I am indeed talking about Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt. I’m not saying that they need to be deceived, but in all honesty, those low-motivation people need motivation for their own good and clickbait in the news is as good a tool as anything. If you tell someone in the lower left that they need to not send SMS in the clear, most of them will tell you if you have nothing to hide, it doesn’t matter. But China hacking telecom is FAR more of a driving force to them, even though, realistically, their own telco is as much a threat as China. Sometimes leaving out detail is more effective than trying to explain their actual position.

The only way to drive the people on the bottom left is FUD. It will force them to the upper left.

The top left gets fixed through education and software improvements.

The bottom right happens through them being compromised in an uncomfortable way.

Best of luck with it, logging’s always a severe pain in the ass.

No I get what you’re asking for I’m just mentioning that sometimes it’s easier to use an application that can read multiple formats than it is to try to finagle everything back into one format.

I’m not sure about your exact ask, I’d probably head towards setting up logstash and elasticsearch. It might be overkill for your needs though.

You start to lose endurance. Your body becomes less efficient at recovery, and while you’re not pushing as hard and you don’t need as much sleep, you find that kicking it off earlier is advantageous. Your eyesight starts to deteriorate, you start finding that doing work in bright light affords you better focus through the pinhole effect.

We were Americans driving through Europe and the late '90s.

It was before Google translate and before Google maps. I had an HP PDA with translation app on it. I had purchased language packs for the countries we were visiting.

Down the highway we go. This beautiful black and white sign appears in the side of the road. It was 10-12 ft square with a skull and crossbones. Below the skull was a VERY long word.

We laugh nervously. What the hell was that? Yeah right?

After driving for a little while another one. Fuck. I don’t know is the serious?

Another one. Now I’m breaking out the PDA and trying to remember the alphabet soup underneath the Grimm imagery. It doesn’t have any idea what I’m talking about. We’ll see another one coming up and we debate sitting in front of it until I get a chance to get it into the translator.

It was probably the longest compound word ever created to express the term drunk driving.

yup, fairly normal. I had to jump through some hoops for my old haproxies

I’ll take Hannah, Shiloh, Caleb or Wallace, and some noise canceling headphones.

If you’re using let’s encrypt, it’s worth automating the cert renewals. Even for systems where the automation is difficult and not supported.

It’s also worth running some kind of monitoring system. You can check certificates with OpenSSL really easily. Fire off a message to NTFY.

Yup, Unifi 8 port POE. I put them in an isolated VLAN where they can’t see other things or get to the web on their own. I download updates for them log into their web interface and push the updates to them when I need it.

Home assistant with door sensors. Doors open and closing after normal hours send alerts to telegram. Likewise for any doors that are left open or sensor batteries that are running low. It also lets me know if any of my camera video feeds go offline.

Eufy doorbell. I don’t love the company but it’s cheap and stores my video encrypted locally. No monthly fees. It’s AI is very good at letting me know that someone came up to my door without pressing the doorbell.

Reolink cameras. I don’t love the company, The cameras are vaguely compatible with what I’m doing, put oh my god are they cheap, video quality is good and the night vision is really good.

Blue Iris for camera server running on an old laptop with an Nvidia card. I’m going to be swapping this out for frigate sometime the next year.

I probably have 300 hours into setting up Blue Iris. I have tweaked it and tweaked it and tweaked it. When any significant changes happen in zones that I’ve hand drawn for more than 4 seconds, Blue Iris will send a telegram message with a copy of the image with a orange rectangle around the change. My main street camera records 24x7, only saving frames that change in between, I’m in a rather dense community and people come to me for footage not infrequently. The rest of my cameras only record significant events.

Right now, my biggest problem is false alarms. What I really want is to be notified if someone is in my driveway even briefly. Likewise on my back porch or my basement steps. But I don’t want to be notified if it’s my dog or a piece of trash or the beams of some headlights.

I’m planning on moving to Frigate with a coral tpu and probably having it notify me with NTFY, has telegram’s pretty bad at actually sending thumbnails to my watch.

Yeah I host stuff for my job. And I don’t host all of my data stores. (I do have 150 reddis servers sitting around now)

If $85 fits comfortably in your budget and helps you sleep at night I certainly wouldn’t criticize you for doing it.

That was a nice clean read great job. My first reaction was $85 is a hell of a lot of money (you can stand up and absolute monster server in some places for that) but then I saw your running managed database and that scans.

Never said you couldn’t I was assuming OP was running VMs inside of Nix

it’s also illegal to hog a lane

Yeah, that’s a HUGE problem here.

We’ve been converting that over to latinos, still shit pay but less chaining people to things.

One of my high school teachers retired and bought a river paddle boat to put a restaurant on it. The idea was to cruise the local bay and provide a nice dining experience. Two years into owning it, the hull started leaking quite substantially. Apparently, the hull had not been maintained properly over the years and was now dangerously thin. The boat ended up being scrap. I guess they weren’t bringing in enough profit with it sailing, they didn’t even try to land lock it.

The entirety of Nix configuration is in somewhere between 1 and 3 files depending on how you like your poison.

It’s immutable, so stuff can’t just change on you.

Every change you make is stored into a new configuration and you can roll back to any configuration you’ve ever done with a reboot, so it’s kind of hard to brick it.

Apps can’t just go in and modify your users or your host table or any of the other configs so it’s got an extra layer of security. But then, the package system has more packages than God and is maintained by a million randos with very little oversight.

It has some substantially neat tricks. I moved from one box to another by just doing a fresh install, moving its three configuration files and letting syncthing rebuild my home directory from my other box.

I think, if I were going to use Nix as a home server, I just install all of the services directly on the OS. Updates and configurations for everything would be maintained by Nix itself.

Replace Blue Iris with Frigate + Coral

Set up Immich with proper backups

Set up Peertube

Increase my storage pool to fit 100% of my local backups.

Nearline my critical backups

Move my remote backups from BackBlaze to synctoy untrusted crypt on a pie at work.