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diff --git a/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php b/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php index 105f0b6..b75dd32 100644 --- a/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php +++ b/uses/cumulonimbus/index.php @@ -59,13 +59,6 @@ </section> <section> - <h4><a href="https://freshrss.org/">FreshRSS</a></h4> - <p>I ended up with this because I elected to ditch Nextcloud in the process of migrating hosting providers, and this was the first RSS reader that I managed to get working on the new server. I swear, it's like the RSS 2.0 spec states that your self-hosted RSS reader has to have installation instructions that don't work.</p> - <p>I've yet to find an RSS reader with a user experience I like, but this one is tolerable enough that I don't think "I should really find a replacement for this" every time I use it like I did when I was using Whatever Nextcloud Has™, plus it supports a couple common APIs so I can replace the frontend if I decide I hate it.</p> - <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently using a mobile app called Capy Reader to access this on my phone since the mobile web UI kind of sucks.</p> - </section> - - <section> <h4><a href="https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge">rss-bridge</a></h4> <p>Extracts RSS feeds from a genuinely kind of shocking number of websites that don't otherwise have them. I make generous use of this. Feel free to use <a href="https://rss-bridge.bathynomus.xyz/">my instance</a> if you want.</p> </section> @@ -90,6 +83,12 @@ <h4><a href="https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/">Nepenthes</a></h4> <p>A tarpit for AI scrapers. Self-explanatory at this point.</p> </section> + + <section> + <h4><a href="https://craftycontrol.com/">Crafty Controller</a></h4> + <p>A convenient admin panel for my Minecraft server(s). It's easier than administrating the servers manually, which for something as trivial as a Minecraft server is saying something.</p> + <p>I used to run this on the beefier server in my <span class="house">house</span>, but when I was most recently called upon to spin up a minecraft server I was faced with the choice between finally setting up WireGuard again and just accepting the potentially slower performance of the cloud server, this is what I picked.</p> + </section> </section> </section> </main> diff --git a/uses/servy586/index.php b/uses/servy586/index.php index 899752e..b0b39f6 100644 --- a/uses/servy586/index.php +++ b/uses/servy586/index.php @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ <section> <h4>OS - <a href="https://www.truenas.com/">TrueNAS Scale</a></h4> - <p>I could probably recreate my elaborate configuration on like, baseline debian or something, but I don't want to. Between four ZFS pools, virtual machines, a slightly convoluted system of SMB shares, and various other services, the slick web GUI TrueNAS provides makes everything far more convenient. Its configuration export feature was also very handy when migrating to the new machine.</p> + <p>I could probably recreate my elaborate configuration on like, baseline debian or something, but I don't want to. Between four ZFS pools, virtual machines, a slightly convoluted system of file shares, and various other services, the slick web GUI TrueNAS provides makes everything far more convenient. Its configuration export feature was also very handy when migrating to the new machine.</p> <p>It's got some idiosyncracies to it, but in general TrueNAS smooths out the experience of running this server enough that I'm doing a lot of things I probably couldn't be bothered to otherwise.</p> </section> @@ -140,6 +140,19 @@ </section> <section> + <h4><a href="https://filebrowser.org/">Tailscale</a></h4> + <p>A "mesh VPN", whatever that means. In practice, Tailscale lets me connect to any of my devices from any other as though they're sharing a local LAN. You know, the thing VPNs are actually for. Half the stuff on this server is only worth running because Tailscale lets me access it away from my <span class="house">house</span> LAN, especially now that I'm routinely bringing a computer outside the house with me for school.</p> + </section> + + <section> + <h4><a href="https://freshrss.org/">FreshRSS</a></h4> + <p>I ended up with this because I elected to ditch Nextcloud in the process of migrating hosting providers, and this was the first RSS reader that I managed to get working post cloud provider migration. I swear, it's like the RSS 2.0 spec states that your self-hosted RSS reader has to have installation instructions that don't work.</p> + <p>This used to be on the cloud server, but then a "turn your shit off NOW until you can update" level vuln was discovered in every PHP version released in the past 14 years and I could think of no undertaking more nightmarish than trying to manually set this thing up again. Fortunately, since the last time I deployed an RSS reader I had set up Tailscale on my TrueNAS box, so I could just put it there and both mitigate the vulnerability <em>and</em> offload my self-hosted RSS reader curse to the machines in one fell swoop. Nice!</p> + <p>I've yet to find an RSS reader with a user experience I like, but this one is tolerable enough that I don't think "I should really find a replacement for this" every time I use it like I did when I was using Whatever Nextcloud Has™, plus it supports a couple common APIs so I can replace the frontend if I decide I hate it.</p> + <p>Speaking of which, I'm currently using a mobile app called Capy Reader to access this on my phone since the mobile web UI kind of sucks.</p> + </section> + + <!--section> <h4>OS - <a href="https://www.debian.org/">Debian Linux</a></h4> <p>Wait, what? Didn't I just say I was running TrueNAS? I am, but I also have a virtual machine under TrueNAS for my game servers, and this is the OS I use for that. There's a learning curve here compared to Ubuntu Server, which I'm more used to, but at the end of the day Linux is Linux.</p> </section> @@ -152,7 +165,7 @@ <section> <h4><a href="https://www.wireguard.com/">WireGuard</a></h4> <p>I run a WireGuard client in the VM with a server on my VPS to make my game servers accessible from outside the <span class="house">house</span> without giving out my IP address, worrying about dynamic DNS, or trying to port forward on the solid lump of concentrated ISP malice that passes for my router. I had to write a couple configuration files by hand, god forbid, but otherwise this was much easier.</p> - </section> + </section--> </section> </section> </main> |