IrishMASMS

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If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] IrishMASMS@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Looking past the folks recommending to sell them, it seems you have a handful of useful responses here (welcome to the internet & endless September). /snark Look past the naysayers, it will be fun and a learning experience just getting these drives up and running - a worthwhile experience IMHO.

I am down a similar path now, with a bunch of SAS drives. What I have learned/experienced so far:

  • Forget any USB docking stations or enclosures, they may advertise working for all SAS drives but are hit & miss expensive but cheaply made plastic crap.
  • There are a plethora of adapters available online that say you can convert SAS to SATA. Do not believe them - you need a SATA controller that also supports SAS. You may luck out and have a motherboard that has the right SATA chipset that supports SAS, you may not.

As others have mentioned in this thread, the easiest & optimal approach seems to be:

  • Get a low end workstation or server that supports SAS in the chipset and the drive bays
  • Get a low end workstation or server that supports SAS in the chipset and that you can add the drive bays you need
  • Get a low end workstation or server that you can install a controller card that supports SAS

I scored a free workstation from craigslist and one from freecycle, for another project on the workbench.

HTH, and good luck!

(Edited for formatting)

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Purging/passing along your collection of audio gear (lemmy.world)
 

Here in the Colonies/North America/USA there is the Craigslist for locals, the Reverb/eBay (but the shipping of gear for Reverb & eBay is painful), the local ham radio swap meets/ham fests (shout out to https://www.electronicsfleamarket.com/ (AKA eFlea or EFM friends), but I have not had much success. Yes, I have been able to pass some nice speakers off to new homes but there is other gear that needs to move on.

Thoughts/recommendations appreciated - TIA!

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Brewing historical beer: A virtual exhibition (foodcult.eu)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by IrishMASMS@lemmy.world to c/homebrewing@sopuli.xyz
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Wow, what a project - and an opportunity to get a unique tick on Untappd or Beer Advocate (BA) though I'm not sure the beer style is listed. :) More importantly, I would love to have tried beer that our ancestors drank.

They took this project to be authentic as possible - down to utensils, #barrels, equipment, and open fire to brew. Way beyond what we do with our homebrewing. I checkled thinking of the bag brewing some of us do today, with the process, steps, and all the equipment they used - but how fundamentally the process is very similar.

https://foodcult.eu/exhibition/brewing-historical-beer/

In September 2021, after several years of preparation, the FoodCult team recreated a beer last brewed in the sixteenth century. In Ireland and across early modern Europe, beer was integral to social life and a vital source of nutrition. But up to now we have had little sense of what that beer was like, how strong it really was, and how much energy it provided. By reconstructing the recipes, equipment, and techniques used at Dublin Castle four hundred years ago, FoodCult set out to answer these important questions.

This virtual exhibition will lead you through the project, from the rationale to the reconstruction to the results. It is organized in five chapters, which you can follow sequentially or by clicking on the individual links below.

xposted to /beer & /homebrewing

[Request] General tips and where to study? in c/infosec@infosec.pub
[–] IrishMASMS@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

There is the personal/home security hand out from the NSA (yea, that NSA) https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/what-we-do/cybersecurity/professional-resources/csi-best-practices-for-keeping-home-network-secure.pdf?v=1 https://media.defense.gov/2023/Feb/22/2003165170/-1/-1/0/CSI_BEST_PRACTICES_FOR_SECURING_YOUR_HOME_NETWORK.PDF This is an older version, but I appreciate the level of detail on this one: https://www.dni.gov/files/NCSC/documents/campaign/NSA-guide-Keeping-Home-Network-Secure.pdf

Anytime you purchase a car, the PII is shared amount so many companies/organizations. Best submit a "right to be forgotten" request to the data companies as well as the marketers targeting you, and a "do not share" request to your bank, your state DMV, and everyone else that was involved in the transaction. HTH!

EDIT: PHI/PII

Smart card/Yubikey labeling - yay/nay? in c/infosec@infosec.pub
[–] IrishMASMS@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a throwaway email address that could be used instead, not connected to the accounts on that smartcard/yubikey? Perhaps put a phone number or PO box with the message "if lost please call/send to". This worked for me in a major city, where I dropped my swipe badge and transit card. A nice gentleman called me & we met up a block away to pass it back. I then verified the access has not been tampoered with, and asked for new cards (just in case).