Syonyk

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by Syonyk 3y ago
So... Why do you need such high availability that a rare power outage, network outage, or equipment failure is such a big deal? I ask having spent a lot of my college years (and some beyond) trying to run "enterprise grade uptime on
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Or don't! Not everything "has to scale." My stuff isn't built to, and I see no reason to do so. It's my personal server. I run some stuff for my convenience, a quiet backwaters community forum, a Matrix chat serve
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by Syonyk 3y ago
And a lot of their "good" features are only available to paying customers. Image resizing, Argo (fancy... routing aware something or another to your server), more than a few cache rules, and a range of other custom stuff. I think
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Oof. Thanks for the /s, I've quite literally heard that argument from people before for "cloud." That you have to design to scale, physical hardware can't scale rapidly, etc. I assume, if I suddenly had reason to
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by Syonyk 3y ago
What's different about a box hanging out in the cloud with open ports, vs at home or in a colo with open ports? I use CloudFlare to front most of my web stuff for bandwidth diversion - my blog is a purely static Jekyll site, and I&#x27
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It's $75 for a 1U slot (which somehow gives me 2U of space) with dual power, and the rest is bandwidth and an IP block (I've got a /29 so I can put different services on different IPs, because that's... just a thing I do
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Sure, I'll use a $5/mo DO Droplet (maybe $6/mo now for the new ones?) and their 1TB transfer pool if I just need raw bandwidth, but, tbh, not a lot of stuff is just pure bandwidth needs. And "capable cloud boxes for var
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by Syonyk 3y ago
What you can do about it is go back to the early 2000s and rack up your own boxes in a colo, with some reasonable unmetered bandwidth allocations, and skip the whole "cloud" nonsense. My personal box is a 6C/12T Xeon from a f
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Just disable JIT and WASM. I've been browsing that way for... oh, at least a year, probably more, and I don't notice a difference. The world isn't actually Javascript benchmarks (which suffer horribly, running the same hot l
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Imagine if we were all working 18 hour subsistence farming jobs now just to survive... Then you definitely shouldn't look at actual reports of time spent, leisure time, etc, in those eras. Because that's nothing at all what
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by Syonyk 3y ago
This is beautiful, and horrifying, all at the same time. I'm reminded of the paper that reverse engineered ECC codings to demonstrate how you could rowhammer through it - just a lot of tedious RE work as a prerequisite to making the po
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> And the distinction between sandbox-escaping and VM-escaping is rather thin. Eh, I think it's a good bit harder to escape a HVM isolated virtual machine than a sandbox. At least, I'm not aware of many cross-Xen VM escapes.
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It's not "a browser in a VM." It's "A range of VMs, with different browsers in them, for different purposes." My "random web use" browser VMs don't have anything in them - they're ephemera
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by Syonyk 3y ago
And I don't believe in "sharing my home activity data with third parties," so I won't have voice activated anything. I'll just note that most of what you complain about with dimmers isn't a problem with the cor
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Have you ever tried the lead free stuff as compared to a good 60/40 or something like that? It's horrid to use. And the lead-free stuff is far worse in manufactured equipment - how many devices have failed early due to BGA solder
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Good writeup, thanks for sharing it! And yet another argument for "You ought to be using Qubes." Random web access needs to be treated as "Genuinely high risk" anymore. A disposable VM with nothing of value in it for &
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by Syonyk 3y ago
How is this easier than just having a dimmer switch inside the bedroom door? That's what I've done in our house. Lots of dimmers. Some are "rocker switches with a slide along the side," other are more digital "pus
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by Syonyk 3y ago
And you can't, with a straight face, tell me that lead free solder matters, while we're still using lead acid batteries with dozens of pounds of lead in every car out there (to within a rounding error, and, yes, it includes almost
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Don't lick your boards, wash your hands before you eat, and if you're really concerned, wear gloves while handling solder wire. The smoke from soldering isn't lead - a soldering tip is (if it's not literally glowing into
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Stop using YouTube. Or just use one of the various youtube downloader forks that actually works well to watch stuff you care about, and ignore the referral engine entirely. I'm quite serious - this isn't a snarky response. You&#x
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> I've never once heard someone here in a America state that they sought out or preferred an HOA. I have. When I lived in the Seattle area, I would ask people about why they preferred HOAs. The conversations always went the same
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Imagine the entitlement that this person thinks postage stamps are an issue worth whining about when foreclosing on a home and removing the occupants. You've not run into many HOA sorts, then. They have this sliver of POWER a
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by Syonyk 3y ago
> Does anyone have any experience with this? Only through Qubes, but I do most of my web access in a disposable (ephemeral) Whonix VM in Qubes, and it does exactly what it says on the box.
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by Syonyk 3y ago
You've just independently developed something almost identical to the Whonix system. :) May as well use the pre-built VMs that do it for you.
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Whonix/Qubes integration is excellent, and it's certainly a nice perk of Qubes. To clarify the benefits of the "two VM" approach: Most of the unmasking exploits against Tor users (as distinguished from unmasking Tor hidd
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With 0-days hitting Chrome, iOS, and many more this month, is no software safe?(arstechnica.com)
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by Syonyk 3y ago
Complexity. Size. Windows 95 was about 50MB installed with most features. Windows 2000 fit on a CD for the install. Current Windows 10 installers won't even fit on a single layer DVD anymore, and forget doing the install with a FAT32
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by Syonyk 3y ago
It's funny. The page complains at the bottom about my browser. > This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts Yet, without JS, not only does it render correctly with images, it doe
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by Syonyk 3y ago
The more time passes, the more comfortable I feel about mostly interacting with the internet from a Qubes box, in a disposable Whonix/Tor VM, with Javascript disabled... This is just gross. I mean, not surprising. But appalling in so
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by Syonyk 3y ago
And yet... Browser exploits are a thing, and reliably compromise systems. Apple just released a security update yesterday for "something in WebKit," and we see regular browser security updates. The art of escaping browser sandbox

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