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Cake day: March 27th, 2024

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  • I agree. Years back, when I was getting my CDL in the construction industry, my trainer recommended I get some overalls for comfort. I was in fairly good shape at the time, but man - the relief I felt from not having a belt digging into my gut while behind the wheel made it a lot easier to hop out of the cab and throw chain at a good pace, and I never had to worry about anything coming untucked. Was certainly a game changer.







  • Eh, just the general stress of existance with some teenage angst sprinkled on top, I guess.

    Grew up under the poverty line, was abused at a very young age, started working around the age of 7 to help keep food on the table, had multiple deaths in the family within a few years (one of which was the result of a horrific industrial accident - didn’t witness it, but overheard enough detail that it still haunts me to this day), spent my early teens mostly on my own due to my mom spending most of her time caring for my grandma after she broke her knee, etc.

    So yeah, the novel concept of being able to take the edge off by lighting up a smoke was pretty alluring.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯



  • I get that it’s not for everyone, but damn… still kinda wild to hear people outright hating the experience.

    Granted, I started smoking when I was 13. Heard it helped people feel less stressed, so when the opportunity arrived I figured why not give it a try.

    Quickly got up to a pack or two a day and loved every drag for nearly 10yrs until my future wife asked me to stop. I quit cold turkey for a few years, but missed it the whole time. Eventually wound up settling on vaping as a compromise.

    Tbh, the only part I don’t miss is the dent it left in my wallet.


  • arcayne@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDNS?
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    2 months ago

    My preferred way of solving this is to run a PowerDNS cluster with DNSDist and keepalived. You get all the redundancy via a single (V)IP.

    Technitium is probably more user friendly for greenhorns, though… and offers DHCP too. Beats pihole by a mile.



  • Wezterm is my primary. Love the built-in domain/sshmux features, especially for work. The LUA config rocks, sky is the limit. Highly portable when using something like Chezmoi or YADM.

    That said, it’s not always the most performant, especially with certain TUIs. I’ve been running my NVim workspace in Kitty lately just to avoid the minor UI lag (primarily with lazygit). Not a fan of Kitty (or its dev) otherwise, but it serves its purpose.

    If Wezterm ever gets optimized, it’ll be the GOAT for me.

    Ghostty also sounds like it’s got potential, but haven’t gotten my invite yet. ¯_(ツ)_/¯






  • Apps: SSO via Authentik where I can, unique user/pass combo via Bitwarden where I can’t (or, more realistically, don’t want to).

    General infra: Unique RSA keys, sometimes Ed25519

    Core infra: Yubikey

    This is overkill for most, but I’m a systems engineer with a homelab, so it works well for me.

    If you’re wanting to practice good security hygiene, the bare minimum would be using unique cred pairs (or at least unique passwords) per app/service, auto-filled via a proper password manager with a browser extension (like KeePassXC or Bitwarden).

    Edit: On the network side, if your goal is to just do some basic internal self-hosting, there’s nothing wrong with keeping your topo mostly flat (with the exception of a separate VLAN for IoT, if applicable). Outside of that, making good use of firewalls will help you keep things pretty tight. The networking rabbit hole is a deep one, not always worth the dive unless you’re truly wanting to learn for the sake of a cert/job/etc.



  • We’re so tightly integrated with the M$ ecosystem at my work, it’s painful. My department has even been going out of it’s way to self host (F)OSS alternatives where we can, just to avoid as much of the cludge as possible.

    Has anyone tried out the new Teams integration feature that Mattermost recently rolled out for Enterprise customers? If so, any good?

    If we can seamlessly sync calls/meetings from Teams into Mattermost and ditch the Teams client for our day-to-day comms, I might have a fighting chance at convincing my supervisor to pivot my department.