@hendrik@palaver.p3x.de

hendrik

A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I’m usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn’t always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.

I’m into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.

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Guess what we could alternatively do, is just buy the system Ukraine implemented. That’s well tested, and not just during some NATO exercise, but proven to be effective against one of our current main adversaries…

on Thales launches European AI alternative to Palantir in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
Just to add a reference time frame: late 2022 was when ChatGPT got released. I think all these models predate the general population even being aware of AI.

on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 4d ago
Though, IMO it’s really a shame. Every single modern bomb used it poof, and there go several million dollars. And now that money can’t be used to fix 2 school buildings, either way. Reportedly, every third € in our proposed near-term state budget goes towards buying tanks and drones. All the while, we’re still being threatened by the dictator in the east. And the wannaba dictator in the west is making fuel crazy expensive for everyone of us. Isn’t there any more clever way than to play their stupid game?

But our chancellor is telling the same narrative. There’s just no money left for families and society. We need to prioritize defense.

on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago
I’m not really cheering for all the war and military build-up at its current extent. I think it’s a big waste of resources. And taxpayer money, which we should probably spend on useful stuff. Idk, kids, education system, energy transition…

Probably a necessary evil, though. The good (sane) side absolutely needs to prevail and stand united against evil, the dictators, oligarchs and warmongering a-holes. Feels good to see how there’s still a broad alliance of countries who still value friends and collaboration and freedom.

on How do Europeans feel about having a federated army stationed in Canada and Greenland? in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk · 6d ago
Wow, great stuff. I think more than I do like any specific one of them, I like the fact how many different ones we got. And their stories.

I mean the important part in the symbolry isn’t how the solar system is made up, but in this instance connected to us humans. I guess I’m leaning more towards the proposals representing peace, unity… as well. Though this one is very appealing on the visual level.

on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 16 Sep 2026
It sure will be.

I mean I’m from Central Europe. From ethnicity you probably can’t tell if someone is from my country or one of the neighbouring ones. And culture here in Germany also varies a lot. Do I feel more connected to someone in the south of my own country, than to someone a few kilometers away in a seperate country? I’m not sure. I don’t think so.

I mean saying things like “I’m from the USA” is nice and all. But I bet I’m going to ask a follow-up question immediately, because it’s such a vast and diverse country. So I think we might as well skip that step and directly go for the region?!

Dunno. The borders as we have them feel pretty arbitrary to me. And I really like the perks we got here with Europe and the Schengen Area. I can just go whereever I like, go shopping, a weekend trip and don’t need to care at all. No border controls, no worrying about how much alcohol and cigarettes I bring. I can pay in the same currency. Don’t need to worry about roaming cost on my smartphone… I think it’s awesome to not have borders.

We see similar stuff with the internet, which just isn’t bound to physical location as much. I really enjoy how it spans the entire globe and I get all kinds of freedoms.

Now we could as well get rid of the remaining stuff I do need to worry about when crossing borders. And I guess we could save a lot of money by getting rid of redundancy in administration. We could also pool money for military stuff and whatever. Which is probably going to be way more effective than everyone doing their own thing.

Also makes it easier for business. I mean as of now you need to abide by all kinds of different standards in different countries, get your product re-certified in imperial units to make some lunatics happy… That’s just wasted effort IMO.

I mean we could keep them as administrative zones. But we’d keep all the craziness baked in like towns with the border randomly traversing them. Someone’s living room being in a different administrative zone than the kitchen, enclaves, borders separating a cultural identity and mushing them together with other people based on politics and religion…

So…. Why wouldn’t we get rid of them? I think they’re detrimental to the cause. The more you like differences by physical location, the more you should consider just keeping the old concept.

on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
Guess if it works, you don’t really need fail2ban as f2b pretty much does the same job. I mean it can do more, but you don’t really need to protect against PHP issues, broken wordpress plugins etc since none of that is part of Authelia.

I use fail2ban, as I have SSH running and several other services exposed which come with default fail2ban configurations. And I never got crowdsec running properly. So I skipped it. I think frequent updates and all those things are more important than a web application firewall anyway.

on Is Authelia enough without fail2ban or crowdsec? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
Authelia should come with rate limiting to protect against brute-force attacks. That could be enough.

