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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Vergecast

I'm going to give them a listen. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, the VM is Ubuntu 22.04.

Edit: Replied out of context. Fixed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Good tip. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I feel dumb.

That didn't work earlier.

I just went to copy the error message I saw before and... it's working.

Maybe because I switched back to Namecheap's nameserver? Or maybe because I cleared my cache again? Or maybe because I game it some more propagation time?

Or maybe magic?

Each potential reason seems equally likely to me.

Thanks

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmy Easy Deploy. I didn't know where to find any tutorials for using an Oracle Cloud VM. Did the official have that?

 

Today I decided to get an inexpensive custom domain from Namecheap and try self-hosting Lemmy. A few bucks later I was thinking, "Hey, this is going to be cake."

I'd read some of the warnings about Oracle Cloud free tier, but figured I'd still give it a shot for hosting. I found a simple how-to for quickly getting an Ubuntu instance spun up with Docker and Portainer. A few minutes later I'm thinking, "This is so easy!"

Then I try to access Portainer using HTTPS and see my first "Your connection is not private," warning. "No worries," I think. "Advanced>Proceed. I'm in."

So I run Lemmy Easy Deploy. "The lights are green, the trap is clean! Boom. Here we go!"

Nothing.

Ports seem to be open on Oracle, but no Lemmy at either 80 or 443.

"Maybe Lemmy is more particular about SSL certificates and such?" I think, for the first time getting worried.

"Err, I think that if I change my nameserver to Cloudflare I can destroy my Lemmy containers, re-run Lemmy Easy Deploy with a Cloudflare API token, and maybe fix it?

Four hours later, after repeatedly starting over, clearing my browser cache every 5 minutes, switching back and forth between nameservers, even deleting the whole Oracle Cloud VM and starting from scratch, I realize that an HTTP connection to port 443 is returning "Client sent an HTTP request to an HTTPS server."

"Were you there before, message?" I wonder.

Lemmy friends, can you help me? Or am I better off just deleting the VM and giving up the whole idea?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You're welcome. Enjoy!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

readarr

I thought it was ebooks-only. I didn't realize was for audiobooks also. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Something Overseer-like for requesting audiobooks for Plex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

No recent great ones, but Mo Gawdat's "Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World" was ok.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

ChatGPT and I came up with this bookmarklet which I'm using until this is resolved.

You set your home instance, then just click it when on a post on another instance. It grabs the post title and the author, redirects to a post search of the title on your home instance, and copies the author to your clipboard to Ctrl-F if there are too many results.

You have to be pretty quick on the draw to be able to enable clipboard access when using it on a new instance for the first time. So it's like a game, too.

javascript:(function(){
  let instance = "lemm.ee";
  const personListing = document.querySelector('.person-listing');
  const author = personListing.getAttribute('title');
  navigator.clipboard.writeText(author);
  alert("Post author copied to clipboard.\n\nCtrl-F + Crtl-V when redirected, if necessary.");
  var title = document.title;
  var lastDashIndex = title.lastIndexOf(" - ");
  if (lastDashIndex !== -1) {
    title = title.substr(0, lastDashIndex);
  }
  var encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(title);
  let search = "https://" + instance + "/search?q=" + encodedTitle + "&type=Posts";
  window.location.href = search
})();
[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I'm using Liftoff on Android.

 

Lots of AI news, which suits me.

While UnderUnderstood feels more like the spiritual successor to Gimlet's Reply All, the co-hosts of Hard Fork (Kevin Roose and Casey Newton) banter in a way that reminds me of P. J. Vogt and Alex Goldman.

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