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  • I have not used a yubikey for boot stuff as you describe, I am a fan in general though.

    That said, I have a setup on my servers where there is full disk encryption and a password stored on a random file in a thumb drive or SD card of each machine. If the file / drive is removed I can always type a manual password as well to complete booting. And if I need to do a clean wipe I just delete the keys or intentionally corrupt that sector of the drive, instead of having to do forensic cleaning.





  • Y’know, I haven’t really thought about it, but genesis games are at most 4MB, usually much smaller. Most websites are bigger tbh (AI says the Google landing page is 2MB).

    I was looking a while back at the Sega Channel and thinking about how to reproduce that kind of experience… … My mind is racing faster than I can type and I keep googling things, and I found this. https://github.com/gameyfin/gameyfin Maybe it’s something you could use? Otherwise I feel like the easiest answer is traditional emulators and a public, read only file share. Of course, a friendly user interface would need some work.



  • I have not set it up yet but plan to do so soon. I could imagine a requirement of owning a host name so that you can have a certificate, but I imagine an IP address would work just as well. You will need to open ports on your router according to the documentation; I haven’t looked into reverse proxy options or anything to prevent the firewall changes being necessary.

    But yeah, my understanding is it’s totally doable for “free” (i.e. using your existing infrastructure).













  • I think most home lab/shelf hosters start off because they want to learn something. I think (generally, philosophically) many people never start something new even if it interests them because they are afraid. To this point, it sounds like you can either let the fear prevent you from doing what you want, or you can use the fear as a learning tool.

    Start simple. Build something very easy and isolated, air gap it if you need to. Figure out how logs and monitoring work, maybe even try attacking it yourself, so you have confidence that even if it’s compromised you will see how and why. Then you can connect it to the internet, isolated from the rest of your network, and then you will learn how well- or un-founded those fears are. Learn even more about monitoring and defending, then start looking for a job as a cybersecurity professional because you are already well underway.