I’d generally advise to make sure such protection actually works. Like look up the limits and try to login with a wrong password 30 times… Especially if you added stuff on top (fail2ban, crowdsec…). Has happened to me I misconfigured stuff and it didn’t limit anything… Now I check to make sure for important bits like an authentication service.

on Is Authelia enough without fail2ban or crowdsec? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 15 Sep 2026
Sure. And I mean country size wouldn’t even be an issue since we’re getting rid of the concept of countries. It’d be one earth. At the size of the earth. (And maybe a few separatist regions. 😅)

on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
Shouldn’t it be about time to form the united earth government and start reaching for the stars?

on It is time to build the United States of Europe in c/europe@feddit.org · 15 Sep 2026
I think a lot of backup programs offer encrypted backups. You enable that and it gets encrypted before being transferred to the remote machine.

on What sort of setup would you have for secure file storage on a VPS? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026
Dunno. If it fits the purpose and you get a lot of libraries and tooling around your specific domain… Why not make use of it? Python is easy to learn and has a lot of nice stuff for data science. Or R for statistics… Considering the absence of other complete frameworks when doing embedded programming… wouldn’t you just use C++?

Maybe I don’t the question. Programming languages are never perfect. Nor good for one specific and confined task… They all grew, picked up quirks. Or inherited burdens. People are trying to do 5 million different things with them at the same time… I think I’m more concerned with their usefulness and actual application, than their marketing material.

And some of the stuff they did in the 50s, 70s, 80s and 90s, when these programming languages were designed, is just a bit weird by today’s standards.

on Programming languages are unconvincing (atleast C++, Java and its ilk, Smalltalk, Lisp) in c/programming@beehaw.org · 12 Sep 2026
I’m sorry. For some reason we’re completely talking past each other… Your harddisk/ssd/usb-stick is a document based database afaik. You store data in form of files/documents on your HDD. It’s a bit like a library, yes. Those documents are organzed a certain way. In folders… maybe on shelves or whatever the digital equivalent is…
The important parts of a wiki (the articles with the interesting information in them) are organized exactly the same way. That’s why DokuWiki manages to pull it off without a relational database. It really doesn’t matter for something like an encyclopedia or knowledge database. Can be articles in a books sitting on shelves in some building. Or digital files on a server, organized by a very similar hierarchy / topics. …And because that’s a subset of what a relational database can do, you can use them as well! (Edit: Not sure if my terminology is 100% correct… we also have the word: hierarchical databases? could also be what I mean.)

…Sorry for the AI confusion on my side…

on [Question] Public-facing Wiki in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
I’m not convinced it is, that’s why I’m asking. Doesn’t really sound like it. Though I think it misses the point we were talking about, and is kinda verbose while talking about not really related points… Which is a telltale sign for some chatbots. I can’t tell. Could be someone talking the way I sometimes do, or an AI.

on [Question] Public-facing Wiki in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Is this AI text? If this is AI text: Nevermind. If no: I guess we’re not really on the same page. I didn’t say relational database. I mean it’s obviously not. It’s a document-oriented one. Which is exactly the kind of database you need when processing …well… documents. If you do additional web application mumbo jumbo, you might need a relational database. But this wasn’t really about any of this. We were talking of how expensive document retrievals are…

on [Question] Public-facing Wiki in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
DokuWiki is great. Also very easy, straightforward and comes with a nice plugin ecosystem.

I guess the point about databases isn’t the entire story, though. The filesystem is a database as well. Doesn’t really matter whether you have a database system look up the article and return it, or have the filesystem find the file by it’s directories and name and return the data. That’s the same thing.

on [Question] Public-facing Wiki in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
Thx! That’s the video decoding page, though. The thing that decodes the video stream and makes individual images from the stream, for the actual processing. Seems the thing that does inference / object detection is called OpenVINO.

https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/hardware_acceleration_enrichments

on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
I think you mean SyCL or Vulkan, OpenCL or oneDNN… QuickSync is just video de- and encoding.

on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Aren’t diffusion models and LLMs (ollama) too big for an external NPU? As far as I know something like a Coral runs specific models only. And it’s limited to the 1 or maybe 2GB of memory on it. It’d do tasks like voice recognition, or image classification. But not generate images or text.

