
moldy_rice
@moldy_rice@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com
- Comment on Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions 2 days ago:
Does unattended upgrades fix this on Debian? Or do I have to reboot now for it to take effect?
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
MITM attacks happen all the time. As are there a ton of historical cases of CA compromise.
I can’t think of a time that a Debian maintainer went rogue and put something malicious into the official repos.
And, if they did, everyone would see it. But MITM attacks are not publicly visible because they’re targeted.
- Comment on Basic Homeserver with old Mac Mini 1 week ago:
Citation needed.
- Comment on Basic Homeserver with old Mac Mini 1 week ago:
Good call to install Linux.
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
You’re talking about publishing infrastructure compromise
Compromise of the integrity of the traffic between your server and theirs can happen. Loads of CAs have been compromised. X.509 root stores insecurity breaks https.
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
Apt and most package managers have cryptographic verifications on all packaged by default since the 1990s.
Docker pull does not, so it will happily download a maliciously modified image, without checking.
You can go in the sun, but wear sunscreen. You can have sex with a stranger, but wear a condom. You can download software, but check the cryptographic signature.
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
Apt and most package managers have cryptographic verifications on all packaged by default since the 1990s.
Docker pull does not, so it will happily download a maliciously modified image, without checking.
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
How does it work? Just installs apt packages?
- Comment on Beginner looking for advice on open-source NAS hardware and OS for self-hosting 1 week ago:
This comment is suggesting doing many things extremely vulnerable to supply chain attacks. Please don’t upvote or do this.
- Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important 2 weeks ago:
Link?
- Comment on What else should I do for my home server security? 2 weeks ago:
Sub fail2ban for wazuh. It does the same but so much more, and does everything with 0 config after fresh install.
- Comment on What else should I do for my home server security? 2 weeks ago:
Wazuh and TOTP
- Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important 2 weeks ago:
The situation is so concerning, he notes, because there isn’t much that people can do to protect themselves from zero-click ad attacks other than blocking ads as thoroughly as possible on all websites and platforms—a fact that intelligence agencies like the NSA and CIA seem to know all too well.
Or disable JavaScript
- Comment on How do you sort your music? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve spent hours trying to satisfy Jellyfin and it never fully works correctly.
So, I don’t.
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 3 weeks ago:
Charging corporations is not a violation of OSI’s definition.
Their definition is free as in speech, not as in beer.
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe artists are just less greedy than the average tech bro?
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
Because your phone gives it that info
- Comment on How can self-hosted software make money without hurting the ecosystem? 3 weeks ago:
Charging corporation. Making it free for personal use and nonprofits
- Comment on New California ghost gun lawsuit takes aim at company that sells 3-D printer filament 3 weeks ago:
This seems awfully familiar to the gun crackdowns after the Black Panthers started using them for self defense.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
It has access to your phones fingerprint, which is then linked to all your other activity.
It doesn’t need access to the phone data. All it needs is the fingerprint.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
The phone number part significantly degrades your privacy and security
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
No phone number needed. Can run directly on a non-phone server.
Also more secure and trustworthy because it’s open source.
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
If you manage to make an account on WhatsApp and move it to waydroid, they’ll ban you.
Meta’s game is (meta)data collection and selling your data. They’ll delete your account if they can’t get all your phone’s data (eg if it’s an emulator then they can’t uniquely identify you)
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t the bridge require you to run whatsapp on a phone anyway?
- Comment on What's your weirdest or most unique self-hosted use case and solution? 3 weeks ago:
God that sucks.
Why not use SimpleX or Wire or Matrix?
- Comment on How do you monitor your servers? 3 weeks ago:
I go the easy route with munin and wazuh. It comes with a ton of stuff preconfigured
- Comment on Can you run multiple servers on one machine (e.g. Raspberry Pi)? 5 weeks ago:
Yes but you should buy 3 and cluster them
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 5 weeks ago:
Similar, but you might want to update more frequently with the huge number of critical security bugs being discovered by AI recently
- Comment on how do you manage your server? 5 weeks ago:
Ansible.
- Comment on Why use Proxmox over Podman or Docker? 5 weeks ago:
My point is that they support unsigned packages.
It’s not possible to download a package on apt without signatures, by default. All packages are signed.
We tell people to use Signal, not Telegram, because the later allows unencrypted messaged by default.
I don’t know of any common oci repos that have many signed packages. If you make it your policy to require signatures, there’s almost no images you’ll be able to download because almost none are signed.
Whereas it’s 100% of packages in Debian’s apt that are signed.