r00ty
@r00ty@kbin.life
I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
- Comment on Nine trillion dollar investment in 'Super-AI' isn't that much, says SoftBank CEO. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, but that's just because "nobody wants to work"
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I'm quite sure it's a deliberate activity to dissuade against private email servers. Keep everyone's email "in the club". Once you've got this much working you need a whole suite of tools to deal with the HUGE amount of spam you need to filter. It can be a hell of a lot.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
kbin/mbin does have some mastadonesque facilities. So it straddles the line between threadiverse and I dunno what we call the mastadon side.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
IRC was "kinda" federated. You needed to convince a server already in the network to accept your server. But in the early days requirements were quite low.
BBS was not really federated (except Fidonet I guess).
Usenet, I guess it kinda was. But only ISPs were really running NNTP servers. Only they and unis really had the resources to too.
- Comment on Federated social media from before it was cool 3 weeks ago:
You CAN do the full list of things to get accepted there. But you only need to fail a SINGLE test to get sent to junk mail jail.
To not be put to junk you need all of the following (oh and this can and will change one day and you'll go straight to junk)
- SPF configured
- DKIM configured with valid keys applied to DNS
- DNS secured with DNSSEC, with validated keys passing all minimum requirements
- DMARC configured for domain
- Your mail server NOR the entire network on a DNSRBL. For example right now my mail server is hosted on OVH (moving soon) and it will go to junk, and in the hotmail/outlook headers it makes clear this is the only failure (-0.2 points, enough to go straight to junk mail jail)
Not sure if I missed any there. It's been a while since I set all this crap up.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Well it seems it was more to do with sanctions, if the open letter from one of the chopped developers is to be believed. In which case, I think the right thing is to move the names to contributors (they did still contribute), remove them from maintainers (some maintainers are actually paid by the foundation, I mean not a lot, but some are paid).
I still find it all a little odd. But likely there was a bit of a prod from somewhere higher as to how sanctions should be followed.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 3 weeks ago:
It's going to be precisely the reason. If you have a dedicated wire, fibre or copper then the entire available bandwidth is available per connection (one caveat with copper is crosstalk but it is minimal and can be mitigated). With fibre the available bandwidth per strand is huge.
It's so fast that even where there's contention, it is rarely a problem that everyone sharing a part of the connection is downloading or uploading at once. So pretty much most of the times you test, you get the full speed.
With mobile data, the entire cell is sharing a small amount (in comparison) of spectrum. Unlike a wire, the entire spectrum cannot be used by a single tower, a pretty small number of channels are carved out for them. Also because the signals are travelling through the air, there is more of a problem of signal loss and interference to contend with, so the channels very rarely reach the maximum possible speed (forward error correction and reducing bits per symbol to reach a suitable signal to noise ratio both will reduce speed for example.
For upload (which isn't usually much of an issue) there's another problem of guard time between timeslots. When downloading, the cell transmitter transmits the whole time and shared the channel between all users (another thing that can slow things down) so there's no problem of needing a guard time. But when it's separate transmitters (phones) sending there's going to be a guard time between different handsets timeslot and the more active transmit stations there are (phones) the more these guard times add up to wasted bandwidth. Luckily most people are downloading far more than uploading, so it's less of an issue.
I think for these reasons caps are used to limit people from ALWAYS consuming data on the cell/mobile networks and instead using wifi wherever they can in order to keep it fast for those that do/need to.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Therefore there is either missing information (external pressure to take this action) or this is simply an action based on personal judgement.
Looking at the other post about NVidia drivers, I am starting to wonder if western governments (or perhaps just the US) are going after large orgs and suggesting how current sanctions should be interpreted. In which case, not sure I can then blame the Linux foundation, since you know, you don't need government heavy breathing down your neck.
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, along with this I am suspecting there's been a "suggested interpretation" from western governments to large orgs.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
And I'll say the same here as I did above. If it was for security, their code is tainted too. It's an arbitrary reaction that is not complete as a solution to anything.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
If that were true, surely they'd not trust ANY of their existing work, or at least any done since the Special War Operation. Wouldn't that make sense?
They've left the code, and removed the people arbitrarily. Seems a bit off to me.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
You know. I don't like what the Russian leadership and military are doing. I feel like ultimately we're in the cold war era. But you know, at the height of the cold war, radio operators around the world still worked Russian stations.
Yes, there was a very clear policy, neither side talked about ANYTHING beyond their signal report and working conditions (information about radio, power output and aerial basically). At the height of the actual cold war, the individuals were not cancelled like this.
Sanction the leadership, sanction the money, and sanction the military. But the normal people that are subject to the propaganda? I don't understand the benefit in doing this. I also don't see how the sanctions effect an open source project..
Seems a bit weird. Maybe there's information we're not privy to, but on the face of it, just based on what we're seeing. Seems like a very very odd move.
- Comment on The Death of the Junior Developer 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly what I expected AI to do. Basically if you're a junior developer your work is likely to be checked by a senior.
Instead they will just have seniors use AI and then check that work instead.
It's very shortsighted because you only become a senior developer after being a junior and it will turn off new people to the industry.
But, that doesn't matter to pretty much any large business. They never have a long term strategy (and do not let them have you believe otherwise). They have month, quarter and year only and the importance is in that order except at quarter and year end.
