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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 26 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The problem isn't incoming spam, but rather not being able to send to the larger email providers because of arbitrary spamfiltering on their side.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 48 points 4 months ago (5 children)

An external email host. Life is too short to deal with frustrating email issues.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 months ago

Odoo is probably overkill, but if you need the POS parts then I am not aware of another option with that easily included.

Odoo itself is a bit of a pain to update across major versions and the (very nice) OCA plugins need to be managend manually. So both factors together make hosting it a bit annoying.

I don't see a huge difference in hosting from home or a VPS, but of course a managed solution is going to be more hassle free.

I think the most important point will be to talk to your business partner about it, and probably to have a backup plan for paper based ordering in place. The latter is good practice anyway, as recent power outages in Spain and Portugal have shown.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Where would they dump the heat that the condensing water releases? If they had a good end point for the heat, they wouldn't have to use the atmosphere for it in the first place.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Small 2.5" HDDs are quite power efficient, but yes 500mb is kind of the limit where I also start questioning it it is worth to run them.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Anubis is not bad for privacy, but rather the opposite. Server admins explicitly chose it over commonly available alternatives to preserve the privacy of their visitors.

If you don't like random Javascript execution, just install an allow-list extension in your browser 🤷

And no, it is not a PR slogan, it is the live experience of thousands of server admins (me included) that have been fighting with this for month now and are very grateful that Anubis has provided some (likely only temporary) relief from that.

And I don't get what the point of an extra button would be when the result is exactly the same 🤷

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Are you seriously complaining about an (entirely false) negative privacy aspect of Anubis and then suggest reCaptcha from Google is better?

Look, no one thinks Anubis is great, but often it is that or the website becoming entirely inaccessible because it is DDOSed to death by the AI scrapers.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago (5 children)

They are much worse for accessibility, and also take longer to solve and are more distruptive for the majority of users.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

Obviously I did that, but that just means the site becomes inaccessible even sooner.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Aha, an apologist for AI scraper DDOS, why didn't you say so directly instead of wasting my time?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 25 points 4 months ago

Yes, because Cloudflare routinely blocks entire IP ranges and puts people into endless captcha loops. And it snoops on all traffic and collects a lot of metadata about all your site visitors. And if you let them terminate TLS they will even analyse the passwords that people use to log into the services you run. It's basically a huge survelliance dragnet and probably a front for the NSA.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Great that this is all theoretical 🤷 My server hardware might not be the newest but it is definitly not broken.

And besides, what good is that you can still barely access the server through ssh, when the cpu is constantly maxed out and site visitors only get a timeout when trying to access the services?

I don't even get what you are trying to argue here. That the AI scraper DDOS isn't so bad because in theory it shouldn't crash the server? Are you even reading what you are writing yourself? 🤡

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