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philpo

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  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • Absolutely, but unlike Ubiquiti they did not keep them under the rug that long. (Nevertheless: Both are shit for firewalling. Put a OPNsense before it?)

  • Looking for FOSS server monitoring UI

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  • Zabbix is extremly nice.

    Why?

    • API Monitoring for Proxmox and Docker/Podman. Aka "you don't need to setup monitoring for every container/LxC/VM. Do it once for the host,then everything gets autodiscovered.
    • Active and passive agents as well as SNMP, IPMI,etc. can be combined as you like. Also does Website/service/application/database monitoring, SSG/Telnet checks and nowadys can even do Prometheus and MQTT/Modbus

    • The proxy is really really worth it. It collects data from nodes you do not want exposed and relays them to the server. This includes all kind of inputs and is really easy to setup.
    • Due to it being around for two decades there are a shitton of templares for devices - and it's fairly easy to do your own.
    • Unlike other systems (cough checkmk cough Grafana) there are no features that are only available to paying customers.

    The most major downsides are the fact that it's moderately to fairly ressource intensive to run in a small setup(but does consume less than others in large Setups) and it's far less flashy dashboards. (Which are still powerful,though)

  • What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?

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  • Not a fan. Absolutely not.

    They had multiple security incidents which they kept under the rugs for a long time, they have the tendency to EOL devices without warning (which then means you need to replace your sometimes 9month old device or your whole enviroment can't be updated), their lock-in into their ecosystem is much more complete as they can't be used properly without their enviroment.(e.g. Omada devices can work without the Omada stuff, with Unifi you will always need a controller for some functions).

    So if you realy need SDN features like Unifi look at Omada,otherwise Mikrotik is a solid alternative. (And OPNsense for firewall)

  • System Redundancy

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  • My company is a part of critical infrastructure and we provide consulting in disasters (e.g. how to get a hospital back up and running). So we fall under European legislation to have certain precautions. And as I colocate in my companys rack...it's easier. As the rack is in a room I rent to my company. (We are small and I am the founder,that makes it easier)

    But yeah, we put a bit of thought in it. Waiting for Iris2 finally materialise so I can get rid of LTE finally.

  • System Redundancy

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  • I have a LTE Backhaul,but admittedly if the firewall itself craps out I would also be offline - but I can at least reboot it via a plain old GSM power plug. That thing does not directly reboot the firewall,though, but brings up a old raspberry (usb boot,I don't trust sdcards) which then checks if outside connectivity is still available (so if the GSM power plug gets compromised it's not an issue) and if not tries a shutdown or,if that is unsucessful, a powercut of the firewall. If that also doesn't work it triggers a dry contact in the GSM plug which leads to the plug sending out a SMS so I know I am fucked and need to get someone with a key to the rack.

  • World's largest particle accelerator begins warming thousands of local French residents with waste energy from the 16-mile Large Hadron Collider

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  • Datacenter heat is actually a very good source for local heating networks and a lot of European countries either already mandate to consider it when feasible, have introduced legislation that will make it mandatory over the next years or are at least supporting it financially.

    It's actually fairly common to do so for a long time here - from waste incineration, steel mils, nuclear plants, etc.

    Personally I heat my office from my server rack and my old job did heat one of their office buildings from the heat generated by the data center in the basement. (And funny enough also did partially cool it from that source)

  • New Dishwashers that aren't junk (America)?

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  • Just saying: There is a HomeConnect Local Integration for HomeAssistant.

    Other than that: Bosch/Siemens (same brand) is solid. My washing machine moved over 22.000km with me by now...over 15 years...and works like a charm.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • So, prove me wrong.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • ... And yet almost all developed nations do it without any issues. ... And funny enough technologies like micro trenching work for most use cades.

    Oh boy....

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • The difference between the US the rest of the world is 4 years and due to the Edison-Westinghouse struggle the US were overtaken by the end of the century. (Same goes for Telephones btw. NY had less then half the phone lines Berlin had by 1900)

    The argument with the time difference is often cited but not based on fact - it's more about the fact that electricity networks in the US were a commercial/capitalist enterprise from the start which was not the case for European cities for a long time.

    And even today power grids in the US are,well, seen as something to be run with the maximum amount of profits with the minimum amount of goverment regulation. If you consider the difference to Europe or parts of Asis it's insane.

  • How come residential power lines aren't buried underground still?

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  • Yet almost all of the developed world does it....

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    Should I be trying to leave the USA before it's too late?

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  • He clearly did not say he was not at risk but less so - which totally falls within Niemöller and os absolutely correct.

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    Should I be trying to leave the USA before it's too late?

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  • That only works if the army stays united as a single power block and does not split.

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  • Nope. Just an idiot. Shouldn't have done the double shift. Overtime happens in this job.

    And while I did not kill/hurt someone back then (as far as I know) I massively increased my patients risk of suffering from one - and I surely would have treated them at least faster.

    Today I would never take this risk again voluntarily again - there are situations that might warrant it (I have responded to a few major disasters, mainly floods, over the years), but these are rare. That back then? That was stupid. In so many ways.

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  • Worked 33h in a row as a paramedic. Normally not allowed here (24h is a hard limit, 12h standard). Not because I wanted to, not because someone got ill...we simply didn't make it even close to the depot, for the last 4h simply a major crash happened right in front of us.

    We returned to the depot and basically didn't even have a single wound dressing, no O2, no collars, no blankets,nothing.

    And the worst part: The whole time it wasn't "the usual business" of old folks having a stroke or a fall. We had one mass casualty incident at the beginning of shift, a child in respiratory arrest and similar shit.

    I slept for 12h straight after that and still felt like shit.

  • Reproducible alternatives to nextcloud?

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  • Have a look at open cloud.

  • Do corporations really do research?

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  • Depends very much on the company and the field. There are whole companies who's business model is to do research and sell it to the highest bidder. And in med tech a fuckton of research is conducted,even more since the MDR in the EU.

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    I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • Yeah,indeed the wife and Kate were on a business trip together, but I don't mind. The wife hates Cruises though and the woods here a wonderful.

  • 'Sense of betrayal' driving 'big shift' in Trump support that could sink GOP

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  • Additionally: Another reason he wants mail in ballots gone - to easy to trace back what people actually voted for, besides the gerrymandering aspect.

    With the machine it's far harder to proof fraud.