First: IANAL, EU law is complicated. This is my understanding as of now:

TL;DR: The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) aims to enhance cybersecurity standards for products with digital elements. It introduces mandatory requirements for manufacturers and retailers to ensure cybersecurity throughout a product’s lifecycle. The CRA excludes open-source software developers unless their software is used commercially as part of a “product with digital elements”.

would lemmy be regulated by CRA?

Lemmy, as an open-source project, would likely not be directly regulated by the CRA. The Act specifically excludes open-source developers from its scope unless their software is used commercially.

Whaz about lemmy instances?

Lemmy instances might be regulated by the CRA if they are operated commercially as part of a “product with digital Elements”. (Is there a pay for access instance or hosting as a service for lemmy? I am not aware of one.) However, since most instances are run non-commercially or for personal use, they would likely fall outside the CRA’s scope.

Is there a difference if there is a fee or a recurrent donations?

Yes:

• A fee is typically a mandatory payment for a service or product, e.g. a feature locked behind a paywall.
• A recurring donation is a voluntary, regular contribution to support an organization or cause, often without receiving goods or services in return.

The key distinction lies in the obligation attached to the payment. Fees come with an expectation of receiving something in return, while donations are given freely without such expectations.

You can now follow fediverse accounts on Threads, but the accounts aren’t searchable and their posts won’t show in feeds.

Wow. They can now bookmark accounts. Amazing technology. ^/s

No, different protocol. Also as of now they still hold the ‘keys to the kingdom’ so to speak.

I mean… how likely is it that the wallet just was stolen from the government. Unless there is a statement, I’d rather attribute this to incompetence than malignancy.

There is also a CLI without docker, for agent and hub, and you can mix & match. I can’t say how well though, very happy with running it as docker compose.

• monitors CPU, memory and disk space
• can accept multiple hosts to watch
• has some sort of alerting system
• can be deployed as a single docker container
• can be configured using a text file
• configs can be imported and exported inside the docker compose file

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

There is no really config to speak of. You setup the hub. Then you click on add system and write in the IP. Then you click on “Copy compose”. That is the agent you can then deploy with a compose file on any system. Click on add and it is there.

The only thing you might want to configure is alerting, but only once on the hub.

use the fediverse through threads or bluesky

Bluesky is not part of the fediverse and threads is mostly technically capable to be part of it - it is however blocked from the most other instances.

Besides the already sketchy AI thing, I wonder why they need to know gender & ethnicity.

Decentralization will help a lot, though.

The decentralisation of Bluesky is a joke.

But Syncthing Fork is not shut down and is still maintained (never used the main version tbh).

https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android-fdroid

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/

I’ve used Joplin before which was okay-ish (but borked the e2e encryption during an update).

Now I would recommend Silverbullet if you are really keen on self hosting a notes app.

But the notes that work best for me is simply Obsidian + Syncthing-Fork (you could self host a syncthing server), thanks to its sheer ability to adapt to nearly any use case thanks to its plugin.

Time for the EU to rip him a new one :)

Check out beszel, nearly no setup needed.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

The easiest solution I found and use is Beszel.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

Just a hub with the most important stats and some simple agents on the servers.

Part of self hosting is to decide yourself what you want or need.

I am very happy with Beszel (https://github.com/henrygd/beszel) as it is enough for my use case.

That being said compatibility is huge in the GrafProm Stack. A lot of software has Prometheus compatible end points which can then be visualised with Grafana.

Want to know how many requests are hitting your server? Count Diamond blocks mined per player on a Minecraft server? Want to track your weight and workout time? Or do you want to count yellow cars driving by your house? Grafana & Prometheus got you.

I’ve recently found Beszel and i want to use it to replace my grafana/Prometheus/node exporter stack. It seems to be a rather easy & clean solution. Sure, you can do more with grafana and Prometheus but I can’t be bothered having to learn that, when all I want is some simple monitoring.

https://github.com/henrygd/beszel

You just have to trust the source. Sometimes that’s easy, like Red Hat, and sometimes that’s hard.

FTFY

As it is run by volunteers, they probably want to keep corporate (or domain hoarders) off their platform unless they pay.

Even when you host a HUGE static website (e.g. maps with thousands of image files). You can just throw it on R2 add a few transform rules, point a domain at it, and you are done. Also highlights the usability of Cloudflare compared to other solutions.

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