Cyber
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- Comment on Recs: Calendar and Contacts? 9 hours ago:
It’s just another calendar…
So, we have:
MeThemUsHouse Stuff(ie bin day reminders)- I use this for Home Assistant
Birthdays- I don’t recall at the moment, but an app used this for contact’s birthdays…
I then setup DavX to sync to
MeandUson my phone andThemandUson their phone.In Fossify Calendar it’s really easy to show /hide separate calendars as well as selecting the correct calendar when adding / editing events.
- Comment on Recs: Calendar and Contacts? 17 hours ago:
Definitely Radicale
We have separate calendars (ie we individually sync between our phones and other devices) plus joint calendars that we also sync…
On Android I use davx to sync and Fossify Calendar which allows me to see multiple calendars but only sounds reminders for my personal & joint appointments, not others.
On my laptops I’m currently usong Vivaldi’s built-in calendar and that’s working well for me.
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 2 days ago:
Ah, ok if Tom Lawrence has made a video then I know it’ll work!
Thanks
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 days ago:
Just a friendly reminder that RAID is not a backup…
Just consider if something accidentally overwrites some / all your files. This is a perfectly legit action and the checksums will happily match that new data, but your file(s) are gone…
- Comment on 3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup? 3 days ago:
This is exactly what I’m about to do (later this week when I visit their house)
I’ve been using syncthing for years, but any tips for the encryption?
I was going to use SendOnly at my end to ensure that the data at the other end is an exact mirror, but in that case, how would the restore work if it’s all encrypted?
- Comment on Self Hosted Network Analyzer? 3 days ago:
It varies of course, but most of my torrents are movies and linux ISOs (for real)
I seed any Movies I leech at a 2:1 ratio… most are leeched from Europe, but I’ve had them from Canada, South America, Asia, but weirdly not many from North America.
I like to give back more to the Linux community, so I’m constantly seeding Arch & Mint ISOs (as that’s just what I’m using… maybe something Raspberry-ish) - they go everywhere.
I had a weird instance once where the same Chinese IP address was constantly re-downloading the same ISO. Could’ve been a VPN endpoint, but after I’d shared something like 40:1 there, I started using GeoIP to block it and similar regions I was uncomfortable with… so the world’s becoming smaller for me.
- Comment on Spottarr: A modern spotnet client and index for your *arr apps. 3 days ago:
So, I’m a little behind the times here… should I be moving away from torrent search sites to this new fangled spot stuff?
- Comment on Self Hosted Network Analyzer? 3 days ago:
+1 for this.
You need to see all the data flowing through a sensor to be able to map it, so a router / firewall is often the central point.
I run it as an addon for pfSense and it’ll show me all sorts of info.
If you setup the GeoIP you can see which countries your network’s connecting too… interesting for torrents…
- Comment on CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use? 1 week ago:
Crowdsec will block external, public, IPs
Fail2Ban will block login attempts (ie from anywhere)
I have a similar setup with pfSense, pfBlockerNG, HAProxy, etc, but I keep F2B running on my DMZ server in case something is ever compromised as it’ll block / slow down anyone trying to move around the network.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Maybe, I’m self hosting several trees, so… 🤷♂️
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Depends on the variety of course… my Willows need cutting down, whereas the acorns I planted before the willows are still tiny oaks in pots 🙂
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
Ahh, I see what you mean. Being asked to pay twice isn’t nice…
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 1 week ago:
But would you / do you voluntarily donate to Jellyfin’s development?
I get it, it is (& a lot of things are) free… but at some point the developers need to recoup something…
Otherwise Jellyfin’s development will eventually dry up as raw enthusiasm runs out.
- Comment on Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Can I (figuratively speaking) just change the destination in my backup scripts and start writing to Hetzner… or are they using a completely different setup?
- Comment on Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Does that also include Burial?
- Comment on How to send backups on multiple location? 2 weeks ago:
Whatever you end up with
- test a restore
- consider how to deal with the source data being corrupted / ransomed / etc, ie multiple versions
- Comment on Synology could bring “certified drive” requirements to more NAS devices 3 weeks ago:
Critical Synology Vulnerability Let Attackers Remote Execute Arbitrary Code
Just build your own. It’s easy. Move on.
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s all fine - when it works, it works well… But sometimes it just seems to get caught up in an error and can’t seem to reset for a few minutes. But ok, looks like your setup’s working ok, so must be just mine. I disabled a load of Google stuff and run trackercontrol (a local VPN on the phone that blocks stuff), so maybe I’ve broken something…
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 4 weeks ago:
Hmm… I’m using gotify with a Ras Pi to send the alerts and I sometimes get long delays…
AFAICT it’s the phone, not the Pi, but all I can see are lots of websocket errors in the gotify client the time… are you not getting those then?
- Comment on GitHub - outerbase/studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. 5 weeks ago:
we are very excited about being part of the Claudflair team
Guess they’re so excited (and thrilled) that they forgot how to spell
- Comment on 'Google AI presented my April Fools' story as real news' 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, my reading speed has decreased a lot as I’m continually trying to assess if what I’m reading is true or not
Like, maybe the AI was the true story and the April fools story was the April fools? 🤯
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
Are you saying I could get Linux running on my Fairphone 3+?
Mind you, yeah, 3G switch off would then make life difficult…
- Comment on Do you dislike your dependency on Android? To the rescue comes Mobile Linux "PostmarketOS" - Funded via Donations, Focus on Reliabilty for 2025 1 month ago:
Enterprises just lease desktops / laptops and replace them with the latest version of Windows… my team used to be after reasons to get the latest OS / laptop, now IT have to prise them out of their hands
- Comment on World Backup Day 1 month ago:
Yep, hence my comment…
You should see the fear on people’s faces when I suggest they restore a backup - esp. on Production.
My advice (to combat their fear) is to take an offline backup that has some kind of checksum and then immediately restore it.
That gets them past the initial fear and then we progress onto other backup strategies… if needed.
- Comment on World Backup Day 1 month ago:
Backups… fine
When’s the World “test you can restore” day?
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 1 month ago:
Ok, didn’t think about “unlimited” actually being slower - thanks for the insight.
I’m running a pfSense f/w at the edge, so split horizon DNS and haproxy are already sorted… I’ll check out wireguard - should be straight forward
Thanks
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday - What's up? 1 month ago:
I’m considering going this route - just to hide my (static) home IP.
What’s the rough sizing I’d need for a VPS? I’m guessing the smallest possible, but with the best / unlimited data usage?
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 1 month ago:
Ok, so setup a DC (in a VM on your linux laptop), install Win11 joined to that domain, create a local user, then leave the domain & destroy the VM…?
Or install Linux 👍🏻
- Comment on Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line 1 month ago:
Dunno how long you’ve been online, but you should’ve seen searching before Google came along… it’s still better now.
But, there was not much tracking back then…
- Comment on Vivaldi, now with added VPN 1 month ago:
Was that the one with the vertical task bar that couldn’t be changed??
Or is it better now…?