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MuttMutt

@ MuttMutt @lemmy.world

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    Native americans had slaves?

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  • Yes, many tribes did. In Oklahoma the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, historically practiced slavery, and their descendants, known as Freedmen, are still fighting for recognition and citizenship within these tribes today.

  • What kind of things do you think movies are most dishonest about?

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  • Firearms in general.

    Supressors as well. If two guys were walking through an airport shooting at each other everyone would still know it. Also a suppressor has a pop on the first shot.

    If you have your firearm knowledge from movies and TV you don't know anything except what Hollywood wants you to think.

  • What's the worst part about getting older that young people don't know about?

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  • Vision changes. Can't read my tablet with my glasses on. Can't read the TV with them off.

    Becoming a widower really really sucks.

    The aches and pains are rough some times. The stupid crap you did that was fun as a kid will find you eventually.

    Starting to lose the strength I always had. Used to be able to lift nearly anything i could put my arms around. Carrying a clothes dryer up a set of stairs by myself wasn't bad. Still strong but not like I was.

  • Hardware recommendations for running OpenSense as a Firewall?

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  • Both OpnSense and PfSense have FreeBSD as a base. That means you really want to avoid realtek NIC's.

    I'm running OpnSense on a Supermicro X10SLL-F, with a Xeon E3-1226 v3, 16GB of RAM, and an Intel X520 10G NIC with the OS installed on a mirrored pair of 240GB Intel D3-S4510's. I underprovioned the drives by about 50GB to lower write amplification and allow the drive controller a scratch pad space for garbage collection even if the drive fills up with logs and snapshots. This is simply done with:

    zfs set quota=190G zroot

    I have the following services (beyond the routing and firewall) running:

    ACME Client - let's encrypt certificates

    Caddy - to expose my home services for access via reverse proxy

    Chrony - network time server

    CrowdSec - running all free rules

    Intrusion Detection (also known as Suricata) - just under 193K rules

    Kea DHCP for IPv4 providing IP addresses for 5 vLan's

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    Ntopng with Redis as the database

    NUT

    Router Advertisements for IPv6 for 3 vLAN's

    SMART - for dive testing but it basically consumes no resources

    UnboundDNS with abuse.ch, Steven Blacklist, and Hagezi multi Pro++ Blocklists.

    Firewall has 79 rules, NAT has 8 Destination entries, IPv6 is provided by Route64 over Wireguard, remote management access is done via Wireguard tunnel. vLAN's are Management, Trusted, Smarthome, Cameras, and a Guest network which is WiFi only. Smarthome and Cameras vLAN's do not have internet access except for my HomeAssistant server.

    I'm using a Quanta LB6M for my fiber backbone which is 10G with a LAG connection to a Dell PowerConnect 5548 and 5548P gigabit network stack.

    I'm utilizing approximately 62% of RAM (which begins to have issues once you get over 80% used) and a load average that generally sits at .30 unless the GUI is open. Swap is 0

    I have a 1Gbps fiber internet connection through a Callix 803g and a cellular backup via a Netgear LM1200 that is controlled by OpnSense when a 20% or greater packetloss is detected.

    If you have a fiber connection or notice packetloss/slowdowns after 9 minutes you may need to set:

    net.link.ether.inet.max_age = 540

    This is because by default FreeBSD sets a 20 minute ARP maximum age while many ONT's set a 9 minute maximum age.

    If you plan to use Intrusion Detection the required RAM will balloon quickly and the UnboundDNS Blocklists live in RAM as well. You can easily get a similar setup to mine on Ebay for 200 or less, old server boards or workstation boards with IPMI are great to have if something acts up and the router is living in a closet without a monitor. The old server boards IMHO are also super stable and they are designed to run for years without being shut down.

  • Are there any websites from the 90s that you can remember but can find no trace of now?

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  • What is the most useless thing you’ve had confiscated by airport security while traveling?