They will destroy their own industry for short term gains and then blame the rest of us when things turn sour.
- Comment on Meta has suspended several Threads and Instagram accounts that track the private jets of celebrities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Not lemmy (unless it does support it now?). But from a (k/m)bin instance you can access the mastadon account @elonjet which does the same as the original twitter elonjet.
- Comment on Using AI generated code will make you a bad programmer. 3 weeks ago:
I've never had AI create working code anyway.
But it will generally point me in the right direction. It's useful for:
- Helping get your train of thought back in the right direction
- Automating what would be a lot of boilerplate/repetitive coding. Just beware you will still need to check it over.
You need to be skilled to spot the mistakes it will definitely make.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 weeks ago:
I feel she should have at least tried the shaggy defence.
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
If you mean they shouldn't. I'd agree. But, as has been seen a lot on youtube. "They" can DMCA anything they want, and the only route out is usually to take them to court.
I mean I'd hope if they're going in this direction they will be decent about it. But, it's not the way things seem to be lately.
- Comment on If you hoard video games and aren’t selfhosting GameVault yet, you’re missing out! 3 weeks ago:
Just post that you think it'd be impossible to port to rust and linux. Then someone is bound to do it :P
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 3 weeks ago:
If they're moving away from open source/more monetisation then they're going to do one of two things.
1: Make the client incompatible (e.g you'll need to get hold of and prevent updating of a current client).
2: DMCA the vaultwarden repoIf they're going all-in on a cash grab, they're not going to make it easy for you to get a free version.
- Comment on Tinkerers Are Taking Old Redbox Kiosks Home and Reverse Engineering Them 4 weeks ago:
What do you mean? Administrators/liquidators will have an entire list of assets owned by the bankrupt company.
They will be looking for a buyer to take on the whole company (assets and liabilities) or sell off the assets to cover liabilities.
Those boxes are still owned, they didn't magically become fair game because the company owning them went bankrupt.
If people advertise that they stole one of these boxes, they become fair game to be pursued by the liquidators/administrators or any entity buying the ownership of them.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Hmm. That would mean it's likely one of the following (well perhaps more options, but these spring to mind)
- A windows machine that has the network set as a public network, or netbios specifically blocked on LAN.
- A windows machine that has all the netbios services disabled.
- Not a windows machine, or a container as others suggested that's running some kind of IIS install
- Not a windows machine at all but for some weird reason IIS files and a web server setup.
I think you suggested in another comment, that it's not in your DHCP client list but has an IP in your normal range. Which suggests it is setup with a static IP. That is odd.
Some other people suggested it could be a container that is using a real IP rather than the NAT that docker etc usually use. I do know that you can use real IPs in containers, I've done it on my NAS to get a "proper" linux install on top of the NAS lite linux that is provided. But I would have expected that you'd know about that, since it would require someone to actually choose the IP address to use.
If you have managed switches you could find which port on which switch the MAC address (as found by lookuping up the arp record for the IP using arp -a) is on (provided the switch allows access to the forwarding tables). Of course, if they're on Wi-Fi it's only going to lead to the access point they're connecting to.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
I don't even think my current wifi kit has WPA (1) as an option. It's WPA2 or 3 only I'm pretty sure.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
So, as others have saId this is just an unconfigured IIS server, which implies it's either a windows machine, or a windows based VM, well or someone put the default IIS files on another server, but that's unlikely.
When you say "weird" IP I'd wonder what you mean by that.
I think since it's probably a windows machine, from another windows machine typing nbtstat -a <ip> should give you the computer name and workgroup or domain they belong to. See if it matches anything you expect on your network.
If not, maybe it's time to change your WPA wifi key.
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 month ago:
Don't need the router. If you're on windows or linux, you just ping the ip then enter 'arp -a <ip>' it will show the MAC address for the IP from your machine's arp cache.
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Technically, no. The last few have been significantly below either measure of inflation. So in real terms, I've had a wage cut!
- Comment on Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025 1 month ago:
Raises where you work are still based on merit? Damn!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
"it goes up to eleven"
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
The problem with wifi is that things will go downhill quickly once you have too many stations online. Even if they're not actively browsing, the normal amount of chatter that a network has will often just slow things right down. It would need to be split into smaller wifi networks linked somehow and that means someone needs to be in a central location that is easily traced.
In theory I guess someone with a very fast connection could run a layer 2 VPN. Then you could all run a routing protocol over that network which is accessed over the internet.
Lot's of ways to do it really. Wifi alone is probably the worst though.
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
In fact, forget the internet!
- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 1 month ago:
I mean you could have an open wifi mesh and/or a network of either cheap fibre/ethernet with open switches. Then using OSPF or a similar routing protocol that supports routing over LAN networks you could handle the routing between all the remote networks.
I think you'd need to break the network up at some points to break down the broadcast domains. You could do a similar thing to defederating, by not accepting certain routes, or routes from certain OSPF nodes.
Issues with LANs that get too big without splitting into a new LAN (limiting broadcast domains) and definitely even the most modern wifi becomes problematic with a number of active stations online (wifi is half duplex in operation). So multiple channels and some backbone either over point to point radio links, or cable to connect wifi zones and alternate channels would improve things somewhat.
Not sure why you'd want to do something like this. But the tech to do it is fairly inexpensive.