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- proxmox 6.x.x


sysctl vm.swappiness=0
swapoff -a

- proxmox 7.x.x


systemctl --type swap #find your swap target
systemctl mask dev-pve-swap.swap #your swap partition target

@prologic
@nexeq stay positive. :-)
@nexeq why are you concerned with being fired?
@novaburst it's always nice waking to these. thank you for sharing your colourful world.
@crunched the security realm does not have enough operators to fill the millions of open jobs globally. as technology advances this is an area of discipline that really needs help.

keep in mind, like all avenues of tech security has it's down sub-disciplines (of which there are many). i encourage everyone to experiment and find what they're interested in and pursue it.

it started in the 90s, when security was relevant but often overlooked. it was more a trial-by-fire situation where as a systems operator i had to learn security trappings. no magic pill for this one. lots of time, experimentation, failure, and finding a handful of people to bounce ideas off of. this particular field is very lucrative, but if you've followed me at all you'll know money doesn't motivate me. i'm simply fascinated with solving puzzles :-)

reach out direct if you have questions
@novaburst @thecanine

ah. i was curious. now they are doing some form of vr-based osint for ukraine.

hard-pass.
@novaburst

feeling his serrated teeth this year
@novaburst i don't disagree. however i've a few people in my life that do care about what their browser says.

can't win them all.
@novaburst

concise yet it speaks volumes.
@crunched

if you're looking to gain knowledge a cert may provide a framework of what you need to study to find your path in tech.

i have certs and omit them every time.

the exception is if you're following a track of security. oscp/gpen are fairly well-respected. these are not really tests you can bullshit your way through. they demonstrate that you've done your homework and took the subject seriously. i'd hire folks who could pass them. because i took both and respect their approach.
@off_grid_living

are you strictly solar or are you also on hydro?

on a good day my array pulls in ~700w~
@mckinley

great work. in 2062 the logo collapses on itself. bookmark this
@mckinley

great work. in 2062 the logo collapses on itself. bookmark this
@adi

how does one build tea?
@novaburst

curious to know how fediverse turned you off.

for myself it was interesting, but wasn't what it was supposed to be. i lost interest fairly quickly

great list by the way. all very useful.
@novaburst @prologic

hsm(s) can be expensive. so in many ways you have to weigh your trust model.

unless you have 80k under your floor and care to become a ca?
@novaburst @adi maybe novaburst is referring to the gargron fiasco (pick one)
abstract:

- pay attention to pointers
- cload/csave tattoo concept
- c2 infrastructure/inverse swarm model
- corn tortillas stuffed with air fried potatoes
- uncle sam is a greedy prick
- stop saying fcuk in interviews
- forensic files is moron killer starter pack
- why do people become anime characters?
- if dog starts talking, ate wrong mushrooms
@novaburst there was a rhyme there. but yes i really never plugged into that ecosystem
@thecanine i believe there was another instance counter.social which followed a similar pattern.
@darch i didn't know, i should have looked :-) glad to meet you thrice!

plants and flowers are good names. but if i were to pick something from this category it would have to represent the purpose of the project and be rather esoteric in that i wouldn't call it sunflower or daisy :-)

lately my naming thoughts align with what we discussed regarding energy and smaller constructs.
@taigrr i've found it's best not to rush a project. i like your approach to things with the first cut being rough as it were. it takes a while to spike out the proof of concept and it appears you're on your way.

i had not heard of nats.io until now, this seems very useful for my edge research. thanks for the proxied tip :-)
@slashdot when i had a linkedin profile for professional purposes i saw many of these fake accounts. they are usually hybrid-controlled via an operator and some primitive form of machine learning. i may have a write-up on this somewhere.
@lyse by chance are you .dotfiles available for viewing? i'd like to see your approach to workflows.

