I self-identify as an nblob, a non-binary little object.
I’ve been using Authelia with several OIDC integrations for a while now. Works great. They’ve released a huge update like a day ago too. Out of the ones you listed, it’s very lightweight too. The docs are a bit all over the place but it is quite comprehensive.
I did look at Zitadel and tried setting it up myself but I just couldn’t get it to work. The docs are a bit vague.
I think it’s still good to go with the HDD instead. You can always later get M.2 SSD with a USB enclosure if you run “busier” databases that will benefit from faster speeds. They’re small enough to dangle from USB ports.
When you go refurbished it’s always luck when it comes to any type of storage. My server’s root fs runs on an SSD that’s like 10 years old, yet I bought second hand hard drives that are 4 years old and they were broken beyond repair.
Make sure to backup your stuff regardless.
Welcome to the club!
The build sounds good, and yes a little bit overkill. I host way more on much older gear, comfortably. For “homelab” stuff I wouldn’t buy a Xeon like the other commenter said lmao, you’re not going to like your bills. That’s way too overkill as you’re mostly likely going to be memory-bound, not CPU-bound.
Just for reference, I have ~65 containers running and using ~8 GB RAM. I started with 8 GB and added another 8 GB to have a bigger buffer, and to try out new stuff from time to time.
In general, don’t worry about hardware too much, get what is within your budget to build up knowledge and skills. You will figure out what you need later down the line.
Also, I prefer Adguard Home over Pi Hole, and check out Vaultwarden, the community Rust version of Bitwarden as well.
I was going to suggest put.icu (seems like max 4GB) but their max expiry is 1 day. I found a list of privatebin instances here (it’s a pastebin but you can also attach files). From the table, you can select ones with file upload, but some of them have quite low file size limit. I was able to upload a 10 MB file over at https://privatebin.at.
If you just want to view logs, then a lightweight viewer I really recommend is Dozzle.
It’s not open source though.
I’m going to use local names since idk the translation for these things. You can copy paste into search engine and machine translate blogs for food places.
General tip: don’t bother too much about Michelin stars in Hanoi, especially in phố cổ, as all the restaurants in there all taste more or less the same. Otherwise you have to queue very long with other tourists. As always, eat where the locals eat.
(make sure to keep masks with you for walking along roads)
Electric buses available here.
Go see uncle Ho, I missed him last time I went to Hanoi. The mausoleum closes early (like 10:30) so you have to get up relatively early for that.
Go around the back of the mausoleum to see chùa một cột.
There are several national museums dotted around the centre, if you have time. Monday is a bad day for museums as most of them will close.
Massive government buildings/military areas in the centre as well. Lots of hammer and sickles everywhere.
Go to Lenin park to see a cool Lenin statue.
On Trúc Bạch lake, there is a cool war monument of John McCain being shot down and kept as POW. His plane landed there. Some USians actually pay respect at the monument even if it’s anti US lol.
Go to phố cổ, hồ gươm, văn miếu quốc tử giám.
Eat bún chả, phở hà nội, cơm rang, chè, bún gan, bánh cốm, xôi cốm, bún riêu, bánh cuốn. Honestly there’s so much food in Hanoi, explore around.
You will notice the difference from Hanoi. More lights, more people out, busier and more urban.
Museum by dinh độc lập.
Many parks in general where young people hang out, dance, play sports. If you skate, phố đi bộ is a good spot, even when busy.
There’s a big zoo, with a lot of greenery. Zoos are not my thing in general but if you’re bored and want to see cool birds and reptiles (they’ve got a lot of them funny birds at the moment to get them out of critical endangered status).
Several smaller museums by the zoo. You might spot a few US planes that were shot down on display.
There’s a city hall and opera house, they look very fr*nch and the latter looks bourgeoise as fuck.
I like walking around phố đi bộ and the city centre area to see what people are up to. Bùi viện is like a party street for tourists and I hate it.
There’s Saigon waterbus that takes you around the city via the river. It’s really nice.
Outside of the centre, there’s chợ lớn, which is a ‘chinatown’. Lots of pagodas and chinese cuisine.
There is so much food in general, both local and asian in general, you’d be overwhelmed. Worth trying: cơm tấm, bánh xèo, hủ tiếu nam vang, chả cá lã vọng, bánh canh, bún bò huế, gỏi cuốn, bánh pía.
In both places: If you drink coffee, please try out the cà phê phin there. It’s good black, with milk, hot, or cold. There are hundreds of cafes and most stay opened til late. Sit by a balcony and watch the streets and the people. The culture is very relaxed and laid back.
In both places, you can get around one area to the other via motorbike, and if you can’t ride one, there are many cheap uber-like taxi services for both types of vehicles. You gotta get the apps for that, a bit of a pain, but everyone switches between them to get good deals. Cycling might be an option but just be careful.
I’m still sad Agalloch disbanded.
I also like Dawn Ray’d, Wiegedood, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, Ulver.
I don’t get it either. I’m from one of these countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year but live in the imperial core, and I’ve been to parties or gatherings with a mix of East asians celebrating and I don’t think anyone there took issue with it being called Lunar New Year as a quick reference to the different holidays around the same time. You can phone your parents and use your own lingo then but when returning to English it really is no big deal?
I get the “Chinese” in CNY being a boogeyman thing for western whitewashed people, but personally as someone from East Asia I think Hexbear who think this is 100% a Sinophobic thing should log off and go to a new year party.
I’ve tried nearly every selfhosted dashboard out there and in the end settled for static html/css/js. If you want to access links quickly by typing abbreviations then use something like https://github.com/Ozencb/tilde-enhanced. A lot lighter and can be used with an existing webserver too.
https://tailscale.com/kb/1054/dns#nameservers
and
https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole#step-3-set-your-raspberry-pi-as-your-dns-server
Set tailscale to use your dns server to resolve your services (or all traffic if you prefer). Assuming your dns server is on 100.x.x.1:53, then put 100.x.x.1 as a nameserver.
