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I'm not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.

What's your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?

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[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 6 points 7 months ago

I too use my PiHole for this pleasurable activity

Look at all the bots and trolls that slammed against my Skynet OpenWRT module... and died.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

It really is satisfying. I can't explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.

[-] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 points 7 months ago

It reminds us we are on the side of The Good.

It is also wonderful schadenfreude to see scammers frustrated.

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