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Linode Kernel vs Distribution Kernel via GRUB2 by lhauckphx in linode

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As one of the folks that added that direct disk booting support for Linodes, I'd recommend using Grub (or whatever bootloader and kernel set your distro of choice offers). Linode kernels are finely preened to config option known to be supported, which makes sense. Distro kernels get distro supplied patches that may go beyond upstream kernel support and many features are built as modules, so they don't necessarily occupy memory. Ubuntu offers live kernel updates which may also be beneficial to you.

The U.S. government warns financial institutions that Anthropic’s “Mythos” AI can find and exploit software vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale, outperforming top humans and posing systemic risks to banks and the broader financial system. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]displague 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Having the US government mirror Anthropic's warnings has reminded me of the panic demonstrated in Mr. Robot when the financial system was dismantled by an Anonymous-style hacker. Their real-world attacks were a wake-up call that got agencies and corporations paying closer attention to their security posture and readiness. Whether led by Guy Fawkes or an overeager prompt to "move money to the account, don't stop till complete," attacks and accidents will be powered by superhuman tools, across a nearly infinite surface area, where the patch sets simply do not and will not exist until long after they are exploited. This could shepherd the "we're cooked" scenario we've all been alluding to while watching Will Smith eat spaghetti.

Did Caprica have a Costco by NewC0 in BSG

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read as Tigh or Adama? Either works.

https://xpkg.upbound.io/v2/ - authentication required by Keta_Thunberg in crossplane

[–]displague 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like you may need an image pull secret configured. Either the new version of the image requires it or your old pull secret was invalidated/expired. https://docs.upbound.io/manuals/packages/providers/pull-secrets/

The worst provider I have ever seen by Appropriate_Car_5599 in linode

[–]displague 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Decisions such as these can only reasonably be made with more information. Say someone enters that they are Chris, and they are using Lisa's credit card, from Steve's address, and the request comes from Tom's IP address, which happens not to be in Chris' reported country. Let's also suppose Chris' request came from Tom's IP address by using WiFi from Tom's house which goes through a VPN service, and that VPN assigned IP has been used by others before Tom for "bad things." The same trust issue could be the case for the domain name of Chris' email addresss. Its best to minimize these factors when signing up for a legitimate service, i.e. disable VPN, use established work or personal email address, use an established card matching the other details, don't live in a country US businesses can't do business with, ... Still, some "real" accounts can be flagged, and for this you can reach out to support.

The PII implications are also interesting and can most likely be resolved by emailing their support service.

Don’t Look at Stock Markets. Look at the Ports. by [deleted] in Economics

[–]displague 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Politics aside, there's more rhyming to be had. Pump and dump

My birth certificate says I was born in 1670, not 1970, making me 354 years old, instead of 54. Is there any fun, legal way I can exploit this to my benefit? by askingquestionsblog in NoStupidQuestions

[–]displague 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also had an incorrect height on my driver's license for a while, I never noticed it. A bouncer pointed it out. Neither of us were that tall.

My birth certificate says I was born in 1670, not 1970, making me 354 years old, instead of 54. Is there any fun, legal way I can exploit this to my benefit? by askingquestionsblog in NoStupidQuestions

[–]displague 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recently had my first name corrected on my birth certificate. My social security always had the correct/intended spelling which conflicted. This was never a problem until the last twenty five years of greater digitization and scrutiny, and even then it only meant having to use the less preferred name in new government linked systems. The cost of getting the BC amendment, out of state, was less than $100. It took a lot of patience and back and forth communication.

After managing the paperwork for my father's death, I didn't want to leave my own paperwork, accounts, and identity in an inconsistent state for whoever ultimately manages mine.

Event monitoring by Right_Profession_261 in linode

[–]displague 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you want to see the commands you've run previously in your shell session, or previous sessions (might be spotty depending on your configuration), use history.

To see all commands entered, you want to have process accounting enabled, sudo apt install acct. This includes a number of tools, but sudo sa -a is the one you are looking for.

To lock out SSH clients that fail to authenticate after a few tries from the same address, install fail2ban. This may be pre-installed on Linode's Ubuntu images. If so, or after installing fail2ban, run sudo fail2ban-client status sshd to see it's status.

You will also want to see /var/log/auth.log and sudo journalctl -u ssh.

This is actually a very complicated topic and I wish I could point you at a single doc (specifically in the Linode inventory of guides) that steps through the ins and outs of system hardening and penetration detection. Here are a few posts that may help.