For not having to remember ports, use a reverse proxy. Keep configuration text files in a repository somewhere, online or offline. Then maybe write an ansible playbook to install all the packages you need and configure as you want. For services that don’t have config files, document in a personal wiki what you do to have it set up.
I currently have a lot of things installed and use a mixture of docker compose files and config files (podman can also use compose-style files). I’ve written down a guide for myself on how to redeploy my whole server and plan to use ansible to reproduce the setup.
Flow charts are also good to visualize the state of things.
How about Uptime Kuma status pages? They’re separate from the admin page and you can add Docker containers as monitors.
I don’t know extensively about it, but I have engaged with crossover science/biology/economic topics that deal with modelling “rational agents” to derive predictions. I find it overly reductive and hyper-individualist. It uses weird justification from “human nature” and static ideas of “conformity”, “cooperation” and “non-cooperation” that only concern form and quantitative measures, depriving it of symbolic and meaning content. Its games and experiments are hyper static, isolated scenarios where real world implications and (material) relations are cast aside as “irrational” or unimportant factors, whereas for real humans these factors are central to their decisions and worldview.
Many have already said a lot, so I won’t write an essay here. I agree to a certain extent that culture is steered by the US in the popular consumer market. But if you take the center/periphery model of culture seriously (I don’t), then you can expect a lot of niche/scene things to come out of periphery nations and in turn influence the center nations, like US/UK. I can comment a few things:
What about https://floccus.org/?
SFTPGo supports OIDC and has a lot of ACL features. It allows users to have their own folders, as well as shared volumes between a group.
Empiricism is a narrower concept. It requires one to setup a system which defines “evidence”, “verification”, and a criterion for “true knowledge”, and probably more. Afaik, Marx did not busy himself with this, and both him and Engels did not like the static manner in which British empiricism treats knowledge and reality.
While this “materialism” might sound positivistic, it isn’t just merely about empirical evidence (where do raw senses stop and interpretive perception starts?) but rather it’s more about aligning and rationalising our cognition as to make sense of everything (myself and everything else); to encompass as much of the whole and not only selective parts of it that bode well to our feelings and will-to-power (like superstitions or irrationalism, or fascism).
At this point I’ve strayed far from existence and “true meaning”, which you’ve discussed under the CW section. You mentioned physicalism and lost of “meaning”, and idealism, or turning to the primacy of minds, as an existential escape from this. Here, you come round to justify meaning with inferences from seeing others. Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with that, but some will take issue in analytical philosophy of minds and the like, with all kinds of problems: hard problem of consciousness, problem of other minds (solipsism) etc.
You’ve mentioned meaning quite a lot that I think you should additionally look at phenomenology for the existential question, maybe with Merleau-Ponty, then all kinds of feminist philosophy, metaphilosophy, hermeneutics, philosophy of history etc.
I have found this top down approach more empowering than looking for answers to life within the rigid framework of (often white men’s) Anglo philosophy that, from bottom up, relies too heavily on the existential quantifier, a literal logical notation, to more fully deliver meaning to life.
I haven’t looked through the paper linked yet, but I think that their definition of materialism develops through a negation of Hegel’s system, since M&Es’ “world systems” are heavily taken from the systems Hegel posed himself.
I think a close reading of how the structure of dialectics comes to being and develops through Hegel and subsequently through M&E will show that this dichotomy is more about one’s orientation within the domain of natural and social sciences as knowledge machines for understanding reality rather than strictly about epistemology or ontology (it is in fact a bit of both).
As an aside, these latter categories and frameworks about what’s real (i.e. the existence quantifier in logic) are framed by rigid analytic traditions that took off in Anglo philosophy where philosophers agonize in circles over what constitutes reality. Here, materialism is often denoted as “metaphysical realism”, i.e. the mind independent stuff. Things-in-themselves as notions are brainteasees and an analytical struggle with this will not help any revolution whatsover. Social facts and social reality are real to us, whethe electrons are negatively charged in and of themselves is really intellectual brainmelt M&E rightly stayed away from. (For a cool way out of this hellscape, check out ontological structural realism.)
In more continental-leaning proses I find philosophers often prefer to de-emphasise such heavy categorizations; you can say the point of German idealism is to establish connections between what’s in our mind and what’s in front of us, rather than to separate the two.
Back to Hegel and M&E. It seems like materialism is the recognition that nature as constantly developing over time has always been changing, and will change forever. As such, there is no need for a beginning or end in an endless flow (and thus no creation, no Absolute Idea or God). To align our minds and knowledge to this nature means to recognize that science is a process of finding present understandings and synthesis, which can over time become too abstract and divorced from new development (it becomes a dogma), but then also recognizing the need to make concrete new ideas from new development, which is akin to progress in science. “Materialism” would be the constant strive to produce interpretations in accordance with nature’s ebbs and flows instead of imposing what we think it should be. If “idealism” is in tension with this, then it fails to recognize the process I just described, like imposing principles and laws as universals or as static and unchanging. Very undialectical.
This brings me onto “ontology materialism”, which, to answer your question, I think they, or at least Engels, never intended to understand “matter” as an essence/substratum. Anyway, I think dialectical science is against a universal appraisal of Cartesian reductionism which intends to unify all sciences under one lineage (physics -> chemistry -> biology and so on). I think it’s still fine to say events are caused but what kind of substrata things belong to aren’t really a part of M&E’s materialism.
https://grapheneos.org/releases#changelog