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What else should I do for my home server security?

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This is an elegant and brilliant idea and I love it. Finding a way to formalize a baseline and then get notified for deviations from that baseline is a fundamental requirement for having things running smoothly.

I've been working on a way to automate daily log parsing to get to the same state but including performance metrics and network traffic would definitely round out the signal.

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Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth?

There were no locks of the booths, and phones were in fact occasionally stolen. But it was generally not worth the hassle, and so there were no locks. Plus they were meant to be accessible 24/7.

Finally, many times the phones weren't in the booth and we're just mounted to a wall. The booth was to give you some theoretical privacy and reduce background noise, that's about it.

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What kind of spirituality/religion/faith do you find support in and why?

Stoicism. The two major figures that I use to discuss stoicism are Viktor Frankl and Epictetus. Epictetus was born a slave and was crippled by his owner, but eventually was freed and found a happy life teaching Stoicism. Viktor Frankl wrote about finding meaning in life even living in the concentration camps. While not explicitly Stoic, his Logotherapy lines up very well with Stoic principles.

As for the spiritual component: https://stoickai.com/2019/09/19/the-stoic-god-a-call-to-science-or-faith/

https://traditionalstoicism.com/a-conscious-cosmos/

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Charlie Kirk wasn't killed for his "opinions" and the narrative around this framing is dangerous

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In that dispute you spoke too contentiously: do not for the future argue with ignorant people: those who have never been taught are unwilling to learn. You reprimanded that man with more freedom than you ought, and consequently you have offended him instead of amending his ways: in dealing with other cases of the kind, you should look carefully, not only to the truth of what you say, but also whether the person to whom you speak can bear to be told the truth.” Seneca on anger book 3 36