For the past mumble years at home I’ve had an installation of Owncloud running, and one thing that’s been on my To-Do list is to put fail2ban in front of it to inconvenience any bad actors attempting to bruteforce their way into the Owncloud server (use random passwords, yo). I initially installed F2b on my …
Category Archives: Technology
Charlie Bravo To Go
I’m not sure why Citizen’s Band (CB) radios have gotten a bad rap in the US, but my hypothesis is that because it was a fad, a craze, in the 70’s and everybody went over the top with the novelty of it, we laugh about it as a relic of ancient history in this modern …
FreeNAS and the Freak Warnings
I have a FreeNAS fileserver at home for backups and whatever. There’s a system job that runs nightly to look at the security logs and alert me if something’s wrong, for instance, if someone attempted to login and used an incorrect password. For as long as this box has been alive, I’d occasionally get emails …
Understand, Underperform
me: so yeah, twitter is purely performativeworld: of course it is, noobme: i guess i shouldn’t’ve said that, sorryworld: we knew you’d say that, toome: see, this is why i’ve stopped talkingworld: thank god for that
Forgotten Knowledge
Once upon a time, I had such an intimate knowledge of my own computer’s filesystem. Like, I knew exactly where I stuffed a file, because I had my own filing system, and could recall that image of a scan of a hand drawing I did. I knew it was in the “hand drawn” folder in …