@ozoned you might want to change my handle to this one, clicking the current one has some strange results :)
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk Sorry about that. IDK if I can edit it in Bonfire, but I'll try. Very sorry sir.
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Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.
I reserve the right to be wrong about everything.
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We'll be taking a look at @manyfold@3dp.chat by @Floppy@mastodon.me.uk !
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Are you still banning, or do you already penalize?
Still using fail2ban just for stopping SSH brute force attempts? Since OpenSSH 9.8 there is a new config option for sshd_config: PerSourcePenalties This option has several parameters where you can define how long a client, based on its IP address, will be blocked, according to the unwanted behaviour. The most important parameters are: [...]
Still using fail2ban just for stopping SSH brute force attempts? Since OpenSSH 9.8 there is a new config option for sshd_config: PerSourcePenalties This option has several parameters where you can define how long a client, based on its IP address, will be blocked, according to the unwanted behaviour. The most important parameters are:
- min:duration – the minimum penalty which must be accumulated before it is enforced, default 15 seconds (15s).
- max:duration – the maximum penalty which can be accumulated, default 10 minutes (10m).
- crash:duration – penalty that cause a crash of sshd, default 90s.
- authfail:duration – penalty for disconnecting clients after making one or more unsuccessful authentication attempts, default 15s. Consider also MaxAuthTries, which defaults to 6. So in an default setup an IP would be banned for 15 seconds if someone typed the wrong password for 6 times.
- invaliduser:duration – penalty for authentication attempts with an invalid user, default 5s (available since OpenSSH 10.3)
- noauth:duration – penalty for disconnecting without attempting authentication , default 1s. Don't change this if you're running monitoring checks against sshd.
- grace-exceeded:duration – penalty for not logging in after LoginGraceTime (default: 120s), default 10s.
There is also PerSourcePenaltyExemptList, which is a comma-separated list of addresses to exempt from penalties.
As you can see the default values are quite lax. Let's tighten the rules a bit:
- A client should be refused connection for 1 hour after 3 unsuccessful auth attempts (using also MaxAuthTries) and crash attempts.
- Since penalties do accumulate and the default max duration is 10 minutes we must define a new maximum penalty.
- As for invalid user attempts I set the penalty to 5 minutes, since typos can happen (if OpenSSH >= 10.3)
- I don't touch the noauth parameter, since monitoring tools and tools like ssh-keyscan could be blocked.
The resulting sshd_config snippet looks like this (for OpenSSH 10.3 and newer)
MaxAuthTries 3
PerSourcePenalties crash:3600s invaliduser:300s authfail:3600s max:86400s
Since OpenSSH 10.3 is quite new (released on 2026-04-02), most Linux users would want to omit the invaliduser parameter:
MaxAuthTries 3
PerSourcePenalties crash:3600s authfail:3600s max:86400s
This makes tools like fail2ban quite obsolete, if it is used in an default setup just for blocking SSH brute force attempts. Of course, if you're using them in more complex scenarios and not only for SSH, these tools are still useful.
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Clef & Code: 40 Years of Tech & Music - Myles Wakeham - E84
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Breakdown of The Race from Ready Player One by Steven Spielberg
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Good day all!
I have the pleasure of announcing work that @enoent@ravenation.club has done for BT Free for our Tube Free Peertube.
We now have working, and it's running AMAZINGLY, automation that auto-scales PeerTube runners based on pending transcoding jobs.
So when someone uploads a video, a job is kicked off for each quality, the script spins up a hetzner server to transcode that job, and then shuts down.
Check it out if you're interested! Run one for yourself!
git.btfree.org/BTFree/pt-aut...
Just a reminder we're also hosting the our own Peertube Index built on a chain of trust.
And hopefully coming soon automation to fully upload videos, descriptions, etc from the CLI to Peertube. (Unless one exists and if so PLEASE point me to it, because I'm awful at software development) #peertube #automation #script #git #autoscale
NAME ANYTHING MORE ADHD THAN THIS:
My first med titration call is in 15 minutes - I just used that stress as a deadline to add Jenitales Artemisia Primal Chapter 1 to my shop last min!
