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I agree this is an old thing, my firewall has blocklists and allowlists to prevent known bad IPs and allow only the countries I travel to.

But if Nabu Casa is an outbound VPN, then my blocks won’t work. I’d need them to block

Either way it would make sense for HA to also use some crowdsourced blocklists as a 2nd level defense

I’ve not looked into Nabu Casa much, is it an outbound VPN from our HA instances to their servers? If so, maybe the Nabu Casa admins need a blocklist?

Ok, good luck 🙂

And if it wasn’t for your post I wouldn’t know he created Ruby on Rails

It’s been a while for me (I don’t upgrade things that work and I try to buy things that last a long time…)

But, Hotel Mode might still be a thing, and it might bypass some “smart” stuff on the TV

I used that to make my TV start on the correct external HDMI port for my MythTV instance running on Arch Linux (btw) with dual TV tuners in.

The TV is rarely used to watch live TV and it’s certainly not connected to any networking.

Just another approach that I’ve not seen mentioned here

Ok, interesting… any advances after d2?

Mermaid --> d2 --> ???

It’s keeping the drawings / spreadsheets / etc. up to date, to know what changes are required, that I’m thinking about.

With multiple switches, VLANs, subnets, etc and I want to add an IoT device somewhere physically convenient, then maybe I now need to trunk the IoT VLAN through multiple devices from the Wifi AP PoE switch, update firewall rules, because this is the 1st device on that physical segment, etc… and then update the drawings afterwards.

Now that’s worth automating.

I’m looking for a map, not a calculator.

Ah, ok, so you’re usng it as a live agent to interact with the live system as / when you need some info?

Hmm, not thought of doing live queries…

I don’t have any AI running, hence just thinking of using public LLMs to create a drawing, but maybe this can interact with uptime kuma (for example) and tell me more about what just broke…

Not really seen much of mermaid diagrams before, thanks.

Btw, Looking at the issue comments, seems beautiful mermaid is unmaintained and now forked to zombie mermaid: github.com/dfadler/zombie-mermaid

I have Visio drawings already, and KeePass files and backup configs and…

So, it’s mostly therrle, but there’s always something that’s not captured, like maybe MAC address I’m trying to resolve in a switch…

I was thinking AI could draw, redraw and draw again…

Is the TV still in warranty? (I don’t know that model)… if so, send it back, it’s “broken”

If we tolerate this stuff it’ll only get worse.

To be fair… if all that happens, you’re probably toast too

Get 2 devices, set them up the same and put 1 in a cupboard.

When you make a change / update and / or the hardware fails, then you can still recover.

Personally I have a Fritz router in bridge / pass through mode, then a pfSense firewall - basically a low-ish power microATX (I think) PC - which does all my adblocking and DNS as well as reverse proxy for home assistant, etc.

Works well

I had to modify the wiring in a - fairly new - tractor once.

I opened up an inspection panel and found a pair of pliers in there, used them to fix the wiring and took them out.

I gained a tool and fixed an annoying rattle too.

If you’re not usng it for your own purposes, I doubt you’ll do what a bunch of strangers on Lemmy will tell you to do.

It needs to be running, either in your possession, or someone else’s, so sell it and make some profit from the recent price rises. Put a minimum sell price on ebay and it’ll go eventually.

Hmmm… there’s a few different things going on here.

As others have already said you don’t need a cert if you’re just messing around internally, you can use an internal TLD - .local is reserved for mdns, Avahi, etc. so that’s fine… personally, I use .home

I use pfSense, but I presume that OPNSense has the same function in DHCP to provide the Domain Name in there, so any static mappings will respond to thing.home

I also have HAProxy to resolve external IP:Port to an internal thing.home (note: no S internally)… this simplifies my setup, and I presume it could work internally too, but I’ve not set it up as DHCP solves that for me.

I don’t use containers, instead each thing is it’s own VM, or physical machine, so I don’t know whether NAT (on proxmox) would resolve your issues with everything’s on 1 VM…?

Yeah, I have 3 Ruckus APs scattered around the house and the devices are on their own SSID which I’ve VLANd off and blocked from the internet… until it’s time to do updates.

The Zeros are in far corners of the house to get a better idea of which location people are with the Bluetooth detection, but in the end I just had to throttle their bandwidth (in the Zeros) and they seem more stable now… hopefully won’t impact you, so it’s just an FYI 🙂

Nice. Did you have to sell a house to afford the parts?

I found the best thing to deal with a device that won’t work…

I’m trying to get the 3.5" adafruit touchscreen working and it’s being stubborn…

So… I went outside and split a large pile of logs.

Problem still not fixed, but I feel a hellofalot better

Ah… nice

Sound proofed… wow… does that also mean heat can’t escape?

Hmmm, ok, I’ll try it again…

And the touchscreen 👍🏻

Playing around with it today, I’ve found Moode works fine…except for the 3.5" touchscreen… it literally turns off the power to the screen (which is showing a CLI login prompt) when I enable the WebUI.

Notneven heard of konstakang, so I’ll check it out.

Nice.

I’ve had a lot of problems with Pi Zero W(2?) falling off the wifi.

Not sure if it’s because I’m using them for bluetooth presence detection, so they’re scanning all day… but it’s put me right off using them for something like music.

YMMV

Yeah, I installed it again yesterday…

Seems really unintuitive after the initial setup steps (which do a good job of walking you through the initial setup), so I did bork it up once.

I think the hardest point for me is that it’s based on Tiny Core Linux, so I can’t install anything else (ie even tmux), so I’m having issues with getting the touchscreen working.

I’ll try Moode today…

Kindof, if I understand correctly, that’s part of piCorePlayer:

docs.picoreplayer.org/components/

TBH, when I tried piCorePlayer a few years ago, it felt like a bunch of things duct-taped together, so I don’t really know which bits were which… maybe I’ll try lyrion separately…

Fuuuukkkk…

Longer uptime than you’d been alive!

I just hope you’ve got backups 🙂

Seriously though, we found an old Dell server at work that hadn’t been rebooted for years.

We knew that it was fine whilst it was running, but the stress of a reboot would finish it off with all those POST fan speed tests, RAID array tests, etc.

We took as much data off it that we thought might be relevant and rebooted it.

1 drive failed immediately. 1 fan must’ve had all the dust as that blew out a cloud during the fullspeed test.

A few days later more drives started failing and it just gradually died.

It was actually a sad day when we powered it off for the last time. 🥲