Some of the things in my house were set up so long ago, and running so smoothly, i havent looked at them in years (other than auto updates) now i'm afraid i've accidentally left some security hole without realizing it

For example, i set up cerbot 10 years ago and back then there was no DNS challenge, so i had to open my webserver to port 80 to renew.... well since everything was running from https/443, i decided to block port 80

so i edited the systemctl unit for certbot to temporarily open port 80 for the renewal, and close it right after...

It was only 5 years later i realized i made a mistake and port 80 had been open for 5 years to the open internet

Probably no harm since its a public server anyway... defense in depth is the key

I finally figured out it was a bad stick of RAM in my server that has been causing random freezes and not some stupid mistake on my part. Thankfully it’s DDR3 so I can keep both of my kidneys and still afford the replacement.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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I've been hinking about infrastructure as code tools. Skimmed the very surface of opentofu, looked at the list of alternatives.

I'm in need of something that is both, deployment automation and (implicit) documentation of the thing that I call "the zoo". Namely:

• network definition
• machine definitions (VMs, containers) and their configuration
• inventory: keeping track of third party resources

Now I think about which tool would be the right one for the job while I'm still not 100% sure what the job is. I don't like added complexity, it is quite possible this could become a dead end for me, if I spend more time wrangling the tool than I gain in the end.

PS: If you haven't already, please take a look at your openssl packages. Since this week there are two new CVEs rated as high: https://openssl-library.org/news/vulnerabilities/index.html

Got hit with this recently

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/issues/15148

Just restored an old backup. Everything is behind a vpn and is working so ill give it a while and see if it gets sorted before resorting to swapping out the sqlite version for each update.