Gamera8ID

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In over my head in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 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.

In over my head in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Good tip. Thanks!

In over my head in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 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

In over my head in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 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?

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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?

What file-sharing and media organizing software do you wish that existed? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

readarr

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

What file-sharing and media organizing software do you wish that existed? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Something Overseer-like for requesting audiobooks for Plex.

What is the planned solution for cross-host link sharing? in c/general@lemmy.world
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 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
})();
What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 62 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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

Right now I'm using Liftoff.

Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. in c/python@programming.dev
Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. in c/python@programming.dev
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

That was it exactly. Thank you.

This was a journey, so I'm documenting it here for anyone who might run into a similar situation.

I'm using a Chromebook with Linux enabled.

To confirm my version of Python I ran python --version:

Python 3.9.2

OK! Getting somewhere. So I have to check what distribution of Linux is installed with grep '^PRETTY_NAME' /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)"

Alright. Google says if I want to upgrade Python on Debian 11 I have to compile it from source. Yikes! But, wait, there's a PPA - Yay! But the PPA is for Ubuntu - Boo.

There isn't an active community for ChromeOS on Lemmy yet, but that other website has directions for replacing Debian with Ubuntu.

I'm lazy so I'm not doing that. I'm just going to spin up a temporary Ubuntu container that I can delete later, so my directions are much simpler:

Ctr-Alt-T to enter crosh, the ChromeOS developer shell.

vmc start termina
lxc launch ubuntu:22.04 ubuntu
lxc exec ubuntu -- bash
apt update && apt -y upgrade
add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
apt update
apt install -y python3.11 python3.11-venv
python3.11 -m ensurepip
git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip3.11 install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3.11 src/lemmy_sync.py

Success! I had to escape some special characters in my passwords, but that's easily Google-able.

I'll be keeping the container around for a little while to do some periodic syncs. Then I'll remove it using crosh.

vmc start termina
lxc delete ubuntu --force
Wrote a Python script to sync your accounts across instances. in c/python@programming.dev
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm getting a TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for |: 'type' and 'NoneType' when I do:

git clone https://github.com/Ac5000/lemmy_account_sync.git
cd lemmy_account_sync/
pip install -r requirements.txt
cp exampleconfig.ini src/myconfig.ini
nano src/myconfig.ini
python3 src/lemmy_sync.py

I've confirmed that my [Main Account] and [Account 2] details are correct in myconfig.ini, but beyond that I don't really know what I'm doing.

is there a simple way to determine who is federated with/defederated from who? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've seen this site suggested in posts like this:

spoilerhttps://fba.ryona.agency

I'm using the spoiler tag because elsewhere I've seen this warning about the site:

run by people from kiwifarms (a known bad actor on the fediverse).

I'm unfamiliar with "kiwifarms" but there the site currently has some offensive language at the bottom that's associated with 4chan, so be warned.

That said, it appears to be the only site currently available to see which instances in the fediverse have blocked/defederated your instance. (The reverse of <instance domain>/instances, which only shows which instances your instance has blocked/defederated.)

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