I digitally collect odd things, selfhosted in several apps depending on if it’s for ‘read later and decide’ or preserve… For one, I like the etymology of words or phrases and how they’ve evolved in meaning, and in some instances bastardized the meaning. For another, I collect political cartoons from any country. I am fascinated how some of the ones I’ve read about, have changed some people’s minds. Things I find educational. Things that are totally polar opposite me. You’d be surprised what you learn even tho you may still remain opposed. So these are a back up of a backup which gets backed up, lol, It’s the source files if you will, and I archive them in another app however I still keep the source as a backstop.

I’ll end with this as an example since this might be misconstrued as not about selfhosting, As a wee lad, someone donated a set of Encyclopedia Britannica to us. I read those cover to cover many times. So, with the help of self hosting and dedicated devs around the globe, thank you so very much for being so generous with your skills and time, I can continue my quest to know.

TL:DR: I’m just a weird, old man.

LOL

LOL Never thought of it like that, but yeah.

Just 2k in bookmarks? Pffft! Those are rookie numbers. Check back when you have 59k bookmarks. Currently there are 1.1k in the broken links category. The vast majority of the links are topics I research or have interest in, exterior of self-hosting. I do not consume TV data, but I do a ton of reading. I find that reading gives me better retention of the topic, and it’s rather easy to highlight & search for cross comparisons, and further research. Ever since I was a wee lad, barely able to read, I have had an insatiable lust for knowing. It is this that drives the link counts. LOL

That was fast.

hmmmm Thanks for the tip. I’ll check into it

ETA: Looks like I’ll be looking for something else. Le sigh…c’est la vie

This looks interesting. I currently run Alist but this seems to have a lot more going on. Might have to spin it up and give it a go. In reading up on it, there were some issues back in '23 that parts of the UI are presented in Chinese with no means of the user fixing that. Is this still an issue?

I am not going to go as far as to say ‘VNC is dead’, it does have use cases. I selfhost two apps that use the KasmVNC, and while that’s cool and all, and it gets the job done, I’d have to say it’s rather clunky. This all could be because I’m dense and using it wrong, but say I fire up an app that uses KasmVNC. To log in, I have to copy the password to the PC clipboard, paste it into the KasmVNC clipboard, and then right click in the app password dialogue box and paste it from KasmVNC clipboard. I can’t just copy the password to the PC clipboard and paste it into the app I’m trying to run with KasmVNC. Because of this, it doesn’t recognize Bitwarden inputs either. Other than that, VNC does work, but boy I’d try to avoid it in a corporate setting.

Those photos are only a just-in-case for insurance.

Cool. The insurance angle has helped me on a couple of occasions. Had a piece of farm equipment disappear. Had all the surveillance replete with photos of the equipment and snapshots of serial numbers. The process was rather painless with all of that. I highly recommend people go through at least once a year and take a digital inventory, especially big ticket items.

There are cave drawings of this cpu

When I first got licensed the solar cycle was utter trash

Wow…memories come flooding back.

The ionosphere depletion really made an impression on me as a young man. In conjunction with my ham radio, I used to point a telescope at the sun that had a special lens on it to keep you from burning a hole in your head. Then I would turn the eyepiece 180 deg, put a regular lens in and point it onto a white piece of cardboard. You could watch the solar flares and track them across the sun as very dark shadowy spots on the cardboard. When there weren’t a lot of solar flare activity, signals went farther on the bounce. In my memory it was probably the last time that we as a global community banded together to solve the issue of ionosphere depletion because of aerosols.

Many many nights of QSL CQ! CQ!. I still have a trunk full of old QSL cards. Do they still do that now days?

I used to be into Ham radio when I was a younger man. I took a course from NRI I saw in an old popular science mag. Built a 5 watt receiver and xmitter, code only. On a good night with good ionosphere coverage, I could bounce that 5 watts half way around the world. I would have never have imagined communication technologies as we enjoy today.

Precise Pangolin

Dude! I’ve been sitting here for about an hour trying to find an old 32 bit distro that will run on an old Dell Latitude laptop I have. Well guess what? Precise Pangolin works just like it should. Had to go download the torrent, but all is well. Thanks a bunch mate. You cut down my trial and error time by a bunch because I had a stack of them here to try.

It’s a reverse proxy, tunnel like Tailscale, with LetsEncrypt like Caddy, and a few other goodies all rolled into one.

So now I have an inventory (and pictures)

So it will import associated pictures of equipment with a pic of the serial number? Cool

but it’s so portable I have no idea where I left it!

LOL I can feel your pain. I have to force myself to put the tool back in its proper place when done, or I’ll never find it again for years. Put your toys back in the toybox.

LOL me too my brother. However, one thing I do use is Grocy for pantry and other inventory. Homebox seems to be in that inventory genre of apps. I’m somewhat of a prepper, but ‘prepping’ was very common in my generation along with Victory Gardens. I don’t do EOTW scenarios, but I do stock for social or political unrest and upheavals, weather related hazards or catastrophes, food shortages, etc. During the pandemic, I rarely wandered from my compound.

I have a UPC scanner that I scan all groceries and food stuffs into Grocy, and when I use the item, I scan it out. I’m the only one who is authorized to use it which gripes my lady friend when she comes to visit. LOL So, when I am doing my monthly shopping, I can pull up the app and check against the inventory to see if I need to pick up a couple 50 lb sacks of rice that are on sale.

I could see how Homebox would be useful in that you could take inventory of all your household items for perhaps insurance claims reasons. I take pictures of all such items along with their serial numbers and store them just for that purpose. I wonder if Homebox could import such data to securely store.

there’s no reasonable chance of my data ending up in the RIAA/MPAA’s hands

Well, I have had dealings with the RIAA back in the pre-Napster era when audio on the internet had not really come into it’s own and most people associated audio on the internet with GeoCities midis…pretty crappy stuff. I ran a fairly successful, fully liscensed, internet radio station with a company called the IM Radio Networks. They along with Phillips created one of the world’s first bookshelf stereos that could ‘tune in’ internet radio as well as AM/FM. Even went to Washington with others to plead our case before a hearing that included Senator Leahy. Yeah, the RIAA are a bunch of reactive assholes and have never been proactive since AM radio first crackled into people’s homes.

I used to give corporations more benefit of the doubt and think in balance

I’ve always figured that if it was offered for free on the internet, there were always going to be strings and at some point I’d have to do something different to achieve the same results I was looking for.

Crowdsec is a type of WAF you could say that covers a wide variety of attack scenarios and is fed by community input into the system as well. Very nice package imho. I use it.

Other than that, I’m watching this thread because I’ve been reading up on Pangolin and it seems to be quite an inclusive package and covers a lot of ground with just one install. It seems to be along the lines of a Caddy/Tailscale scenario, just in one complete go.