Oh, it was supposed to be rage bait. I actually thought it was quite funny.

I recognized myself from a decade ago and this post quite a bit. It uhh didn’t go very well until through years of suffering I figured out the perfect setup for me and how to properly deal with all the little issues.

I know it sounds dumb but my Ubuntu used to break like every six months and I had to always reinstall it.

to have fun

Copied crowdsec reply from the mastodon thread:

tldr: OP misunderstood a bug/usererror as a new limiting policy

Hey Laurence from CrowdSec Support here.

We don’t store logs, so I assume you’re referring to alerts. Based on the screenshot you provided, the most likely reason you’re not seeing any alerts is that they may fall outside the currently selected date range. You can try clicking the magnifying glass icon next to the date picker to remove the filter, which should display all available alerts.

That said, there is a known issue we’re actively fixing—clicking on the date picker may trigger an error. If removing the filter doesn’t work, let me know, and once the fix is live, I’ll be happy to ping you so we can investigate further.

Regarding alert retention, the community tier has always had a limit—either 500 alerts or seven days, whichever comes first. With the new system, we now retain alerts for both the current and previous month, up to 500 per month, effectively doubling the total alert capacity to 1,000. If you’re primarily interested in real-time alerts, keep in mind that the CrowdSec console is designed for alert retention and ease of use, with additional features. Alternatively, for those who prefer a fully customized setup, we provide extensive documentation on integrating CrowdSec with Prometheus and Grafana for self-hosted monitoring.

I understand the frustration, and I appreciate the feedback. However, it’s important to consider that CrowdSec is built and maintained by a dedicated team of around 30 people. While open-source, over 95% of contributions come directly from our team, whether for the hub or various CrowdSec components. Ensuring the long-term sustainability of the project requires balancing free community access with the resources needed to maintain and improve the platform.

Happy to discuss more via email or on this thread, as we truly value feedback and want to ensure every voice is heard across various platforms.

If it’s free - you’re the product

(not applicable to opensource or similar ofc)

Thanks for sharing! Thats good to know info.

Not on topic but do you mind explaining the Pine64 breakage?

I am running a lot of their products and a soquartz cm module broke for me as well, I am hoping the rest will hold on for a long time.

The error suggests that you’re trying to mount a file (Caddyfile) onto a directory or vice versa. Let’s debug this step by step.

Steps to Fix:

1. Check if the path exists and is correct Run:

   ls -ld /home/Joe/container/caddy/Caddyfile
   

   • If it’s a directory, it should be a file instead.
   • If it doesn’t exist, create an empty one:

     touch /home/Joe/container/caddy/Caddyfile
     

2. Ensure correct permissions

   chmod 644 /home/Joe/container/caddy/Caddyfile
   

3. Check YAML Formatting
   Your docker-compose.yml seems to have incorrect indentation and improper quotes around version. Here’s a fixed version:

   version: "3.3"
   
   networks:
     caddy:
   
   services:
     portainer:
       image: portainer/portainer-ce:latest
       container_name: portainer2
       restart: unless-stopped
       security_opt:
         - no-new-privileges:true
       volumes:
         - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
         - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro
         - /home/Joe/containers/portainer/portainer-data:/data
       networks:
         - caddy
       ports:
         - 9000:9000
   
     caddy:
       image: caddy:latest
       restart: unless-stopped
       container_name: caddy
       ports:
         - 80:80
         - 443:443
       volumes:
         - /home/Joe/container/caddy/Caddyfile:/etc/caddy/Caddyfile
         - /home/Joe/container/caddy/site:/srv
         - /home/Joe/container/caddy/caddy_data:/data
         - /home/Joe/container/caddy/caddy_config:/config
       networks:
         - caddy
   

4. Restart Docker and Try Again

   docker compose down
   docker compose up -d
   

If the error persists, check docker logs caddy for additional hints.

Same dude… I fucking hate gtk apps on kde because of the fucked up theming shit piss cunt wankers

Micro soft doesn’t give a shit about windows piracy. They profit from stalking their users.

What is this blog on about?

Am I understanding the pricing correctly that selfhosting it would cost me 1500€ in licensing fees per year?

Nevermind, got it now. It was just presented confusingly.

The free tier is for free cloud use AND also for selfhosting.

The paid selfhosting tier is for professional support.

This is common in rolling releases

• me who has been using the same heckin arch install without any boot issues for over 7 years:

w a t ???

Probably should have given all of the evidence to the police instead of deleting some of it.

In most western jurisdictions platform operators are not liable for user content, (as long as they cooperate with the authorities) so nothing for you to worry about.

Next time, don’t do anything, no deleting, no blocking, contact the police and ask them what they would like you to do. Maybe they’d even would want to letting them keep posting for a while to gather more data on the offenders, but idk how they deal with selfhosted stuff tbh…

(this is not legal advice)

(Also I totally understand that you don’t want your other users seing that kind of stuff. I know nothing about the matrix moderation tools, so maybe the media is on the server db somewhere … might be relevant to figure that out)

Edit: this does not apply if you live in an authoritarian police state or third world country, like OP apparently does.

codeberg, gitlab, github etc.

You can go to those and find a list of public projects and filter by (some of) your criteria.

the AUR is already kind of like a git without a forge under the hood (albeit not for the usual git purpose). You authenticate with your arch account, which is also used for the forum (and maybe also the wiki)

Thank you very much for pointing this out.

I completely forgot to mention this, since I’ve been running compute modules with nvme’s for ages.

Just to add a further alternative: The pine64 soquartz baseboards are also compatible with rpi compute modules.

Also for extra saving: by the time you buy all that, there are a lot of second hand office mini PCs that are considerably cheaper on ebay.

If it is for home use, why not go with a raspberry pi (or similar, there are lots of cheaper alternatives like it) which is only accessible from the local network and not from the internet?

If access through the internet is needed, you can use one of many free dyndns services. (e.g duckdns.org)

You could also look into existing projects and maybe contribute instead of building from scratch, but thats up to you. Through a quick search I found https://github.com/FSchiltz/Helse

curl

Yes I have and it’s good, but I don’t think anecdotal evidence matters. I may have been lucky or you might be unlucky.

Personally I always buy multiple refurbished drives and put them in a raid in such a way that they can fail without fucking me over. For a minimal setup, mirror and throw big fat errors with sound when one is down or has smart errors or bad blocks.

You can get 4 cores, 6gb ram, 200gb ssd for 6$ per month from contabo.

Lets normalize the price for comparison.

6/3 = 2

So for the same normalized price you get:

• 4/3 = 1.333 cores
• 6/3 = 2GB RAM
• 200/3 = 66GB SSD storage

Thats a bit more CPU, four times the RAM and six times the storage!!!

I highly doubt that the “near bare metal” performance of that one core is better than just having 30% more virtualized cores.

And the math gets even worse if you compare the other tiers.

The only good tradeoff for this offer is the unlimited traffic IF and only if you actually would hit the comtabo limits (32TB outbound + unlimited incoming) and there is probably some math where you can calculate when it starts to be worth the money vs. getting a second contabo vps.

Thats expensive

With a very nieche benefit. I doubt that one core can chug enough to make any significant bandwith