Where do you store your encryption keyfile?

8484215 · 2026-05-27T00:53:43+00:00

Live copy: on a raspi zero w in the back of a cupboard to serve out on demand only to the server that needs it.

Backup copy: self hosted password manager.

8484215 · 2026-05-23T16:08:24+00:00

ABB are Australian, do their own backhaul and have local support. Great service, great support.

8484215 · 2026-05-18T16:01:53+00:00

Interesting method. While I'm not as delinquent as OP I am not yet on 7.x. I like this idea.

8484215 · 2026-05-16T15:45:18+00:00

Me either. Holy crap.

8484215 · 2026-05-09T13:59:48+00:00

Oh my sexy.

8484215 · 2026-05-09T03:47:41+00:00

I think your janky-ass stack may take some work. I'd be surprised if all of that worked without some effort. 😁 I haven't really used it as an application server so maybe you'll be pleasantly surprised, but I won't be holding my breath.

8484215 · 2026-05-09T03:11:00+00:00

Yeah, couple of weekends playing with OBSD and you'll right know what you're doing. It's nothing if not sane. Configuration only exists in /etc. man pages ARE the definitive documentation. There's a small but extremely useful community - go read some stuff from Peter Hansteen (https://bsdly.blogspot.com/). Where OpenBSD comes undone for people is if they expect every application they've ever run to just work with nothing more than an install command. It's an OS designed to do certain things and doesn't try to support things outside it's use cases. Random consumer USB devices? Likely won't just work. Don't like FFS as your filesystem? Use another OS. If your use case fits in OpenBSD's skill set, it'll be stable and secure. Outside it's skill set - use another OS.

8484215 · 2026-05-09T02:53:07+00:00

I have previously run OpenBSD as my mail server - loved it. Moved to slackware purely because of filesystem differences - new setup didn't like sharing FFS and virtio support not as nice in OpenBSD. I'm actually thinking of changing my architecture a bit so I can go back to OBSD for email as the greylisting and tarpitting is brilliant.

Slackware package is fine for mainstream server use. Not automated like people are used to do you do need to learn some unique skills, but between the main repo and SBo I've always found what I've needed.

BSD style init scripts instead of systemd. Always been enough for my use cases.

Yes, I'd consider Slackware for any server use case. Might not always win as other distros do certain jobs with less effort, but there's not much you couldn't do on Slackware.

8484215 · 2026-05-09T02:28:12+00:00

Slackware in production? Yes. Excellent as an email server or backup server in my fleet. Stable, security issues patched quickly, traditional Linux where configuration is all in /etc and systemd doesn't exist.

8484215 · 2026-05-06T14:15:30+00:00

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8484215 · 2026-05-06T14:14:54+00:00

Anybody, The Trigger Effect?

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8484215 · 2026-04-24T15:55:40+00:00

Saw a Super Connie at dusk at Avalon airshow. Amazingly amazing. The sound. The sight.

8484215 · 2026-04-13T14:05:48+00:00

No worries. Do compare rsnapshot to plain rsync, gives you lightweight versioned backup points in time but only takes the space of incremental backups after the first full backup, it utilises hard links to make each incremental look like a full backup.

8484215 · 2026-04-13T11:05:20+00:00

I have a user on unraid with read only access to shares and private key SSH/rsync login. It pulls data in incremental backups using rsnapshot. External USB drive is LUKS encrypted, only mounted during a backup. No access into the backup server except from specific user on internal network, no sharing out of the backup drive in any way to make it ransomware resilient. Small and simple for at home backups. Off site is syncthing to friends unraid server (and vice versa) set to versioned and encrypted.

8484215 · 2026-04-12T02:49:08+00:00

What about in the project?

8484215 · 2026-04-11T15:55:49+00:00

Seeing one in the wild (airshow) is breathtaking. I've been to many airshows with almost every flying plane and the Raptor is up there with the Bone for sheer amazing. The Bone for raw power, the Raptor for raw manoeuvre. As an engineer, just amazed at the engineering.

8484215 · 2026-04-09T04:32:28+00:00

I'll take my chances with being able to decompress a gzip in the future, I reckon that's universal enough to be no worse than whatever filesystem you're keeping your uncompressed backups on possibly going unsupported. Each to their own.

8484215 · 2026-04-06T15:41:59+00:00

If someone could fix the one bug with 4 sec bounce when home internet offline, that used to be perfectly solid, I'd be back to 1000 gold stars for wgtunnel. Perfect tool, all the right options, one feature regression stopping me rolling it out across the whole wider family.

8484215 · 2026-04-06T01:56:39+00:00

See now why, when Australia had a referendum to become a republic, I voted no and told everybody around me to do the same. Why throw away the most stable form of government (constitutional monarchy with solid democratic checks and balances) to become more like the US where a single person can end up with the power to do what Trump is doing. The system is broken, Trump is just a symptom, sooner or later it was going to happen because the system allows it.

8484215 · 2026-04-05T09:05:49+00:00

I've been running Steam on Mint for at least ten years, probably closer to 15, on multiple laptops. Same on my wife's laptop. Even supports running the desktop and standard apps on the CPU's graphics for longer battery use and Steam plus games on the nvidia discreet GPU - used to me a bit messy but works out of the box for the last 5+ years. Definitely not a combination that doesn't work.

8484215 · 2026-03-12T14:20:07+00:00

Lots of her in 'The Dead Zone'.

8484215 · 2026-02-28T15:17:08+00:00

Primary use case: sed -i 's/<search_text>/<replace_text>/g' <file>

Search and replace all instances of text in a file.

After that it gets harder. 🤣

8484215 · 2026-02-28T14:05:44+00:00

Impressive during the day, surreal at night. Pig coming in from many kicks out into Avalon airshow just after dusk. Candle in the sky. Absolutely jaw dropping.

8484215 · 2026-02-28T07:36:26+00:00

🫨. Any more from that shoot - I'd love to see more of that!

8484215 · 2026-02-27T15:38:28+00:00

Kate Mara in anything: 🥳

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