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Now I get notified when my certificates are expiring before everything breaks.
#monitoring #observability #certificates #grafana #selfhosting #sysadmin
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Since March 2026, I have been running honeypots on the internet to collect data and analyze attack patterns. The amount of data stored in the log database has steadily increased over the past few months and has now reached 70 GB of raw logs. I may need to consider a better archiving strategy, especially since I am thinking about adding a T-Pot instance, which would significantly increase the load
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With this structure, the variables in “host_vars” and “group_vars” are not loaded. This is because the inventory file is not in the root directory. Is there a way to have the inventory file in an inventory folder?
#ansible #sysadmin #devops #gitops #automation
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3
Avg engagement / post
2–4
Typical post (engagement)
18.8%
Engagement vs followers
65/100
Consistent reach
Jul 2025
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🔥 Top post: After quite some time, I finally have all the pieces in place. O · 9 likes + reposts
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0.42 / week
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Mostly text
Recent: 9 text · 3 image · 0 video.
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Since March 2026, I have been running honeypots on the internet to collect data and analyze attack patterns. The amount of data stored in the log database has steadily increased over the past few months and has now reached 70 GB of raw log…
Has anyone tested Coraza as a WAF in Kubernetes? I switched to the traefik-modsecurity-plugin because roughly 50–75% of all HTTP/2 traffic was returning HTTP 500.
#Kubernetes #k8s #k3s #traefik #waf #coraza #modsecurity
What are you using as a Web Application Firewall in Kubernetes Environments with a traefik ingress controller?
#kubernetes #traefik #selfhost #homelab #waf #webapplicationfirewall
I’ve been running honeypots on the internet for about four months. I’ve looked in detail at the mdrfckr botnet (Outlaw) and written a blog post about it.
https://nheinz.dev/blog/2026/06/mdrfckr---a-almost-decade-old-botnet/
#honeypot #botn…
Does anyone know if there's an equivalent to "GitLab Components" in Forgejo?
#forgejo #Gitlab #CICD #Devops #Devsecops
Now I get notified when my certificates are expiring before everything breaks.
#monitoring #observability #certificates #grafana #selfhosting #sysadmin
Decided to switch from VMware Workstation 17 to QEMU + Virtual Machine Manager today and spent two hours debugging networking. Turned out the VM couldn't reach the internet and my host couldn't ping the VM due to two conflicting routes for…
The most interesting supply chain attack I've ever seen: #trivy
The attack is really bizarre. I learned a lot about GitHub Actions and how the attack was performed.
- https://www.aquasec.com/blog/trivy-supply-chain-attack-what-you-need-to-…
Please give me a reason, why #ec2 on #aws has less than 5GB tmp and 0 SWAP space? Sooner or later, you'll run into problems😞 .
#sysadmin #linux #cloud
With this structure, the variables in “host_vars” and “group_vars” are not loaded. This is because the inventory file is not in the root directory. Is there a way to have the inventory file in an inventory folder?
#ansible #sysadmin #devop…
Has anyone imported CSV data into Prometheus before? I want to import my old data sets back into Prometheus. Unfortunately, I have the problem that Prometheus - after import - takes the timestamp from the import as the value and not the t…
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infosec.exchange
A cybersecurity & infosec server — its members and audience skew toward that niche, so expect a community-aligned, engaged following.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2025 — 1 year ago.
👁️Averages 3 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.4× per week.
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Credibility score
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- Est. 87% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.2× of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
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