ShellMonkey
@ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com
Someone with too much time and server space who decided to host a couple things because reasons.
- Comment on Stars 1 week ago:
Well these guys from Super Mario Galaxy would probably look pretty round from the side I guess.
- Comment on Tiny pp 2 weeks ago:
Gives new meaning to ‘speak softly and carry a big stick’.
- Comment on Fruit Flies 4 weeks ago:
Speak for yourself, I rather like potatoes, or as the French call them ‘pomme de terre’ which if I recall would literally translate as ‘apple of earth’.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
Some of those are absurdly strong. I have wild grapes in my yard that go ahold of an old clothesline with 6 lines across it. Now I didn’t use said line so figured just let it be to feed the birds and such. Turns out it got thick enough that one winter when a particularly heavy snow came through the weight of the snow on the vine mat was enough to bend in the poles that are a good 3 inches thick.
- Comment on Idea for the future Olympics Games 3 months ago:
An interesting idea, but I doubt the TV folks go for it. You would have events taking much longer and need more cameras or crazy distant shots to show the presumed gap they would have. Just be a pain to show.
- Comment on Helmut Newton | Nastassia Kinski for Playboy (1983) | Available for Sale | Artsy 4 months ago:
Dutch museum colonialism is a context for an art photo sale?
- Comment on Helmut Newton | Nastassia Kinski for Playboy (1983) | Available for Sale | Artsy 4 months ago:
Other than it costing ~$4,000 for a print of an old photo which is kinda how art tends to work, I’m not seeing the problem here?
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 months ago:
They’re a part of the mix. Firewalls, Proxies, WAF (often built into a proxy), IPS, AV, and whatever intelligence systems one may like work together to do their tasks. Visibility of traffic is important as well as the management burden being low enough. I used to have to manually log into several boxes on a regular basis to update software, certs, and configs, now a majority of that is automated and I just get an email to schedule a restart if needed.
A reverse proxy can be a lot more than just host based routing though. Take something like a Bluecoat or F5 and look at the options on it. Now you might say it’s not a proxy then because it does X/Y/Z but at the heart of things creating that bridged intercept for the traffic is still the core functionality.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 months ago:
It depends on what your level of confidence and paranoia is. Things on the Internet get scanned constantly, I actually get routine reports from one of them that I noticed in the logs and hit them up via an associated website. Just take it as an expected that someone out there is going to try and see if admin/password gets into some login screen if it’s facing the web.
For the most part, so long as you keep things updated and use reputable and maintained software for your system the larger risk is going to come from someone clicking a link in the wrong email than from someone haxxoring in from the public internet.
- Comment on Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked? 4 months ago:
I have a dozen services running on a myriad of ports. My reverse proxy setup allows me to map hostnames to those services and expose only 80/443 to the web, plus the fact that an entity needs to know a hostname now instead of just an exposed port. IPS signatures can help identify abstract hostname scans and the proxy can be configured to permit only designated sources. Reverse proxies also commonly get used to allow for SSL offloading to permit clear text observations n of traffic between the proxy and the backing host. Plenty of other use cases for them out there too, don’t think of it as some one trick off/on access gateway tool
- Comment on All farts ar funny. Its just a mqtter.of degree 4 months ago:
Someone pulled that formula straight out their ass
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
A deadline set by a government agency for government workers, NOT a ‘Google Pixel Deadline’. Stop writing alarmist headlines to make it sound like Google is gonna shut off your phone if you don’t comply. You should update, but knock this writing style off people.
- Comment on What tool do you use to display your self-hosting infrastructure 4 months ago:
Zabbix or Cacti are nice ways to draw maps that also serve a functional role in keeping track of the activity and alerting.
- Comment on Is funkwhale.audio down? I just wanted to check on the site out of curiosity for setting an instance up myself 4 months ago:
Looks like was just updated today pending transfer, so either the owner transferring registrars or someone took it over.
- Comment on Has Elon Musk made any sexist remarks? 4 months ago:
Are you looking to complete a bingo card for billionaire dumbassery?
- Comment on Is funkwhale.audio down? I just wanted to check on the site out of curiosity for setting an instance up myself 4 months ago:
www.whois.com/whois/funkwhale.audio
Domain expired on the 19th, so it’s validly offline. Has always seemed to be a low-adoptiom platform, will have to see the status in the next few days.
- Comment on ‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services 6 months ago:
I’ve been a user of GOG for a while principally because of the no-drm ability to download a copy of what you bought. When the library starts getting past a certain size though you start to wonder about those things like what if the producer has a falling out and wants to yank it from the platform, does it vanish from my library then too? Are there contracts that say ‘forever’ when they offer it? Would love to find some ‘download all’ option to take a full copy offline of the bought items at once but it’d probably overrun the monthly ISP limits even if they had one.
