thelittleblackbird
@thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 1 week ago:
Start with a nas, the rest will naturally come when you try to access your data for outside, or organize your data, or save more data types to your nas.
Your nas should be the central device and you build the rest around it.
Now, The question is, which nas? I would recommend synology, they are not too performance, a bit expensive and the company is lately doing suspicious moves, but the sw and the hw are rock solid and they are quite good for beginners from almost all angles. Extra point for how many howtos and tutorials are present in internet.
Once you are comfortable with them, you will realize the rest
- Comment on 1 week ago:
How, because Overton window says the opposite
- Comment on Cooling stuff does not require any energy! 1 week ago:
No, it is not, your premise is false (in our real world. TM.) but your reasoning is good.
Energy does not vanish, you need a process to remove energy of a system.
Think in the planets orbiting the sun or the energy contained in a damm with millions liters of water. The energy is not dissipating itself, it is constant, forever.
So as long as the system is not disturbed, keeping the system in the same state is energy free because you only need energy to alter the system. Even of the energy distributions is not evenly balanced through it.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
Well, it would not be the first time that an anti cheat is having a Trojan and a Keylogger to add a computer into a botnet.
Let’s be honest here, nobody is interested in yiur specific data but your hw…
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
Gaming in a vm is possible, high end multi-player game in a vm is more complicated because of the performance penalty and the anti cheat (again the same problem) honestly I don’t know how good this solution could be
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 weeks ago:
I am not going to be the one to try to stop you but you need to keep in mind that games/sw piracy comes with great risks.
You need to execute anti cheat / drm / copyrighted stuff and this is always a big door open to malware.
Be cautious out there, it is not a pleasant walk
- Comment on I2P container 4 weeks ago:
OK, I’ll take a look
- Comment on I2P container 4 weeks ago:
Should I give it a try?
- Comment on My Proxmox had amnesia after a power loss.. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve seen things… Near the gate of Tannhäuser, things you little people wouldn’t believe.
And I am not joking…
- Comment on I2P container 4 weeks ago:
How is the i2p doing?
Last time I checked (several years ago) it was slow, non performing and scarce in results.
And my lack of knowledge didn’t help at all :)
- Comment on My Proxmox had amnesia after a power loss.. 4 weeks ago:
By any chance… Your proxmox is not close to any source of big electromagnetic fields, right?
Close to big Transformator or electric motors, right?
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
Ummm, you could be right and then I misunderstood the thread in the forum
- Comment on Anyone running Sandstorm? 5 weeks ago:
OK, it is clearer now, thanks
- Comment on Anyone running Sandstorm? 5 weeks ago:
If I get it correctly, this is a kind of kasm but only for the local user, right?
- Comment on emergency remote access 5 weeks ago:
Yep, at least for their own internal mistake. I rebooted them a few times in that time because updates and important config updates. Even for power outages (2 iirc) they are resilient, they are set to automatic boot up when the power is back.
- Comment on emergency remote access 5 weeks ago:
It didn’t happen in more than 5 years…
For critical equipment you need to spend the extra dollar to minimize this kind of stuff
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
If they don’t have a team, they don’t regularly look, if they dont look, they don’t report, if they don’t report your analysis maybe biased because you can only check about what you know…
I hope you can see my point
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
???
This is not about enshitification. The best user friendly app can be a security nightmare and an utterly crap can be rock solid.
It is not about that, not even development models or just rock star programmers.
It is about who has a performing security team and who doesn’t.
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 5 weeks ago:
I see, well if borg really ticks all checkbox es and you know how to use it I would explore any further.
Sincerely, borgbackup is really a top solution with a lot of nice features
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
Well, when I was talking about not techie people I didn’t mean technology analphabets, everybody can open a port in your consumer router with the help of chatgpt, not everybodies is able to realizes they need a reverse proxy with tls and modify the headers for the Auth…
Being secure in internet is like the herd inmunity for corona times, your system could be fairly secure, but if you are hammered with several bot nets it is going to be a challenge, and there is responsabiity is shipping a product that is easy to be infected.
And your third paragraph really confirms why this post is necessary
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
Jellyfinn has a nice record of problems during the authentication and escalating privileges, even the developer team recommends to use it behind a vpn and don’t expose it to internet.
If course, you can use a reverse proxy with and external Auth framework to mitigate it, pair it with fail2ban, geo restrictions and a second factor, but those things are not in the scope of the regular user.
Let’s face reality, plex is not such widespread for being the default option in kali Linux…
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
Sometimes your data is not important but your computer, nobody wants to be in a netbot.
Well, perhaps plex is not better in security (we don’t know for sure) but at least they have a cyber team, a monitoring system and in every bodies hope, dedicated developers for these topics.
Jellyfinn dies not hve a team like this one per se. Could the developers be better fit and knowledged in jellyfinn than plex? Perhaps, but probably the focus is in the features and not in the security
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 5 weeks ago:
But they are responsible for the unsecured / gruyere cheese product they ship.
Jellyfinn has a lot of holes and it is easy to deploy it in a insecure way by not techie people. Last time I checked they even didn’t have a recommended practices for hardening it
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 month ago:
Good to read you know how to implement some protection layers around your jellyfinn :)
But most of the people (specially the plex ones) don’t have the technical background to deploy something like you have, and convince those people to do the switch without knowing how to protect themselves is not a wise thing to do. Specially when this time, plex response was perfectly fine :)
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 month ago:
Y hope you know how to harden jellyfinn, because they are not better than plex team…
- Comment on Data Backup Solutions 1 month ago:
If you have already borg, why don’t use it?
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 month ago:
Yep, sorry, my mistake, I confused you with another user
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 month ago:
AMD are not better than Nvidia -> sure I prefer Nvidia than AMD for everything -> perfect, it is your opinion and a respetable one With AMD you can not do AAA gaming, ML or just transcoding -> a lie, simply, nothing more to add And I will ignore the sentence about AMD not being a serious company because it is too absurd to discuss
I hope this time you can get the point
- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 1 month ago:
AMD gpus are inside in Xbox and ps5, without taking into account the handhelds like steam deck.
For the ML is usually better to use amd cards because they use to have more vram, and many many models can be trained using amd.
And about the transcoding comment I will bother myself ait it.
In summary, tells me you don’t have any clue without telling me you don’t have any clue