I’m pretty familiar with TTech’s legacy, I just mention it because if the repos ever got compromised, it could be a shitshow. IDK what security measures the new maintainers use to secure their access or check PRs, but I get nervous when it’s as popular as it is and such a good vector for complicated installations that are hard to check out. I also don’t know the new maintainers from Adam.

Personally, I’d use the scripts as a guide for DIY.

Know what you’re running when you pipe to a bash script. Curl-bash pipes are a security mess.

Something that’s less annoying than Anubis is fail2ban tarpitting the scrapers by putting in a hidden honeypot page link that they follow, and adding the followers to fail2ban.

https://petermolnar.net/article/anti-ai-nepenthes-fail2ban/

Why Radicale when you have a caldav-capable calendar in NC?

IRC

This reminds me of a friend who told me about a decade ago that smoking “hadn’t killed him yet”.

Kurt’s been gone for 3 years now. He was right, the smoking didn’t get him, but his lungs packed it in during covid. Surprise, surprise.

I’m in literally the middle of nowhere, the next nearest house is 4 miles away and I’m not even connected to the grid. If there’s a wifi signal detectable, it’ll be mine. So I’ve shifted frequencies around trying to get it to stabilize, with little luck. I’ve primarily been using Sonoff, Aqara, Ikea and SMLight, and hubs from each of them.

Honestly, I’ve been migrating to zwave since I don’t seem to have issue with anything I use on that protocol.

It makes sense. Hopefully it’s more reliable than my Zigbee devices. I constantly have to power cycle devices made by a variety of manufacturers to get them to register again. And I’ve tried more than a few zigbee hubs. Can’t say I’m a fan.

python3 -m http.server

Most people make the mistake of harvesting old bulls. The young ones are tasty.

Air compressor. Just have to be careful not to blow your anus off.

I wonder why that RoboNope doesn’t just make a fail2ban entry for anything that accesses a disallowed url and drop them entirely.

Actually this look like it would do something similiar, then dumps them to fail2ban after the re-access the honeypot page too many times: https://petermolnar.net/article/anti-ai-nepenthes-fail2ban/

Cariboo. Elk is a close second.

Grandma? Pls send money.

20F isn’t much of a fluctuation anyway.

Don’t expose anything outside of the tailnet and 99% of the potential problems are gone. Noobs should not expose services across a firewall. Period.

You do need a bit of horsepower to run Whisper locally. A Nabu Casa subscription gets you their voice processing, and it’s quick. Granted, it’s not local but I trust them a pile more than I trust either of the other two, and if I had to I’d buy a GPU and run it locally, that’s their focus anyway.

Removing dependency on using cloud voice like Google or Amazon is awesome. I wouldn’t use voice if that’s how I had to do it, and I really like voice control for my HA ecosystem.

That sounds like the way to do it. It’s under your control and it’ll always work.

And it’ll be bricked when their app shuts down.