HERE:
https://www.jenniegyllblad.co.uk/wp/shop/
EDIT: woo! I'm gonna get some speed! You wanna fund my legal speed? Buy my porn comics. My clinician liked it
@JenJen@mastodon.art My 8 year old saw that and said "OH MY GOD! SHE SHOULD BE AN ARTIST!" That's is BEAUTIFUL! Keep up the amazing work and thank you so much for sharing with us! #art #comics #beautiful
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FediCon 2026 will be part of FOSSY.
We are still trying to figure out the exact days for FediCon @ FOSSY. But, it will be 2 of the days between August 6th and 9th.
We are also planning to do a joint session between FediCon @ FOSSY in Vancouver with the Fediverse & Social Web track at COSCUP in Taiwan.
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Good day all,
Works On My Machine Live episode has to be rescheduled. Please follow @when@freestreamers.btfree.org to be alerted when any new shows are coming up.
Absolutely LOVED this video by John Mauriello of Design Theory.
He's looking for folks to talk to him about ways to make this enshitifcation hellscape better. He talks about all of the problems, @pluralistic@mamot.fr books and is explaing this to his almost 1 million followers.
And he WANTS to talk to people. EVERYONE please reach out! The more we can become a chorus and not just a drowned voice, the more likely we can speed up our revolution.
@ozoned No no no. I'm not complaining. I love being undefined! I'm an enigma! A puzzle wrapped in a riddle! I am the heart of delirium and the soul of the slightly confused!
I am Funk!
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social couldn't agree with this more. 😁
Wholesome Funk
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@_elena@mastodon.social lol oh typoes. HOWEVER, I guess I could spin it and say you're a directory of fediverse knowledge?
DIRECTOR! lol I can't edit posts else I would.
@ozoned I love how when anyone recommends me, the description is always something like the one in the OP. As if whatever it is I do around here is undefinable, but enjoyable. 🤣🤣🤣
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social How would you like to be defined? Awesome, chill, relaxing, motivational, uplifting, colorful. 😁
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Follow Friday!
@benpate@mastodon.social - Creating #Emissary an easy way to build apps that are fediverse powered
@_elena@mastodon.social - Directory, advocate, wonderful
@FediFollows@social.growyourown.services - More folks to follow
@Cheeseness@mastodon.social - Game Developer
@Mrfunkedude@mastodon.social - Funky Dude
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social - Linux gaming
@JenJen@mastodon.art - NSFW artist
@sturmsucht@mastodon.social - Beautiful photography #follow #friday #followFriday
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@slothrop@chaos.social @_elena@mastodon.social @lumiworx@mastodon.social Excellent way to put it for sure.
Centralization is easy. You control it all. It's not good for people that want innovation and choice.
Decentralization brings freedom, innovation, choice, but offers a lot of technical roadblocks.
I just want choice. I can choose what's best for my family. I don't need Tim Apple, or whoever to tell me what's good for us, while trapping us into a fish bowl and making us work for our food.
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Now that I think of it. Are there any kind of fediverse connectivity between servers tools? Digging in logs at the admin level yes. But we want to exist in the Fediverse. Shouldn't we have quick check tools to make sure we're connecting out? Even users can identify issues then.
I like the new tabs.pub. Just had a thought.
A user on my Bonfire is experiencing an issue with Federation. When I've been posting from here, I see that tags.pub has been boosting my content. I like that. A bit noisey, but whatever.
HOWEVER, since I now know that my FiresideFedi user isn't federating, I wonder if you could add like a @ping@tags.pub when doing a #ping or something similar, so that we have external servers that verify our connectivity. Maybe not just a ping, but a PONG or response or something. I think this could help with understanding connectivity.
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Good day all! Upcoming episode of Fireside Fedi!
Special Guest: @BjornW@mastodon.social
Lives in The Netherlands, EU. Works as self-employed tech consultant & software developer. Likes to tinker & has way too many interests 😊
So don't miss it!
It will happen on 20/04/26 at 15:00 US Eastern Time ( UTC-4 )
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