What’s the antenna situation like? If there’s a tower of any sort, I strongly suggest you contact a local ham radio club for advice before trying to remove them.
There’s probably a thin wire “dipole” antenna overhead somewhere that should probably be removed if it’s not being used. It’ll be a wire rope with a feedline in the middle, and the ends strung out to tall objects.
Most ham radio equipment operates on 12vdc. AC brings noise, so aside from dedicated external power supplies, you won’t see much AC-powered equipment.
The maximum power a ham can transmit is 1500 watts. You don’t need a 220v circuit to draw 1500 watts, and the majority of hams operate with less than 200. If there is 220v equipment in there, it will be the first I’ve ever seen.
Don’t turn on any transmitters or amplifiers, especially if they aren’t connected to an antenna. You can damage the transmitter. Powered on, there is some risk of RF burns should you contact antenna feedlines while transmitting. While any transmitter is powered on, treat all antenna connectors like power outlets. With the transmitter off, they are safe.
Ham radio can be anything from a couple handheld radios to entire rooms full of transmitters feeding acres of antenna arrays. Without knowing what you’re dealing with, it’s hard to identify any specific risks.
“Fair Use” doesnt even enter into the equation: copyright protects distribution, not reception. It is illegal to send the data; it is not illegal to receive it. It is not illegal to read something you didn’t pay for. It may have been illegal for someone to provide you with that content, and it may be illegal for you to share that content with others, but it is not illegal for you to receive it and to read it.
It is the copyright-trolling “you wouldn’t download a car” types that have spread the propaganda that downloading is somehow illegal. It is not. Uploading is the illegal part: distributing without permission is the violation of copyright. There is nothing illegal in asking for a copy, nor in receiving an unauthorized copy.
Don’t let the zealotry against AI lead you to fight against your own interests.
Real printers used real paper…
I would say that the software side all qualifies. You’re setting up the full software stack; that’s definitely self-“something”.
I, personally, would only consider it “self hosting” if I can take a sledge hammer to the bare metal without getting arrested.
But, I acknowledge that is an arbitrary, puritanical distinction. I don’t look down on VPS; they have specific pros and cons, and I use them myself. I just think that “self hosting” includes hardware factors, not just the software.
Parent comment is on mander.xyz. You are on dbzer0.com. The admins for either instance can prevent your account from interacting with the other.
If you start lemmy.ddash.com, the other admin can still block you, but you are the admin of your own instance. You are the second admin.
I had a setup with a remote Asterisk server, and a Tasker app on my phone.
If I pressed a button on the phone, it placed a call to the Asterisk server, which dumped the call into a recorded conference room.
That was simple enough. The fun part happened next. The cops are always shown telling stopped subjects to stop recording and hang up phones. They’ll take the phone out of your hand, and attempt to delete recordings. I wanted to address that.
I worked out a script on the Asterisk server where if the phone hung up, it would immediately dial back, and dump the call right back in the recorded conference room. Tasker on the phone would silently answer a call from that number.
That was about as far as I got. I had planned on some way of the asterisk server dialing a contact list and adding them to the conference.
I didn’t even know I needed to edit my prompt, but now I don’t know how I have lived with it for so long.
Zero-day exploits are security holes that exist and are used by bad actors, but aren’t yet known to you, or anyone capable of closing the hole. The clock to patch the hole doesn’t start running until the exploit is known: it stands at zero days until the good guys know it exists.
What zero-day exploits exist for ssh?
By definition, you don’t know. So, you block root login, and hope the bad actor doesn’t also know a zero-day for sudo.