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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and DockerEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    a VLAN is assigned to a specific port on the same subnet.

    now I have to know which port is for that VLAN specifically.

    now I have to segment my network to ensure I know which IPs are on that VLAN.

    now I have to statically assign IPs.

    now I need to replace my router and rebuild everything.

    or I setup a separate network on a different subnet with firewall rules to ensure nothing can talk to anything outside of the private network and let dhcp do assignments.

    hmmmm…which one is easier to maintain… I wonder…

    VLANs literally exist because it would be too costly to run dedicated networking hardware in enterprise solutions. from a networking perspective in a selfhosting or small business environment VLANs are overkill and high maintenance.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How to physically isolate a camera with OpenWRT, tagged VLANs and DockerEnglish
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    9 hours ago

    A. Do you absolutely NEED the VLAN for your NVR? Why not just isolate the devices on the network with a bogus DNS record or FW rule blocking via MAC or IP?

    DNS doesn’t stop direct IP comms. I have seen a few devices that talked direct IP to bypass DNS blocks. as you said, a firewall rule is a far better solution.

    However, I don’t trust my Chinese cameras enough to not rootkit their way across my network, so it has to be quarantined. a VLAN is one way to successfully do that.

    personally I dislike the high maintenance costs of VLANs. That’s why I opted to run a completely different network for all my IOT devices including cameras. the DVR is on that network and proxied through a dual homed server that straddles the two networks. firewall rules in place that only allow specific ports through on specific devices to specific devices.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think you are a good person?
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    15 hours ago

    no, and frankly I never want to be.

    people who think they are “good people” stop striving to be better.

    I give to my community when they ask. I help those who need help. I try my best to make sure everyone around me is safe.

    Not looking for clout. Not looking for praise. Just doing the things that need to be done because they need to be done.

    That doesn’t make me a good person because I’m just a person.

  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your overall opinion on generative AI?
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    23 hours ago

    when it first came out I was skeptical of their claims they wouldn’t replace people with it, because what company wouldn’t replace a person with a bot.

    as it became apparent that not only was my original mistrust of them appropriate, but that they were literally breaking laws to build it, my dislike solidified into loathing.

    then they began to force the use of it through companies, selling it as a product that can improve productivity while studies had proven the claims as false. my loathing precipitated to hatred when people started losing their jobs for not using it or just being replaced by it.

    finally when my government began to use it to kill and oppress, my feelings about AI changed into those of active rebellion.

    now, when faced with interacting with AI at work I perform as an idiot. I pretend I don’t understand how to use the tools, or how to set them up. I pretend that I don’t understand what the slop means that someone just vomited up in chat. I pretend that I am such a useless idiot that the only way to help is by personally interacting with me.

    weaponized incompetence is a fine line to walk, but I’ve gotten pretty good at it over the years.

    so yeah, fuck AI, fuck LLMs, fuck anyone who willingly supports fascist tools.