antiochian

Hi HN. long time lurker, first time poster.

This is my DIY end-to-end Spotify replacement, and maybe the first project of mine where I don't think I have seen anyone else on the internet do anything quite like it. So I thought it might be worth sharing!

Security through obscurity is dead. I used to let my straggly collection of home servers and rented VPSs chug along with outdated firmware and security settings I only loosely understood, comfortable in the knowledge that: 1) Nobody cared about my servers 2) They weren't connected to anything important

But because of AI, (1) is no longer true. And if you believe Anthropic's murmurings about self-replicating LLMs, (2) may not be relevant either. I have had to pre-emptively get a frontier LLM to systematically fix and harden all of my hobby instances. On the bright side - also because of LLMs - it was very easy. There is really no excuse for outdated security anymore, when an LLM can one-shot harden almost any service.