For those who enjoy self-hosting, there’s coboldcpp and lamacpp.

Get outta here with your facts.

I’ve worked with bookstack. Found it easy and intuitive. It’s wiki software not specific to family history.

I think it depends on the rate of change, rather than the amount of containers.

At home I do things manually as things change maybe 3 or 4 times a year.

Professionally I usually do setup automated devops because updates and deployments happen almost daily.

At one of my clients, who wants everything on-prem, I use gitlab CI with ansible. It took 3 days to setup, and requires thinkering. But all in all, I like the versitility, consistency and transparency of this approach.

If I’d start over again, I’d use pyinfra instead of ansible, but that’s a minor difference.

Those benefits existed long before in VPS-es.

What I understand that was new as the marketing terminology shifted to “cloud” is that the provider not solely provided you the virtualized hardware with a stock OS. They would also manage typical software like nodejs, database, elasticsearch, queue, … Along with the annoying stuff like updates and backups.

Basically reduce the amount of work invested in the ops part of devops.

Funny enough, that website uses the illegal “consent or pay” dark pattern:

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They’re lucky GDPR is only enforced against large US companies - almost as if they’re specifically designed as a tarrif against them :D

I started as a side job as well. My advise is to call around at ex-employer and colleagues, that’s the best spot to find your first client. 👍

Haha

Impossible. It’s totally safe they promise us!

I get where you’re coming from, trying to find a technical solution, bypassing the app stores by going for a webapp, peer-to-peer to avoid storing logs, e2ee.

The EU however takes another approach and just attacks developer(s) instead (1).

Glad the EU still knows their classics.

Got fed up with of plex/jellyfin, so making my own thing that’s mostly a small browser based interface glueing together VLC and Qbittorrent.

It runs on a nuc connected to a large screen. I open up the application in my phone’s browser, and it shows just a search bar. I enter a query and it searches imdb. After opening a specific title it searches local hard drive to see if it’s available. If not it uses qbittorrent and their local api to download it. Once it’s available, it’s one click to send the file to VLC for playback.

Stock raspberry os and syncthing sounds like the easiest way to do this.

I also dislike graphana kabana elastic behemot.

You can use rsyslog to centralize the logs. Then there’s tools like this for anomaly detection on those logs.

This is because the exact times of sunrise and sunset are known, meaning it is possible to reliably forecast accurate electricity generation each day.

I did this, predicting solar production, as a job. The article is wrong on at least this part. Cloud coverage, morning mist, etc all play a huge role. You can expect 300MW of solar production, and receive only 20MW, simply because air temperature unexpectedly dropped below the dew point. And vise-versa.

We used to track every cloud in western europe, paying a small fortune to satelite image providers to get the 5 minute delay images instead of the 15 minute delay data. We had ground-to-air infrared imagers to track clouds at night, in preparation for morning demand surge.

The unpredictability of the weather is a huge huge problem, where a procent increase in prediction accuracy has a huge impact on grid stability.

Super interesting field of study, but I’d advise anyone to not enter it as it’s a horrible politicized environment to work in - ideology takes preference over good engineering.

Once the solar equipment has been installed, it will – unlike imported fossil fuels – continue to generate electricity until the end of its life, without ongoing ties to China.

This is incorrect as well. Most chinese transformers phone home to CH. If you own a Huawei, Goodwe, etc transfo make sure to firewall them to disconnect them from their cloud platform!

In conclusion: this source seems to be faulty propaganda.

Pre toasted toast 🗽

A small application I wrote myself, hosted on the free tier of pythonanywhere.com

Uptime monitoring and notifications

I use syncthing. Love it love it live it!

I’ve done cron @reboot keep-one-running <mycommand> before (1)