I am a Meat-Popsicle

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • You don’t need to be faster than the bear, you just need to be faster than the other slowest campers.

    Health care and small ticket entertainment industries are more recession-proof than new car sales and home sales.

    Stay away from big public corporations that are going to fire a bunch of people as soon as the stocks dip a few percent.

    Make sure your boss knows about the family you’re supporting, but in a friendly, proud way If you have kids make sure their pictures are on your desk

    If you’re in some field where there’s new and different technology around it’s not a bad thing to brush up continue education , Even if it’s just something as simple as watching YouTube videos and talking with your boss about it, especially if it’s something they mention that they have an interest in.

    I know being a bootlicker is terribly out of fashion, but, within reason, try to make yourself the most useful cog you can be. Don’t kill yourself bending over, don’t just let them take a wild advantage of you, But try to make sure that in your boss’s mind that there are people the team who are more replaceable than you are.

    With any luck we won’t have to endure a pandemic at the same time

    None of this in the end may help, it’s merely suggestions to help you position yourself.



  • Minimum open services is indeed best practice but be careful about making statements that the attack surface is relegated to open inbound ports.

    Even Enterprise gear gets hit every now and then with a vulnerability that’s able to bypass closed port blocking from the outside. Cisco had some nasty ones where you could DDOS a firewall to the point the rules engine would let things through. It’s rare but things like that do happen.

    You can also have vulnerabilities with clients/services inside your network. Somebody gets someone in your family to click on something or someone slips a mickey inside one of your container updates, all of a sudden you have a rat on the inside. Hell even baby monitors are a liability these days.

    I wish all the home hardware was better at zero trust. Keeping crap in isolation networks and setting up firewalls between your garden and your clients can either be prudent or overkill depending on your situation. Personally I think it’s best for stuff that touches the web to only be allowed a minimum amount of network access to internal devices. Keep that Plex server isolated from your document store if you can.