Brutkey

Graham Sutherland / Polynomial
@gsuberland@chaos.social

one incredibly frustrating problem with having ADHD is that I often have a strong preference for self-hosting webapps and such, but can't because the maintenance requirements frequently come with deadlines. if I hosted my own stuff with any non-trivial backend components it'd just get owned by web scrapers as soon as there's a vulnerability.

this is occasionally viable by putting it behind basic auth, but typically not, and the more elaborate schemes require too much complexity.

Andrew Zonenberg
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange

@gsuberland@chaos.social I self host the majority of my infrastructure but basically everything beyond a couple of fully static html sites and public DNS for said domains is behind a VPN that requires a preshared key plus valid client cert to get into.

By design the amount of world facing stuff of any nontrivial complexity is microscopic

Flaki
@flaki@flaki.social

@azonenberg@ioc.exchange @gsuberland@chaos.social the biggest trick the devil (aka corporations) pulled on man is to convince them they need every single one of their belongings to have wifi and be cloud-connected so they can "easily access it from anywhere", and just NO, I can easily access my Home Assistant whenever I truly need it by VPNing into my home network over wireguard from anywhere, I don't need or want it publicly exposed on the internet.

(not even going into the part "Do you really need to access the air fryer in your kitchen "conveniently from anywhere in the world"??!)

Andrew Zonenberg
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange

@flaki@flaki.social @gsuberland@chaos.social We lost the battle for IoT as soon ad corporate interests redefined it as "clients phoning home to cloud backends" rather than "isolated embedded servers you can directly access via your own client without ever touching anyone else's infrastructure".

Home SCADA is useful, modern IoT less so.