@adi when i was on openbsd, i also used spectrwm and it felt natural.
@prologic wish i had the bandwidth to offer. i'm ~2 years behind in my own projects and experiments. looks like an interesting approach to things. currently my focus is alpine for small and hardened distribution.~
@prologic now imagine for a moment if you stripped proxmox virt layer and ran swarm on 3x metal. that would indeed be metal af and a bit of warp-speed.
@novaburst i'm starting to feel that sanity with alpine. as much as i enjoy declarative configuration with nix, it's like an erector set gone mad.
@taigrr nice choice! also i'm watching grlx, looks really great
@thecanine didn't gab fork mastodon code base? originally they wrote some horrible mess in php that was constantly getting packeted, but if i recall they forked mastodon and started making changes.
@retronav that's a lovely name, especially when naming is so terribly difficult. @sorenpeter and i were having a similar discussion on the most recent call.
@prologic

i was going to mention that to you. i've seen it ~6x over the last week. if it happens again will provide you utc::timestamp, origin ip, and a glass of wine~
@adi it was us just chatting about a place that does not exist, but would be nice if it did. there are private think-tanks you can work for, but many pay little more than wage-scale above poverty. research and science is a thankless industry
@crunched

machines: nixos or arch. de is i3 with a lot of customisation
servers: debian but quickly shifting to alpine
@prologic any spikes in usage on the pod here in the last 30 minutes? crawling for me.
@mutefall what do you mean is coming? it's already here. we've never stopped it.
@adi never any pressure to join calls. i've been on a few now, they are always a good time.
@stevenmes this is a nice font. lately i've liked anonymous-pro
@tkanos it was us thinking how nice it would be to be paid to experiment to solve tough problems that we feel are important vs solving x-y-z problem at acme corp.
@adi may i interest you in literature for 9p?
- the woes of naming domain name hell
- discussing small(smol)-tech and and various projects
- reviewing current state of saltyim and documentation updates
- discussing cors and srv configuration for broker process
- waxed poetically about working in a think-tank vs being corporate drone
- @adi showed up, had a smoke, left
- closing minutes


cc: @sorenpeter
@adi i trust you'll be on again. will be fun to chat more.
@adi good to see you today, briefly as it were.
seems reasonable to assume yes.
@prologic i'd need to find an antenna and figure out where to mount.
@prologic problem as i see it, the we that are allowing it is a small group of people who are able to make positive change happen. most netizens could care less as long as they don't lose their smartphone, social, etc.

it's a three-tiered system from my review:
- tier0: those of us who want opt-in and have the ability to navigate around systems and build our own
- tier1: the people of r/privacy who live in some sort of warped spy-novel and throw the kitchen sink at privacy making an utter mess
- tier2: the rest of the world. maybe they're keen on privacy and opting in or out, but they will not let loose of the platforms and other things that feed their stimulation habit

this is why i feel so strongly about creating your own slice of the net. it may not be massive like centralised platforms, but you can do what you please for the most part.

and for the record. i have plenty to hide. my cookie recipes if found would start a revolution :-)
@screem just use the olde holiday meal belt tactic ++1 notch!
@tkanos i took the shirt and tie of years ago, now it's t-shirt and cap. shoes optional :-)
@screem you're just starting, i'd wait until you build rapport first :-)
@prologic i saw that! let the cloning + mirroring begin :-)
@ullarah this reminds me of the pandemic remote trend of wearing a shirt and tie and your pjs. but in reverse. :-)
@prologic tell me more about this homerun tuner. i haven't watched television in years, much less paid for it.
@prologic rip.jpeg cpus and tier01 storage standing by
@prologic

'rip.jpeg'
long day. hoping to get some qa in on saltyim
@screem still great news. should you ever want to talk sec. my door is always open.


i predict an increase in nas and spinning rust procurement
and..... bookmarked
@movq i'm smiling at this one. gets the job done.
@retronav circling back to this. the pod has a weekly call if you're interested in joining. i'm sure many of us would be happy to answer any questions that you might have.

