u/RedSquirrelFtw

I just realized that maybe I've been getting scammed but I hope it's not the case... every now and then I get calls from conservative party, comes from a 807 (Thunder Bay area) number. If I call that number it goes to an automated system about making a donation to conservative party. When they call me, they have all my info already and we usually discuss issues going on and how they need donations, such as for the upcoming by-elections, they seem friendly and all, they then transfer me to an agent to take on the donation. It's always real Canadians, not Indians, so the whole process feels very legit.

I was thinking about some of the donations I made in the past and I don't think I've gotten receipts. I've only gotten receipts from ones I made myself on the conservative site.

They send me a thank you email, and the email is cpc@sure-mail.net, and not @conservative.ca, which is very strange. Credit card statement shows "Conservative fund" though, which seems legit, but I guess a scammer could easily do that.

I just want to confirm with others who may have donated, is this a legit outreach program? Do you just get a single receipt at the end of the year or should I have been getting it by email?

I'm planing out a 12x24 building, one of that building's purpose is going to be to house 4 IBC totes which will be part of my water system. That's 4 metric tons sitting in a rather small area, so that area alone is going to have at least 8 footers on it's own.

I'm playing with different designs but I'm looking at anywhere between 60 to over 100 bags of concrete for the whole build depending how heavy duty I go. Moving a few of those around is a lot of work, moving dozens is going to be insane. The problem is they need to be moved so many times. From store shelf to cart, from cart to truck, then repeat for each bag. And that's not even at the pouring or mixing stage yet. To stay within the payload capacity of my truck I can only really do like 25 or so at a time and that's even pushing it a bit. So it would also be lot of trips. I would probably just pour them as I go and then next day do the next batch and so on but it will be a lot of back and forth. It's like an hour and a half each way.

For once I do get to the property, I'm thinking I can build some ramps of sort with a rolling dolly and I can just drag the bags from the truck to the dolly then roll it to the mixer. I would mix and then pour directly into the pad, then just move the mixer and ramps around as needed. Although if I find that's too awkward to do I will mix in one spot and then wheel barrow it over to the pads. Honestly the hardest part is going to be at the store because of how many times they have to be moved throughout the process.

Just wondering if there's any tricks of the trade I'm completely overlooking here that can make the process easier. Like is there a way to buy the dry concrete in a more bulk format perhaps, where I can just fill a large tote in the back of the truck and just shovel it out? That would save from moving individual bags twice just to get them from the store to the truck.

I could also get a cement truck but that gets very expensive. That's kind of my plan B though but I kind of want to try to do this myself, I feel there's just some tricks I might be missing, that could make my life easier.

Suppose I could just get it delivered on a skid, but usually have to plan those deliveries weeks ahead and if it rains that day then I would be screwed.

Years back I got put on a cpap machine, really couldn't stand it and gave up after a few months. I made sure to dry it out well, ran it dry etc and waited a while before putting it away. It's a Resmed Airsense 10.

I want to re-attempt using it again as I have severe shoulder and neck pain, and I'm starting to wonder if it's because of sleep apnea. If it doesn't solve the issue then at least I can rule that out, if it does, I'll just try harder to tough it out. As I get older I also feel less comfortable on my side and it would also allow me to sleep on my back. When I was originally using it I just didn't like sleeping on my back, which made it harder to use.

Is there anything I should do to ensure it is safe to use after it's been stored that long?

Also another issue is I have two cats who sleep with me, and orange one who also likes to bite things. He also loves to lick my nose and sometimes just lie down on my chest for a bit, so I suspect me having a mask and the long hose is going to be an issue. How do cat owners deal with having cpap and them not messing with it, like biting holes in the hose?

Been thinking about my water setup, and buying components ahead of time so I can set them up outside for now so I have running water before I build the actual water building. My goal is to have a basic setup where pump only runs when pressure drops, and draw from IBC tote, this will allow me to setup an outdoor shower, a hose with a gun attachment etc and be able to use water the same way you would at home. Right now I need to make sure the water is open then go turn on the pump, otherwise it will just deadhead. Was going to buy pressure switch, pressure tank, check valve etc and realized that a shallow well pump already has all of those components and will work like I want and end up being cheaper. I get they are made to be used in a well where the water is below the pump but they should still work for this application right?

Thinking something like this: https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/mastercraft-1-2-hp-shallow-well-electric-jet-pump-0623415p.html

Went to check my cameras only to realize everything was dead. Was getting "no frames received" on all cameras. I rebooted the server and I can get feeds now but it's all low res, and it doesn't seem to be recording. If I click on motion tab it just spins forever. I have enough disk space left so not really sure what else to check?

I have one camera that is disconnected so the errors for that flood the log file, is there a way to disable that camera without having to remove the config from the file as those files are tedius to edit and I do plan to re-add that camera eventually.

I tried updating the whole system although I don't really know how containers work so not sure if apt upgrade would update frigate too.

Edit: Seems to have resolved itself after several reboots. Still wonder why it did that though...

