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I have noticed that Microsoft and google are trying to scan my domain for /php-myadmin and similar links that I thankfully do not have.
I had already fail2ban running but it failed to ban a single IP. I did setup custom filters that would ban admin panel scanning attempts but somehow now it also bans my home IP and my phone 5G ip sometimes. No idea how to fix it so far. Also, this filter/jail doesnt necessarily jail everyone attempting to reach these links, just sometimes it does.
Set up Zipline to share bigger files with my friends.
I've been deploying Gitea (or Forgejo, still can't decide), but I've fallen into the Ansible rabbit hole and can't get out. Also learned Terraform in the last week and I'm still on the fence about using it in my homelab. It's nice for the cloud but I don't think it's as useful on-prem.
I got tailscale cert to work but I feel kind of bad about learning tailscale instead of headscale
I was going to read into these. What benefits do you see in headscale?
I run headscale on my VPS. The tailscale clients are already open source, though by default they connect to the companies servers for coordinating the net. Headscale is open source and replaces the companies servers with your own. Best to not rely on some corporate service, which could cease to exist or be enshittiefied.
Currently working on a networking problem. I have multiple Proton VPN connections on my Mikrotik router. Main reason being for fail over in case one endpoint reaches capacity, goes unresponsive, etc.
It's a bit tricky since Proton issues the same peer and gateway IP for each connection. Haven't quite got it working the way I want it to yet.
Building out ansible.
Now it's creating roles and groups, adding a few items to the hardening playbook, and I've been playing with tuning the output as playbooks run.
Updated several Syncthing Server and one of them that comes as Yunohost Package got an new ID.
So that little thingy flooded all my other Syncthing Servers with Sharing requests... Its pretty anoying and surely its that one that serves the outside Backup...
Gitlab and Nextcloud broke (cuz I ctrl+c'd the pacman hooks, oops), but some manual DB upgrades and rebooting fixed that. However, I can't login into my synapse from anywhere, and can only use it with existing sessions for some reason.
Also, there's searxng.30p87.de now :3
I actually did something for quite a while. Finished long overdue wiring for outdoor access point and one more camera, replaced a main switch since the old one started to behave unreliably, installed frigate (which still needs some work), cleaned up some wiring while messing around, updated a bunch of firmwares, replaced switch in garage to managed one and made some changes on my workstation and some other minor stuff.
Next would be to move cameras into their own VLAN and harden that setup a bit. And I really should get around on better backups for my VPS. But it's a new week coming up, if the work isn't too busy I might get something more done.
I finally got my home services covered with my website's wildcard ssl. Which is great, because now I can setup ELK Stack and setup an auth portal on my vps, and get Plex and gitlab out of the house securely.
I actually just wrote about today's fun experience! https://gotosocial.michaeldileo.org/@mdileo/statuses/01K7YKQ9584YBY1QTYQ8RMW7SS
Not much with the server, as I'm finally finishing my switch to Mint on my main PC, now that I've finished the things I was stuck with Windows for.
I'm debating whether to put Calibre Web on my PC or media server, as the PC is easier to access, but the server is always on.
I'm also trying to figure out the best way to host a family Minecraft server. I've currently got two running at home and one remotely, but have managed to get a decent free tier Oracle server running too.
One of the Minecraft servers is staying local, as it's just for the immediate family for our gaming sessions, but the other is for the kid's cousins to join in too. Typically though, they haven't wanted to play since I got the servers running, so I can't tell which is best for them 🙈
If you want to use Calibre Web, should be accessing the server as easy as having it running on the desktop? Also has the benefit of downloading books directly to the e-reader without needing your desktop.
Also check Calibre Web Automated! It's a fork with lots of additional features.
+1 for CWA
I'll have a look at Calibre Web Automated, thanks :)
I've set up wireless access to my Windows Calibre library but I thought the device needed to be physically connected first? I'm realising that I might be thinking of a different program though.
Not every device supports it, but you can download books via OPDS, which Calibre supports natively. I run KOReader on my Tolino and it works great with it
I use pelican (wings and panel) to manage my game servers. I use separate proxmox lxcs and so far it's been nice and simple to partition the resources, ports, create backups, wtv
I installed gitlab on mine. Time to organize my projects!
Similar, I just installed Forgejo and I'm digging having my dotfiles local rather on GitHub.
Yeah! I’m excited to be able to easily sync stuff over my several computers!
Cool, have fun! Any particular reason for Gitlab over other forges?
…. I didn’t consider that there might be alternatives lol. :p but it is what we’re use at work, and I’m just a dumb cat with some servers! :3
I just heard it's a bit more of a hassle to set up than like gutes/forgejo, but if you already got that, enjoy!
At this point my whole setup is mostly in maintenance mode - I've got everything I need up and running, making some minor changes here and there (like swapping out StirlingPDF for Bento), and keeping things up to date. I only started this hobby about 6 months ago or so, and I'm really satisfied with where things are at. We'll see when the next Big New Thing arrives.