| • Home Assistant password shaming
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| • Backups as an age-old cloud problem
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| • Off-grid solar setup and battery capacity
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| • Solar system planning for homeowners
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| • Sustainability and reducing fossil fuel use
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| • Grid management in the US with increasing demand from electric cars and crypto mining
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| • OVH data center fire affects services
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| • Possible cause of fire is unknown
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| • Impact on neighboring data centers and regions
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| • Concerns about data center fires in general, including at AWS or DigitalOcean
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| • Discussion of fire suppression systems in data centers
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| • Personal story of losing data due to a server failure
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| • Importance of backups and having a plan for data recovery
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| • Discussion of backup strategies and data storage
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| • Local vs cloud backup methods
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| • Challenges of backing up large amounts of data
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| • Use of hard drives for offsite backups
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| • Evaluating risk and cost in backup planning
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| • Importance of having multiple backup solutions
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| • Family photo backup plans using iCloud and Nextcloud
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| • Trust issues with Google Photos and Apple's data policies
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| • Plans to implement a Google Photos alternative
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| • Review of current backup strategies and potential areas for improvement
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| • Backup device and lack of backups
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| • Linode hosting and cloud services
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| • People's Choice Stevie Award for Favorite Customer Service in the Computer Services category
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| • Pricing and value of Linode
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| • Complexity and simplicity of Linode's cloud manager
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| • Promotion of $100 credit at linode.com/SSH
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| • Home Assistant has integrated a new feature with the Have I Been Pwned website to check if passwords are compromised
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| • The feature checks the first five characters of hashed passwords against the database, not the entire password
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| • Some users are complaining about data transmission on metered connections, but the amount is minimal (36 kilobytes)
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| • The speaker acknowledges reusing passwords on their LAN and having a "lazy" approach to security
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| • However, they emphasize that home networks with IoT devices have a higher threat level and require more secure practices
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| • Discussing the importance of good passwords for home networks and LANs
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| • Mentioning the risks of hackers gaining access to devices via SSH sign-ins
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| • Talking about Home Assistant's implementation of password requirements
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| • Suggesting that a temporary disable option for password enforcement would be useful
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| • Exploring the benefits of password management for new users
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| • Praising Home Assistant's decision to prioritize security features
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| • Discussing the potential for Home Assistant to become a consumer product in the future
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| • Mentioning recent issues with add-ons leaking information and Cloudflare's involvement in anonymizing requests
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| • Datadog's continuous profiler automatically collects data from production servers.
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| • Analyzing this data provides a unified picture of the entire environment and correlates code performance with server metrics in real-time.
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| • Datadog offers features such as tracing, log management, and machine learning alerting to help identify issues.
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| • A listener asks about securely exposing services on the internet, and one possible solution is to use a VPN like WireGuard.
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| • The effectiveness of security through obscurity (hiding services from public view) is questioned due to publicly available certificate information.
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| • Alternative methods for testing service exposure include running it on a VPS or monitoring logs.
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| • Zero inbound outside traffic for peace of mind
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| • Importance of logging in monitoring security
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| • Using tools like Datadog to alert on suspicious activity
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| • Listener Chris asks about self-hosted smart switches
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| • Shelly devices mentioned as a solution for self-hosted smart switches
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| • File browser alternative suggested: github.com/file-browser/file-browser
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| • Chowdown recipe app and alternatives discussed, including Tandoor Recipes
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| • Tandoor recipes is a new release that uses mkdocs for documentation
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| • It's available in a Docker container and also compatible with Unraid, Synology, and Kubernetes
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| • The application has an import functionality but requires a Postgres database
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| • The speaker compares it to their current app, Chowdown, which stores data in clear text and is more future-proof
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| • Mention of Chris Elias and specific timestamp range
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| • Information about the current show on selfhosted.show
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| • User's Discord handle (AlexKTZ) |