Seen too many things on Netflix or Spotify that I liked vanish because ‘fuck off, we can’ and although I never anticipated it being ‘bought’ in those cases it does give a lot of justification to find alternate means to reestablish that access.
- Comment on the struggle 6 months ago:
As one who both tested as and very much sees the description of the INTJ in themselves, can confirm as being an obnoxiously over-analytical fool.
In some ways if you take them in a certain light the M/B, astrology, and even tarot cards play a similar role. They provide a thought prompt to explore from.
- Comment on neptune 6 months ago:
Bunch of diamonds tossed around in 1000 mph winds, what could be the worst that happens…
- Comment on what's your fav recipe manager? 6 months ago:
Mealie previously, now Homechart. Mealie is probably better suited to the specific purpose, but Homechart includes a mess of other functions.
- Comment on Traveling personal cloud options? 7 months ago:
If you don’t have concerns about it being private I’ve used one of these for similar purposes in the past. Just a little portable DLNA server. The original project stopped but there are forks or the last version of the original out there.
- Comment on Best Buy Geek Squad Agents ‘Going Sleeper’ After Mass Layoffs 7 months ago:
Can’t think where I’ve seen any there, some software but not even really games since those have largely gone for distribution via Steam or similar.
- Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood 8 months ago:
He had access to some public Minecraft server for a while and initially I was like “this is fine”, but it was like 5 days before he was telling people to kill themselves in the chat and yelling ethnic slurs into his headset… he’s 7.
The battle is real, I’ve heard and seen things out of my kid the same age that left me speechless. Kids think that because it was on the screen or in their headset 100x that this must mean it’s ok, and with the number of people who just give it a pass by not paying the least attention…
Formative years are no place for such anarchistic environments, particularly when they’re used as an unmonitored substitute for actual engagement.
- Comment on Is there a way to preserve my comments before closing my instance? 8 months ago:
I’m pretty sure it would still work, but images for media content would have broken links. I’m not sure the refresh policy as far as remote media goes but local stuff could be re-uploaded and it should be able to retain things like the user names and comment data even without pictures.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 8 months ago:
Given I’m not sure if you mean ‘the problem of rampant consumerism’ or ‘not solving the problem via rampent consumerism’ I’ll put up thoughts on either front.
On the first, a sizable part of that could be reduced by returning to a ‘buy it for life’ mindset in our society. I always like to use an example of Grandma’s kitchen table. Some people have the nice oak piece that’s been passed through a few generations, scuffed and stained maybe, but as solid as ever. Many now though obtain the cheapest particle-board garbage they can from the local Walmart and see it as normal to have to replace it after a couple years. That disposable lifestyle doesn’t help anyone other than the retailers and producers of cheap useless junk, nobody is going to be looking to build family memories at some glorified card table.
On the second, no, people buying for the sake of buying isn’t going to solve things, but at least we can make the choices available less destructive overall. In some cases 1000 small actions are just what’s needed of no one thing can do it all.
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 8 months ago:
Every damn time, ‘we just need a few more years, don’t force us yet though, we’re not ready…’ this forever planning stage is going to kill the planet before anyone is ready to act.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
Can’t remember the name but I recall one of what you’re talking about, botnet that actually made it impossible for their competitors to retake the host. In theory the 'good guy’s could do that too, but still better to just find a way to fix it without leaving anything behind.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
Unless the boxes actually where to get patches, which the article notes them as end of life, those is a largely pointless endeavor and the boxes will be reinfected shortly. We really need some kind of comprehensive education and notification system to let these owners know that their systems are vulnerable and have been actively exploited. Maybe take some portion of the military budget to create a fund and help people get new gear while they’re at it. A sizable chunk of people just want a box to work and once it’s set up the extent of any maintaining is to unplug it when the WiFi gets funky.
- Comment on HP CEO pay for 2023 = 270,315 printer cartridges 8 months ago:
A lot of it is buzzword marketing. Most of these small device boxes with ‘AI’ are undoubtedly just simple else/if trees giving a pre-determined output for a set on environmental conditions.
It’s like in food, for a while everything was gluten free, now it must list protein content, whatever’s next will get pasted on everything until it becomes meaningless.
- Comment on Installing a hardware firewall/DHCP/Wireguard Server 8 months ago:
It works so long as you’re not trying to create separate networks. When/if you decide to start with some vlan madness and such the AP likely won’t work for that, unless it’s fancy and can do multiple SSID on separate clans, but most WiFi/router combos don’t go that far.
Basically the new firewall/router box becomes the boss of everything done ng DHCP, likely DNS relaying, and all the monitoring. Simple and efficient, just wouldn’t go hosting public services with the setup since there’s no ‘DMZ’ to keep it separate from you personal devices.
