What’s crazy is that my small UPS consumes 20W at idle (fully charged; AC connected).

I got my server down to 40W too, and the UPS ate all the savings.

That’s amazing. I’ll have to take your word for it. I only have Firefox on my devices.

Bed goes up. AWS goes down.

AWS outage. Basically Bezos went down on all his customers.

It’s funny that people get upset about one line in a config file that’s not even selected by default.

Imagine running a website for 20 years, changing absolutely nothing, and one day you’re being targeted because someone else on the other side of the planet changed something at their end.

Tell them to piss off.

They’ll come after your phpbb instance next.

I accidentally keyed my passport details into a phishing website recently. I ran some diagnostics on the site, and it turns out that even the criminals didn’t steal my data. I think they just wanted to trick me into paying for something that’s usually free.

It would be nice if this extended to all text, images, audio and video on news websites. That’s where the real damage is happening.

I didn’t open port 53. It’s DoT.

Even then, it took some extra effort to ensure it didn’t return internal network addresses from the outside.

I found this was returning localised results from the other side of the planet, so I kept connecting to slow servers when more local ones were available. I ended up rolling my own from home. The only problem is there’s no way to do access control so I just have to hope not too many find it.

The stepping-stone would be de-googled Android like LineageOS or GrapheneOS. I think Linux is the end-game though.

The owners closed the restaurant and started a new one so I let the domain lapse.

OK, here’s how it happened.

I was hungry, and I wanted to see the menu for my local pizza joint. I couldn’t find it anywhere.

I discovered that all their socials linked to a website that wouldn’t load. When I checked, the domain had lapsed.

Out of frustration, I purchased the domain and pulled the last snapshot of their website off archive.org. It had their full menu as a PDF.

6 months later and it’s still getting visitors from their facebook page, who are viewing the menu. They haven’t even realised.

Host all the things!

Wordpress, SMTP/IMAP, tor, bittorrent, Nextcloud, Plex, NTP, photo galleries, DoT…

I even started hosting the website for my local Italian restaurant and they haven’t even realised it yet.