Squirrel.

Holocaust.

Needless to say, I've run big boy VPNs in corporate before ;)

I'm considering packaging all this up into like some easily deployable docker image type thing, cuz it is kinda a pain in the ass to set up and I don't really see any existing open source projects that do this sort of on-prem-to-cloud bridging stuff. It's been a while but IIRC Junipers can do this kinda site to site thing Juniper-to-Juniper outta the box, but with linux you still kinda have to cobble it together at a low level.

I just started running across that when I was figuring out how to integrate my Z-wave smoke/co alarms a day or two ago. Kinda had the impression it was a commercial/cloud thing but on second look I guess it is open source and on-prem. Will have to check that out.

I wonder how many people have been smoked out of their house because they've never operated a fireplace before and don't know about the damper.

I wasn't gonna go into the VPN but...sigh...I'll go into the VPN.

So yeah ISP blocks all inbounds as any sane ISP does, and I'm not paying for business class or any fancy static IPs with only 25 inbound blocked.

But I gots a account on a cloud hosting provider and a couple instances running my very few web pages. It's "cloud" but it's just a generic linux instance, I can move it easily.

So I have on-prem infra, and I have cloud infra, and I have...OpenVPN.

Already have it set up as a gateway on my edge box (because I'm a dumbass and didn't check if the ISP permitted inbound...) so my first attempt was to tunnel this VPN gateway through another VPN gateway in the cloud. Local box makes a static connection to cloud, cloud passes packets to it, should be good. Fully encapsulated, the cloud doesn't even have to be trusted, it's just forwarding encrypted traffic.

This didn't work. I still think it can, but after a day of fucking with it I gave up because the packets were just fucking disappearing and I couldn't even figure out how to debug dump what was going on. Edging on deep voodoo and I need to study the instrumentation available better.

So I take a dumber, less secure approach: Make a new network out in cloudkookooland, make TWO VPN service endpoints, one for the phone to connect to, one for the box at home to connect to, and just have the cloud host kernel forward and route traffic. Boom. On homenet from anywhere, and it's...kinda...secure. It trusts the cloud too much and I would eventually like to revisit full encapsulation, but it's sufficient for my purpose (watching my dogs destroy shit when I'm out).

Computer nerd shit bruh

https://github.com/openmiko/openmiko

Yeah I tried out ZoneMinder and it is a bit clunky and old in terms of UX.

And being a complete idiot, I'm rolling my own component by component with a more mobile oriented frontend being the end goal. If I ever finish it'll release it as a project on tithub but this is the kinda thing I tend to get to "works well enough but it's prototype code" and never really finish up for release.

Currently I just have FFMPEG running a big filter chain to multiplex and format 3 or 4 cameras onto a 1080p or 720p frame that gets streamed by a MPEG-DASH service to a simple webpage with a video player that I can pull up on my phone. It's pretty much all just off the shelf linux stuff at the moment.

If you know how to run a fire you can definitely get better performance out of subpar fuel, but you know suburbanites are just gonna be loading up the fireplace that's probably more just there for decoration.

I'm building my own cam monitoring system cuz I want sec cams, they're cheap and good now, but I fucking hate depending on cloudshit.

You can put custom firmware on $25 Wyze cams that turn them into dumb RTSP streamers, the one I use is called OpenMiko. Grab the streams coming off em with FFMPEG using a decentish old PC/Raspberry Pi 4/Nvidia Jetson/etc and write to a disk rolling buffer style. All pretty easy linux shell script kinda stuff and you have a basic security cam recorder system you can build on.

Saving a dog from a frozen lake is hero shit.

I dunno about heroic, to me that's more like selfless disregard for your own safety to protect others, like a fireman that goes above and beyond to save someone at his own risk.

Noble is probably a better descriptor for competent medical staff, it can certainly be a hard work, kinda rough job in a lot of aspects.

We've run out of space.

Even "unoccupied" land is owned by someone, there's no frontier to satisfy our exploratory, expansionary urge. There's no challenge to travel, pretty much anyone can get more or less anywhere inhabited on the planet in less than 72 hours if they have a budget on the order of a middle class American's vacation.

That's why I think we need to take colonizing nearby objects in space seriously. It gives us an expansionary purpose to satisfy that genetic urge.

This is terrifyingly accurate in regard to a lot of infosec compliance.

Calvinball.

Sure, but you're missing my point.

These were just scientists and engineers, smart guys that generally study whatever shit you pay them to within their specialty. They're not sages or magicians with unique properties, America had plenty too. Think of it more like a corporate hostile takeover where they acquire the "talent" and then dissolve the acquired company.

If Germany had won they'd have done the same thing with the Manhattan Project team and all our radar R&D teams.

There were at least 4000 people involved with the German rocket program, so even in terms of fraction of that 1600 is not all that much. Germany had good engineers and precision fabricators, they did before the war too.

I don't really think Germany had any really special sauce (die Glucke nein), Hitler just had kinda dumb priorities so he ended up dumping shitloads of resources into rockets while the US had been researching A-bombs. While A-bomb + rocket would turn into the killer combo in like 10 years, at the time just the bomb was a lot more useful. Germans weren't entirely unaware of the potential of nuclear weapons at the time either, but Hitler was more into lobbing darts at London cuz he was a bit of an obsessive.

US comes in and is like "oh cool, free rocket R&D!"

There's no certainty in anything material, the "shit happens" rule.

Snake oil is real. Arrogance in medicine is dangerous.

By pretty much any metric I think we can say the polio vax was successful, even taking into consideration early examples of it were contaminated with SV and probably other stuff we never even identified. I'm pretty sure it was an animal product made from monkey serum derived materials at that time, and there were entire families of unidentified viruses. We're lucky it wasn't HIV contamination, what a shitshow that would have been.

But shit comes with risks, and doing new shit comes with risks you won't identify for decades. I've never been into the Ted K caveman approach so I just suck it up and use my head on a case by case basis. I trust some things more than others.

What does good ole Werner have to do with any of this? The man was just obsessed with going to the Moon and didn't care in the least who was paying for it or why they might want to go there.

I mean I can analyze something with a set of instruments of one time period and truthfully say "no contamination" (with of course a "* at detectable levels" to cover my scientific ass).

I can also throw a sample of that in cryo, wait 40 years, and come back and analyze it again, and then truthfully say "it's contaminated" (same disclaimer, because in 40 years maybe we'll have discovered a whole new family of novel pathogen...nanoarchaea or some shit).

Fair nuff, just figured biblical since that's where I usually see "parchment" used.

I'm more or less NRx at this point so there's a little conflict.

Speaking of the Governments capability is not in any shape or form idolizing them beast. I don't even understand how the quoted text could be taken the way you took it.

Attributing them near-mystical powers outside of any known history sure sounds like idolatry to me.

The contaminant wasn't even discovered at the time, and I'm gonna take a wild guess that preventing Polio saved a lot more lives than SV40 took, given we can't really even identify clearly if it causes any disease.

What you think the Government knows is only a minute fraction of what they really know.

For someone with a bible evoking user name you really seem to be idolizing government.

Not like a Japanese idol that sings and dances, like a golden cow with power you're terrified of.

You just come off angry and stupid when you respond like that to valid criticism.

We're talking about an event that happened 60 years ago when everything was running off vacuum tubes and relays.