetworks. Interplanetary communication is a purely text-based affair.

The text is read from right to left, and is just the word for operating system in one of my conlangs.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 days ago

I thought they were sold in the US now with some slight modifications to comply with the law? I know I've seen Kinder eggs in my local grocery store.

But yes, the ban is due to a perfectly sensible law having a bizarre edge case.

It's also why king cakes don't have the little baby figurines in them I believe.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

On Lemmy you can see (and search) a list of all the activity from every instance federated to your home instance. Looking at Ibis, which a few posters have mentioned on this thread, it has a discover page with a list of federated instances and articles on those instances. The current format is hardly scalable, but it's a start.

But, as I said before, the issue is less about discoverability and more about editing. Just like I can post in this thread even though I'm on a different instance, you can edit an article on one instance even though you're on another. The alternative as used by Wikipedia, is to allow anyone, account or not, to edit. Requiring someone to have an account on a federated instance would mitigate a fair amount of spam and ease moderation.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 1 points 6 days ago (3 children)

In addition to discoverability, I'd say it provides a happy medium between letting every rando with an IP address edit a page and requiring account creation. Part of the point of the fediverse is to have (almost) everything in one place under a single account while still keeping things decentralized.

[–] early_riser@lemmy.radio 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't doubt it, though MW seems hard to manage.

 

I absolutely love wiki walking through random obscure fan wikis, but I hate how most are on Fandom.

I think a federated wiki solution makes sense. I could see it as an evolution of the interwiki concept.

 

Here are some very beginner attempts at 3D art I made for a personal sci-fi worldbuilding project. I knew absolutely nothing about 3D art (art in general, really) until January of last year when I downloaded Blender on a lark and started poking around. Why not? It's free. Texturing and shading is proving quite daunting, so I've been sticking with a more primitive style. Kinda reminds me of the show ReBoot.

A star hearth (ceremonial fusion reactor)

Star Hearth

And another one.

And another one

Spaceship (Modeled in Plasticity but textured in Blender)

Spaceship

The planet Yih. It's kinda like Earth, 'cept it has a ring.

Kinda like Earth 'cept it has a ring

Wind fruit. It auto-ferments in your gut and makes you drunk.

Fruit that gets you drunk

Raw tailstone crystals, used for FTL communication

 

Just wandering around Lemmy looking for conlanging communities. Saw this one linked in the sidebar of !worldbuilding@lemmy.world .

I happen to be partial to xenolangs, and the above is a sample of Commonthroat, a language inspired by the sounds my dog makes when he's dreaming. The "Romanization", if you can call it that, is rCFqKqmqn, pronounced /chuff, long rising strong whine, huff, long high strong growl, huff, short low strong grunt, huff, short high weak grunt/, and means egg eater.

The script is read from right to left, and as the phrase reverse abjad implies, the letters are vowels (whines, growls, or grunts) and the diacritics are consonants (huffs, chuffs, or yips). Both tone and volume are significant in vowels.

 
 

I want to have a running thread and use the OP as a table of contents linking to specific comments within the thread.

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