bigDottee

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s pretty obvious. Their body panels are falling off and showing how little there actually is their vehicles :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] What would it take to selfhost some of the backend that Tesla's connect to?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming that Tesla goes bankrupt, actually shuts down forever, and shuts its servers down…

  At a minimum someone would have to find out where the software sends and receives data from. Then you’d have to reverse engineer the software to control the vehicles.

  Then you’d have to reprogram the software to send to your C&C server. I don’t think it would really take all that much to host that… it’s getting there that’s difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you like to transfer large files between friends across the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d have to have friends across the internet that wanted files first…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100%. That’s how I started, that’s how I continue to operate. Currently have a few HP prodesk and elite desk mini pcs, my old desktop converted to be a proxmox node that runs OPNsense as a vm, and an even older desktop that runs TrueNAS. However, I would like to replace my current truenas system with something newer and lower power as it consumes quite a bit for what it’s doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What host names do you use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I’m lame.

  Used to be {env}-function##

  Now it’s {env}-{vlanlocation}-function##

  VLAN location such as DMZ, Infra, Jump for jump boxes, IOTSec or IOTInsec, Etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Traffic routing security comparison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I use both WireGuard and OpenVPN to vpn into my home network.

  However, it doesn’t matter whether you use a domain or just up… if you get blocked from accessing either / both … you’re screwed. 🤷🏼‍♂️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backups: Am I doing this right?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You are looking for a disaster recovery plan. I believe you are going down the right path, but it’s something that will take time.

  I backup important files to my local NAS or directly store them on the local NAS.

  This NAS then backs up to an off site cloud backup provider BackBlaze B2 storage.

  Finally, I have a virtual machine that has all the same directories mounted and backs up to a different cloud provider.

  It’s not quite 3-2-1… but it works.

  I only backup important files. I do not do full system backups for my windows clients. I do technically backup full Linux vms from within Proxmox to my NAS…but that’s because I’m lazy and didn’t write a backup script to back up specific files and such. The idea of being able to pull a full system image quickly from a cloud provider will bite you in the ass.

  In theory, when backing up containers, you want to backup the configurations, data, and the databases… but you shouldn’t worry about backing up the container image. That can usually be pulled when necessary. I don’t store any of my docker container data in volumes… I use the folder mapping from host to directory in docker container… so I can just backup directories on the host instead of trying to figure out the best way to backup a randomly named docker volume. This way I know what I’m backing up for sure.

  Any questions, just ask!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - Ravencentric/awesome-arr: A collection of *arrs and related stuff.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Somehow, I have never seen this list… and easily over half of those projects I’ve never heard of but could add some great functionality to my home. Thanks for posting it!

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

  I’ve just started to delve into Wazuh… but I’m super new to vulnerability management on a home lab level. I don’t do it for work so 🤷🏼‍♂️

  Anyways, best suggestion is to keep all your containers, vms, and hosts updated best you can to remediate vulnerabilities that are discovered by others.

  Otherwise, Wazuh is a good place to start, but there’s a learning curve for sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Assistant in Proxmox, local dns not working⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you definitely still need a local DNS running. AdGuard Home, PiHole, Technitium, Hell your router probably has a local dns server you can enable and add some entries to it.

  But once you setup a dns server, you’ll need to point all network clients to the dns server address so it can start resolving the web address to the ip in question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least terrible domain registrars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Also use Cloudflare as new domain registrar because I use them as DNS as well. I can’t say that I’ve had any problems with them at all.