perishthethought

joined 2 years ago
 

Have you ever left the Lemmyverse (or I guess r*****) for more than a few days and if so, why did you quit, how did it go and what brought you back?

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago

See the other comments here. He's a man baby tyrant and just wants to see his lackeys jump every time he says anything.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

There were people with signs using that image at the Hands Off rally in Denver this last weekend. So yeah!

ETA: Here is it. Use it everywhere.

The disrepectable Donald

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 41 points 2 weeks ago

For those not from this state, Colorado Republicans took up a collection 6 years ago, and chose this Republican lady to paint the portrait and it's been hanging in our state capitol for those years. It was only this year that Chump complained about "many people" not liking it and then Colorado Republicans immediately took it down.

Colorado Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen, a Republican, has said that the Trump portrait should be replaced with one “that depicts his contemporary likeness.”

The boot licking will never end. These people have no backbone, apparently.

 

Portraitist Sarah Boardman, whose painting hung in the state Capitol for six years, says her business has been harmed by the president’s comments

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yup, the Lemmy search feature must be broken again. ;)

But that shouldn't stop people giving OP new ideas. :)

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 3 weeks ago
  • Krebs on Security
  • Schneir on Security
  • Freedom to Tinker
  • Coding Horror
  • Robohub
  • Selfh.st

And a bunch of cycling news.

Every time this question comes up, I look at my list and realize a few feeds have stopped. So now I'm watching here for some new ideas. TIA y'all.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As someone else noted, they use a platform called Fireside. I wonder how hard it would be to self-distribute a podcast with thousands of listeners.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Ethan is great too and I use his website a lot.

https://selfh.st/

 

Just taking a minute to share this podcast with y'all. I know it's already in the sidebar here, but thought Alex & Chris deserve a shout out for their great show.

They talk about the week's news and their own experiences hosting at home. Listening to them talk tech makes me more confident about my hosting.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Wow, super cool! Thanks for sharing this.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Static page route

Ooooh! I started down the PHP path and that's already working but now I like this idea of using JS and canvas more so I am going to go research that next. I have an nginx server running so this could work. (I wonder if this is how https://squoosh.app/ works since they claim it's all client-side too?)

Great suggestion, I didn't know was possible so thanks very much! 👍

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I loved that app for like a year and yes, it was perfect. I don't know what changed but about 6 months ago, when I upload images to it, they were black rectangles and so it wouldn't shrink my images. No idea what caused that, I searched around and could not find a resolution so I moved on.

But also, it's owned by GOOG and that's a downside for me.

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh

However, Squoosh utilizes Google Analytics to collect the following:

    Basic visitor data.     <-- what does this mean?
    The before and after image size value.
    If Squoosh PWA, the type of Squoosh installation.
    If Squoosh PWA, the installation time and date.

I should see if I can download the code, strip out their surveillance and then use it locally from there. Thanks for the tip!

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yah, thanks. In a pinch, I've been using GIMP but as you say, there's a lot to it and a lot of steps to this simple process.

I'm going to see if a AI tool can help hack together a simple web page. If I do, I'll share the code I end up with somewhere.

 

I've searched around and can't find this but it seems like someone must have created this already. I am hoping to find a self-hosted image resizer app. I frequently need to take photos from my phone (etc...) and make them small enough to post online.

For instance, my lemmy instance (lemm.ee) only allows images in posts if they are smaller than 500KB but my phone's photos are always larger than that.

In a perfect world, I could just browse to a local server app, upload an image, select a size to resize it to, hit Go and then download the smaller image. It doesn't have to allow any other editing and it shouldn't store images long-term. I want to self-host so I don't have to upload my images to random web sites I know nothing about.

I would be happy with a FOSS desktop app I can install in linux too, but then I couldn't access it from my phone. The Android apps I found for this either look scammy or include tons of ads.

Anyone know of such a thing? Thanks!

EDIT - UPDATE:

Thank you for the great suggestions. I've installed Image Toolbox on my Android phone and that looks great. It both has a ton of tools but also makes this resizing task very straightforward. Not sure how I never found that before.

But for my desktop, I started writing a PHP app to run in my existing nginx web server. It runs the suggested ffmpeg command under the hood, and since I am the only user on this server, this works very well for me.

That's working now so I am going to tweak a few things and then use it for a while. (Before anyone asks, I started based on the Python recs here, but couldn't get it working (PIP couldn't add Flask because PIP couldn't find PIP???) and so switched to PHP since my local server was already using that from another home-made app. This (PHP) was not as hard as I was afraid it would be, with help from Duck Duck Go's AI chat bot.

I used my php app to shrink this file!

Thank y'all - this is resolved now.

 

I have Immich Server Version: v1.115.0. They're up to v1.129.0. I am guessing there have been lots of breaking changes in that range, since that was true the last time I updated.

Is there a safe way now to update without making me read all the release notes and carefully craft my docker compose file in multiple steps to make sure I don't lose anything in the process of getting caught up?

Thanks for any tips.

ETA: Or just, how do you handle your Immich (in Docker) updates in general?

2ND EDIT: I did read the release notes. After a lot of reading, there was 1 change (updating their internal Port # for the main service to 2283) It's done. Thanks y'all. My cats appreciate you all.

 

Hey. I've got a Rasberry Pi 3 and a Pi Camera 3 set up here, pointed at my front door. I installed the latest Ras Pi OS on the computer and I tested that with the built-in 'raspi-vid' app and it's working now. I want to self-host something so I can access the live video from my phone to see who's knocking on my door.

I don't want to store the video, or do anything else fancy. Just be able to see the video, in a browser, from inside my local network.

I wonder if I could code this up pretty quickly myself, in fact but have no experience with this sort of thing. Is there an app to make this easy or something I could add to the PI to give it a webbish front-end?

Thanks for any ideas

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
 

I've not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting.

I'm not affiliated in any way with this.

ETA: If anyone has read it / bought a copy, a review would be very appreciated.

 

Hello y'all! I have my personal (static) website / blog running on netlify out on the public internet. Netlify, in case you're not familiar, is not a traditional web host, so I can't add databases or anything else like that on the server itself. Right now, that site has zero analytics / visitor tracking and I've decided I want to fix that. I want to know how many people visited my site and which pages they looked at. I am NOT looking to monetize anything though, to be clear.

I want to self-host that analytics service at home, on my home server, but I need two things, please:

  1. Recommendations for which app to use. I've checked out Umami and Plausible and they both look good for my meager purposes. But please - let me know which app makes sense for a personal web site with low-ish traffic. Is there something simpler I could do?

  2. Help getting the reverse proxy set up so my public web site can send analytics data into my home server. I would prefer this to be entirely under my control, so no CloudFlare or Tailscale, for instance. Is Caddy an option? I get really confused really quickly about this level of networking, to be clear, so maybe I just need a really plain-English guide to handling this sort of thing?

Thanks for any / all ideas! Y'all so totally rock!

ETA: A little more info about Netlify and why I can't install or use tools other traditional web hosts might offer.

** SECOND EDIT**: Thanks to @andrew@radiation.party for the goatcounter suggestion, I am trying that out now for the analytics side of this. Getting it set up was easy and free, using their server. (I know, I know...) If I still like the app after the next couple of weeks, I will move it in-house and self-host. That gives me a couple of weeks to figure out my second issue above, how to have my public web site make requests to my self-hosted, behind the firewall/NAT service. Yay, more learning!

 

Lurkers - what's your story?

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