@perishthethought@piefed.social
Convincing
2026-03-04 03:45 UTC
Replies (3)
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@Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2026-03-04 03:56
this seems like something I would do too, which is why I haven’t installed fail2ban
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@Maiq@piefed.social 2026-03-04 04:38
So many times have I been able to wing it.. Setting up kitty terminal, just find out where the default config lives and copy to where it expects it to be under your user. Read the config and change what you want. Easy peezy. Download gnu-stow, stow -h, setup a small test directory, trial and error. Bam done. When it comes to security winging it just isn’t an option. The turn of phrase is RTFM, and the arch wiki is my first stop. Setup fail2ban, sshd, snapper, hibernation btrfs swap the same day. Had some misconfiguration in my jail but reading systemctl output gave explicit errors that easily help you figure out your config. In my case I didn’t use the [sshd] headder. Still have an issue when waking from hiberhation where my desktop leaks for one second before the lock screen kicks on, still need to setup a service to enact an on wake sleep 1. My adhd has made me chase other squirrels.
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@Hazzard@lemmy.zip 2026-03-04 05:00
Man, AI agents are remarkably bad at “self-awareness” like this, I’ve used it to configure some networking on a Raspberry Pi, and found myself reminding it frequently, “hey buddy, maybe don’t lock us out of connecting to this thing over the network, I really don’t want to have to wipe the thing because it’s running a headless OS”. It’s a perfect example of the kind of thing that “walk or drive to wash your car?” captures. I need you to realize some non-explicit context and make some basic logical inferences before you can be even remotely trusted to do anything important without very close expert supervision, a degree of supervision that almost makes it totally worthless for that kind of task because the expert could just do it instead.