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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • That is how it is going to go until AI is good enough to replace the over seas people, we are almost there. Once Canada is all fibred up except tech people lose their jobs in place of contractors and getting your modem from the store and you will be expected to plug it in and then call the AI to have your modem set to whatever unreasonably high priced speed.

    It is expensive to lay the fibre now so companies are not rushing to do it fast but once it becomes cheaper to have less people employed the fibre will be run faster. Just remember though you are not the customer, you are the product to these telcos your data is very valuable.





  • My first baby step into self hosting (years before I realized self hosting was the answer) was pihole. I realized it got most of the ads and I was happy with that, years went by and I realized more ads were getting through, so I learnt about fine tuning my ad list and regex lists. A little while went by and I heard that the google was selling .zip tlds so I learnt a little more about regex, not because I was worried I would unleash something on my LAN but just incase someone else did.

    Layers there are layers of things I needed to do to prevent the ads, and than layers of things I needed to do to prevent spam. So I knew there was going to be layers of things I would need to do to protect myself when I got a “real” home lab on the Wild Wild WAN. Home Labbing is like sex, sure it is fun but it can be dangerous if you do not protect yourself and there are layers of protection you should use.













  • I use wireguard for all that, it is self hosted and I do not have to have accounts elsewhere, once I have my OpenWRT up and running and my static IPs running to it I will move wireguard there. I have QR codes setup so that I can give people a taste of pihole for a short period of time when I am away from my LAN, of course when they are on my guest wifi they get pihole the whole time.

    Just a side note for any 2FA I use vaultwarden.