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HamsterRage

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  • VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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  • Do your smart switches talk to your HomeAssistant server???

    Or does your HomeAssistant server talk to the devices?

    It's probably the latter, and in terms of network security the difference is huge. You can restrict your smart switches to their own, untrusted zone with no outgoing permissions and then give HomeAssistant access to them from its zone.

    I would also argue that your personal devices and desktop computers are far more sensitive than your HomeAssistant server.

  • VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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  • I'll have a look at it. The whole site is Jekyll using a theme called "Minimal Mistakes", so there's two things for me to look at. I suspect it's the theme, and I've customized it enough that it's probably "broken" when it comes to updates.

  • VLAN’s and Subnets For Home Networks

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  • Thanks for the feedback. I will make some changes to the article. IPv6 wasn't even on my radar since I haven't got around to using it myself yet.

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    Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps

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  • As an example, I was setting up SnapCast on a Debian LXC. It is supposed to stream whatever goes into a named pipe in the /tmp directory. However, recent versions of Debian do NOT allow other processes to write to named pipes in /tmp.

    It took just a little searching to find this out after quite a bit of fussing about changing permissions and sudoing to try to funnel random noise into this named pipe. After that, a bit of time to find the config files and change it to someplace that would work.

    Setting up the RPi clients with a PirateAudio DAC and SnapCast client also took some fiddling. Once I had it figured out on the first one, I could use the history stack to follow the same steps on the second and third clients. None of this stuff was documented anywhere, even though I would think that a top use of an RPi Zero with that DAC would be for SnapCast.

    The point is that it seems like every single service has these little undocumented quirks that you just have to figure out for yourself. I have 35 years of experience as an "IT Guy", although mostly as a programmer. But I remember working HP-UX 9.0 systems, so I've been doing this for a while.

    I really don't know how people without a similar level of experience can even begin to cope.

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  • Why is Bunsen Honeydew running the simulation?

  • Homelab hardware choices

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  • I have an HP T740 running Opnsense and it works just fine. You can pick them up for about $100 USD, and they seem to come mostly with 8GB RAM, and a 64GB SSD. That seems to be more than enough for Opnsense, even running VPN's.

    These are just a tad larger than my Lenovo M910Q Tiny servers, but they have a PCI slot, so you can put a second ethernet port (or 2, or 4) of whatever speed you like in it.

  • Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball

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  • Wow. SNOBOL was one of the coolest, Stange languages.

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  • In that a Gollum caganer?

  • Both Ford and Mercedes own a /8 block of public IP addresses, that is 16 million public IPV4 addresses each

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  • I worked for a small insurance company owned by a slightly larger organization. That organization had a class B address space. They gave us 4 class C's from that class B, or about 1000 addresses in the 1990's for a company with 50 employees.

  • TIL "Mausoleum" is another one of those things that's just named after a guy

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  • Yeah, it's basically a big hole in the ground, with some bits of ancient columns scattered about. The Temple of Artemis is a bit of bog with a couple of columns standing up - they have been restored.

    The wife and I have visited 5 of the 7 Wonders sites. The statue of Zeus is in our future at some point. I'm told that all there is is a replica in the middle of a roundabout.

    The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, sadly, will never be a place we go. For one, nobody knows where it precisely is. For another, it's in Iraq, and we're not going anywhere where you need a flak jacket and a security team just to look for an Ancient Wonder that isn't there any more.

  • The tragic change a single year has made in America

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  • “The United States, just months before its 250th birthday as the world’s leading democracy..."

    Is this an Onion article???

  • Las Vegas mayor says the city is suffering from a serious drop in Canadian tourists: 'We need you, and we miss you' | Fortune

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  • I'm not so sure. The rest of the world is working as fast as it can to extracate itself from any depedence on the US. Here in Canada, we are actively finding new markets for our products and so is the rest of the world.

    By the time that the US does implode, nobody will care, and hardly anyone outside the US will notice.

  • TIL about Dunning Kruger Effect - why people with low competence overestimate and people with high competence underestimate themselves.

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  • This is, of course, a perfect example of D-K in action. This dude is writing his own email server, FFS, and he characterizes himself as, "at least somewhat knowledgeable".

    I've read a bunch of the old RFC's for email services years ago, when you needed some of that info in order to do interesting things with sendmail. I figure that might have put me in the top 20% of programmers/admins/techies back in the day. But to actually consider writing an email server - no way. That's a different level of "at least somewhat knowledgeable" .

  • I'll fix it next time

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  • I would like an ad-blocker that blocks the "Please enable ads pop-ups"

  • TIL the pound was named because 240 Sterlings (pennies) weighed a pound.

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  • My BIL still gives his weight in "stone". As in, "I'm 12 stone, 7 lbs and 3 ounces".

    I joke with him that only makes sense to people who are comfortable with Pounds, Shillings and Pence, too.

  • Which country do you live in and how much paid time off work do you get?

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  • To explain for those not in Canada... It is usual in Canada for a job to start with a low level of PTO an then add a week every few years that you stay with the company. This usually is capped at 6 weeks.

    You can, of course negotiate an amount of PTO when you accept a job. Someone coming into a more senior position wouldn't expect to start with just two weeks of PTO.

  • ICE Barbie Is Now Accusing Dems of ‘Felonies’ Over Detention Center Clash

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  • TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...

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  • I cannot express adequately how different blades are from each other. Some are smoother than others, some are sharper and some improve after a few uses. Some last longer.

    I have fairly fine whiskers, so I don't need a crazy sharp blade like Feather. My skin is also a bit sensitive, so a smooth blade is best.

    For me Big Ben, blades made by Lord in Egypt are really good. One of the versions of Shark, also made by Lord are pretty good too.

    I find Wilkenson Sword blades to be horribly scratchy, and the name for some of the Gillette blades. Voskhod aren't bad, except they are Russian.

    You don't realize how different they are until you try.

  • TIL that in 1975, after Gillette introduced a two-blade cartridge razor, Saturday Night Live aired a fake commercial for a three-blade razor. Gillette introduced one in 1998. In 2004, a satirical ...

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  • Blades vary greatly between brands. Get a sampler pack from eBay to find ones you like. Then buy them in bulk. 100 blades will generally cost from $8-$14, depending on the brand. Some, like Feather, are more expensive.

  • What ya nerds set your thermostats to?

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  • 20.5 in winter and 21.5 in the summer.