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Still don’t have a use case, but damn that looks sweet for someone who does.

One of the features of Self-Host Weekly is the Command Line Corner. I always scroll right to that first thing

There are Safe Harbor laws, however, these vary by jurisdiction, country, etc. It would be a litigation I wouldn’t want to get involved in. I’m not crapping on your deployment idea. I’m just very cautious…perhaps overly cautious.

Plus, the cryptomater ‘containers’ are portable.

However I don’t see how encrypted storage may become an attack vector?

Not an attack vector. I’m speaking more towards the content of what they will be storing on your server.

Question: I do remember the days of those RSS buttons everywhere. But I never managed to see the value in it.

I use ttRSS for feeds. I like the RSS feeds because I can get the information I desire without having to go to the site itself. Consuming RSS for me would be like, laying in bed in the evening before I retire for the night, and pulling up articles from my RSS reader, again, without having to hop around to different sites. The info is all there in one neat package.

That’s pretty neat. Does it work for sites that really don’t have a feed, advertised or discoverable. Currently I use something like SimpleFeedMaker for those. I’ll give it a go later on tho.

Might have to give Scanopy a go.

The first thing that pops into my paranoid brain is: How well do you trust these ‘users’? Personally, I would have to implicitly trust someone to be able to allow them even a few kb on my server.

That’s a pretty righteous set up OP. I am envious of you guys who have all this kind of stuff deployed. I wouldn’t say my set up is basic, perhaps medium complex, but it seems to work. I have everything set up how I want it, and I can’t see me trying to wrap my limited noodle around something as complex as you have set up. I can, tho, appreciate the work/reward.

As a handsome local AI enjoyer™ you’ve probably noticed one of the big flaws with LLMs:

LOL I think your AI is lying again. LOL I’m quite certain I don’t belong in the ‘handsome’ category.

Would a samba share work for you? For instance, I have Navidrome setup as a docker container, but the audio is on a NAS drive. So I set the samba share parameters in my Navidrome docker compose, gave permissions, Bob’s your uncle, Jack’s a doughnut. Works great for my purposes.

Welcome! Good to meet you.

Well, there is Mixarr. I believe it downloads and gives recommends. However, there is also a version if you just want recommendations: Mixarr Unleaded which the dev graciously modified just for me apparently. Thanks aquantumofdonuts!! So I feel obligated to recommend the unleaded version of Mixarr.

These are my opinions. There are many like them, but these are mine.

I believe in, and practice privacy, security, and anonymity in every facet of my life that I can. Selfhosting fits in with that just nicely. However, I am very realistic about the whole thing. You are never going to take down Google, Amazon, Microsoft, AI, et al. The best you can do is disconnect from them. However, in the case of Google specifically, that’s a very tall order. The amount of domains and subdomains they run will blow your mind. Almost daily I find yet another one to block. Which makes the likelihood very high that you will encounter one that isn’t in your blocklist, or what have you. Same for Microsoft, same for Amazon, same for all of them. So, to me, chest beating about taking down ‘corpos’ as is usually the jargon, is kind of useless. Oh, it makes us feel good, but in the grand scheme of things, it does little. I would say the percentage of privacy minded individuals that actually practice it, and the percentage of selfhosters is very slim when you consider there are 8.4 billion people on this planet.

Additionally, I hear people saying ‘I run this or that federated’, or whatever ‘…and that can’t be taken down’. That’s a false sense of security to me. Everything can be taken down and a moment’s notice, even the internet. I’m not saying capitulate or rage quit. Again, I’m just very pragmatic and realistic about life in general.

The FUTO guide is a bit dated, but it still has some great info.

Consider getting a VPS to play around with to learn how this stuff works before you expose your data to the internet.

Highly recommend this, especially when exposing your local server to the internet when you may still be a bit green with the security aspects of self hosting. Small VPS for under $30 a year are dime a dozen really, and well worth the price for the education you can get from them.

Even now, I have a small VPS that I regularly test things on before I put it on the production server.