SayCyberOnceMore

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Joined 3 years ago
Cake day: June 17th, 2023





  • Yeah, an interesting piece.

    As someone who’s seen the internet arrive, watched the various battles (best seen on Internet Explorer at 640x320) and tried all the latest things (why use gopher when google can search immediately), then I do think it started out well

    But, yep, I’ve also seen the effects when the bills needed paying and realising that just taking things that are “free” without giving anything back is unsustainable.

    That’s why I contribute when & where I can… Arch Wiki, Open Street Map, a few payments to developers and independant media sources, helping others…

    But it takes some effort and I get it, not everyone has the same priorities. Yet.




  • If I’ve understood @[email protected] correctly, this won’t need 2 automations

    When you exceed a max, I presume you’re triggering the AC to heat / cool, at this point you’d also set the “dontlogthisagain” boolean.

    Then, when you’d reached the correct temp range, then you can turn off the AC and reset the “dontlogthisagain” boolean.

    The conditional statements would then be “(is the temp outsode of range) AND (dontlogthisagain=True)”

    You’d need to check the logic is the right way around there, but - in my head - thst should work.

    Edit: actually, thinking anout this some more, you might not need the boolean, you could use the on/off state of the AC unit itself









  • Layers

    HA has it’s own built in IP ban function with the HTTP(S) Integration, but that might only see NAT’d addresses (ie the entire internet has the same address as far as HA is concerned), and is really only intended for protection from someone already on your network.

    You should also have some other form of external facing brute-force protection with HAproxy, nginx, fail2ban, etc.

    You should have a firewall somewhere, maybe a function on your router, maybe a separate box. If possible also use geographical IP ranges to only allow your region(s).

    All of that can either be at home, or on a VPS if you wanted to bounce all your traffic via a fixed location, perhaps with an outbound VPN from your home to the VPS.

    Also use other network presence detection (ie ICMP ping, GPS, etc) to determine if you’re at home.

    Or… as others mention… support the devs with their solution.