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Some Ryzen chips (I think- might be TR) often support ECC- see if you can find a compatible mobo that supports ECC modules and Ryzen sand! When I last checked there were a few products out there

THANK YOU! This is perfect!

Not coming in with proof but I have personally seen this- a buddy and I did some testing and the Ookla tests were the only ones we did that were much higher than the others.

I'm sorry for not contributing with hard evidence but I've seen this behavior (though I never heard about it from anyone else before now)

Oh, still very nice!

Speaking personally, it's just another form of tinkering. Nobody HAS to do it, much like nobody has to buy and maintain their own computer, car, home, etc... We do it because we can and it makes us happy.

Extra note- I would NEVER recommend a business use their home resources for work unless you know what you're doing (and why you're doing it). Even my homelab has vulnerabilities and I'm a security professional- more moving parts = much larger attack surface. There's a reason why corporations pay big buck$ for managed security services. Most homelabs I've seen are mostly for fun and personal comfort.

"What good is knowledge that is never applied" is what drives me to stuff like this. I can't speak for others but I'm sure I'm not the minority here.

Can I guess what you're running? It sounds so much like my switch- Brocade ICX series?

Best $60 purchase I ever made!

Dude, got any links to where I can read more? I see what you have here and I want it for me!

I wasn't even aware you could use HE's services without being a customer!

Welp, that was... A thing they did. Reminds me of middle school antics, except these are grown folks. Guess it's time to jump ship after all!

I get that but the blog discussed a pretty beefy setup. My whole rack still used less power than my gaming PC at load but after doing the math I ultimately saved more money by going serverless for my apps and dumping (non-critical) data into a B2 bucket on paper. In reality I just started shutting things off and only turn them on when I need them.

I'm curious as to what others are doing to save costs if anything. I love the hobby but we're in a recession, lol!

That would definitely be a big help, lol. I also imagine part of my problem is my house wiring- the previous owner had the place reno'd in '96 and clearly got the landlord special

I dunno if this is entirely true- my current pfSense router gets as close to line speed as I'll ever be able to get with my setup (~900 both ways to a test server in Chicago and on LAN) and I'm running an (overkill) i5 in my generic Chinese minipc. It's possible that I don't have Intel NICs but I swear I do

Got anything more I can read? Dunno if I'm just blind but I couldn't find anything on this. I'd like to learn more!

I mean, is this really any different than what they're already doing though?

I wonder if someone could develop a firewall for mobile/whatever TVs and STB are classified as specifically to block this type of 5G telemetry (if it doesn't already exist)?

I'm sorry- when did they start doing this? I've been mulling making the switch to OPNSense. If pfSense is phoning home aside from the update check I might have a busy weekend ahead of me

If you're crafty you can work around this- three of my servers (2 NAS boxes and a Proxmox box) were custom built from commodity hardware. I literally bought plain ol uATX and ITX decommed business gear from my local uni surplus store and a P-Link chassis for each used from eBay. I spent more on drives than I did machines (Y'ALL WANNA KNOW HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO BUY 16TB WORTH OF SSDS FOR ZFS MIRRORS? TOO. DAMN. MUCH.)

You really gotta do some due diligence to make sure you're not buying lemon parts but it's very possible to get a beefy homelab at fair prices!

Lol I get sym 1G/1G from my ISP and a free static IP address for less than Comcrash offers for their 25/10 service in my area...

The catch? _No IPv6 support whatsoever_

Nice and clean, great work!

If you don't mind me asking, does your energy bill take a huge blow because of this? I had a modest homelab set up and had to start shutting things off due to how much it costs to keep it running

I apologize if I missed this info in the blog!

I honestly know how you feel, but... So what if you haven't accomplished anything?

When I was younger I was as far down as you seem to be. 11 years later and I'm still not where I think I want to be in my career and I don't even know what my skills even are but I'm still here. The world didn't end. I wasn't disowned by my family, etc... I realized that _only I was upset about my life, nobody else cared_. Once I wrapped my head around that things got a bit easier.

I still have my moments- I'm a CISSP and in fumbling an easy interview question about packet capturing for a job you spent 6 years doing before- but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't matter. Life ain't always rosey but it's not always caca either.

You'll never know what comes next if you walk away before the show is over, and you don't know what's next until it happens.