If you want to run arbitrary AI models and generative AI, I think you should be looking for a graphics card?!

on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
You should probably have a look at the software you intend to run and see what kind of external NPU they support. I’m aware of Frigate for example which leverages hardware acceleration to classify camera surveillance footage. Guess their community knows which stick to get. Or you’d have a look at the frameworks which package machine learning models for inference on some NPU and have a look at their table of supported hardware.

on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Thanks! You’re right. Seems it’s distributed switch architecture on my wifi router. I used Luci to configure it. Didn’t even know this was more than a UI change…

on How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and Docker in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
I don’t really know, either. “driver-level VLAN” is the terminology the OpenWRT wiki (linked) uses. Seems OP went for the strategy at the bottom, with going to the bridge settings and make it add a new interface. What I’ve done before, and what that article talks about at the top is, go to the Switch settings instead, and set the port to the corresponding VLAN, or to keep the tags… But maybe I misremember what I did and which settings I touched… Yet it seems to me those are two distinct ways of doing it. Either on the switch hardware inside of the OpenWRT device, or inside of the software bridge in OpenWRT.

https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/vlan/switch_configuration

on How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and Docker in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026
Interesting. Any reason to prefer the driver-level VLANs over the hardware switch? That’s how I’ve done it in the past, and also how the linked wiki article starts.

on How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and Docker in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 5 Sep 2026
2027 Year of the Linux desktop…

on Linux (and other FOSS OSs) are exempt from age verification in California in c/foss@beehaw.org · 30 Aug 2026
How much rate-limiting do you get with a VPN? Because I use SearxNG with my regular network and I tend to get a lot of my search queries fail because the search providers have CAPTCHAs after the 10th request or so for some given timespan.

on Hosting SearXNG behind a VPN in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Yeah, I think it’s a bit sad it has to be like this… But it is what it is… I once moved and asked my neighbours if I could use their Wifi for a month, and that was basically their answer. Just that I wasn’t some internet stranger, but a regular stranger living nextdoors.

on UK/EU homelabbers: would you host a hardened Pi so I can watch baseball I already pay for? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026
I’m not really an expert on VPN, but I believe solutions like Tailscale, Netbird, Pangolin all leverage the Wireguard protocol.

on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel seems like the obvious solution.

Or maybe OpenVPN over normal TLS on port 443.

You could try to run Wireguard on a different port which would be otherwise used by some very common service, maybe there’s some general exemption for port 21, 22, 53, 80, 443…

on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Does your bank even allow you to file debit notes, or collect money from other people’s credit cards? As far as I know that’s never part of a regular consumer bank account…

For payment in advance (if you clients put in the effort to do a bank transfer) I think there’s HBCI, FinTS or whatever standards we have integrated in some CRM and eCommerce solutions.

on Selfhosting payment processing in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Exactly. And I bet there’s enough lobbying and corruption going on to make sure it never happens. They rather discuss some stupid means if blind activism, which are gonna either be ineffective, or harmful.

The proper solution, of course, is to regulate those big tech companies. Leave the teenagers be, and outlaw all the toxic stuff, making people addicted etc…

on Is "banning" social media outright stupid? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Why all the conditionals in the language? As far as I know “Wifi sensing” is already specified in 802.11bf and will be part of upcoming router generations. There’s no “would” and “could” or “might”? It’s gonna be there. And once it is, it will be used for the one thing it can do, …sense presence of people…

on Ordinary WiFi can now identify you with near-perfect accuracy in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
Yeah, Some people here really love drama and to fight other people online, preferably on a personal level. PieFed has become target of that. I don’t think it necessarily means a lot, other than we’re some high drama online place. There wasn’t any one software vs another one involved.

But everyone is allowed to pick their favorite software. They’re both fine from a technical perspective. You’ll get some different perks, but it’s all the same Threadiverse. I myself like PieFed better, including which side of drama they end up on. But YMMV. If OP wants to start on a new journey, they’re entitled to do whatever they like. Main thing with side quests is to do something in the first place. That’s more important than the exact details.

(Btw, I’ve also been using Lemmy for quite a while… It’s not like I’m in my comfort zone all the time.)

on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Yeah, being conservative isn’t how awesome new hobbies start. You need to leave your comfort zone 😂

on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Why not host a PieFed instance instead? Similar but more features and easier to maintain. Does have some scraper countermeasures built in, so maybe you don’t even need Cloudflare. Also as a next project after that, you could learn Python and contribute to the project.

on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026