DefederateLemmyMl

That reminds me … another annoying thing Google did was list my private jellyfin instance as a “deceptive site”, after it had uninvitedly crawled it.

A common issue it seems.

cgnat

Ew

What I used to do was: I put jellyfin behind an nginx reverse proxy, on a separate vhost (so on a unique domain). Then I added basic authentication (a htpasswd file) with an unguessable password on the whole domain. Then I added geoip firewall rules so that port 443 was only reachable from the country I was in. I live in small country, so this significantly limits exposure.

Downside of this approach: basic auth is annoying. The jellyfin client doesn’t like it … so I had to use a browser to stream.

Nowadays, I put all my services behind a wireguard VPN and I expose nothing else. Only issue I’ve had is when I was on vacation in a bnb and they used the same IP range as my home network :-|

This is how I found out Google harvests the URLs I visit through Chrome.

Got google bots trying to crawl deep links into a domain that I hadn’t published anywhere.

all you need is to get a static IP for your home network

Don’t even need a static IP. Dyndns is enough.

Seeing the Brussels Times, I thought it was going to be about this guy: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Vervloesem (sorry no english link).

I haven’t had to compile a kernel in 20 years.

You’ll be lucky if there are actual VMs.

I think cars peaked ca. 2010. Anything added after that are annoyances or things being taken away.

If I could get a brand new facelift E90, that would probably be my next car.

Do not allow username/password login for ssh

This is disabled by default for the root user.

$ man sshd_config

...
       PermitRootLogin
               Specifies whether root  can  log  in  using  ssh(1).   The  argument  must  be  yes,  prohibit-password,
               forced-commands-only, or no.  The default is prohibit-password.
...

If it is your single purpose to create a blocklist of suspect IP addresses, I guess this could be a honeypot strategy.

If it’s to secure your own servers, you’re only playing whack-a-mole using this method. For every IP you block, ten more will pop up.

Instead of blacklisting, it’s better to whitelist the IP addresses or ranges that have a legitimate reason to connect to your server, or alternatively use someting like geoip firewall rules to limit the scope of your exposure.

Yeah I don’t do security via obscurity

Another one who misunderstands that phrase… Yes, obscurity shouldn’t be your only line of defense, but limiting discoverability of your systems should be an integral part of your security strategy.

A VPN like Wireguard can run over UDP on a random port which is nearly impossible to discover for an attacker. Unlike sshd, it won’t even show up in a portscan.

This was a specific design goal of Wireguard by the way (see “5.1 Silence is a virtue” here https://www.wireguard.com/papers/wireguard.pdf)

It also acts as a catch-all for all your services, so instead of worrying about the security of all the different sshds or other services you may have exposed, you just have to keep your vpn up to date.

Barracudas are SMR garbage nowadays, they’re coasting on their reputation of many years ago when they were actually decent hard drives for the price.

Those look like real life windows media player skins from the early 2000s.

I like user respecting operating systems, that is the deal breaker.

If you insert snap into apt package management, so that you can go behind the user’s back, re-enable snap and install a snap anyway if a user tries to apt install firefox, you don’t respect the user’s choice. It’s the kind of thing we give Microsoft shit for.

And yes I know it can be worked around and disabled and whatnot by jumping through various hoops, but that’s beside the point. As a matter of principle, I will just use something that doesn’t do this. KDE on Debian works just as well as Kubuntu anyway.

How can it suck the least if it has snap?

Do you have one for being terminally lazy and the world’s wost procrastinator?

Everything else is hosted on other’s servers

You can self-host bitwarden with vaultwarden.