Create a retention period for online backup storage
https://lemmy.world/post/38742977
Create a retention period for online backup storage - Lemmy.World
I finally got some online storage to backup my home server to, and I can finally
sleep easy when my house inevitably goes up in flames. My initial push has been
with rclone using the sync command. I plan on running a daily or weekly push.
I’ve gone with Hetzner and they have a variety of options on how to connect to
their storage box as they call it. They have an option for automatic
snapshotting of, as I understand it, the entire storage box that you can then
recreate. So my thoughts are around rclones sync and copy commands, and the
storage snapshots.
Copy) If I use copy, it won’t clear up deleted files automatically that I
actually want gone.
Sync) With sync I’m worried that say a drive failed (my set up is a bit wonky
currently until I can build a proper RAID), it will do a sync, see an entire
directory is gone, and go ahead and delete it.
Snapshots) Here I’m worried that any new data that’s been added in-between the
snap shot and a server failure would be lost. And I don’t you can retrieve
partial data from a snapshot. What I have in mind is to use rclone’s copy
command, but then somehow have a retention period on files that no longer exist
on my server. So a deleted file might exist in my storage bucket for a month
before being removed from there as well. How do you guys manage this? Are there
any ready made solutions, or do I need to whip up a script that goes through and
looks at the last modified dates and removes the old ones?
Home surveillance set up - Lemmy.World
Hey all. I’m starting to plan out how to build a home camera system. For now I
just want to use it to keep an eye on the dogs while I’m out of the house, so
all of it indoors and with audio, but with plans to expand in the future. My one
hard requirement is that the camera themselves are only communicating locally
and the streams are accessible outside my network in a secure manner. I already
have a server running some docker containers, including a reverse proxy*, with a
GPU (Arc B580) installed for other video streaming. I also got a Google Coral on
its way for future camera detection funs. Would the B580 be able to cope with
say 2-4 camera streams (of say 1080p quality) and streaming a 4k HDR movie? This
support page
[https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000093450/graphics/intel-arc-dedicated-graphics-family.html#primary-content]
says it might be possible, but could stretch the limits a bit. My imagined setup
is PoE IP cameras with RTSP streaming to my home server running Frigate (I’m
open to suggestions) with some Home Assistant on the side. For cameras I’ve seen
Dahua and Hikvision recommended. Do they all have/is RTSP a common feature on IP
cameras? As none of the cameras I’ve looked at on Dahua’s website has explicitly
said they support it. I’ve been thinking about installing a separate network
card on the server as well just for the cameras. But this might be a bit
over-kill, and might be enough to block them on the router? But I image I will
need a special switch for PoE either way. Outside of buying cameras, switch, and
cables and then configuring it all, are there any big ticket items I’ve missed?
Or is my set up kinda meek and a separate server for the video streams is
recommended? * I know a reverse proxy isn’t typically as safe as a VPN tunnel,
but it’s a balance with easy of use.
What music streaming platform do you use?
https://lemmy.world/post/27378410
What music streaming platform do you use? - Lemmy.World
So I want to swap off of Spotify. Most of the time it works great, but the
annoyances with their UX are starting to build up. From not ordering albums in
release order on certain screens, to having to wait a good few seconds before
turning off their shuffle+, and their shuffle not being very shuffle-y to begin
with. I have a couple of requirements: * A decent Linux client. * Be able to
easily select playback device from other devices (for example start playback on
my PC from my phone). * Preferably pretty straightforward UX philosophy, i.e.
haven’t started going down any enshitification with AI, “we know best” kind of
elements. I don’t particularly care for the highest of lossless quality audio. I
don’t posses any audio equipment where I would have any shot of telling the
difference. As long as its not the experience I had with YouTube music where
some random persons heavily compressed upload of a song would start playing. My
main contenders are Tidal, Qobuz, and deezer. The latter two I have very little
experience with. I’ve tried Tidal before, but my main gripe with it was
scrolling through large playlists (about 2000 songs) was very slow, as it loaded
in songs as you scrolled through (think endless scrolling on ddg or Lemmy)
making it tedious to go to artists starting with a later character in the
alphabet. Maybe it was just the Linux client, an issue on my machine, or if
they’ve fixed it since, would be great to hear if any of you have had the same
issue. Qobuz and deezer I haven’t really tried or heard much about from a users
perspective. I know some people swear by buying (or ship in under the jolly
roger) all their music and use jellyfin or just local files for playback. I’m
not very keen on that idea, the convince and discoverability of music on a
streaming platform is what made me go to Spotify and away from winamp in the
first place.
Third party keyboards no longer accepted by HSBC's banking app.
https://lemmy.world/post/21800794
Third party keyboards no longer accepted by HSBC's banking app. - Lemmy.World
In a recent update to the HSBC app they’ve added a screen to prevent you from
using the app unless you use the default (google) keyboard. They do a similar
thing if you have an accessibility service running that can access the screens
content. A fair enough security warning if you’ve happened to install a dodgy
keyboard app, but highly frustrating when using an open source alternative that
enhances the security and privacy over the default option (HeliBoard in my
case). I haven’t found a way to circumvent the page yet. It would be useful if
Android allowed you to block the permission to query all packages, but alas.
YouTube now shows number of likes instead if views a video gas.
https://lemmy.world/post/18743530
YouTube now shows number of likes instead if views a video gas. - Lemmy.World
But it seems to only do this in the home tab. Search and subscription tabs still
show the view count.
[https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/958c3eef-4e9b-4a60-8cb0-3c596e5cb946.jpeg] Now
I don’t think view count is much of an indication of quality for a video, but
the number of likes even less so. It varies quite a bit even on video to video
from the same creator depending on if a like is called out for, or audience
type. Certainly not the most egregious change they’ve made, but a bit of an odd
one I can’t quite figure out why.
