Amazing reference friend! Definitely bookmarking it and maybe mirroring it locally (I hate when repos go private or disappear).

USB’s are another really big no-no where I work, and running a different OS on my work network would 100% throw a lot of flags in our SOC as it’s essentially plugging a rogue device into the network. In my understanding, a reverse proxy allows access to specific resources, if configured properly it only allows access to your DMZ.

VPNs allow you to become part of a virtual network (like one you aren’t physically connected to), frequently providing access as though you are directly connected to the whole network. I could set up a VPN to my DMZ I suppose, but that just feels weird as hell as the whole point of a DMZ is to be an area you allow the public internet to reach (sometimes requiring authenticating to the reverse proxy).

Oh yeah, I 100% agree with that, honestly two VPNs are better given you wouldn’t want your normal VPN to terminate into your management vlan (nor should you want your management vlan to have access to the internet). I thought we were just discussing normal homelab stuff, all administrative stuff should really be oob.

Just by making it so I can’t access from a system I don’t control. Like say I need to retrieve a document from my house, but I’m in a SCIF, or a waiting room, or anywhere else I wouldn’t have my personal device, it’s super useful to just connect to something like Nextcloud and pull it down.

Hmm… Where I work setting up a VPN on my work machine would not only break my workflow, it would probably cost me my job. Plus I’m not a big fan of giving computers I don’t control access to the internals of my network. Reverse proxies were invented for a reason, no reason not to use one.

My homelab stuff I like to be able to access from places that take all my free time (like work), making things accessible is a bit of a requirement for me.

I’ve been using Authentik for a while now and absolutely love it. Is it perfect, no, but it’s an IdP completely under my control and that definitely makes up for some shortcomings here and there.

A friend from highschool was called sperm bank in the Navy because he was Seaman Sellers.

I just assumed it was because it lined up with them destroying the GUI, the new layout is the hot garbage that finally got my wife to opt for jellyfin.

Could you specify any of those issues? I ask because the only one I’m tracking allows unauthenticated playback, but only if they know the path to the file on the machine which is very easy to change from default.

A plant people have been using in medicine since at least the mid 1800’s. The type of high varies on how much and how it is consumed, lately I’ve seen a lot of people drinking it in the morning like a caffeine substitute (I think the place near me calls it an ‘island tea’ or something like that). It made my wife jittery and throw up so we never tried it again.

Some people smoke it or chew it so those could be different.

The post doesn’t mention being on the street, it mentions walking around a mall and taking a break. Malls have historically been social locations since their inception, especially among those that choose to go there without the intention of shopping at the stores located within it. Nothing wrong with wandering the mall, but other people may think you are there to socialize if you aren’t shopping… Especially if you are partaking in their favorite activity.

Sadly, some of us are unable to ‘take a hint’ as it doesn’t seem like a hint. Not everybody is wired to pick up on small contextual cues and may only notice the big ones; being in a public shopping mall (historically a pretty social location) while not shopping, implies to my brain a desire to be around people, even if you aren’t there for the buildings intended purpose. It’s definitely fine that your intention wasn’t to be social, I don’t desire to be social and try to avoid places with people like the plague.

I don’t think he did anything wrong either though; the few mall walkers I’ve known almost consider it a sport so I get why he would say those exact words (not seeing you during their usual meetup time, he was likely inviting you to walk with their group).

You do you, my nephew would have taken off running while waving his hands in the air. No shame in either of those responses… Personally I just remain quiet and wait for the person to assume I’m deaf, but we all deal with unwanted conversations differently.

Going for surgery when he is second in command to a God that can heal anything? Bold strategy and I hope it goes well for him; personally I have a hard time differentiating between devine will, and what is okay to defy with science.

No but it definitely throws a wrench in the prosecution’s gears when they show the evidence of the crime and its not a crime at all.

I’d put LMDE on it, the familiarity of Mint with the stability of Debian and no fucking snaps.

Cutting out the turkey’s spine and then flattening it out. It cooks a lot quicker and none of the skin is pointing down so it all gets crispy. Bonus points if you stick a half a lemon under the skin on each breast. If it looks too offensive for a guest, give it a bacon bikini.

Thanks for the encouragement! I bought a couple mini pc’s and one server seems fine going from a lot of memory to just 16GB. Now I guess I need to start parting that one out to pay for a more efficient storage server.

I don’t mean to draw attention to it but Usenet never went away, it’s still the best place to find a lot of interesting articles in my opinion.