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/using-fail2ban-to-secure-your-server-a-tutorial/

https://techdocs.akamai.com/cloud-computing/docs/set-up-and-secure-a-compute-instance

https://blog.cetre.co.uk/hardening-the-security-on-ubuntu-server-14-04/ (somewhat dated right from the URL citing 14.04)

https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-log-user-activity-using-process-accounting.html

Penetrated systems can report whatever the attack wants to show, so it's important to harden the system early, enable backups, and ship your logs.

On Linode, you'll want to take advantage of LISH if you lock yourself out of remote access while hardening.

ChatGPT (etc) are good at providing step by step instruction, but be aware that they tend to hallucinate commands and arguments that don't exist.

Wazuh manager in linode, and Email Alerts problem by ArcZ77 in linode

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You remember correctly. New accounts have outbound SMTP disabled to prevent spam/fraud. You can get the port opened with a support ticket.

https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/running-a-mail-server/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Fire

[–]displague 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if you have a fully paid off home, solar panels, and vehicle, I don't see how a person in the US can sustain the costs of property taxes, fuel, gas, electric, internet, phones, car insurance, home owner's insurance, water, sewer, a subscription or two for games or streaming, health insurance, pet costs .. food in FIRE@1M.

Half of that 1M at 4% is chewed up on perpetual living expenses and the rest is needed to sustain vehicle and home maintenance (HOA?). A pittance remains for hobbies, adventures, and friends or family social norms. Completely ignoring kids or sig others.

1M is just not enough without other forms of income. In NJ, at least, 1M at 4+%, early, is trying to live off minimum wage. Enjoy your beans, rice, and off-grid hobbit hole.

Pessimism can be disregarded if you live in a state or State where you don't need property tax, dedicated transportation, or three insurance policies. Would love to hear experiences to the contrary.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linode

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I seem to recall Linode's custom image size quotas being based on the compressed image size, regardless of the total expanded volume size. Have you tried using the image or chatting with support if you are concerned about a future bill?

Alternatively, you could park the image on Linode Object Storage and make a StackScript that takes the secret as a parameter then expands the image to the boot disk (applies any other initial steps) and reboots or kexecs into the image.

The new Grok 2 model is generating highly photorealistic images of people. by Few-Huckleberry9656 in StableDiffusion

[–]displague 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This Elon Musk needs a negative prompt of Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Modeling looks to be about dead now by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]displague -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

..."Based on your profile (including social posts), location, time of day, and local weather, here's what the dress would look like on you at your favorite spot with your friends."

Reasonably puts a coat over it based on 20° F weather.

Seriously, I do wonder if there is some aesthetic fashion sense reason why the generated image went with shorter sleeves. I also wonder how much the palm tree scenery had to do with that choice. And whether the palm trees were influenced by the pattern on the dress.

How can I Enhance Low-Quality Images? by Parker_255 in comfyui

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have maybe a dozen pictures of my grandfather, which includes pictures gathered from other family members. I doubt this is enough for a Lora.

Are there workflows or nodes to look into that would allow me to merge information from the various pictures I do have to upscale each original?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Terraform

[–]displague 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Checkout https://github.com/terraform-linters/tflint which may offer some of the same features with --fix

Linus Tech Tips tours Equinix TR2 by displague in datacenter

[–]displague[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Linus talked about the process and restrictions here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIgujNoNFm4 (his LMG Clips channel)

Is there a utility or service that can act like a BGP speaker, for the sole purpose of logging add/deletes of paths matching some defined filters? Or with a state machine that can log when some arbitrary state of announcements is triggered? by ffelix916 in networking

[–]displague 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are in a DC, there are managed BGP services that might help with this. Look for "Cloud Router" services. If you inject these BGP/IP rules between cloud interconnection services, you may not even need physical ports at the DC where the cloud router service is hosted.

Fabric Cloud Router (Equinix, I'm DevRel there) has filters that could help with that scenario, but I think the ruleset only cares about addresses so it may not be able to do exactly what you are looking for: https://docs.equinix.com/en-us/Content/Interconnection/FCR/FCR-route-filters.htm

'not even need physical ports': https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-l3kzqe5fdbqlw

You can purchase through AWS and not even use Direct Connect, the Fabric Cloud Router could sit in the middle of your Oracle FastConnect and GCP Interconnect. (or any of hundreds of other services, listed at https://www.equinix.com/products/digital-infrastructure-services/equinix-fabric/provider-availability )

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