I’m an expert at nothing, but I would imagine that different VPN like WireGuard have different detectable signatures, much like different browsers have different signatures that can be detected. Also, for commercial VPNs, the IPs that the VPN company uses are easily identifiable.

I’m just yanking your chain bro. Glad you are enjoying your self hosting journey. Rock on wid yo’ bad self.

I’m a rusty and recycled guy, not a new and shiny guy, but man some of this custom-built, laser-cut, 3d printed stuff is cool.

Bet I’m more rusty of a guy than you are. LOL And yes the 3d stuff is wild. I use it a lot around the compound.

Congrats on the improved lifestyle now. I wouldn’t say you have wasted hours. More so that you have invested in your privacy and data retention.

firefox: image: jlesage/firefox container_name: firefox ports: - “5808:5800” environment: - TZ=America/Chicago - PUID=1000 - PGID=1000 #- VNC_PASSWORD=${VNC_PASSWORD} - DARK_MODE=1 - WEB_AUDIO=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER=1 - WEB_FILE_MANAGER_ALLOWED_PATHS=ALL - WEB_HOST_CLIPBOARD_SYNC=1 volumes: - ./firefox/config:/config:rw - /SWAP:/downloads shm_size: “2gb” restart: unless-stopped networks: - web

My Dick Tracy decoder ring is on the fritz. I think it says ‘My hovercraft is full of eels’.

Some guy hid a prompt injection in his legal filing that encouraged the court’s AI to rule in his favor (fortunately, the court confirmed it does not use AI for these reviews)

‘E’ for effort nonetheless. That’s pretty funny.

I don’t care if you don’t like it.

I like your style bro. If you don’t like it, you can go the way you came. Pretty damn refreshing. ^5

Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!

No shit. I still have a 5090 still stuck in my throat. $8k for a tape drive, hell, I could have got two 5090s.

That sucks. Personally, I wouldn’t selfhost financial applications. I don’t need that headache with my money or someone else’s either. I hope you find a solution.

No worries. I use Square for my businesses, but they are not self hosted. They do take their skim off the top, but that’s a cost of doing business.

That’s all I got bro. I tried.

There seems to be quite a few of them

I also found https://piprapay.com/

Payram?

Throw the second switch!

Btop is my favorite top of all the tops. I run it regularly just to scope how things are processing.

That’s pretty wild man. Reminds me of a while ago, a lot of people got busted locally for selling loaded Kodi boxes at the flea market. I bought one out of mild curiosity from a greasy individual who I could tell wasn’t the front man of the operation. Anyway, I booted it an ran wireguard against it. I don’t have the skill this guy does in the video, but what I did see were a lot…a lot…of sketchy Chinese ip addresses. So, i shut it down and it resides in the junk bin.

I found this interesting: https://safereddit.com/r/vSeeBox/comments/1hhibu0/vseebox_for_real/

Particularly this comment:

u/Fun-Device-9702
Apr 14 '25

I got a couple strange emails that were definably spam after hooking one up, so I wonder if there some kind of back door program working on these.

What are you trying to observe? Just the server and applications? Traffic?

Netata will give you just about every metric you could possibly use for a server. However and anecdotally, netdata seems to spawn a ton of zombie processes (https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/20565) which was quite annoying.

If you’re going for server traffic observability , I recommend ntopng. It’s pretty comprehensive.

I don’t preclude them, I’m just expressing my taste.

after the initial shock wears off.

Your shock or mine? The problem is akin to females that protest the patriarchy by taking off their clothes in public. I never seems to be any of the beautiful people.

On that site: Communal Luxury: The Public Bathhouse - Throughout history, people have bathed in public rather than in private. Should we bring back the public bathhouse for the sake of sustainability?

The max amount of people I want in a bathtub is 2.

The mouse did not survive interrogation. Also mouse not pictured.

I thought it was the huge heat sink that looks like it extends past the side plane of the cover. Reminds me of something I did with a CoolAir Cosmos tower. I mounted two 300 cfm fans over each CPU and took the side panel, neatly cut out the area around the fans, then 3d printed a scoop, with a slot for filtration, to fit on the side panel and allow the fans to breathe.