I'm creating a completely isolated "internet lab" where I will be using actual internet IP ranges, this started off as just a setup to test my opnsense deployment so I have something to connect the WAN side to and have an "outside" IP so I can test port forwards, firewall rules etc, and then I kind of went down the rabbit hole and I want to create a mini "internet". I will also use this environment as a way to test my backups of my actual internet servers, where I can even preserve the IPs in the VMs, DNS records etc so that I can test the backups as-is within that environment. Will use it for lot of other stuff too and basically just keep adding on to it and want to be able to create any IP range and make it routable, just like the real internet.

Curious what distros exist that would allow me to create the appropriate routing to do this sort of thing. I know it can probably be done raw just using static routes but I kinda want to play with BGP.

Been toying with starting a web host for a while now, just need to actually start building the platform but have lot of other projects on the go. This new bill that is most likely going to pass is going to most likely put a wrench into that though. Long story short the government requires that any sort of online service provider, including forums, messaging services, game servers, and pretty much anything (their definition is very vague) keep 6 months of user data and allow police access to it at any time, and that you have the built up infrastructure ready to go if they ask. This will require building out the systems and infrastructure to support this. If you don't comply you get fined 250k per day of non compliance. Thing is they are very vague about everything which makes it more alarming as even if you try to comply it might not be enough for them, as they don't really give much details. Like what data, what format they want it in, etc.

Anyone else very alarmed at this bill, not only because of the technical obligations, data storage requirements but just the fact that it basically forces us to be part of the surveillance state. It's super overreaching.

I do have non web hosting related sites such as a forum and top site list and those will most likely be affected too so will probably end up shutting those down, as it's not worth the risk of fines. If I do start a web host, thinking I might be safe if I base it out of Panama or something, but open to other ideas. Wondering if any Canadian hosts here are also concerned about this and what their plan is.

I've always been against this concept but I'm testing something right now and ultimately ended up setting up the firewall hardware as a stand alone PVE host, and now I'm starting to question why don't I just make this part of my main cluster and put my firewall in a VM. It makes backing up, and also deploying new versions or entirely new solutions much easier as I can just spin a new VM and setup the network interfaces accordingly all without having to touch physical cables.

My main concern with doing this is the potential of exposing my entire network to the internet by error if I mess up the config, or some weird bug occurs where the hypervisor itself ends up getting an outside IP or something. Just wondering if there are ways to mitigate that possibility and what other safeguards I should consider to make sure my setup is secure and fool proof?

Or another approach, is to simply take advantage of the cluster itself and setup at least 2 nodes with WAN hooked up to a simple switch that then uplinks to the internet feed so that the firewall can be migrated and still keep internet. Of course I do lose internet if I lose the cluster or the NAS though, so that's the downside...

Curious for those of you who do that how you have it setup and what measures you took to ensure it is secure and if there has been issues or not.

Right now I have pfsense running on an old 1U core2duo server so looking at migrating to a Sophos box which is currently running Proxmox but going down this rabbit hole has me wondering if I just run it right off my main Proxmox cluster.

I'm working on migrating my firewall to opensense, right now I have a separate staging environment. It seems major version numbers are short lived, since I originally was on 24 and it's already at 26 now. Was running into issues with 1 vlan not working for some reason so figured I'd upgrade to 26 so did a reinstall and imported the config but all my vlan interfaces were missing, the vlans are there but still needed to create the interface, and thus, all firewall rules, DHCP reservations, and basically everything. Is this really normal behavior? Seems insane to have to do all that work each time you upgrade/reinstall.

There's a huge CVE for Apache right now and the repos don't seem to be updated to next version yet, Just wondering how long does it normally take for versions to catch up? I normally don't pay attention but now I kinda am given the severity! I get this takes a while for the devs as they need to build the package not only for apache but the dependencies as well which I imagine is a tedious process.

Trying to adjust elbows to 90 is a pain in the ass. Spent over an hour fiddling with one and just got pissed off at how tedious and how much time I was wasting on such a simple thing. The middle section just wouldn't budge no matter what I try. Gave up, returned all of them to Home Depot. Trying to use flex duct to do the 90s, but trying to get them to sleeve around the pipe is no cup of tea either even after crimping the end of the pipe. It's just stupid having to waste so much time trying to get such a simple task done there's got to be a faster way.

Do they make preformed 90's that I don't need to mess with just to try to get them the right way? I'm in Canada so it would need to be available here. I googled but not really finding much. How do the pros form these in a timely matter when getting paid by the job and not by the hour? Is there some kind of special tool or something?

Noticed some spam and the "From" was actually spoofing my internal domain, which is not advertised anywhere. This is rather concerning, how are they getting that domain? The way my email setup works is that I have regular online accounts with an online domain, and my internal mail server uses fetchmail to get the mail and store it locally. Internal network uses i.domain.com and all my internal servers use names like server.i.domain.com, so mail is mail.i.domain.com. The emails are coming from mail.i.domain.com. Headers show it was received by the online server which is normal, but how did the spammer know about the i.domain.com? Both servers are running up to date Devuan. Is there any ways to check if one of them has been compromised? I don't see anything obvious. Internal one is very unlikely, it is not opened to the internet and any servers on my network that are opened to the internet are on a separate vlan.

Edit: To add, there is no references to the internal domain of the internal mail server anywhere on the external server. Not even SPF records etc. The internal mail server never sends mail directly, it uses the SMTP (via SASL auth) of the external server. The internal mail server does not appear in any headers either. If I send mail to my gmail for example you don't see the internal mail server.