I think it was voice activated.

The app was probably for additional stuff.

Sorry to be that guy but replicating / syncing isn’t really backing up.

You need snap shots or versioning.

It looks like there’s several distinct components to gpodder which confuse things.

Firstly gpodder seems to be a desktop podcast client.

Secondly there’s the sync service / protocol. Gpodder.net provides this for free but according to antennapod doesn’t have adequate resources and causes errors in your client (which I can confirm). There are other containers available which are not from the gpodder team but emulate the protocol.

Finally there’s the recommendation / discovery service apparently provided by gpodder.net. I haven’t been able to get this to work because my client hasn’t been able to sync yet, despite 12 hours of trying.

In my own case, I already have a client (antennapod) and I’m not really interested in sync because I only use the one device. The recommendation / discovery service would’ve been cool but it seems broken for the moment.

Oh wow. I’d seen the gpodder thing in antennapod subscriptions but never realised it was a kind of discovery / recommendation service.

I wonder if the recommendation stuff works with a self hosted instance?

Sure mate, keep trotting out the dumb swiss cheese analogy. Fine by me.

I’ve heard this analogy before but I don’t really care for it myself.

It creates a mental image but isn’t really analogous.

In the case of a firewall on a server behind a NAT, ports forwarded through the NAT are holes through the first several slices.

This. It’s unnecessary but it’s another layer.

Guy this is just semantics.

If you want to uphold a specific definition of what constitutes an IDE that’s fine, but what does it matter if others consider plugins to be integration.

Vocode integrates consoles for whatever you want. I use node and sql all the time.

I would think very carefully before contacting the police. I am not suggesting that you should provide a safe harbor for people sharing CSAM, or obfuscate their crime. You absolutely should take action, but carefully weigh your options before calling the police.

While it may (possibly!) be true in your jurisdiction that platform operators are not liable for user content, police aren’t on “your side”. Even if you assume the highest standards of professionalism from them, they need to represent the interests of the victims (not you) and need to diligently investigate the crime. That means they need to confirm beyond reasonable doubt that you are not involved beyond operating the host.

Just because you self-disclose does not mean that you are innocent. You could’ve been actively participating and when threatened with blackmail you’ve decided to self-disclose to avert guilt.

Another consideration is what else I have on my server. I’m catch and release for pirate movies and TV these days so there’s only 100gb or so. I do have several hundred pirate audiobooks though. Deleting all that before handing my server over will look very suspicious.

With all of this in mind, the only course of action is to talk to a lawyer. A lawyer will know exactly what laws are relevant, and can guide you through the process of self-disclosure while minimising the imposition on you.

ok so don’t hate me but h001, h002, h003, and so on.

That’s h for host. I also use n to number networks, and k to number physical keys.

I list them all in my keepassxc password database, where I can include any additional information.

With the prevalence of vms, docker containers, and docker networks, there’s just too many things to name. By numbering them I can just side step that whole game.

This is what I was thinking.

Syncthing will be the quickest to set up.

There’s a potential for collisions but that would likely be manageable.

In case anyone was wondering:

• namecheap: US
• porkbun: US
• INWX: Germany
• OVH: French
• onlydomains: NZ

I personally have been with onlydomains for a decade or so. No complaints.

I have a server with OVH. I hadn’t realised they’re a registrar also.

I think that most people with stressful frustrating and difficult jobs could make a good argument that they indirectly improve the material conditions of humanity.

I think most jobs are like this.

The entry level stuff is pleasant and manageable and easy, but if you progress far enough to make money you produce value by managing unsolvable problems which is stressful, frustrating, and difficult.

Yeah.

Sadly I think email will be with us for the foreseeable future. It’s broken, sure… but it’s just so fundamental to the web.

An alternative would need to be ubiquitous, and that seems unachievable.

I don’t think the SPF / DKIM / DMARC stuff is overly complex nor the core of the problem.

In my case it was recipients with bonkers microsoft exchange servers that just had weird ideas about who should be sending them emails.

For example, one thing that tripped me up forever ago was grey listing. Apparently the receiving server just wouldn’t acknowledge the sending server for an arbitrary period of time, say 12 hours or so. Spam senders would usually give up long before then, while a legit server would keep trying because it’s legitimately trying to deliver an actual email.

So my email-in-a-box type self hosted set up was fine really. Compliant you might say. But to send emails to this one in a thousand recipient I had to investigate what was going on and reconfigure things to ensure their server would interact with mine.

Another thing that can happen is that spammers just put your email address in the “from” field and fire off a few million emails. Obviously the DKIM signatures and SPF won’t match but it still just makes your future legitimate emails look spammy. Having the credibility of a larger organisation goes a long way in this type of instance.

I’m absolutely in the “don’t self-host email” camp. That said, I think it could be done reliably if you wanted to use someone else’s SMTP server and let them worry about deliverability. As in, have your mx records on your domain route to your MTA and dovecot, but set your DKIM and SPF records to match a third party SMTP server. You could use mxroute as an SMTP server very cheaply. There are others like the email API type services. I still can’t think of why I’d want to self host with all this drama but just an idea I’ve heard.

Indeed.

The whole mess seems to have gotten so much worse.