CondorWonder

@CondorWonder@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We can’t ever stop this kind of stuff, but with something like fail2ban you can set it up to block on too many failures.

  Really though - ensuring your system is kept up to date and uses strong passwords or use a SSH keys is the best defence. Blocking doesn’t prevent them from trying a few times. Moving SSH to a non standard port will stop most of the automated attacks but it won’t stop someone who is dedicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use HASS.agent to help manage my Windows desktop and expose various sensors to HA. It can suspend or hibernate the system. It does use MQTT as its connectivity plane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prioritizing de-clouding efforts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You get easy access to their addons with a VM (aka HAOS). You can do the same thing yourself but you have to do it all (creating the containers, configuring them, figuring out how to connect them to HA/your network/etc., updating them as needed) - whereas with HAOS it generally just works. If you want that control great but go in with that understanding.