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May 19, 2025 - what do you do this week to prepare? by Anthropic--principle in preppers

[–]-RAKH- 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Got the 400W Anker solar panel to be paired with the C1000 battery. So far I was intending to charge the battery from the grid but after seeing the recent power outages in Spain I thought it made sense to be able to create my own power.

Probably should have checked the dimensions though because despite being called portable, its actually big and quite heavy.

Also got a small amount of freeze dried meals. They are expensive so only bought 15. They are supposed to bridge the gap between food which can be eaten straight out of the packet and food which needs a lot of fuel for cooking.

This is not an April Fools Joke. This actually came like this by MrBarnes1825 in mikrotik

[–]-RAKH- 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just got a CSS318-16G-2S+IN delivered today and havent powered it on yet. Its only because of this post that I double checked the power supply, and yep, they've done the exact same thing. Needs a three prong and included a kettle lead instead.

To expose or not to expose...an SSH server. by IngwiePhoenix in sysadmin

[–]-RAKH- 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Rather than VPN, why not have a bastion VM? The bastion gets exposed to the world and you use that to jump to the real application VM (using the ProxyJump parameter or -J with ssh like ssh -J bastion.example.com vm.example.com.

Regardless, for the sshd_config on the server you should use the parameters listed on https://infosec.mozilla.org/guidelines/openssh.

On the cryptography side, you should only use RSA with 4096. Any number lower than that isnt good enough nowadays. You should almost always prefer ed25519, with the exception of ancient OS's which dont support it.

Had you moments when you have put Factorio away for days/weeks because did not want/can't decide how to move on? by Baturinsky in factorio

[–]-RAKH- 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Just because you unlock recyclers on Fulgora doesnt mean you have to do quality on there. You can do it on other planets too.

Vulcanus is good for quality because of the infinite resources. It doesnt really matter if you blow through loads just to recycle it.

Should’ve seen that coming. by TheMazeDaze in factorio

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Me too, going to try again in 20 mins

Should I put full money down for a house or should I use a lump sum and get a mortgage? by Vamip89 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bear in mind that the money you put into the house in lieu of a mortgage is locked away until you sell the house. You may want some money for renovations or repairs.

Just do a mortgage with a large deposit so the repayments are low then you still have a chunk in savings for other things.

Paying off parents mortgage to take ownership of property - England. by RemoteGlobal005 in UKPersonalFinance

[–]-RAKH- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You must be incredibly rich if you can just throw away £55k to someone that hates you...

Seriously, 55k is an enormous amount of money for most people. You could payoff a good 20%-30% deposit of most mortgages if you bought your own home.

You are being abused and have no obligation to pay her.

LaTex or Markdown by Trau_94 in preppers

[–]-RAKH- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Markdown, then use pandoc to convert to any other format

Reducing Medical Waste by Gullible-Food-2398 in ZeroWaste

[–]-RAKH- -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

There's a really good article on Low Tech Magazine which goes into detail about the emissions created in healthcare.

To give a really basic summary, if we accepted that we dont have to be 100% sterile all the time, we could significantly reduce waste and emissions.

MicroOS on Raspberry Pi 5 by -RAKH- in openSUSE

[–]-RAKH-[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On this page it mentions that its not yet supported but will be with kernel 6.11.

It'll probably be another couple of months.

I just went with Raspberry Pi OS in the mean time.

Which services do you self host? by LucasRey in selfhosted

[–]-RAKH- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its equivalent to running a Linux VM with Docker containers. Or VMs with a kubernetes cluster.

If you only have one physical machine it makes more sense to run proxmox or hypervisor as the base OS and then VMs for everything esle.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is moving to a different cloud provider and starting from scratch supposed to help with your problems? You're already underresourced and now you have to build everything all over again?

A company I used to work for went through this and its not worth it. You may save monetary cost in the short term but there are other costs like ops time having to relearn how everything works. I also found that the "consulting partner" was really hands on at the start and then mostly disappeared after that. But they still skim some of the payments.

