ShortN0te

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Do you encrypt your data drives?

This answer here covers it quite nice imo.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/5017/ssh-to-decrypt-encrypted-lvm-during-headless-server-boot

Important is that you update your initramfs with the command after you edited the dropbear initramfs config and or you copied the key over.

For the client it is important to define 2 different known hosts files since the same host will have 2 different host keys, 1 when encrypted with dropbear, and 1 when operational with (usually) sshd.

Also you need to use root when you connect to your server to unlock it. No other user will work with the default setup.

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Do you encrypt your data drives?

How do you even encrypt a server so that it doesn’t require human intervention every time it goes down/restarts?

The only time my Server goes down, is when i manually reboot it. So waiting a minute or two, to ssh into it and entering the passphrase is no inconvenience.

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Do you encrypt your data drives?

I use full disk encryption for every server (and other computers).

Encrypting your data drives is a must for everyone imho.
Encrypting the OS is a must for me🤷‍♂️

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Privacy in Microsoft is silently installing Copilot onto Windows Server 2022

In the EU you can just uninstall it.

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in Wireguard in docker, no way of password authentication?

Password protect your phone?

When a private key gets compromised just delete the public one from the allow list?

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Privacy in Secure Operating Systems (Microkernels seems to be the future)

Qubes is not mentioned at all.

ShortN0te , 2 months ago to Selfhosted in How should I do backups?

We talk about software that is considered stable. That has verification checks for the backup. Used by thousands of ppl. It is unrealistic.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How should I do backups?

Until they hit a hard bug or don't support newer transport formats or scenarios. Also the community dries up eventually

That is why you test your backuo. It is unrealiatic, that in a stable software release there is suddenly, after you tested your backup a hard bug which prevents recovery.

Yes unmaintained software will not support new featueres.

I think you misunderstood me. You should not use unmaintained software as your backup tool, but IMO it is no problem when it suddenly goes unmaintained, your backup will most likely still work.
Same with any other software, that goes unmaintained, look for an alternative.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Privacy in Google-Amazon connection?

I agree with you here. It is similar to "my phone is listening to what i am talking about and it shows me topic related ads" which has been basically disproven many times over the years.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in How should I do backups?

One of the main reasons why I avoid softwares such as Kopia or Borg or Restic or whatever is in fashion:

• they go unmantained
• they are not simple: so many of my frienda struggled restoring backups because you are not dealing with files anymore, but encrypted or compressed blobs
• rsync has an easy mental model and has extremely good defaults

Going unmaintained is a non issue, since you can still restore from your backup. It is not like a subscription or proprietary software which is no longer usable when you stop to pay for it or the company owning goes down.

The design of restic is quite simple and easy to understand. The original dev gave multiple talks about it, quite interesting.

Imho the additional features of dedup, encryption and versioning outweigh the points you mentioned by far.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?

Mindfactory is a good store for middle Europe. But not sure where they ship to.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?

With the right timing/deals you get them even cheaper.
Mindfactory had 20 TB Seagate exo drives on a deal for 219€ (~11€/TB)
The 18 TB Seagate exos were often on 239€. (13.2€/TB)

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?

I am actually surprised how many did not get it.

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in What's up with the prices of smaller used drives?

Guess there is more interest for those drives. Much more ppl need 4 TB drives. Only lunatics buy drives over 10 TB.

But just guessing

ShortN0te , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in New Unraid OS License Pricing, Timeline, and FAQs

Because they released a new version every year or two.
Look at Microsoft Office, Windows, Adobe Suit (Or any other successful software that is still around) All had a new Version every few years where all the new shiny features were locked behind.

Yes there are exceptions...