They usually block these IPs.

I have the same case. Wiring was once a bit of pain but after that I had no problems.

Like you said: RAID is not a backup. If it’s import follow at least the 3-2-1 rule. 3 copies on at least 2 different media, 1 of them off site.

It’s not good to power off a mounted drive. At least for the file system. I don’t know about the drive itself.

I honestly didn’t find authentik very complicated. You can be up and running pretty much after starting it. I used docker to run it.

If I’m not mistaken you can save keys in these chips so that they can not be extracted. You can only use the key to encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify by asking the chip to do these operations with your key.

Depending on your jurisdiction it is probably your responsibility to enforce your copyright. I can always just record your music off a streaming platform. You can attach a license to your song in funkwhale (see this). If you want DRM for your music then funkwhale is probably also not for your. You still have to enforce your self that nobody monetizes your works if you don’t allow it. You can delete things from the fediverse if you know the source but I don’t think funkwhale allows DRM protected music.

If you attach a license to your works that doesn’t allow monetization and they monetize the app you can sue them. I doubt they will though. And they probably wouldn’t be very successful because the app and the server are open source. You could just build the app without monetization. And someone probably would.

The upload and sharing copyrighted music probably falls into the hands of the instance admin. As with PeerTube it is probably not a good idea to have open signups. But everyone has to make sure that doesn’t happen.

The fediverse is an open and very liberal space. If you want full control over your works it is probably not for you. No software with federation probably is. If you want and need to control over your works (which is legitimate) you need something with a tighter grip, maybe host the things yourself on your server with DRM. That doesn’t mean it is bad for everyone.

I am unsure if I understand you correctly. Funkwhale is for you to publish music or other audio you make yourself. Not for your commercial music library. And the software itself is under the GNU AGPLv3. You can host the software yourself on your own server or you join an instance of someone else. Just like lemmy, mastodon or all the other fediverse projects.

What are you saying? This is an open source project that is connected to the fediverse. It aims to be something comparable to soundcloud where people can share their music. What about this is says monetization?

Piwigo has an S3 extension https://piwigo.org/ext/extension_view.php?eid=691

I agree that is sucks but my advice is purely practical. I try to be principled where I can but email is a lost cause in my opinion. I have hosted my own Mailserver. I encountered providers that only have allow lists and needed me to manually apply to allow my mail in. You have to build a reputation to not be marked as spam. Someone can just submit your domain to a block list and you have to find out how to get removed. It is a mess.

The cold hard truth is that if you want your mail delivered reliably, don’t host yourself.

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The biggest problem is not getting your application to send mail, but to get the mail into the inboxes of people and not spam. That is what you pay the big providers for. Email is broken in that way. I’d advise you to go for a paid service if you want your emails to reliably arrive.

What about mDNS?

Doing these “find your device with magic and do stuff” things can be a bit troublesome across networks. Some is possible to set up but sometimes it just doesn’t work. It is the tradeoff between security and comfort.

It depends on what you want to do with it. WebDAV might be an idea.

I don’t think that is a good idea. NFS is more designed for LAN than for WAN.

I did host my email, but the problem wasn’t the spam but the bigger email providers. Best case was my mail was marked as spam. Worst case was that I was blocked until I jumped through hoops. Email hosting is unfortunately broken.

Is it possible you have a faulty disk?

For someone who is not in the loop: where could I find what happened. I need some context for this.