FreshRSS and Fail2ban

Based on my prior installation success with FreshRSS, I felt it was necessary to put it behind a fail2ban filter to drop inbound traffic from abusive external IPs. My FreshRSS installation is using the simple tarball on top of webroot method; I’m not using containers or anything. It’s all bare metal, so it’s piggybacking off …

DROP

Nerd rage. Fixed a recent problem in which I set up the conditions for failure years ago. My Linux PC at home has been having hardware issues. It’s been in service for 13-ish years and, electronically, it’s falling apart. It was kernel panicking while transferring files from my phone over USB3. After enough of this, …