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  • Never had an issue in the US. Coming back from Cozumel Mexico one of their security people was on a pair of micro wire cutters, had to empty most of a bag so she could "find" them. Then she took it to a supervisor who said it was fine so she gave them back and I wasted another 5 minutes repacking my bag wasting their space. I had flown down with them and passed through TSA again heading home without issue.

    When I got to Cozumel they decided I needed extra screening because of all my cases. I was there to SCUBA dive. Woman in front of me lost like six cartons of cigarettes and had to pay a fine. Her husband passed through and was gone, she was pissed... Dude half ass checked my two cases, carry on bag, and personal item bag and sent me on my way.

  • Storage?! In this economy!?

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  • I picked up enough used SAS drives to build an 11 drive RaidZ3 pool. 100 USD each shipped. DIF formatted so had to low level format to native 4k sectors, then run a full run of badblocks, and finally a long smart test to verify no errors. Had a couple bad drives that the seller replaced no questions asked when I provided the smart logs.

    SAS controller and backplane opens up a lot of drives that SATA controllers can't touch.

    My old pool drives will be repurposed for a FrigateNVR storage point and a storage point for some other stuff as well as spares for other pools.

  • What is your favourite song in another language?

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  • Cancion Bonita by El Micha

    Hasta que salga el sol by Don Omar

    Limbo by Daddy Yankee

    Bota niña by Bad Gyal

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    Nerd gang signs - let's play a game

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  • I learned B I 2002. I can make either but have to really think about A while I'm making it.

    Over the distance I'm running cables (about 60 feet total for the longest runs) it really doesn't matter. I'm running fiber for anything beyond gigabit anyway so I say aquamarine, violet, and lime green for lyfe.

  • Is this a mosquito or something else?

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    Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?

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  • Nope. I can eat a burger at other places without issue.

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    Is McDonalds in America expensive and crap?

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  • I actually quit eating there over 15 years ago which is before I started traveling. Got tired of having hydro-dynamic gastrointestinal expulsion after eating.

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    I built a minimal VPS monitor — CPU, RAM, disk usage + Discord alerts

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  • A VPS is barely self hosting.

    Monit is free and super lightweight

    Shilling your paid service is not participating in a community.

    Goodbye...

  • Tips on speeding up remote connection to personal server?

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  • There can be multiple things at play but one thought it's you may be hardware constrained. This is not limited to just your server but also how you are connecting. If you are using a budget cell phone with a bunch of things installed and running it will get slower. If you use a bunch of social media apps disable them before starting a test so they are not running in the background or eating into your connection.

    Another is it sounds like you are using your Tailscale connection to then reach out through your regular connection to a speedtest. So you're using the same connection with multiple data streams at the same time. You will be limited to your slowest speed when sending data to or from a server through you tailscale connection to the internet so give up on that 109Mb/s. You also have to take into account what your connecting devices speed is, if you are on cellular with an 18Mb/s connection that is your top speed.

    Finally instead of running a speed test to the internet, spin up an instance of openspeedtest on a computer that is not hosting your tailscale connection and test to there. When you are starting to setup a homelab it can be useful to have an in house speedtest anyway.

  • What's one highly extolled piece of media that you absolutely cannot stand in any way shape or form.

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  • Friends...

    I would rather watch women's tennis or a fishing show. I don't fish, I don't play tennis.

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  • I would prefer to strap on my BCD and a cylinder and head under water.

    Otherwise I try and work on my house but I'm often low on materials and have to wait to make purchases.

    So I usually just put a movie or TV show on and research projects, parts, designs, and make plans for other stuff I'm working on.

    For me to be less lonely I find it's better to be busy.

  • Where are the strictest mods on Lemmy?

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  • Maybe they should install Linux and start tinkering...LOL. That would keep them busy for a while.

  • Where are the strictest mods on Lemmy?

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  • It's just a group of angry people is all I can tell.

    My post was https://lemmy.world/post/48179739 if you can access it. The community creator banned me and removed it.

    No clue how the block buttons are set up. But I don't see that community going anywhere and I don't view the everything feed.

  • Where are the strictest mods on Lemmy?

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  • C/linuxsucks comes to mind....