Security neophyte here- you are exactly right. It also seems like in this case there was a "default encryption key" and is 100% a part of the problem

Is there a way to reliably scrub the drives to make sure they're reusable? I know storage is cheap but it's destroying the drive really the only way to ensure data integrity?

I'm a big fan of recycling old electronics wherever possible. Would the cost of compute to virtually destroy the data on the drive so it can be safely reused as storage exceed the cost of physically destroying the drive and then recycling the raw materials?

I know for some cases true destruction is the best way to mitigate data theft in this case but... That's a bit heavy handed for an 80% use case, innit?

Edit: personally I always check what's on my old drives before decomming them but I think I'm an outlier here

Honestly I'd just ask if they'd like to talk about whatever "small talk" topic I'd want to know more about. To me it seems like a fair way to ask if they're open to conversation and then ask specifically about what I'd like to know. If they'd rather not talk I wouldn't be offended (though I'd probably be a bit disappointed for a little bit).

Assuming this is re: the article about the Finns you posted. I understand the logic behind not wanting to bother people as I do that myself, so I wouldn't want to force someone to chat if they don't want to.

Not yet, but still searching!

To be fair, most people don't have to deal with this and they shouldn't have to. I have compassion because I've personal experience with it. I'm an outlier here.

Still, I do think the US (and the world) should really put the "Golden Rule" as a top priority. So many problems would be non-issues if we did!

Tell me about it: I'm a grown man and legit broke down into a sobbing fit after visiting the house I grew up in a few years ago and it was pretty much gone. Roof gone, siding gone, even the fir tree in front of the house is gone. I may not have had a stellar childhood but... That was my home for most of my life, you know? We knew it likely wouldn't last since we couldn't afford to take care of the house the way it needed when we lived there but that doesn't make it hurt any less.

The only house still left on my block in Brightmoor is my neighbor's house and his house looks like it's falling down, too. He's still living in it as well because all of us were just barely making it.

I wish I made FAANG money. After taking care of my own debts I wanted to buy our build as many houses for my block as I could and then just let people stay in them no matter how much it costed me ("a fool and his gold are easily separated" and whatnot). I know it's stupid but the one thing I always wanted growing up was just for someone- anyone- to come in and say "we can't treat people like this" and help without considering the business value of helping. So many people spend so much time thinking about how to help (rightfully so) that nobody ACTUALLY ends up helping.

"DLP for on-premise docs"

Trying to figure out how to auto classify documents for data loss prevention for non-office doc types in Microsoft Purview (had to call it AIP tho).

I'm a pleb and use OpenAI's ChatGPT site. This is all new to me

I grew up in Detroit and saw this first-hand. It's even worse when you consider the number of people just barely treading water.

I think a huge part of the problem is that as a society we're okay with this. It makes me sad when I think about it- I'm smart enough to acknowledge the problem but too ignorant/stupid/afraid to be a part of the solution.

I went down this path and determined that it simply isn't worth the effort.

I now take the approach of "a device is simply another activity" and regulate it just like I do every other activity. I don't do anything special around how the kids use their devices just like how I don't tell them how to run around at the park. As long as the kids meet their responsibilities and nothing glaring jumps out at me from their device logs (I have Suricata set up to alert for problematic network activity and I set up built-in parental controls wherever I can to get weekly summary reports) I don't police them at all.

I try to talk to my kids regularly about how important it is to balance digital and physical hobbies. Time will tell if this pays off since my oldest is only six but doing this gives me "warm and fuzzies" and I get a view my kids' relationship with their devices. I already see a huge improvement in my eldest's attitude to technology where she will willingly give up her devices when asked. A year ago she would throw a temper tantrum if she THOUGHT I was coming to take her tech away because she didn't understand my intentions. My younger two seem to have a healthy relationship with their tech as well but I'm not sure if that's from our discussions or from watching their big sister.

I'd love to collect log data and run that through a SIEM but that's far more expensive than just tossing their devices and pretending they won't be interested in the digital world. At some point you have to ask yourself "what am I trying to do here?" If I can't trust my child to not be an idiot it's far easier for me to just not give them the activity at all until I can provide a safe space for us all to be idiots. If I gave them the tech though I WANT them to fully explore it!