@prologic has a really nice setup. in a way we follow a similar metal-model on-prem.
@codebalion there are still bbs lurking on the internet and even some pstn/pots lines :-)
i thought about this a lot lately. why not solve the problem of stego-keying?
@hecanjog really like this idea. i've had some problems finding a decent working cassette player as opposed to the endless amounts of tapes i've found at various places. what sort of music do you mix on the tapes?
this is a great example of an open community.
@mckinley great write-up. also a tails user both unsafe and safe.

fun story: i met someone at a cafe to do some work, they asked where my computer was. i pulled a usb stick out my pocket and booted a public terminal and simply pointed.
@prologic sleep is for when you die... something like that
@prologic good work!
@screem it's being rapidly iterated through by everyone. feel free to clone and build it if you'd like to give it a go. @prologic and others are moving fast. :-)
@justamoment my guess was that since it's not dbase-backed and is a text-file, there's not really a way to do a max since it's lacking columns and rows

@prologic this is reasonable. if someone was pasting the c manual that could cause some issues :-) but perhaps upping it a bit might be nice
maybe russia will try to take down meta and steer away from ukraine?
@ullarah feel better. whenever my system is compromised i try to move around and take long walks. tough at first if you're low-energy but seems to make me feel better overall.

can you unplug and take some time off?
@novaburst even many of the non-torrent sites (news and such) are pulling this. i understand that certain sites have ddos protection on, but i'm just trying to view the local weather.
@justamoment i recall seeing a longer post from you and was absolutely baffled how you did it. ironically i saw it while using goryon :-)
@screem great to hear! what will you be doing as a consultant?
@screem good to see you about. can't say i'm excited for the work week. exhausted beyond measure. but i'm keeping positive. :-)
@lyse the gods of waffles have struck lightning
@lyse you had me at waffles....
@tkanos entirely @prologic work there. i was a plumber and debugger on this latest release. goal is to make it easy to use without a lot of bootstrapping.

amazing work for a 1-2 week old spec.
currently working on salty-stack which aims to be monolithic docker stack (swarm or compose) to stand up salty-im infrastructure.

cc: @prologic
not my permanent id. just a test domain i made work.
nearly 20hrs of cross-pond debugging and we have something working quite nicely. @prologic imagine if we are stuck in office with two laptops and copious amounts of fine coffee?

@ionores time to bring some backup insulin :-)
@carsten that's a glorious big bar of amazing. did you buy it?
@justamoment ace! i'll pickup @lyse on the way. we'll bring tea and some snacks.
@carsten i didn't either, besides talking to @prologic and for the sheer merit in experimentation. once we iron out some of the ui/ux and service bugs it should be quite usable.

i think this whole thing was bootstrapped in a week between all involved.

this is what community is all about. cc: @xuu @ullarah
@justamoment this is simply beautiful. do you mind if i come visit? :-)
@prologic dropping your dox
prs are fast af when you really care about a project. meanwhile at the day::gig i'm lucky to push a single pr/week.
@lyse slow going but so far so good. i've also put in about 7hr of debug and testing work with @prologic on salty so have had to split my time.

i fell asleep in my office chair last night. time to go stretch soon
@justamoment i like the flexibility of being language-agnostic certainly.

i may try to dance this wm for a week and see if i pull out my hair or not :-)
@adi connected to frantech by chance?
@retronav welcome. there's quite a few of us self-hosters here. feel free to ask questions. i also have a small command centre in my office like @prologic
@prologic
@lyse so far it's :chefs_kiss but more research is needed. :-)

@adi we have much to talk about regarding plan9
@lyse @justamoment just caught a video on herbstluftwm and it looks pretty great. going to fire up a vm and see how it works.
@adi so it is indeed a real picture. amazing!
@prologic understood. as i've also unpacked, my matrix server is private and serves as a glorified bridge to all these other protocols that people i may or may not know use. from sms to whatsapp to signal. there's a bridge for it. i still use what i prefer, but this at least allows some flexibility for people who may not prefer my preferred protocol.
@novaburst reasonable. i used to be active in the tor project and fosdem rooms but i find it's easier to just use native irc at times.
@novaburst these days it's hard to find a matrix room worth its salt. many good bridge rooms to irc, but one can simply bounce on over to irc.

funny how we try to get away from these legacy protocols only to bridge them into newer and more complicated ones. :shrug
@adi i'm curious. the avatar you have. are you doing improv comedy or singing a song?
@prologic i'll be there with bell-labs on