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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • It’s hard to explain from scratch.

    Caddy is a reverse proxy software that essentially redirects traffic from a certain port to another port. For example external:port => internal:port. It also enables SSL encryption meaning everything will be encrypted en route between the external and the user.

    VPS is a virtual private server. Just someone else’s computer you can expose to the Internet.

    Tailscale is a mesh VPN that uses wire guard as its transport. I use this to tunnel between my VPS and my Immich server to hide my home IP and to allow encrypted traffic between my Immich server and my VPS.

    A zero-day (also known as a 0-day) is a vulnerability in software or hardware that is typically unknown to the vendor and for which no patch or other fix is available. The vendor thus has zero days to prepare a patch, as the vulnerability has already been described or exploited.

    There’s no fix other than security through layers.









  • Consider a dam that is 10m tall

    Then consider the height of water behind that dam is 5m tall.

    Does the dam need to be built stronger if the water behind it is 1 km long?

    How about only 500m?

    How about 1m?

    The answer is, it doesn’t matter. Water exerts pressure equally regardless of how much water is behind it.

    Therefore a graduated cylinder that is 10m tall needs to resist the same amount of force as a dam 10m tall regardless of how much water is behind the dam. Even a thin sliver of water 1mm thick and 5m tall has the same force as a 5m lake behind the dam.

    Incompressible fluids are pretty insane




  • PiHole and AdGuard are both easy to setup servers for network wide DNS blocking. (Homenetworking)

    NextDNS is an external entity that allows you to setup DNS blocking on devices that support DoT, DoH, and occasionally plaintext DNS. (For your phone and other mobile devices)

    iPhones and Androids both support DoT while Firefox (and likely most modern browsers) supports DoH.

    If you don’t want to rely on an external entity, you could use a wire guard split tunnel to block your ads away from your home network. Additionally you can set up a VPS and self host your DNS server there.