Incessant tinkerer since the 70’s. Staunch privacy advocate. SelfHoster. Musician of mediocre talent. https://soundcloud.com/hood-poet-608190196

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  • Xeriscaping. Lawns started as a form of opulence and stature of the rich. It signaled wealth as they were rich enough to afford to have a lawn, pay for it’s grooming and labor, and not use it to grow food, along with paintings of oversized livestock. Let the chips mellow for a while before planting the garden as rotting vegetation puts out a crazy amount of heat and will scorch tender sprouts. If you’ve ever stuck your hands in a compost bin, it’s quite toasty.



  • I might just deal with the heat and get a push mower

    You’re a better man than I Gunga Din. I got up at 5:00 AM the other day and cut grass. I’ve got a lot of lawn, so I’ve got a 54" Toro ZTR and a bush hog for the tractor. It’s 109 F in the shade, and the ‘feels like’ temp is probably hotter than Beelzebub’s ball sack. There’s be no way I’d push it.


  • To me, the question is ‘How much do you secure a home server that’s only accessible with VPN?’ to which I would answer, secure everything, every last jot and tilde. Especially in a homelab environment where a nefarious actor could gain lateral movement. The data on my server, tho important to me, is not the prime concern as much as becoming a zombie in someone’s botnet. The very first Linux server I stood up got hacked overnight. Since then, I’m keen to lock everything down. I’ve been told I go overboard, but I’d rather that scenario.







  • I didn’t realize how overwhelming this would be, the amount of information is incredible.

    Speaking from experience, it was quite overwhelming to me at first as well. It took me a handful of tries to wrap my head around Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. I persisted tho, and succeeded. It doesn’t help much that Cloudflare keeps rearranging their site, making it difficult to find necessary information. I will say, that when I migrated to a new server recently, it was a snap and everything clicked in place. There was no need to set up anything on their side. As I remember, it was a matter of a one liner code sequence they provided, to install the necessary components on my server. Jack’s a doughnut, Bob’s your uncle.