Nope. I don’t talk about myself like that.

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Cake day: June 8th, 2023
  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data hoarding is more important than everEnglish
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    40 seconds ago

    So about that… I actually got solar installed on my house and when the “electrician” (subbed out contractor with dubious credentials but was operating under a legit company) ran dedicated breakers for the servers… the junction box caught fire.

    That was a fun 2am to wake up at.

    But it’s pretty safe now. Have had several master electricians come in and evaluate it all at this point and all of them are happy with it now.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data hoarding is more important than everEnglish
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    1 minute ago

    More or less exactly this. Most of my servers are company decommission (some companies have a strict upgrade cycle, and I even have like 3 more “spares” sitting around). I’ve found some government liquidation here and there as well which has been great for resale to recoup some of what I spend. I have something like 4TB of Ram sitting in a box somewhere that I should sell somewhere…

    Some stuff was “decent” ebay buys. A few items I just had to pony up for. Battery backups was mostly paid at full msrp, but has been worth it. HDDs are mostly “refurb” and built up over time as well, which is why raidz2 and several spares in the zfs pool.

    But yeah, about 10 years of building it up. I use it as my playground for professional development, and it’s helped prove a lot of what I say on my resume.

    When you have a functional setup like this, and can show that to potential employer. It’s been the best sole investment I’ve ever made. It’s netted me more money in contracts by many many times what I put into it.

    Edit: and saved me from countless “cloud” privacy violations, data breaches, etc…

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data hoarding is more important than everEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    Fiber, 8gbps through Quantum Fiber (part of the Lumen/Centurylink family). No throttling here…

    My bottleneck is the vpn that I have to have between me and the world… unfortunately. I only trust specific private trackers to not use it. I actually setup 4 seed boxes (VMs) in my garage to push more data out.

    Proxmox cluster… and big storage truenas node.

    And a dirty amount of networking… big cables on the right is QSFP, 40gbps 2x in lagg per server.

    These pictures were just after a transplant to a new server rack. So everything is off… but the blinkin’ lights are real.

    Edit: Didn’t turn off anything before I ran these…

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Data hoarding is more important than everEnglish
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    10 hours ago

    Check again…

    That’s “free space”. The 414 represents ~62% of my space (38% used). I’m at just under 700 for usable space. And 2 disks are out of the array at the moment because the backplane went stupid. Turns out that it’s a pain in the ass to open server chassis to replace a backplane when you have to unmount 70 disks. And I’m pretty lazy.

    6 x RAIDZ2 | 10 wide | 14.55 TiB
    873TiB raw.
    960TB raw.

    This graph might be better…

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Turning the Tables: How to Make Spammers Reveal Their Own IP AddressEnglish
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    3 days ago

    And I’m addressing your statement that “an IP address is 4 bytes” in specific. I understand their example is IPv4, but you just blatantly said that “An IP address is 4 bytes” when that’s not the case for IPv6 which a good chunk of the world is using now (still not a majority though…).

    His code takes the base64 of anything that’s returned in both (together) ip and timestamp. So the long string is both values concat’d then encoded. Most of that string is going to be the timestamp…

    Specifically MTEuMjIuMzMuNDQ is 11.22.33.44
    Where ---KIApTdW5kYXksIDI3LUFwci0yMDI1IDE1OjA0OjM5IENFU1QK is the date string Sunday, 27-Apr-2025 15:04:39 CEST.

    While it’s still a “bigger” value than it needs to be, it’s not like it’s the end of the world for an email address. I mean, if we really want to get “fancy” most people don’t know that you can just go to an IP address in it’s decimal form…

    1.1.1.1 -> 16843009 (http://16843009) No need to encode anything special at all in that case. But that’s neither here nor there… Can always make your own with blackjack and hookers of course.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtohomeassistant@lemmy.world•Recommendations for outdoor weather sensorEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I like my tempest. https://shop.tempest.earth/products/tempest

    3d printed bracket screwed into my block wall fence. And some pvc pipe. Comes with a pipe bracket and the tempest just sits right on top of it. Isn’t a bulky eyesore to piss off the neighbors (I live in an HOA). Haven’t had any issues with it in HA since I bought it in 2023

    And it’s an offline integration too… The station broadcasts and HA can grab it with the weatherflow integration. If you let it reach the internet though, it can feed the big maps… and you can see all sorts of info on that map.

    Edit: Here’s a screenshot of everything that’s exposed as far as sensors go…

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoGames@lemmy.world•What's a cancelled game you really miss?English
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    15 days ago

    I played ps2 heavily for a couple of years. Fun game.

    I remember organizing several squads to play tactics when the main zerg pushes were off doing random stuff. There was a lot of planning and tactics that had to happen specifically around guessing what the public players would end up naturally pushing for. Colloquially known as “the zerg”. Almost treated like a mass of self-organizing players, but in reality they were just individuals who happen to follow each other to random places.

    Eg. leadership comms would be flooded with plans of “The zerg is pushing towards Tawrich, We should send Alpha and Bravo over to Zurvan to split the TR forces (maybe recapture that) and Charlie to crown to intercept backup/vehicle spawns. Delta needs to fuck off with pulling those tanks… get in the fucking building.”

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish governmentEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Right but my point is they would just submit the request to the host server. If the original is taken down then all the federated service will lose the comments as well.

    Not how federation works. Let’s take a lemmy post as an example. If a server is federated with another and a new post is made, all subscribed servers are notified and a copy of the item is sent in that notification. If the original is “taken down” the copies still exist on the other servers and any deletion event is in ALL of their modlogs. ANY instance can “undelete” or revert the removal, or just ignore the deletion request all together (or roll back the database, or any number of operations to revert a change). The items doesn’t just go away. The “origin” doesn’t have all that much power to force other listening servers to do anything.

    This also extends to comments. I run my own small instance with me and a few friends. My server never had serious downtime because it’s just us. Our access to larger instances never “vanished” even as their sites went completely down. The local content is effectively cached regardless of the state of the origin server.

    If the host server just straight up ignores turkey then they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon

    Good luck with that… There’s a lot of servers that can talk the same federation protocol. You’re not going to get them all. Forget all the normal means of bypassing blocks… you have so many fediverse and threadiverse servers to attach to in order to access largely similar content.

  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do I securely host Jellyfin? (Part 2)English
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    20 days ago

    I was going to leave this alone… your original comment was correct enough that it wouldn’t matter and your “dedicated attacker” left it fine when i read it before.

    but your edit has a gaping flaw. you assume that all content in the library would be physically released. lots of shows and movies are not physically released now. Can’t claim “backup” for those. The moment a movie studio finds your stuff and can map a few titles and one of them never had a physical release… your in the shit.

    but yes you can be much harder to scan overall with a few steps. fail2ban is a great answer that makes it deeply unlikely to be an issue.

    but i wish that they’d just fix it.

    edit: OR that they wouldn’t try to go after you for distribution…