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shishcaton Holding Cellphone while driving is illegal, California court rules

Me when i can't use my phone in a bus because some fucker decided to block it's functionality when moving

shishcaton I use zip bombs to protect my server

This will waste your bandwidth and resources too

shishcaton Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

I have good reasons to believe this is hosted on Oracle's free tier. Apart from the fact that pinging pico.sh points to an Oracle IP, the 10TB limit is consistent with Oracle Free Tier's limit.

shishcaton Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers

you can easily find entire VMs for 2€/month on sites like LES

shishcaton WebAssembly: A promising technology that is quietly being enshitified

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shishcaton Fail2ban Sucks (2020)

I remember having a friend with an extemely sluggish server. Turns out the reason behind this sluggishness was that he set a permanent fail2ban bantime, which added thousands of records to iptabes; any packet, even not SSH, the server had to check the source IP against thousands of records. After purging the rules and switching the bantime the server was usable again.

shishcaton Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

60€ a month (tplink smart plug, calculated on the cost per kwh and other taxes). I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects

shishcaton Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

I know, my smart plug reports around 60€ a month of costs. Most of it comes from the massive amount of hard drives, I try to pay most of it myself with money from side projects. Anyway, I couldn't find rentable dedicated servers with this much storage for less than 50€ a month, the upfront costs of new, energy efficient and powerful hardware is too much, and I truly enjoy running these servers myself.

About the noise, my room has a small mechanical room and that's where the servers are located, the noise can't be heard from the rest of the room.

shishcaton Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms

I'm a 16 year old with a small homelab too :)

I used to have all of my services on cloud but since I got a 1G/1G home network and I found businesses decommissioning hardware and deals on local charity shops which source hardware from the landfill and give profits to charity missions, I decided to give it a go and try administering my own phisical servers. Currently running proxmox on 2 machines with one NAS and 14 spinning disks, with some Minecraft servers, personal programming projects, vulnerability scanners, telegram bots, VPSes for friends, android and MacOS building VMs, storage, some ML school projects with the recently added 1050ti, and hosting the infrastructure for my school CTF competition.

(Italy btw)