perishthethought

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I do. Don't care. But thanks for pointing that out.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hear you, I do. It's just that I've supported local bands my whole life, at mostly small bars and clubs. This is a relatively new local band I really want to see before they take off on a world-wide tour and now AXS is making it hard. First world problems, I know. I just don't want to take out my anger on the band, eh. They don't control any of this.

It's my little torrenting joke. When you need to get a file in a peer-to-peer system like bittorrent, you rely on others sharing the files you're looking for. Those others are known as "peers". So having more peers helps you get your files, and so... happiness. ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Woof. Sounds heavenly...

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Very cool. When I visited Scotland, I wished I could get out into the remote areas and visit a distillery directly, but no time on that trip. This was the best I could do and yep, worth it.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah!

I asked here about that and was told there's not enough of us here. Meh.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

I would but this is totally just for me and it runs in nginx / php and I am going to guess you would just barf all over it.

But here's a post where I asked for help on this subject, and where I got the idea to write my own app. There are a number of other ideas in there, and one really good HTML/JS app from github that does the same thing but is way better.

https://lemm.ee/post/58942628

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Oh wow. So cool. Visit the Scotch Experience for me please.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Oh! I just did this (used an AI chatbot to help me code a web app) to easily resize images.

It was a great experience and I only edited about 5% of the code it provided. I used the bot via DuckDuckGo. The app is simple, eh, but it works. Would vibe code again fer sher.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Just found this post but have to add -- I'm stoked this band is from my town and I get to see them end of this month live. So freaking great to see others are hearing them too outside of Denver. My sister, a native american but gone now, wouldn't have dug the music but would have loved the spirit and the words.

[โ€“] perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 points 2 weeks ago

And it was the advertisers who complained and won this case. This might still be a win for data privacy, if Apple leaves control over ads in the users' hands.

 

And they wonder why we walk with a pegleg....

(And that "watch similar movies" thing can go to hell too)

ETA:

Jellyfin is great, yes.

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I've not read this yet, just passing it along, as it looks really interesting.

I'm not affiliated in any way with this.

ETA: If anyone has read it / bought a copy, a review would be very appreciated.

 

Hello y'all! I have my personal (static) website / blog running on netlify out on the public internet. Netlify, in case you're not familiar, is not a traditional web host, so I can't add databases or anything else like that on the server itself. Right now, that site has zero analytics / visitor tracking and I've decided I want to fix that. I want to know how many people visited my site and which pages they looked at. I am NOT looking to monetize anything though, to be clear.

I want to self-host that analytics service at home, on my home server, but I need two things, please:

  1. Recommendations for which app to use. I've checked out Umami and Plausible and they both look good for my meager purposes. But please - let me know which app makes sense for a personal web site with low-ish traffic. Is there something simpler I could do?

  2. Help getting the reverse proxy set up so my public web site can send analytics data into my home server. I would prefer this to be entirely under my control, so no CloudFlare or Tailscale, for instance. Is Caddy an option? I get really confused really quickly about this level of networking, to be clear, so maybe I just need a really plain-English guide to handling this sort of thing?

Thanks for any / all ideas! Y'all so totally rock!

ETA: A little more info about Netlify and why I can't install or use tools other traditional web hosts might offer.

** SECOND EDIT**: Thanks to @andrew@radiation.party for the goatcounter suggestion, I am trying that out now for the analytics side of this. Getting it set up was easy and free, using their server. (I know, I know...) If I still like the app after the next couple of weeks, I will move it in-house and self-host. That gives me a couple of weeks to figure out my second issue above, how to have my public web site make requests to my self-hosted, behind the firewall/NAT service. Yay, more learning!

 

Lurkers - what's your story?

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