One time I got written up for stating that “failing to take cyber security seriously creates a massive potential liability” for the company. Apparently that was “out of line.”

Well you know what else is out of line? Critical infrastructure organizations (i.e. utilities) that don’t take security seriously.

I do not miss that dumpster fire.

I use Proxmox for Work and Hyper-V at home. Looking forward to retiring my old Hyper-V host and replace it with Proxmox because Hyper-V is a pain.

Virtualization really helps with reliability. In particular, by allowing you to quickly take snapshots before doing anything destructive and by streamlining backup and recovery.

Buying dirt cheap garbage made by slave labor has consequences. Who knew.

And here I am running an old Dell Poweredge that probably consumes 10 watts when it’s powered off.

Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.

It’s a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven’t quite got it working the way I want it to yet.

There’s the tarrifs and theres the bizarre anti-renewable energy sentiment harbored by the current administration.

Personally, I think that’s just coming from power utilities pushing the idea that, “it’s cool if WE build a solar array but it’s not cool if YOU do it.”

To me, it’s not necessarily people climbing it that’s the issue. It’s that some people have so little respect for everyone and everything that they’re perfectly content to use the world as their own personal trash can.

I shit you not, I recently chewed some lady out on the hiking trail 2 miles from my house because she chucked the plastic bowl and spoon from her lunch off into the woods, in front of God and everybody like it’s just no big deal. Well it’s a big fucking deal to me.

And if a person can’t manage to go on a hike or scale a mountain without leaving their garbage behind like a slob, then they should stay home.

There is a practical reason for the amount. It has to be something the victim can afford and it can’t be so large that they decide it’s cheaper to just ignore the threat and deal with the fallout.

The hacker/scammer also, ironically, has to honor their word and stop releasing data once they’ve been paid off. Otherwise victims won’t pay because it’s a waste of money.

I always liked watching Jon Stewart but he earned my respect when he went to bat for the 9/11 first responders who suffered illnesses related to their service. Browbeating and shaming Congress to their faces repeatedly, until they finally passed legislation to care for those people. He didn’t do it because they were all on the same political “side” as him. He did it because they needed it and they earned it.

The man has more integrity than most of the people in D.C. and fucking balls of steel.

Alternate headline: “Nation on Verge of Financial Collapse Offers Bailout to Nation in Middle of Financial Collapse”

Research from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources indicates that ice fishing season is three weeks shorter on average than it was in the 1970’s. Increasing temperatures = less ice on lakes = shorter ice fishing season. If climate change is impacting Wisconsin, it’s already impacting Canada.

You could fill a bunch of socks with nickles which we could then use to beat the pedophiles.

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In this situation it’s not necessarily that it’s the “right” or “wrong” device. The better question is, “does it meet your needs?” There are pros and cons to running each service in its own VM. One of the cons is the overhead consumed by the VM OS. Sometimes that’s a necessary sacrifice.

Some of the advantages of running a system like Proxmox are that it’s easily scalable and you’re not locked into specific hardware. If your current Beelink doesn’t prove to be enough, you can just add another one to the cluster or add a different host and Proxmox doesn’t care what it is.

TLDR: it’s adequate until it’s not. When it’s not, it’s an easy fix.

Yeah, with something that size you’re pretty much limited to containers.

Edit: Which is totally fine, OP. Self hosting is an opportunity to learn and your setup can be easily changed as your needs change over time.

I use one VM per service. WAN facing services, of which I only have a couple, are on a separate DMZ subnet and are firewalled off from the LAN.

It’s probably little overkill for a self hosted setup but I have enough server resources, experience, and paranoia to support it.

Obscene amounts of resources and energy being burned up to give us Artificial general inteligence a really stupid chat bot that is constantly wrong.

Russia is a nuclear state run by a murderous sociopath. There were plenty of legitimate concerns about how they might react to aggressive military action. Personally, I’m not sure they even have any functioning nukes at this point but there’s not enough compelling evidence to back that theory up. Treating them with caution is still warranted.

That said, more should have been done to shore up Ukraine sooner. It was pretty obvious that annexing Crimes was just a test run of the broader objective.

Can’t. Too busy working on fixing healthcare.

My mom recently toured several scandanavian countries, including Denmark. She prefaced more than one conversation with, “Yes, I’m an American. And I have exactly zero interest in invading Greenland.” She said it got some laughs and everyone was friendly. I think most people understand that not all Americans are fucking morons.