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China says it is ready for 'any type of war' with US in c/world
[–] aleq 26 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

"If war is what the US wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war or any other type of war, we're ready to fight till the end," China's embassy said on X, reposting a line from a government statement on Tuesday.

Maybe something is lost in translation, but this sounds like they're primarily talking about economic wars. My reading is that they're just saying that they won't accept US bullying, which is good.

EU leaders seek security within the bloc, without the US in c/world
[–] aleq 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well, we can't trust the US security guarantees and we have an expansionist egomaniac in the east. There's not much choice to be honest. What good are any other investments if anything we build up is just gonna get crushed by Russia?

Betrayal in c/[email protected]
[–] aleq 2 points 20 hours ago

Only in the sense that it, too, was formed to screw the US.

Betrayal in c/[email protected]
[–] aleq 10 points 21 hours ago (5 children)

Love it, but I think this might be the wrong sublemmy for this.

Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car in c/technology
Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free in c/technology
[–] aleq 1 points 1 day ago

I should probably have put quotes around "selfhosting movement", because I meant the term itself. Reason for asking is that if it doesn't include shared instances, then it's not a very big movement and most people will not really be able to join it.

That said I'm not trying to start a discussion on whether it's good or bad, IMO it's good and I self-host a lot of things for personal use myself. Just a thought I guess.

Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free in c/technology
[–] aleq 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Does selfhosting movement include using non-commercial instances of apps like mastodon/lemmy/matrix etc?

Trump says sanctions against Russia to be lifted "at some point" in c/world
[–] aleq 7 points 3 days ago

They already did, it's paying of the debt.

TV documentary casts doubt on Northvolt’s ‘green batteries’ in c/[email protected]
[–] aleq 2 points 4 days ago

I think there's a lot of know-how too. Sure we may have researchers that know all about the cutting edge tech used in the batteries, but most researchers are not equipped with the skills to set up a factory. Do we know how to source all the materials at scale?

The competitiveness isn't the main issue I think as there is strong political will to subsidize the shit out of this industry in order to have a more independent supply chain - as has been shown with Northvolt itself.

Trump on calling Zelensky a dictator: ‘Did I say that?’ in c/world
[–] aleq 12 points 6 days ago (9 children)

Lets hope the aging process accelerates from now on.

Some European Allies Fear Trump Is Out to Destroy Them in c/world
[–] aleq 45 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Didn't he say something along the lines that EU was created to fuck with the US? Whatever officials and analysts see this as indifference to Europe need to be fired.

edit: reading the article's first paragraph, yes he did

The US is now the enemy of the west in c/[email protected]
[–] aleq 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I guess "NATO and friends" might be a bit shortsighted?

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CalDav integration with caching? (self.homeassistant)
submitted 6 months ago by aleq to c/homeassistant
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I have three different calendars syncing using caldav, one on fastmail and two on icloud. When I open the calendar view it's often the case that one or more of these timeout (all of them are afflicted by this), so it seems that these calendars are not actually stored on the server but polled everytime I want to view them.

Are there any alternative integrations that will periodically sync the calendars and keep them on the server? Or can I self-host an app that does this and will never time out because it's on my local network?

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Best solution for a distributed filesystem? (self.datahoarder)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aleq to c/[email protected]
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Not sure if this is better fit for datahoarder or some selfhost community, but putting my money on this one.

The problem

I currently have a cute little server with two drives connected to it running a few different services (mostly media serving and torrents). The key facts here is that 1) it's cute and little, 2) it's handling pretty bulky data. Cute and little doesn't go very well with big raid setups and such, and apart from upgrading one of the drives I'm probably at my limit in terms of how much storage I can physically fit in the machine. Also if I want to reinstall it or something that's very difficult to do without downtime since I'd have to move the drive and services of to a different machine (not a huge problem since I'm the only one using it, but I don't like it).

Solution

A distributed FS would definitely solve the issue of physically fitting more drives into the chassi, since I could basically just connect drives to a raspberry pi and have this raspi join the distributed fs. Great.

I think it could also solve the issue of potential downtime if I reinstall or do maintenance, since I can have multiple services read of the same distributed FS and reroute my reverse proxy to use the new services while the old ones are taken offline. There will potentially be a disruption, but no downtime.

Candidates

I know there are many different solutions for distributed filesystems, such as ceph, moosefs, glusterfs and miniio. I'm kinda leaning towards ceph because of it's integration in proxmox, but it also seems like the most complicated solution in the bunch. Is it worth it? What are your experiences with these, and given the above description of my use-case which do you think would be the best fit?

Since I already have a lot of data it's a bonus if it's easy to migrate from my current filesystem somehow.

My current setup uses a lot of hard links as well, so it's a big bonus if the solution has something similar (i.e. some easy way of storing the same data in multiple places without duplicating it)

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