I would encourage you to setup wireguard or tailscale, so that you dont have to expose SSH at all, but SSH hardening is definitely a good start.

Worth monitoring your SSH logs as well, that’ll give you an idea of how constant the automated attacks can be. Even when I was using a non-standard port, I was getting heaps of attacks.

Wouldnt bother me at all, I probably work with a few undiagnosed colleagues.

The only challenge is making sure we have the right role for you.

I dont know. I’m in an adjacent industry, and even amongst some of my colleagues who do have degrees, there are some significant knowledge gaps. Companies often have entire teams dedicated to cyber security, and still get this wrong.

There are just so many subtleties that need to be done right. I’m pretty certain that even my setup isnt properly secure, and the only reason things haven’t crashed down is pure luck.

The appliance model is probably the best way to enforce security practices for regular users, but that pushes significant control/responsibility back to the supplier (they must stay up to date with patches, force push out updates so no one is left behind, limit flexibility so everyones setup is relatively homogeneous). Done right (for security), that costs a lot of money, so likely a subscription model. And it rapidly becomes a “cloud” service that runs off your own electricity, which loses all the self hosting benefits.

Sometimes it feels like a portion of the community views complexity as a badge of honour.

Its not this, it’s that there are very serious risks to self hosting (dataloss, hacks etc), and if they aren’t prepared for them, itll be catastrophic.

The gatekeeping isnt just for fun, there are actual risks and downsides.

As for prepackaging an appliance, we already have a model for how that plays out. There are millions of ISP provided routers and IoT things, and every other day there is a new breach involving them.

Those algorithms were collectively referred to as AI long before gen AI existed. It is gen AI that is riding on classical AIs name.

I think its only fair the men get thigh-highs as well then

Instead you get a pair of those see through rubber sandels. Women may wear ankle socks.

Mango, assert dominance over your colleagues. /j

It’s meant to be low effort and a bit shitty, any amount of polish is missing the point

Sure, but you have to find me first. Finding the dataminer instances in the crowd of other instances is basically impossible.

There are thousands of federated instances, and datamining isnt an obvious bad activity, so realistically, dataminers will fall through the cracks.

Look for the additional storage section under the app settings:

Are you telling me there are places outside of America? /s

Chill out, I explicitly said that bars should be appropriately cutting people off. That would be long before they are drunk. If they can’t do that, they lose their licencing and ability to sell alcohol.

Fortunately, drunks at home have never hurt themselves or their families. /s

I dont drink at all, so you can keep your assumptions about my social life to yourself.

And no one is talking about peer pressuring others to drink, where did you get that idea from?

Unfortunately, FireRetardant is the opposite :( But I guess there was never gonna be a one-size-fits all answer here.

I’m Australian, we go with 0.05, I think commercial is zero though.

You can get breathalysers that use straws for mouth pieces. I think they are used in workplaces (mines etc)?

But ideally, much better to have proper infrastructure alternatives. 0.05 is the legal limit, its not the same as the “safe” level.

Good point. No easy answers :(

Tbh, I’m in the same boat. But government inflicted alcohol price rises are already happening in many places, so maybe it could be tweaked to help.

No arguments there. My intent with the proposal was more centered around making alcohol consumption actually social. Balancing it against the obvious harms of alcohol is non-trivial.