I’m not sure what caused your problem, but I can tell you that I am using the Venstar integration with https, and it works fine for me. With that in mind, have you tried removing the thermostat from home assistant entirely, and then adding it back fresh?

Just curious… How is your mini pc less dedicated?

My Reolink cameras are firewalled from communicating with the internet, so I can confirm that they function fine without cloud access.

I don’t agree with your assessment that I’m not “extending humanity to those who are less than perfect in their response.” It’s fine to want the guy out of office ASAP because he’s terrible. My point was simply that if one wants to maintain their own humanity, one should not celebrate the ailments of their enemies. Or, as Nietzsche said: “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.”

Take a look at Photostructure… I think that will meet your requirements!

The good news is you DON’T need to wish harm on him in order to think he sucks and needs to go away. Yes, he sucks, but that’s irrelevant to his health. Celebrating the declining health of somebody because we don’t like them is a big line to cross on the path to becoming a callous ghoul. We need to be better than that.

These comments… goodness. May we never, ever lose our humanity. Ailment is not to be celebrated. That man has a family who loves him and are worried about him. I hope he gets the treatment he needs and is returned to good health.

If I’m being honest, I’ve never even looked to see what language most of the stuff I run is written in. Out of 16 apps that I’m running, only 3 are accessible from outside my LAN. Those three are high-profile open source projects that are actively maintained. That’s enough for me to be comfortable security-wise in my environment.

I wrote my personal website in PHP, and I’m pretty happy with the security I’ve got going on. I’m not an expert, but I paid close attention to best practices to avoid pitfalls like SQL injection. My instinct is that it’s certainly easy to code insecure applications in PHP (and probably many other languages as well), but the language does provide means by which to code safely.

Regarding your edit: people are answering the question you posed in your post title, not necessarily giving you advice about how you should do it.

I’m with you. I figured out through various comments that I should update my UI to 0.18.2-rc.1, and also run an update statement on my database to fix the modlog. Only after that did I find the matrix channel. Eventually I also found !lemmy_admin@lemmy.ml which is great, but the only thread there on this issue doesn’t even mention updating the UI. I think if we can get to the point where critical information that admins need to know is consistently posted in one place, it’ll make everybody’s life easier. I don’t think that’s too much to ask.

Where is this Matrix Channel? Is it private? How can I get access as an instance admin?

for one’s own security and privacy, along with securing one’s homelab

Sounds like you already have a reason

Take a look at the forums/discord over at serverbuilds.net They have some guides specifically for NAS/Server builds.

Do I understand correctly that you’re asking us to give you a good reason to hack wireless signals because you yourself cannot think of a good reason?

If so, I can’t think of a good reason either, unless of course you want to be a white hat for somebody.

Maybe look at something like this: https://grafana.com/grafana/plugins/marcusolsson-dynamictext-panel/

Ah, yeah, I suppose if you’re talking about an off-the-shelf NAS, that would be a concern. I’m more talking about a custom build like the NAS Killer line from serverbuilds.net (https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t/guide-nas-killer-5-0/3072)

It’s really a proper server that includes NAS functionality along with whatever else you want to do with it.

I would head over to https://forums.serverbuilds.net/ and chat with the nice people there. They specialize in used hardware, both consumer and server-grade stuff.

There’s lots of ways you can take this, but from my perspective the best place to start is a NAS (preferably one with Docker and VM capabilities like Unraid). That will open up a big rabbit hole for you to explore.