This is the way

@AlThePilcrow@lemmy.blahaj.zone I’m using restic to backup my NAS to a Hetzner storage box. (1TB for ~€3/month)

It’s easy, and you can SSH into the box to verify what’s actually there.

I didn’t know that, everyday is a schoolday.

Ask for it to be removed

I agree this is an old thing, my firewall has blocklists and allowlists to prevent known bad IPs and allow only the countries I travel to.

But if Nabu Casa is an outbound VPN, then my blocks won’t work. I’d need them to block

Either way it would make sense for HA to also use some crowdsourced blocklists as a 2nd level defense

I’ve not looked into Nabu Casa much, is it an outbound VPN from our HA instances to their servers? If so, maybe the Nabu Casa admins need a blocklist?

Ok, good luck 🙂

And if it wasn’t for your post I wouldn’t know he created Ruby on Rails

It’s been a while for me (I don’t upgrade things that work and I try to buy things that last a long time…)

But, Hotel Mode might still be a thing, and it might bypass some “smart” stuff on the TV

I used that to make my TV start on the correct external HDMI port for my MythTV instance running on Arch Linux (btw) with dual TV tuners in.

The TV is rarely used to watch live TV and it’s certainly not connected to any networking.

Just another approach that I’ve not seen mentioned here

Ok, interesting… any advances after d2?

Mermaid --> d2 --> ???

It’s keeping the drawings / spreadsheets / etc. up to date, to know what changes are required, that I’m thinking about.

With multiple switches, VLANs, subnets, etc and I want to add an IoT device somewhere physically convenient, then maybe I now need to trunk the IoT VLAN through multiple devices from the Wifi AP PoE switch, update firewall rules, because this is the 1st device on that physical segment, etc… and then update the drawings afterwards.

Now that’s worth automating.

I’m looking for a map, not a calculator.

Ah, ok, so you’re usng it as a live agent to interact with the live system as / when you need some info?

Hmm, not thought of doing live queries…

I don’t have any AI running, hence just thinking of using public LLMs to create a drawing, but maybe this can interact with uptime kuma (for example) and tell me more about what just broke…

Not really seen much of mermaid diagrams before, thanks.

Btw, Looking at the issue comments, seems beautiful mermaid is unmaintained and now forked to zombie mermaid: https://github.com/dfadler/zombie-mermaid

I have Visio drawings already, and KeePass files and backup configs and…

So, it’s mostly there, but there’s always something that’s not captured, like maybe MAC address I’m trying to resolve in a switch…

I was thinking AI could draw, redraw and draw again…

Is the TV still in warranty? (I don’t know that model)… if so, send it back, it’s “broken”

If we tolerate this stuff it’ll only get worse.

To be fair… if all that happens, you’re probably toast too

I suppose an iptable setup correctly could allow you to watch IPTV…

Wow, I didn’t know that.

I can see I’m going to have to do something similar in the future, so my future self thanks you

Get 2 devices, set them up the same and put 1 in a cupboard.

When you make a change / update and / or the hardware fails, then you can still recover.

Personally I have a Fritz router in bridge / pass through mode, then a pfSense firewall - basically a low-ish power microATX (I think) PC - which does all my adblocking and DNS as well as reverse proxy for home assistant, etc.

Works well. But I had a SSD failure once and that was difficult to live with…

I had to modify the wiring in a - fairly new - tractor once.

I opened up an inspection panel and found a pair of pliers in there, used them to fix the wiring and took them out.

I gained a tool and fixed an annoying rattle too.

If you’re not usng it for your own purposes, I doubt you’ll do what a bunch of strangers on Lemmy will tell you to do.

It needs to be running, either in your possession, or someone else’s, so sell it and make some profit from the recent price rises. Put a minimum sell price on ebay and it’ll go eventually.