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title = "Self-hosting shione.net"
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date = "2023-12-23T18:47:00"
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slug = "self-hosting-shione"
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tags = ["sysadm", "shione"]
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I recently managed to get my hands on a mini PC, [Union NiPoGi CK10 -
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10810U](https://www.notebookcheck.net/NiPoGi-CK10-with-the-Intel-Core-i7-10810U-reviewed-Small-office-PC-offering-space-for-three-SSDs.671211.0.html)
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thanks to my friend Lucien and thought it'd be a good opportunity to host my
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own server to experiment with a bunch of stuff.
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## Services
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### Synchronizing my personal devices
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I'd like to share/synchronize files among my PC, laptop, server and phone. The
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first layer of authentication would be having access to WireGuard VPN. As for
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how to share the files themselves, I am not entirely sure yet, it could be as
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simple as using SFTP. However, I am also interested in investigating
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[Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/), specifically [Nextcloud
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Files](https://nextcloud.com/files/) because of it's well supported on all
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platforms, I think KDE's Dolphin has a smooth Nextcloud integration as well by
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default but haven't tried it yet.
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### Hosting a Git service
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It could be something as simple as cgit or as interesting as
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[sourcehut](https://git.sr.ht/)/[gitea](https://about.gitea.com/). I will have
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to figure out how to setup CI/CD, at least a very basic version of it however.
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### SRB2Kart server
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It would be fun to have it running in the background, or at least launched on
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request. However, I'll need to figure out a way to secure it since the
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server-side code seems not that high quality to trust completely (perhaps I
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could help with that). I will need to do the same for others as well, we'll
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see. I wonder if SELinux will be enough to separate the servers from each
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other.
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### CS2 demo analyzer
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Potentially a fun hobby project I could work on and expose to the public. It'll
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just print stats about the uploaded CS2 demo file and other misc stuff.
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### Multiplayer Nonogram game
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I like nonograms, even though I don't get to play them often, and I'd like to
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implement it myself potentially to learn WASM and Rust's ecosystem of it.
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## Deployment
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I like the idea behind GNU Guix and Nix. However, for my own lazy and practical
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reasons, I'd rather stick to GNU/Linux Debian to avoid having to deal with all
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the per package-specific issues that comes with packaging for a younger/less
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popular package manager.
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Ideally configuring the server would be traced, less repetitive and idempotent.
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I took a glance at [ansible](https://www.ansible.com/). However, I do not like
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the fact that YAML is used here with no possible alternative bothers me.
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I came across another solution called
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[pyinfra](https://github.com/pyinfra-dev/pyinfra) which is exactly what I want
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except that I do not get why it has such a complicated setup as well as the
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fact that it's not packaged in Debian, nor most GNU/Linux distros I suppose? I
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personally find the idea of using Python for such tasks, as well as other
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automation tasks, very practical because it's available on most distros by
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default nowadays and the packaging system is becoming less of a pain to handle.
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The language is expressive, mature and performance does not really matter in
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this case.
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I decided to experiment with
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[`config-package-dev`](https://debathena.mit.edu/config-package-dev/) instead
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for the mean time. I must admit that the Debian packaging system feels very
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unintuitive to me and I certainly don't like having to deal with Perl but I
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should get used to it in order to be able to contribute back to GNU/Linux
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Debian.
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---
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*Update: 2023-12-24 21:44*
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This page was first served on self-hosted shione!
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