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  • AmbiguousProps@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldImportant Notice of Security Incident
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    4 months ago

    I’d love to switch. I would do it right now, but the problem is that Jellyfin’s security isn’t better if you open it up to the internet. For example, I’d have to set up a VPN for my remote users for proper security, and most of my users are in other states, not technically inclined, and watch on their TVs. I’d have to at least support a raspberry pi for them, or some sort of site to site VPN, and if it goes down, I’ll be expected to fix it. On top of that, if I do a simple raspberry pi based VPN, it would be made even more complicated since they’d want it to work with their smart TVs.

    Again, I really want to switch. But Jellyfin needs to fix their security issues before I can. I’m also happy with the way Plex is reporting this, it’s above the standard “your data is lost” notifications.

    Edit: here’s a link to the related GitHub issue I’ve been following: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/5415

    And @[email protected] has a great thread explaining more: https://lemmy.today/comment/18923504




  • +1 for Duplicacy (the GUI, as a container). Very worth it, IMO. Not only do I use it for my PC, I back up my server to my other server in another state with it. I also use it with Backblaze B2 (for very important files) which is slightly more than Hetzner ($6/TB). I haven’t run into any chunking issues and they don’t charge for API calls. Highly recommendated.










  • His mood shifted the next day when he found Replit “was lying and being deceptive all day. It kept covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, and worse of all, lying about our unit test.”

    LLMs cannot intentionally “lie” or be “deceptive”, they aren’t alive. They can, however, be confidently wrong or incorrect (and most often, they are).

    “I know vibe coding is fluid and new, and yes, despite Replit itself telling me rolling back wouldn’t work here – it did. But you can’t overwrite a production database. And you can’t not separate preview and staging and production cleanly. You just can’t”

    Maybe on this service, you can’t, but if you used this to vibe code something that wasn’t hosted there? You absolutely fucking can.

    “The [AI] safety stuff is more visceral to me after a weekend of vibe hacking,” Lemkin said. I explicitly told it eleven times in ALL CAPS not to do this. I am a little worried about safety now.”

    lol. lmao, even.



  • Efficiency still matters very much when self hosting. You need to consider power usage (do you have enough amps in your service to power a single GPU? probably. what about 10? probably not) and heat (it’s going to make you need to run more A/C in the summer, do you have enough in your service to power an A/C and your massive amount of GPUs? not likely).

    Homes are not designed for huge amounts of hardware. I think a lot of self hosters (including my past self) can forget that in their excitement of their hobby. Personally, I’m just fine not running huge models at home. I can get by with models that can run on a single GPU, and even if I had more GPUs in my server, I don’t think the results (which would still contain many hallucinations) would be worth the power cost, strain on my A/C, and possible electrical overload.