Post by Maxime Rousseau
By virtue of being a very multi-functional appliance in most settings, a FreeNAS machine has the potential to be a very sensible part of your rack. Even if you don't use jails or VMs to host anything, it's still a fileserver at the bare minimum, which means it hosts your…
Post by Maxime Rousseau
All, cloud, computer, computing, distributed, network, networking, resilio, storage, storj, synthing
The sharing economy is a buzzword which has gained enormous traction despite the fact that it remains misunderstood, in my opinion. The luddite politicians who have been vocal against it on the grounds that it’s a dishonest loophole for escaping regulatory frameworks have it obviously wrong, but I feel…
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All, anarcho, ancapistan, capitalism, hunter maats, libertarian, libertarianism, politics, tom woods
Sometimes, life imitates shitposting. Under the guise of conducting research, I've come to join and like an absolutely inordinate amount of politically-inclined shitposting groups and pages. It's bad, to the point where normie posts about meals, trips and life achievements have been completely drowned out in political compass memes and…
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All, loopback, network, security, segmentation, ubiquiti, ubnt, unifi, vlan
I've been putting off segmenting my network for a while now, but the recent IoT botnet powered DDoS has bumped the task up my list of priorities, and I finally got around to doing it. Generally, if your network is anything other than non-critical clients accessing the internet, that is…
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All, home automation, Internet, internetofshit, iot, nest, of, tech, Technology, things
Crowd-funding and the sharp drop in development costs for internet connected device has given us both an onslaught of useless gadgets, and the much overused buzzword "Internet of Things", or IoT. The concept has been pushed way past the borders of absurdity, as highlighted by the likes of…