It was exactly like the movie Hackers. 😅

Due to the nature of how the ARPAnet was born (lots of academic influence and the view of free sharing of information) outside the DOD infosec wasnt a thing, even then it was an after thought.

There was a healthy phone hacking community coming out of the 70s and into the 80s. Their techniques for getting free calls helped with exploiting the ARPAnet

There were pretty significant technology changes in the 90s with the WWW and the number of people and companies online leading to more opportunities and ways to exploit.

Wargames and Sneakers are pretty entertaining and while movies will give you a bit of a vibe.

If you can highly recommend you read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo's_Egg_(book)

Really easy read and amazing true story

Long kiss goodnight

As a new user GPT said it would be best to install a beginner level distro like arch.

I plug the error into ChatGPT usually get pointed in the right direction, I mean I no longer have a functional laptop and was given instructions on how to build a really good toaster. But hey I’m learning!

In my day side loading was called installing what I want because it’s my fucking computer

Graphite used an AI detector called Surfer to analyze a random sample of URLs from Common Crawl.

Well of course AI is going to say that it’s not writing articles anymore than humans while it slowly builds sky net.

Had to create dummy emails, fake info for my 8 year old just so they could have their own kids logon. Despite it being a kids account MS still thought it was fine to show news and photos from Gaza. Spent an hour before nuking win 11. Running Linux mint, just works for us.

I mucked around with so many dashboards, homarr, homepage, dashy but settled on glance

Mainly because it’s minimalist and mostly text based. Handles my RSS feeds and anything that I want render I can usually vibe using the custom API widget.

https://github.com/glanceapp/glance

I haven’t switched products but I did go through a process of hardening my containers to a degree. I did find that the hardening is limited by the authors of the software and if they have built their apps with security in mind.

I have always used docker-compose I found that easier to see what needed to be tweaked.

Some helpful links

https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/vulnerability-scanning/

https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Docker_Security_Cheat_Sheet.html

It’s a pretty broad question and part of the adventure is learning what works for you.

I have found https://selfh.st/ a great resource of seeing the art of what’s possible and what is out there

Chatgpt is also helpful especially for fixing your yaml files which seems to be the main config format for most container based projects.

For remote access I have found tailscale the easiest way to access self hosted away from home.

What does your fstab say?