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Dow tumbles more than 600 points, S&P 500 posts biggest loss since December as Trump says tariffs will proceed in c/news

[–] skysurfer 13 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

The Atlanta Federal Reserve GDPNow is estimating that Q1 GDP is -2.8%. Originally it was predicted to be +2%.

Why 150 years olds are still getting social security benefits in c/enoughmuskspam

[–] skysurfer 4 points 1 week ago

Found the link to the SSA page describing the policy which took effect in 2015.

How do you all handle security and monitoring for your publicly accessible services? in c/selfhosted

[–] skysurfer 1 points 2 weeks ago

I set the VPN tunnel from the VPS to deny everything to the internal network by default, then put the services that need to be accessed on the allow list in the firewall. So the VPN endpoint from the VPS can only hit the very specific IPs/ports/protocols that were explicitly allowed. There is still the possibility of a compromise chain of VPS->service->container/VM->hypervisor->internal network access, but I feel comfortable with those layers.

You could also setup an IDS such as Snort to pick up on that exploit traffic between the services and internal VPN endpoint if extra security is necessary on top of fail2ban and log alerts on the VPS.

Hundreds of US government sites go offline in c/[email protected]

[–] skysurfer 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That is a fun rabbit hole. This was Nixon's presidency and right before the whole Watergate scandal broke, so probably lots of shady shit happening around then that help put us on this wonderful trajectory.

Just host it yourself if you're so worried in c/[email protected]

[–] skysurfer 0 points 1 month ago

Get it cornered in trying to reconcile how the citizens of China keep their government accountable when information is censored to only favor the governments position, it will then give answers around some of the "sensitive" topics.