linearchaos

linearchaos, 5 months ago

To be honest I prefer the windows be skewed into diamond shapes

linearchaos, 6 months ago

I only use Twitter because my kids school refuses to stop using Twitter.

I’m only on Facebook long enough to catch up with older friends and family.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

It’s how they communicate that busses have been released. :/

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Yeah, actually, that would be a pretty high bar. It puts the onus on them to maintain the list of people, to use an app that individually sends the message to everyone so you’re not giving everyone each other’s phone numbers.

I’d love to see them post it literally anywhere else but it is what it is.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Interesting, every API tool I’ve looked at has been shut down. I’m on Mastodon and a perfectly willing to give it a shot. As long as the message gets to me within about three or four minutes it should be fine. How do you do this?

linearchaos, 6 months ago

It really wasn’t all that complicated for me. Install the client on two devices set a share up on one device go to the other device Hit add device put the share ID in. Go back to the first devices admin and say allow the share

linearchaos, 6 months ago

I tried nc it for a while I would have taken me till the end of days to import all of my files.

I suspect I could keep it running by doing lockstep backups and updates. But it was just so incredibly slow.

I just want something that would give me remote access to my files with meta information about my files and a good search index.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

I’ll look at those ASAP, super hopeful

linearchaos, 6 months ago

The first worry are vectors around the Synology, It’s firmware, and network stack. Those devices are very closely scrutinized. Historically there have been many different vulnerabilities found and patched. Something like the log4j vulnerabilities back in the day where something just has to hit the logging system too hit you might open a hole in any of the other standard software packages there. And because the platform is so well known, once one vulnerability is found they already know what else exists by default and have plans for ways to attack it.

Vulnerabilities that COULD affect you in this case for few and far between but few and far between are how things happen.

The next concern you’re going to have are going to be someone slipping you a mickey in a container image. By and large it’s a bunch of good people maintaining the container images. They’re including packages from other good people. But this also means that there is a hell of a lot of cooks in the kitchen, and distribution, and upstream.

To be perfectly honest, with everything on auto update, cloud flares built-in protections for DDOS and attacks, and the nature of what you’re trying to host, you’re probably safe enough. There’s no three letter government agency or elite hacker group specifically after you. You’re far more likely to accidentally trip upon a zero day email image filter /pdf vulnerability and get bot netted as you are someone successfully attacking your Argo tunnel.

That said, it’s always better to host in someone else’s backyard than your own. If I were really, really stuck on hosting in my house on my network, I probably stand up a dedicated box, maybe something as small as a pi 0. I’d make sure that I had a really decent router / firewall and slip that hosting device into an isolated network that’s not allowed to reach out to anything else on my network.

Assume at all times that the box is toxic waste and that is an entry point into your network. Leave it isolated. No port forwards, you already have tunnels for that, don’t use it for DNS don’t use it for DHCP, Don’t allow You’re network users or devices to see ARP traffic from it.

Firewall drops everything between your home network and that box except SSH in, or maybe VNC in depending on your level of comfort.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

You need to have a rather capable router / firewall combo.

You could pick up a ubiquity USG. Or set up something with an isp router and a PF sense firewall.

You need to have separate networks in your house. And the ability to set firewall rules between the networks.

The network that contains the hosting box needs to have absolutely no access to anything else in your house except it’s route out to the internet. Don’t have it go to your router for DHCP set it up statically. Don’t have it go to your router for DNS, choose an external source.

The firewall rules for that network are allow outbound internet with return traffic, allow SSH and maybe VNC from your home network, then deny all.

The idea is that you assume the box is capable of getting infected. So you just make sure that the box can live safely in your network even if it is compromised.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Oh yeah, I totally get the allure of containers. I use them myself just not in production.

To be fair, python and node both suffer from the same kind of worries. And stuff gets slipped into those repos not too infrequently.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

The box you’re hosting on only needs internet access to connect the tunnel. Cloudflare terminates that SSL connection right in a piece of software on your web server.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Have you ever actually even tried to do this? All you can tell from the manufacturers website is where you can find a company that carries any of their products. Oh, you want that specific scent of antiperspirant? Good luck on calling all this retail stores that don’t actually have staff anymore. If you’re truly lucky you can search walmart.com for it and then target.com for it maybe you’ll find it. Honestlywalmart.com is about their only competition but pricing there is completely at the whim of their own privateers.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

If I remember right styropyro was just doing product placement with flexi-spot. After Herman Miller bought Fully and tripled their prices, I had to switch desk vendors at work and I had already started using these guys. They’re good cheap AF, Chinese standing desks. LTT was shilling for them about 6 months ago. I honestly don’t care who makes the desk I’m just sick and effing tired of having to spend $800-$1200 a desk for generic Alibaba parts.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

They effed up back in the day by not giving me a client for my phone or my roku. Wanted me to buy their hardware. I already have prime, couldn’t even tell you two movies/shows that debuted on it.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

It’s not hard, or overly time consuming, assuming you’re making it from scraps you’ve already cooked.

If you’re setting out to make it from scratch, it’s expensive and a waste of time/fuel.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

65 mi? Damn you put the edge in edge case.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Robbie the Roomba

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Most of the super famous classical composers were born with in 90 years of each other. On one hand thay were brilliant musicians, on the other hand It was also this thing that was happening right then.

I’m fairly certain if the circumstances were different we still have a bunch of people doing the same work.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

I edited the nudity out of that so we could screen it at work. There’s a LOT of titties in that movie.

linearchaos, 6 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

There was a door (plugin) for The text-based *BBS game Legend of the Red Dragon called Violet’s Tavern.

You could sit at the bar and buy a drink that enhanced your stats, You could go upstairs and pay for a hooker to replenish your energy or you could try to seduce the barmaid / owner and actually have kind of a sweet encounter with her.

It had a betting mechanic I don’t remember if it was blackjack, dice or what but you could game it a little bit by throwing a shit ton of money at it a few times. The initial odds to win or somewhat higher than the extended odds to win so if you hit it and hit big you just walk away. Sometimes you ended up empty but more often than not it worked.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Hey, I saw Ferris’ day off, I remember how it ended.

What’s worse, is you don’t even get there on you get a small chance to get a stock-like transaction that could be worth some heroin or notging at all

linearchaos, 6 months ago

This appliance comes from a time when appliances were able to outlast neon bulb. It would only cost a buck to fix it, but we don’t fix things anymore.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Not profitable, But for whom?

Contracts that big have a lot of grease and going on. Someone’s leasing that land from someone else.

The people In charge have a friend or two that own a few blocks of land just outside the site? Political capital, bribes, and contracts.

Hell, even the bus or rail line will face the same issues.

A lot of unprofitable ventures happen in government. It’s a sneaky way too steal tax money.

linearchaos, 6 months ago

Hell, without competition, even taxis can be held to a standard.

We’re going to pay a fortune for the government to provide safe infrastructure. But they’re going to hire all the right people vet them and make sure they do it right. Until they don’t.

Even NASA had to fall hard to get put back on track. I still think government services are the best option. Damn if the water isn’t fucking muddy. Pun not intended but I kind of like it.