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  • Minimum open services is indeed best practice but be careful about making statements that the attack surface is relegated to open inbound ports.

    Even Enterprise gear gets hit every now and then with a vulnerability that’s able to bypass closed port blocking from the outside. Cisco had some nasty ones where you could DDOS a firewall to the point the rules engine would let things through. It’s rare but things like that do happen.

    You can also have vulnerabilities with clients/services inside your network. Somebody gets someone in your family to click on something or someone slips a mickey inside one of your container updates, all of a sudden you have a rat on the inside. Hell even baby monitors are a liability these days.

    I wish all the home hardware was better at zero trust. Keeping crap in isolation networks and setting up firewalls between your garden and your clients can either be prudent or overkill depending on your situation. Personally I think it’s best for stuff that touches the web to only be allowed a minimum amount of network access to internal devices. Keep that Plex server isolated from your document store if you can.





  • I’d vote for anytype or obsidian

    Anytype has a learning curve, But it has built-in encryption and IPFS syncing provided by the company. The templating system is really slick and the relational aspect is pretty solid.

    Obsidian + syncthing fork is a really solid contender. It’s much easier to work with out of the box but the features are a little more generic.

    Neither of these are really self-hosted, so much as they are contained in their own ecosystem. You get some measure of higher availability that you have to really work for if you’re really self-hosting a product.









  • Weird kid in a private boarding school, withdrawn, perhaps autistic mostly online.

    Reading between the lines there’s a pretty good chance that the other kids were mercilessly picking on him.

    The zombie invasion line might well have been an attempt to get out of premeditation that he didn’t go and grab the hammers to kill them.

    He’s still squarely in the wrong and definitely needs to be pulled out of society for a very long time and get psychologic help, But I strongly suspect there are some things at play here that aren’t being reported on.

    Given I haven’t met a lot of psychopaths, But I have met plenty of children who have been bullied until they snapped.