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  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?)English
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    11 hours ago
    1. DNS resolver, like pi-hole, unbound with adguard, diversion, etc.
    2. RMS server: a lot of Remote Desktop software has the option to install a listener on a low power device elsewhere on the network that can use wake-on-lan to access computers within the network without keeping everything on 24-7.
    3. Log aggregator: would be useful for anyone who troubleshoots stuff regularly, but historical info of any kind can come in handy.
      Simplest form might be a scribe server. Network gear often has an option to send logs to a particular URL, so if you added the scribe server IP/port to the field you’d have historical network logs.
      Additional loggers could also be run on-device, such as a wifi connectivity checker or a Fing server.
      If you have a smart home setup, you could also log state data or energy monitoring history at a particular interval, or run a homebridge or homeassistant instance.

    Edit: list subitem formatting messed up

  • Septimaeus@infosec.pubtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•SorryEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The Langoliers is one option, a low budget TV-movie adaptation, and it has a few allegorical parallels to today’s events.

    Example 1: danger as a function of regression.

    For starters, the movie captures the surreal feeling many have re: our corrupted timeline. The characters’ original timeline continues on without them and they fall further behind the present until the langoliers find them. With increasing alarm, we’ve watched our timeline fall further and further from the expected path of slow but steady progress, to the point that the darkest chapter of modern history has caught up to us.

    Example 2: status quo as a form of paralysis.

    The restrained physics of temporal-decay around the airport gives much of the movie its aesthetic of liminal stasis. Arguably this is not unlike the husk of our former democratic government in slowing the march of progress to a crawl, focusing on conservation of status quo politics. Even now, the government timidly awaits its assimilation by the fascist demagogues, who promise to carve it up and feed it to an endless, insatiable hunger that is eating the planet. (Yeah global elites are the langoliers in this comparison.)

    But the allegory fails, because our monsters are weak.

    Fascists and their supporters are cowards by definition. Fear and division made them, it is what drives them, and it’s how they drive others. Spreading it is required to maintain their power. So it should come as no surprise that they are most vulnerable to courage and unity. Indeed, wherever these remain, they can only cede ground and lose power.