drkt

Oh, forgive me; I did not see that this was the selfhosted community. I almost made the mistake of assuming anyone here might know how computers work! I will strive to do better moving forward, thank you for your patience.

can u read

Rule 4

Don’t duplicate the full text of your blog or readme if you’re providing a link.

That’s not what I told you to look up. Here- I’ll give you a starter: The problem with the children’s homes is the same problem with the the healthcare and the schooling and the jobcenter.

Remember 2 years ago when DR ran a whole campaign against the jobcenter? Do you know what has changed? Fucking nothing. It’s worse than it ever was. You only hear about it when the media reports on it, and our media only reports on shit that affects the middle class. The middle class is entirely unrelated to children’s homes, so you don’t know how bad it is. Go speak to the people involved, dawg.

The rent-seeking behavior you claim I never even heard about here in Denmark, and I have no idea what you mean by that.

I know.

I speak from a position of being in the lower end of the lower class when I’m telling you this shit has collapsed. Believe it or don’t, I don’t care. I fight with your attitude every day of my life and I’m beyond trying to explain it. Look it up, or keep thinking that Denmark is somehow special in the global economy. The collapse will find you eventually.

It’s broadly just a government service, not a rent contract market.

Which means it’s chronically underfunded and staffed by people who don’t care about the children. People don’t talk about this, and I especially don’t trust the BBC to talk about it, but danish welfare is totally and utterly collapsed. Lower class people only get healthcare on paper because GPs won’t diagnose or refer people with anything other than a common flu, and the middle class just pay for private doctors to give them whatever they want.

England can learn nothing of Denmark’s social services. Both countries engage in escalating rent-seeking behavior, and England is far ahead in that race.

My desktop is on its third major version upgrade. I don’t pay attention to breaking changes, and somehow I’ve still been made aware of the few packages that require something. Those packages usually include some kind of easy step by step or a script to migrate.

It’s really quite a breeze to upgrade Debian.

Middle Jutland for decades had no issues using Libreoffice.

Skill issue to the rest of the country. Let it rot apart.

ok then fuckin

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Whatever they gotta do to unglue to text from the far left edge of my browser, please.

https://drkt.eu/files/ramblings/ramblings-framework-testground.html

I’ll take it over this

They support the fascist administration of the USA

Well OK fascism is a strong word,

No it isn’t. Why say this? What’s the purpose of cleaning your hands of this objectively true statement? I take issue with your motivations.

Unrelated but holy fuck I need quirky low-impact website designers to realize that text-align:center does NOT in fact burn the rainforest or cause congestion on the internet highways or whatever. text-align:center IS vegan.

I’d urge you to try selfhosting the other clones

Lady I got a decade of experience trying to get off Discord. I know.

Matrix isn’t that hard if you can read, though, and it has actual users, and you get to control your account. It has other problems that make it non-viable.

I could rant about the slop but it’s pointless because the developers of this didn’t even understand why Discord alternatives never work out.

• Bridging Discord without bots on Discord’s side is against Discord ToS, so don’t rely on that.
• P2P is a great idea except it scares the hoes so you’ve cut 80% of your market off right there.
• No federation so realistically everyone is gonna have to create and manage like 10 separate accounts for each of their friend groups, which even the most hardcore anti-Discord folks aren’t going to bother with.

Also this is a promo post, however sneaky you try to make it. Tag appropriately.

I want to upgrade to it from Proxmox when I eventually get a new processor. It seems perfect for my use case; proxmox is far too complex for what little I do with it.

I put Opnsense on an Intel Pentium G3220 and it’s been rock solid for gigabit.

Thank you for your opinion; we had not heard this perspective before and it brings a lot of nuance to the discussion!

Everyone asks “where do we get more storage?” and not “do we need to hoard all of this?”

it attempts to log in using a list of credentials.

Do you read what you post or do you just google “ssh vulnerability” and post the first result to waste my inbox space?

Software doesn’t get patched all the time,

SSH does, it is one of the codebases with the most eyeballs on it at any given time and patches to it get fast-tracked downstream.

advising hobbiests on how to configure and maintain their personal server, not the engineering meeting for a fortune 500

You don’t need to be a genius to enable keys, disable root and install fail2ban.

it remains best practice not to expose ssh to raw internet unless absolutely necessary

This is correct, but we are arguing about a case in which it is necessary to expose something and it’s better that it’s one of the most secure and battle-tested pieces of software in the world as opposed to some open source hobby *arr stack.

arguing against the industry standard … more experience and engineering time than you or I.

I work in this industry, ma’am.

Did you know that simply being connected to the internet puts you at risk? Your firewall could have a vulnerability! Your router’s admin panel could be misconfiguration and exposed to the internet! The only way to be safe is to unplug your cable and stop replying to me. Also rip out your bluetooth modules and any LEDs in every device you own because they have been demonstrated to be attack vectors. In fact just stop using anything more complicated than a MOSFET.

You did link a vulnerability! That is true. I didn’t claim SSH had a clean track record, I claimed it had a better track record than most other software. That vulnerability is hard to exploit, and generates a lot of noise if you were to try, which nobody has because it’s never been found in the wild.

People who sit on 0-days for critical software like SSH don’t go out and try to mass-exploit it because it will be found within the day and patched within the week once they start making noise. This is not a quiet exploit. If they’re smart, they sell it. If they’re ambitious, they build an elaborate multi-chain attack against a specific target. Only 0.14% of devices vulnerable to this exploit are EoL versions of OpenSSH, so once this was patched, it was no longer a useful attack vector.

It would also have been completely negated by fail2ban, which is prominently deployed on internet facing SSH, as it required thousands and thousands of connection attempts to trigger the condition. It could also have been mitigated by not running sshd as root, though I understand that most people don’t want to deal with that headache even though it is possible.

There are thousands of independent honeypots that sit quietly and sniff all the mass-attacks and they earn their daily bread by aggregating and reporting this data. If you run a mass exploit, you will be found within the day. Trust me, I burned an IP address by regularly scanning the whole IPv4 space. You are going to end up on blacklists real fuckin’ fast and whatever you were doing will be noticed and reported.

If you’re going to open something, SSH is a very safe choice. But yes, don’t open it if you don’t need it. We are discussing how to open a service to the internet safely, though, so we need it.