I wouldn’t be so sure about that. The state government of Queensland, Australia just lifted a 12 year ban on IBM getting government contracts after a colossal fuck up.

Yes but now it is nobody ever got fired for buying Cisco.

No it’s not. It’s very expensive to run and there are a lot of edge cases. It’s much easier to have regional redundancy for a fraction of the cost.

But… that costs money.

Absolutely this. We are based out of one region, but also have a second region as a quick disaster recovery option, and we have people 24/7 who can manage the DR process. We’re not big enough to have live redundancy, but big enough that an hour of downtime would be a big deal.

I presumed the draw of us-east-1 was its lower cost

At no time is pub-cloud cheaper than priv-cloud.

The draw is versatility, as change didn’t require spinning up hardware. No one knew how much the data costs would kill the budget, but now they do.

I would say that’s a pretty minor issue that isn’t related to the functioning of the service itself.

It mentions push notifications and emails, so I guess they must require an account, or can you configure them to use SMTP directly, as with the Amcrest Pro cameras?

Local, private, no subscriptions, ONVIF, and no need to actually self-host anything. I haven’t found any other options with that combination.

The last time I looked at time I missed something. I want to use my existing chime and have it also use that power supply as a power source. Turns out the battery one does that! I missed that months ago! I was going to get a Ring Pro or whatever to get it to do that! This is so much better! Moving up the todo list now!

I moved from subsonic to jellyfin years ago, cuz subsonic didnt do video very well.

Jellyfin looks to do all the stuff Navidrome does, plus video in the same way

Finamp as a music specialized client is really awesome. Just get the beta version as they are reworking it deeply and the stable one is not really updated (also app password make it easier to use OIDC sso plugin on jellyfin)

I’d provide a plug for LMS! If you don’t give much of a damn for music video type stuff, it’s pretty solid and exposes more metadata through the Subsonic API than Navidrome does. My use case required Composer tags in addition to the usual smorgasbord. Bonus is that it combines SUPER well with Symfonium and is compatible with Audiomuse AI.

All that said, I would switch over to Jellyfin for music if they upped their music metadata game and made genre exploration a bit easier (assuming you have hundreds of distinct genre tags like I do).

Harbor

I have just this (which ironically won’t work now cause docker hub is down)

services:
  registry:
    restart: always
    image: registry:2
    ports:
      - 5000:5000
    dns:
      - 9.9.9.9
      - 1.1.1.1
    volumes:
      - ../files/auth/registry.password:/auth/registry.password
      - registry-data:/var/lib/registry
    environment:
      REGISTRY_STORAGE_DELETE_ENABLED: true
      REGISTRY_HEALTH_STORAGEDRIVER_ENABLED: false
      REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET: ${REGISTRY_HTTP_SECRET}
      REGISTRY_AUTH: htpasswd
      REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_REALM: Registry Realm
      REGISTRY_AUTH_HTPASSWD_PATH: /auth/registry.password
      # REGISTRY_PROXY_REMOTEURL: "https://registry-1.docker.io/"

volumes:
  registry-data:

I don’t even remember how and when I set it up. I think it might be this: github.com/distribution/distribution/…/v2.0.0

Recently somebody has created a frontend, which I bookmarked but didn’t bother to set up: github.com/Joxit/docker-registry-ui

For your personal use, you don’t need an enterprise setting. It’s just a simple compose file that you run.

You can host a registry in pull through mode, so you still have all the images you use locally, but if it’s not in your registry yet, it pulls it from docker hub or whatever.

The only pain point is that a single registry can’t do both. So if you want to push your own docker images AND have a “cache” of stuff from docker hub, you need to run two registries in two different modes.

I think I’ll be heavily looking into this then! Thanks

Willing to bet a lot of companies will be considering that now lol. Will it actually happen though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Scared because it’s centralized. If Amazon decides that it wants to shut Signal down, they can. Nobody can spin up a Signal instance and help out.

@Sunny@slrpnk.net already has an XMPP account, as that is included in every slrpnk.net account automatically. It is very easy to set that up for most Fediverse software, and the user id is identical between Fediverse and XMPP.

Matrix is way more dark side in my opinion (this is a joke about how often it fluffs up, leaving you in the dark).

Sorry but this is a ridiculous argument. What entity has dropped nukes on an entire population? Who is the current president of the US? Insane take.

Government is also the entity that will be prosecuting/persecuting you when they don’t like what you have to say.

I think co-ops are the way to go, but I can understand that someone “just” wanting to purchase the good/service might not see the difference between a co-op and corporation like Amazon.

I don’t think it’s a size issue really, but co-ops generally stay smaller in part due to how they are internally organized compared to a “median” corporation.

I also think that the government actually does a pretty good job at managing things; it’s just their failures are public. Private boondoggles might drive many people into bankruptcy, but they aren’t publicized any more than absolutely necessary.

It would be a more meaningful discussion if the government wasn’t controlled so much by large corporations and oligarchs.

Launch of ACA markets? But that seemed more like the company paid to make it under sized it or just did shit code.

Which goes back to somethings shouldn’t be done for profit

CrowdStrike, but that hit private companies too.

I wouldn’t want my city traffic lights managed by a private company, because they’d try to cut costs and avoid building in redundant systems.

While they aren’t run by private companies, the traffic lights at the entrances to most housing estates are procured and installed by the developer, at least in Australia. Without fail, about 12-24 months later, the red and green LED lights will have half a dozen or more dead pixels on them. Meanwhile, newer LED lights installed by the roads department are still going strong years later.

Way above my pay grade! I would never suggest or support making such agreements, but I also don’t want to be in a position where I’d even be asked, so I’d just sit back with a bowl of popcorn

IbM has entered the chat

At that point you’re completely invested in their ecosystem and it’ll cost you triple to get out.

That’s next quarter, after I’ve got my bonus for all these savings.

Put tariffs on everybody who doesn’t host US data on their own cloud services.

So, you changed one cloud provider to another…

But let me rephrase: cloud can be significantly cheaper - if you know what you’re doing and what you’re putting on the cloud.

I’ve been to data centres that cost as much as a decade of cloud hosting the service they were supporting (and that’s without operational costs).

Cloud is especially great for small businesses where you have two alternative options: either build your own data centre which you absolutely cannot afford (or risk making it barely operational and unreliable) or host your company at someone else’s DC - which is what cloud is, but worse (because nobody can set up so much resiliency and have so many DC techs/admins as Microsoft or Amazon).

There absolutely are situations where self-hosting is preferable, and even cheaper, but wondering “why do we place so much reliance” on cloud service providers just shows that people have no clue what cloud actually offers.