Cyber

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to put all my setup & config notes into tiddlywiki, and to some point I still update them, but it’s become difficult for others to update and maintain when I share them as you need a browser addin to be able to save updates properly.

  The formatting is similar to markdown, but just a little different to make copying the original source that way too… but… I’d still consider it, esp. once you’ve really played with it and found all the things it’s capable of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My thoughts shopping around for a wiki solution⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for logseq… it literally saved my life when I changed jobs, nothing else came close.

  However, the original markdown version has really slowed down development whilst the newer db version is slowly catching up, so, I’d rcommend the MD version for now, but people might want to hold for a little while…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your recovery needs?

  It’s ok to take 6 months to backup to a cloud provider, but do you need all your data to be recovered in a short period of time? If so, cloud isn’t the solution, you’d need a duplicate set of drives nearby (but not close enough for the same flood, fire, etc.

  But, if you’re ok waiting for the data to download again (and check the storage provider costs for that specific scenario), then your main factor is how much data changes after that initial 1st upload.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In a different location

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice Online, a self-hostable libre office environment, is coming back!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some new EU funding in the background?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Using huntarr? Perhaps you shouldn't.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re here, that’s a good start…

  I tend to look at a project’s Issues tracker, that gives me a feel for how the author(s) deal with feedback… some projects have hundreds of open tickets with barely any interactions, yet code updates “2 days ago”.

  Being here and reading about who’s using what will help remove the major outliers

  All opensource needs more eyeballs, which is still the advantage over closed source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I access my services from outside?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How’d you setup the port knocking? Is that something caddy does?

  I’m using haproxy and was thinking of trying the same thing… not sure if haproxy supports it though, or whether I have to do something else …?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, good point.

  This would be local only so they can up/download ebooks here and share with the family - when they’re here.

  Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… if my SO is buying ebooks from the Kobo store, can they upload to Calibre (etc) and then someone else can download it?

  They read a heap of books and want to share them with their family… who are on Kindles (boooo)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can you host with limited bandwidth but lots of storage?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this.

  It’s annoying as hell waiting 6 weeks for someone to come online with that last 3%.

  Anything I find like that I seed as long as I can

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨home system setup advice⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I agree… I want (and have) a NAS… and a separate Server.

  The NAS is a NAS, not a TrueNas running my firewall, making coffee and keeping the house warm.

  I also agree with OMV for someone starting out. I stuck with it until it got a little too containerised for my own liking and ended up building my NAS out of standard Arch because I now knew what features I wanted.

  And my Proxmox is on a passively cooled small, silent, box in my home office. It will be upgraded to Incus on plain Arch one day because, again, I now know what features I want / don’t want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s Prosody in the list?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we’re using Conversations and it’s fine for most things.

  Will be self hosting prosidy “sooon”… and it’ll all be in-house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US cloud storage for backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is good, if they:

  • 1. Understand & trust what you’re doing and don’t fiddle with it
  • 2. Don’t understand and just don’t fiddle with it

  Luckily I have a family member that fits one of those categories.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US cloud storage for backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  +1 for Hetzner

  I’m using restic to encrypt my files (content + filenames)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨💞 FairScan > Syncthing > Paperlees-ngx⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was all resolved.

  I held off switching until very recently, but reading the githubs, etc. it’s all settled down now.

  From memory it was just a bit of a nieve handover (ie “hidden” in the background, not out in public)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With… or without their knowledge? 😉

  But yeah, there’s so many wifis around me, I could probably load balance across them all…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow.

  Ok, that sounds like that has evolved over some time!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think the firewall has a hardware issue… it reboots, starts stops fine under normal conditions, but, just sometimes a weird glitch throws it off.

  Good point about VRRP, I’ll look into that some more as I think that’s the open, non-Cisco one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That (2 FWs) was what I was considering initially.

  But, looking at some other posts, I’m starting to rethink my design as I only have 1 WAN connection, then I only need 1 FW (maybe).

  So separating FW from DHCP & DNS might be a better solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not heard of BeeGFS, had a quick look on the Arch wiki… looks quite involved…

  But, ok, at least I know that the DHCP part can be dealt with - thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve not looked at Proxmox clusters - can they restart VMs on a different host if they’re all using the same shared storage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah… I was reading this thinking “ah, I’ll have to reply about the battery…”… glad you’re limiting the charging…

  But an interesting point… I have a spare OLD Dell laptop kicking around which has various issues, but might be able to do what you’re doing. Thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, all good with DHCP vs DNS… just my grammer was terrible.

  Nothing was getting an IP from the DHCP, when the wifi returned…and… DNS was also not working for the few devices that still had an IP.

  Sry bout the confusion there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good points there.

  For 1. The ISP router is a Fritz one set to bridge mode running over a PoE adapter from the same UPS the firewall is using. It stayed up all the time (looking back at the logs)

  2. Not sure what happened here, but the firewall is the DNS resolver and when everything else powered back up, nothing got an IP address. Now, whether thw service failed or the WAPs took longer to start than the devices could wait, I’m not sure, but as Scotty said: it’s dead Jim.

  3. Good point. I don’t need it ALL to be redundant.

  4. Also good. The UPS is directly connected to the firewall (which has NUT in), but it doesn’t inform anything else… I’ll look into that too.

  Nice mental reset for me about over thinking it… thanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨System Redundancy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, in my case the most crucial single point is the firewall.

  The rest isn’t too bad

• System Redundancy
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finally installed my own Firewall⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Running different SSIDs too?

  I put all my IoT stuff on a dedicated 2.4-only network, VLANd it to the (pfsense) firewall which allows the VLAN trunk to be split into separate logical NICs that I apply different policies to, like no access to the internet, etc…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you have a plan for your self-hosted data if you die?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  👆🏻 This is the link everyone needs to look at.

  It covers things like keeping your phone active for 2FA, subscriptions that need to be paid until data is saved, etc.

  It’s what my SO & I use.

  Very thorough

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where to start with backups?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, good old dd

  When you have some spare time, take a look at partclone - clonezilla uses it because it only backs up used blocks, not free space, so more efficient.