ShortN0te

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to harden against SSH brute-forcing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you want to prevent brute forcing or do you want to prevent the attack getting in?

  If you want to prevent brute forcing then software like fail2ban helps a little, but this is only a IP based block, so with IPv6 this is not really helpfull against a real attack, since rotating IP addresses is trivial. But still can slow down the attacker. Also limiting the amount of sessions and auth tries does significantly slow down the attacker.

  If you just want to not worry about it set strong passwords, and when it is a multi user system where other ppl might access it, configure Public Key Auth so you can be sure the other users have strong passwords (or keys in this case) to authenticate.

  With strong passwords or keys it is basically impossible to brute force your way in with ssh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do I really need a firewall for my server?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not even need a port based firewall when the server is open in the internet.

  When you configure the software to not have unnecessary open ports over the internet connected interface then a port based firewall is providing zero additional security.

  A port based firewall has the benefit that you can lock everything down to the few ports you actually need, and do not have to worry about misconfigured software.

  For example, something like docker circumvents ufw anyway. And i know ppl that had open ports even tho they had ufw running.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see where they are comming from, but i do not understand it. Remote streaming was free and is now only available via a subscription or the lifetime pass. So it is locked behind a subscription. Ofc it is more nuanced, but the title expresses really cleanly what the topic is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clickbait (also known as link bait or linkbait) is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow (“click”) that link and view, read, stream or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickbait

  Title is not really deceptive or misleading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is not really covering the topic for everyone, this only covers the article for ppl who are paying already for the pass.

  Not seeing how this is clickbait. The title sums it up on point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enshitification of CrowdSec⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time crowdsec heavily benefits of the big free userbase since they ‘crowdsource’ their thread detection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disposing of failed HDDs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a simple hole renders them useless. The only method to reconstruct them from there would be any kind of SEM or AFM which would still take weeks to months to years depending on the size/density of the drives.

  Even just opening them up and smacking the disks would be sufficient

  Next time just encrypt them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of vulnerabilities?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Most critical infrastructure like my mail i subscribe to the release and blog rss feed. My OSs send me Update notifications via Mail (apticron), those i handle manual. Everything else auto updates daily.

  You still need to check if the software you use is still maintained and receives security updates. This is mostly done by choosing popular and community drive options, since those are less likely to get abandoned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encrypted backups to the cloud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have basically two options.

  1. Symmetric Encryption. That means you use the same password/key for writing the Backup and for reading the backup. Here you have to write the password somewhere, depending on the OS there are options like keychains or similar that can hold the password so that the password is only available once you are loged in or have unlocked the keychain.

  2. Asymmetric Encryption. That means you have different passwords/keys to read and write the backup. PGP is an example here. Here you can just simply use one key to write the backup, this key can become public and you do not have to worry about your backup since it will only be readable with the 2. key.

  I personally use Restic with a password that is only readable by the system root user stored on the filesystem. Since I use Full Disk Encryption i do not have to worry too much about when the secret is available in clear text at runtime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes thats why i said in theory. I doubt that many residential IPs are blacklisted, but still not optimal.

  IPv6 only works but there are probably many Mail Servers that are IPv4 only, so you will not receive mails from them.

  If you are serious about it, rent a VPS or get a static IP on your residential connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be more reliable to use a ‘clean’ not blacklisted static IP.

  But in theory you could just use ddns and update the IP. But I actually never tried it.

  Mailcow comes ready out of the box. Just change the DNS entries according to Mailcow and you are good to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been said over and over again. I have been hosting Mail now for over 2 years and have yet to encounter any problems. Although, i would not recommend to set it up manually and rather advise to use one of the ‘all in one’ suggested solutions here in the thread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.

  That is not my point.

  Having a CE or OS version and an Enterprise Version can lead to conflict of interest. Do you add a feature to the OS Version or do you spend time on the Enterprise feature? There are a lot of examples, Emby is one, others are escaping me right now.

  There are other models that work well like paid support etc. Nonetheless i will stay away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks amazing. But the dual licensing scares me. The open variant could be artificially limited in functionality or could end up basic abandon ware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good mail server for selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mailcow is amazing.

  Importing exporting i would just use any mailclient and drag-drop them over. Depending on how many Mailboxes you have to transfer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not understanding the issue you have with DNS?

  Just have a script that updates the DNS entry to your current public IP. If you do not like Cloudflare there are plenty of other services that offer a free API with their DNS service.

  I think you are misunderstanding something here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If i understand you correctly, your Server is accessing the VM disk images via a NFS share?

  That does not sound efficient at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I assume you are referring to Filesystem Snapshotting? For what reason do you want to do that on the client and not on the FS host?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homelab upgrade - "Modern" alternatives to NFS, SSHFS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  sshfs is somewhat unmaintained, only “high-impact issues” are being addressed github.com/libfuse/sshfs

  I would go for NFS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you all handle security and monitoring for your publicly accessible services?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  HA had 2 security audits. I would not worry too much. Always depends on what you can control with it. home-assistant.io/…/security-audits-of-home-assis…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just subscribe to the release channel. That varies from OS to OS or Software, but is worth it.

  Use tools that are universal. For example, I have not used TrueNAS Scale because they did not support native docker at the time. OS specific solutions are more likely to break then universal once (truecharts vs docker)

  To get up and running again after a complete failure i can just download the latest config and data from my backup and set up any distro that supports docker and my system is running again.

  I do OS upgrades when they are available, usually within 1 or 2 days and containers are updated with watchtower daily.

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

  The main difference i would say is the development and licensing model. Photo prism is forcing ppl who want to commit to sign a CLA to.give away their rights. Also the community is not really active it is mainly one dev that can change the code license on any given time.

  Immich does not have such an agreement and has a huge active contributor community around it. Also Immich is backed by Futo which has its pros and cons.

  Imho the biggest pain in self hosting is when a foss product turns evil towards its community and start to practice anti consumer/free selfhosters business practices.

  Immich is far less likely to turn evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they could also redesign the whole product for a few ppl who will plug it into an old PC that still uses vga or an old server that has no IPMI.

  You realise how big the VGA connector is relative to the product?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM's Source Code is now public! ✨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cant you just use a dongle?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud client just deleted all of my files, why did it do this?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because you pointed 2 programs at the same directory to sync the content with an external directory structure.

  In my experience adding an already existing directory structure to a sync program is a bad idea. Create the directory and then move the existing structure into it to be safe or/and at the very least have a backup.

  Not having a backup is on you. You got lucky this time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help Running Scrutiny⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NOTE: Scrutiny is a Work-in-Progress and still has some rough edges.

  Honestly, at this point i would not recommend the usage of scrutiny, the development was almost ways really slow and the creater does not seem to have kuch interest in the project. There are still standing issues and imho important features missing.

  I would look into prometheus+grafana or something of that sort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I present: Managarr - A TUI and CLI to help you manage your Servarr instances⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not really correct. Those companies take complete control of the secret keys. And no, it is not the same effect when you use tailscale compared to wireguard cause of various reasons. CGNAT, no port forwarding, funnels etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I present: Managarr - A TUI and CLI to help you manage your Servarr instances⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Netmaker, Tailscale or Zerotier

  No way in hell i am giving a company complete remote access to my servers and clients.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not the invention of an IP KVM, those are old. This product just offers the functionality of an IP KVM for very little money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JetKVM - a polished take at the nanoKVM(?)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is based on completely different hardware. A Raspberry Pi CPU is much more expensive than the CPU that is used here.