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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Something else to be aware of is compromised LinkedIn profiles. I was recently contacted by a very real looking profile on LinkedIn, who was supposedly recruiting for a very real position at a very real company that the profile actually worked for. Red flags were:

    1. Bad english/spelling in messages
    2. Compensation a little too good to be true
    3. Sounded too easy to ‘get’ the job
    4. Person’s job title had nothing to do with recruitment until very recently
    5. ‘Application form’ they sent me looked a little bogus

    They wanted me to fill out a form with all my info., including SSN, and send photocopies of my ID. When I asked for an email address at the company in question to send everything to, they ghosted me.

    Yikes, that one almost got me. Advice here is to always manually ‘two factor’ identify people who contact you out of the blue.

    Safe hunting folks.










  • Think that will do the trick - just double checked and mine is running on a xeon E3-1290, that’s a Sandy Bridge chip, so think 2nd gen! It’s got 16 GB memory and an SSD and is perfectly happy running the matrix server, a minecraft server for my kid, immich for photos, a wireguard tunnel for external ssh access and an rsync server for backups of other machines. Even still has some legs left for video streaming and light gaming.



  • I have been doing exactly this for the past six months or so - if you aren’t concerned about federation and are happy with a small private server, the hardware requirements are minimal. I run mine on a ~2010 era Dell ‘SOTR’ edition (side of the road) that I got for about 10 bucks at a junk shop.