I turn my head and point with my lips.

TIL that this is a thing in Indonesia.
I still have some doubts. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BeIUsyoAoLs

Kris Kringle? Never heard that one.

No, I dont though.

It really depends on the study you choose to believe into. (No, everyone does it, isn’t a pro argument. People always had strange beliefs which later changed. I think it’s called major consensus narrative or maybe consensus reality

I like this hill, I’ll stay here. Thank you.)

But it IS how we see prices.

I don’t. Never did. I’m sure I’m not the only one.

This is not right. I like it.

The world needs more beavis memes!

…of crows? What do you want to confess to them? 😶

Um… there is a browsing history. It stores all the links. :)

Placebos only work if the people think they’ll work. Funnily enough, it is possible to be aware something is a placebo and still expect it to work,

Even if you know that it is a placebo, it still works. https://hms.harvard.edu/news/placebos-work-even-without-deception

I don’t know if you have to believe in the placebo effect for it to have an effect. :)

Homeopathy… do the sugar balls have a better effect if they are very expensive? Who knows.

One aspect is how interesting you are as a target. What would a possible attacker gain by getting access to your services or hosts?

The danger to get hacked is there but you are not Microsoft, amazon or PayPal. Expect login attempts and port scans from actors who map out the internets. But I doubt someone would spend much effort to break into your hosts if you do not make it easy (like scripted automatic exploits and known passwords login attempts easy) .

DDOS protection isn’t something a tiny self hosted instance would need (at least in my experience).

Firewall your hosts, maybe use a reverse proxy and only expose the necessary services. Use secure passwords (different for each service), add fail2ban or the like if you’re paranoid. Maybe look into MFA. Use a DMZ (yes, VLANs could be involved here). Keep your software updated so that exploits don’t work. Have backups if something breaks or gets broken.

In my experience the biggest danger to my services is my laziness. It takes steady low level effort to keep the instances updated and running. (Yes there are automated update mechanisms - unattended upgrades i.e. -, but also downwards compatibility breaking changes in the software which will require manual interactions by me.)