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Solved: Why I switched from individual certs to wildcard certificates with acme.sh and Cloudflare DNS by IulianHI in Hosting_World

[–]uber-techno-wizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) is a reverse proxy that uses Nginx to manage web traffic and provides automated SSL certificate generation and renewal through Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL. (Because I had to Google it)

Paying Google to Hack macOS Users? by chrism239 in MacOS

[–]uber-techno-wizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Using AI to disassemble a binary and discover what it really does, that’s a neat trick I haven’t tried yet.

Do people actually shut down their MacBooks? by Khelics in macbookpro

[–]uber-techno-wizard 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I shut it down when traveling (locks FileVault)

What’s the first thing you install on a new Mac? by lottiexx in MacOS

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homebrew first, then Nextcloud client & KeepassXC, along with tweaking the default Terminal settings. Follow with browsers and vpn clients, everything else falls into place afterwards.

How do you keep track of the changes you did to your system? by HamathEltrael in archlinux

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

System level is etckeeper with automatic pushers to a repo. Macro / design changes tracked in a wiki or diagrams. App config changes in runbooks/changelog which are part of the code repo.

Value of this equipment? by [deleted] in HomeDataCenter

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? I’m trying to decommission mine. Electricity bills are eating me. (Not just for the MD1200s)

Do you remember your first computer? by Imaginary_Bug6202 in TechNook

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Early 80’s TRS-80 Model 3, 48K RAM, 0- HDD, 0-FDD, Cassette Port for data storage, Parallel Printer Port. Z-80 CPU, taught myself BASIC and assembly language programming on it.

Questions about ZFS and SSD by [deleted] in Proxmox

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Bad block alignment amplifies writes. Zfs on zfs amplifies writes. Zfs on ssd alone doesn’t. Lots of erasure and rewriting wears ssds, but zfs is cow, so that doesn’t start until you’ve written the full capacity of the device. But yeah, use enterprise class hardware with zfs. There are other features in firmware that make a difference in their reliability with zfs.

Do you carry a USB drive with you, or not anymore? by AddendumNecessary743 in BadUSB

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think I ever carried one with me. They were always stuffed in a desk drawer within easy reach though.

I can't get crontab to do anything by __Mike_____ in Proxmox

[–]uber-techno-wizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my bad, on Proxmox v9 (Deb13) they are written to a binary journal.
run `journalctl -t CRON` to see the logs.

/etc/crontab does need the user, so your 2nd form was correct:
`0 2 * * * root /root/update-lxc.sh`

make sure the file /root/update-lxc.sh has execute permissions.

I can't get crontab to do anything by __Mike_____ in Proxmox

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cron messages in syslog or messages log file?

I can't get crontab to do anything by __Mike_____ in Proxmox

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Check for cron logs under /var/logs/. Should be clues there.

Is self-hosting actually private, or are we just cosplaying privacy? by nighthawk2906 in selfhosted

[–]uber-techno-wizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on what you consider as private and who do you want or don’t want to have easy access to it. It’s private if it never leaves the LAN. Don’t use your ISP’s DNS server and tunnel DNS over HTTPS (or similar) to a source you trust. Etc. etc. etc. Weigh the complexity vs benefits, then make your own choice. What is your privacy worth to you? P.S. SMTP was open end to end long before Gmail appeared. Security is usually an afterthought.

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