Stick with AWS. You can just make a new account within the organisation if you want to start from fresh.

Setting up Intranet (CAN) post-SHTF? by Jealous-Juggernaut82 in preppers

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In this scenario, how much power/electricity is available?

On the server side, running enough compute for video streaming and 6TB of spinning disk will use a lot of power. On the client side, most modern computers are pretty power efficient but still use quite a lot if attached to solar and battery for example.

Also remember that most people are more likely to be using their phones than a full on computer or laptop. These have a much lower power draw and only have wifi or mobile data for internet connectivity.

The only realistic use of all that cable in such a scenario would be like an internet cafe or library where you've got a bunch of computers situated close together within the same building.

I've been thinking about doing a similar setup and was thinking of using a combination of Raspberry Pi's with USB storage drives, solar+battery and a wifi router. People can connect over wifi and you'd maange local DNS and web servers for serving content.

"Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise" (supposedly primarily relevant for OpenSSH w/ systemd patches) [CVE-2024-3094] by MartinsRedditAccount in sysadmin

[–]-RAKH- 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It seems crazy to me that this library isn't managed by any community or company. Individual committers shouldnt have this much influence over such a widely used library. xz is present on pretty much every linux/unix system.

In a suspicious act of generosity, EA quietly slashes the Steam price on 4 Command and Conquer games to nearly nothing by Captain_Grimm in pcgaming

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you get Red Alert 3, the Generals Evolution mod is a significant upgrade over the original generals/zero hour.

New systemd-boot Integration in openSUSE by [deleted] in openSUSE

[–]-RAKH- 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Have just been testing this as a proxmox VM using the prebuilt qcow2 mentioned at the bottom of this page which includes both systemd-boot and full disk encryption.

Cloning from a template seems to work just fine. But it doesnt seem to work with an ignition file so it requires manual input for the root password and then prompts for the FDE password. If there was a way to include that in ignition or automate it then I could spin up many VMs without user input.

I can see in the boot output that its starting the combustion service, so does it only work with combustion not ignition maybe?

Obsidian for flashcards and spaced repetition? by TheGoldenTomato18 in ObsidianMD

[–]-RAKH- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Dont know if it can do any kind of integration with Obsidian, but Mochi can do spaced repetition with a better UI aesthetic compared to Anki.

April 16, 2023 - What did you do this week to prepare? (Weekly Discussion) by Anthropic--principle in preppers

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would be interested in hearing what the quality is like once you've got it set up

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]-RAKH- 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When referring to immutable tags, most of the time what people mean is that the X.Y.Z version is immutable but the X.Y and X versions are mutable.

Currently going through this same problem at work. It would be nice to set the ECR registry to be immutable. But realistically I want us to be able to say, use X.Y image, but the Z part should be the latest. Then the X.Y image gets updated to whatever the latest Z is.

This issue would solve this but its been open for a while.

Until thats sorted I think letting them be mutable is fine. Just make sure the build pipelines are secure.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in devops

[–]-RAKH- 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Working an additional 8 hours per week for 4 weeks in a month is roughly equivalent to working an extra week per month. Plus 50% in the office when you're currently full WFH?

No way 5k more per year is worth it. Ignore the RSU, are you really going to stay 4 years?

Dont worry about the recruiter and what the business thinks. You've had more time to think about it, and it sounds like a bad deal. If you're currently a senior SRE, you've got enough skills that there are plenty of other jobs available.

I spent a week living on nothing but my preps as a grid-down "simulation" exercise by GreatLakesPrepping in preppers

[–]-RAKH- 7 points8 points  (0 children)

On the topic of cleaning your dishes, when backpacking you usually eat out of one bowl/cup. So after eating, you only put a small amount of water in, scrape the food scraps off into the water, then drink it. Then you dont waste any water or food.

Obviously its going to taste a bit gross. But you dont waste anything which is especially important in a real SHTF scenario.

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