I hope the author of that click bait headline stubs his toes every day.

To save anyone else wasting a click: Pihole.

Your system is a POS.

Someone reported it, Samsung understood their concerns and thanked them for their feedback. But that’s about it.

https://us.community.samsung.com/t5/Suggestions/Implement-Auto-Delete-Clipboard-History-to-Prevent-Sensitive/m-p/3200743

For anyone still reading, urlcheck allows forcing a link to open incognito in a browser:

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker

(Also available at Google Play)

Exactly as you’ve said… I’m now seeing low effort news articles posted by a 6 day account.

Thanks, I’m using “hot”… I’ll try your suggestions to at least downgrade the visibility of those posts.

I also learned the hard way: beware of SD cards! They have limited write endurance and will end up corrupting. With the amount of logging a system does and that the SD cards writes in pages, those writes add up soon enough.

Using a SSD boot drive over USB has been reliable and faster for my use. Alternatively, get high endurance SD cards or higher capacity to spread out the writes. At some point though, with the higher price of high endurance/capacity SD cards, you might as well get an SSD.

Oh hello, this looks very compelling. Thanks for the suggestion!

:p

Looks like @[email protected] / @[email protected] has also had enough of such accounts and implemented auto-delete: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/22241904

Good point about the unintended consequences for genuine new accounts, and how spammers will find another way to spam. I guess that’s why a toggle for filtering new accounts would allow the end user to decide what they want to see.

“When you’ve got a phone, every problem is an app”.

Agree, just buy an alarm clock.

It’s pretty much this…

I’ve listened to the excellent weekly PC Pro podcast for years, it’s by the various writers and editors of that magazine.

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-pc-pro-podcast/id563487808

(available on various platforms, not just Apple)

Also the ITPro podcast, which focuses more on industry

https://www.itpro.com/uk/the-it-pro-podcast

Are you running docker?

UFW is a popular iptables front end on Ubuntu that makes it easy to manage firewall rules. But when Docker is installed, Docker bypass the UFW rules and the published ports can be accessed from outside.

https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker

The Map Men explain it better than I could:

How do you start a new country? https://youtu.be/hX4s1ZLW_PI

There are NOT 195 countries https://youtu.be/3nB688xBYdY

And just for fun…

The mystery of the squarest country https://youtu.be/8mrNEVUuZdk

(Yes, I’m a big fan!)

It’s likely those images haven’t been updated in the 8 hour period in which watchtower checked. Daily or weekly update schedule should suffice.

I ordered one of these off Ali Express. An oscilloscope app showed it was about 40Hz vibration from the weight on the motor, far far from being ultrasonic. Got a refund, it ended up in the recycling.

Replying to myself to add…

This was all while installing this and that dependency and troubleshooting it. Docker was a complication I didn’t want to learn yet.

And then tinytinyrss moved to docker only which forced my hand. I can say installing Docker and Portainer (as someone who prefers a GUI more than command line) has made self hosting so much easier for me, and hugely reduces the need to think about dependencies.

Absolutely. I had a similar journey. I started with Yunohost and DietPi. Then plain Raspbian, then plain Debian. Each time nuking and starting from scratch. You learn quickly when you’ve got to retrace the same steps again on a fresh install after messing something up.

Eventually, I tried and stuck with Proxmox (running a Debian VM) and Proxmox Backup Server. With that, you have your regular backups, and if you mess up, you simply revert to a previous backup version.

Others will recommend Ansible - I haven’t got that far yet.