Hard SPF and DKIM enforcement helps.

I just learned about this yesterday. Haven’t found out if my previous backup solution also has become encrypted. The cloud backup, I understand. But… I don’t have much going on there that’s sensitive. Family locations? I guess…

I’ve pushed the limits of the SAF a few times.

Noting that I could buy a new NAS every year with what we save on not Netflix is helpful occasionally.

It’s cheaper to build a new server. Cloud… just isn’t cheap. Makes sense for accounting purposes and business reliability standards to a degree but not much for home use.

This happened to me:

1. I need a server for my Linux ISO backuos
2. i want to be able to automatically turn in a thing but only when it needs to be on. I guess i need Homeassistant.

Now my whole family relies on this underpowered house of cards.

“Good” software based RAID (unraid, zfs, etc.) needs reliable access directly to the drives. Usually, USB attached storage doesn’t meet this criteria.

Not using RAID is risky unless you’re very confident in your extensive backups (which you should have anyways).

Personally I have been using a mini PC running TrueNAS with a JBOD over USB3.1 for years and have had some hiccups but nothing catastrophic, but I’m migrating it soon to a device I can use SATA.

Hardware raid is typically not a great idea because you’re usually tied to the chip.

Cloudflare is a business service primarily and the people who should be worried about its monopoly are the businesses, not so much a handful of people running home servers.

Self-hosting an authoritative dns server is not a good idea for several reasons.

Cloudflare doesn’t have access to data hosted in your server unless you’re using their reverse proxy tunnel.

A momentary (if severe) blip in their availability isn’t a good reason to change providers.

But there’s no real reason for that. Losing the smarts. It’s just artificial to achieve lower bom.

If it doesn’t work when the cloud is down, it’s not your thing. Don’t buy it. 8sleep is only the most recent example.

Well, Chinese manufactures cloned the design and came in well under price, took the Chinese market, then improved the product and challenged iRobot globally.

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

If they get half the infighting and split that the democrats have the world will be better for it. Sadly.

Hmm MTG is sensing weakness I think more than anything. Chance of more power

I expose homeasssistant via nginx. I run snort and I can assure you I am constantly getting hits. I haven’t tuned it much, so I’m sure there’s false positives in there but I’m equally sure there’s false negatives.

If you can’t figure out how to set up docker, set up a reverse proxy, check and configure TLS, you definitely aren’t ready for self hosting. It’s a highly technical exercise and one bad move will make your Internet connection part of a botnet. (Arguably, you don’t even need to be self hosting for that, but there’s no point in making it easy).

I believe it’s never been easier to set up a home server. I set up Tailscale in between sips of coffee one day and my mind (as an almost-grizzled sysadmin) was blown. My non technical family members can set up a VPN in 10 minutes. It’s a terrible security practice, but there’s pipe-to-bash scripts everywhere now that get things set up and running in minutes. You want Homeassistant container on proxmox? Burn the proxmox image to a usb, boot and install, then run this command. Boom. Homeassistant in a container. Let’s do pihole - another script and we’re done.

It’s ludicrously easy to get going compared to even 10 years ago.

Yes, when you want to change a setting, or configure it for local use, it’s more complicated. But that’s the way it’s always been, and that’s how I learn - follow the cookbook, and then realize you need to change this piece, which requires understanding that piece, and there you go.

Running this all on one system presents a single point of failure. Separate the router from the server, even if simply for sanity.

Well look at you reading TFA! (☞ﾟヮﾟ)☞

That’s why the source is locked down. It’s a copyright grey area and IANAL but - good luck!

Definitely very cool.

It is odd that they went to a “different” cloud instead of making it full local. It seems like that would be more work. Local control of iot is critical.

But I wonder if they dumped the firmware, edited the URLs, and reverse engineered the google API, and made their own.

Last thing I need in my life is a broken system at home when I don’t have time for it!

When I remember. About once a month.

Had a friend rip out his Caseta for Innovelli because he wanted to nerd out more than Caseta would allow (smart bulbs etc.). But Caseta would be my choice for wall switches. Just so bloody expensive.

North America? I’ve heard good things about innovelli. Zigbee or zwave, bring your own hub.