r00ty
@r00ty@kbin.life
I'm the administrator of kbin.life, a general purpose/tech orientated kbin instance.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 6 days ago:
Yes, I don't agree with the no way to mitigate statement.
I suspect on windows the only real defence is something like.
- Check if the network has suspicious multiple routes setup from the DHCP
- If so, either use the IP/Mask/Gateway with manual IP config (to not receive the CIDR routes) or steer clear of an at best questionable network entirely.
- Maybe use the windows firewall to block all traffic outbound EXCEPT from the firewall program (with perhaps exceptions for local networks as per below linux example). For whatever reason the windows firewall doesn't seem to have a way to specify an interface. But you can specify a program.
I did look for some way to control Window's handling of DHCP options. But it seems there isn't anything obvious to limit this otherwise. I do not know if the windows firewall has this kind of fine-grained control with its own fire
For linux, I used to have my own blackout firewall rules. That only allowed the specific LAN range (for mobile use you could include all RFC1918 ranges) and the specific VPN IP out of the internet facing interface. Only the VPN interface could otherwise access the internet.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
So if you mind sharing your data, don't get the shiny. You know it will become like that shiny pony back in wow's wrath expansion. It told you more about the person than anything else.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I really don't see the problem, provided it is cosmetic. If you don't want to link, you don't get a glittering, whatever in game. If you don't mind sharing your datas, then you get the shiny thing (and everyone knows you don't mind sharing your datas).
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
I think that's entirely fair and similar to store loyalty cards. You get something in exchange for your datas at least.
- Comment on The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
Pretty sure I read this book a few years ago. It was called Jennifer government.
- Comment on U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users 2 weeks ago:
Release the hounds. I mean lawyers.
- Comment on U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users 2 weeks ago:
I want to see the first DMCA takedown for a comment "pirating" another user's comment.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
This is, I think his train of thought. He thinks Twitter is a utility that people need. Meanwhile, many of us never had an account and moves like this will just move people away. Before twitter there was other social media, and before social media we also got on fine.
There are literal alternatives to this service, I cannot believe people are still using it now. But surely this kills it?
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 3 weeks ago:
I am not sure activity has changed much. I'm getting around 8 messages on my instance (that's not actual posts or comments, just inter-instance messages about any form of activity) per second and this has been the case that it ranges between 5-12m/s depending on time of day and day of week. This is not too different to when I started this around a year ago.
- Comment on How to revitalize this sub? 3 weeks ago:
Kinda the same, and it's almost an irony since I'm on my own instance. I must have manually subscribed to this community myself, and I think this is the first post I've ever seen on my front page from it.
- Comment on The internet is dying - here's why. 4 weeks ago:
Nah. Netflix used to be a reasonable price and a very decent alternative to the rip off prices of cable and satellite TV.
Then of course every other media company wanted to charge the same price each time splitting off shows that used to be on Netflix.
It's reached the point that it would cost the same ripoff prices to get all the services needed for most people to watch what they'd like to watch.
This is just too much to pay per household per month for entertainment.
Bring back one service that provides all the TV (not even movies) for less than 30usd/25 gbp and I'm there. But I'm not subscribing to them all. It's ridiculous.
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 4 weeks ago:
Actually looking through the site. I don't really see how they're going to make enough money on this.
I cannot see anywhere on their site that suggests the camera will be watching you (and there's probably laws against that, even in the USA!) and the FAQ specifically says the camera has a cover and only an app using the camera will make that open, and you have to accept the permission.
Also, it seems they play the ads on a separate screen. Which suggests there won't be sound either. So they don't even expect you to be paying attention to the ads, because it seems they won't block content for them.
I expect there might be an initial interest in advertisers. But if they don't see a decent conversion rate, I cannot imagine they will keep paying enough to cover the TV for ads.
Also, what happens when one of these breaks, they replace it for free? I'd imagine they would need to because otherwise the hardware they paid for is no longer generating revenue.
This sounds like a late April fool. :P
- Comment on I am going to miss the mute and power buttons when they take them away. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. I'm completely behind the complaints people have with a lot of modern world problems in this regard.
- Ads on TVs you paid for
- Ads on streaming services you paid for
- Actually, ads on cable/satellite TV with a subscription in general. What a ridiculous concept of paying twice!
- Subscriptions for hardware features already installed (although I am fine with a one-off payment to activate them. I can see the argument for a single SKU with all features installed and deactivated for making the production line simpler)
But in this case, they're very clear. They are making hardware available at no monetary cost. Therefore, you MUST know they're monetizing you somehow, and this is the somehow.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
The thing is, this actually if anything proves the strength of the fediverse. Lemmy.world is not Lemmy and Lemmy is not the fediverse. Just find another instance that has not blocked the community yet and carry on with your day.
Lemmy.world have every right to curate the experience for their users as they see fit and/or feel comfortable carrying the risk for.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 1 month ago:
And I’m gonna start my own with the sole purpose to defederate from yours!
Bite my shiny metal instance server.
- Comment on The Karen of Lemmy 1 month ago:
Yeah, screw you. I'm gonna start my own instance,with blackjack and hookers.
- Comment on I still don't get why people spend money... there's tons of it for free 1 month ago:
Organic pr0n?
- Comment on This was the first result on Google 1 month ago:
I mean, the running on watts vs volts part was nonsense.
But, did get quite close with the power calculation. Although here in the UK the average car battery seems to be around 60ah. I did see some very expensive large 105ah batteries. But they were definitely the outlier. So if you had a 100ah battery then it would be 1.2kwh with 100% efficiency.
Also, it doesn't mention that you'd need an inverter to make the fridge run from a battery. These also have inefficiencies which would reduce the runtime on the battery.
- Comment on Router recommendations? (under 100CAD) 1 month ago:
It'll likely be like most routers I've seen. If hardware offloading is possible it'll have cpu to spare at 1gbps. If it isn't (mostly qos or other packet marking processes), then the cpu will get maxed and thruput drops.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Really? I used they when I wasn't sure of gender (online games for example) before the pronoun use became common. I cannot remember anyone ever being confused.
- Comment on Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media 1 month ago:
Not sure, this wasn't clear to me from their pricing page. There were 4 stars next to that item but the explanation for that didn't elaborate on bulk retrieve.
I assumed there was some minimum number of operations, or it had to be the entire backup restored to count as bulk.
- Comment on Backblaze B2 vs other storage providers to store legally ripped media 1 month ago:
But isn't that the point? You pay a low fee for inconvenient access to storage in the hope you never need it. If you have a drive failure you'd likely want to restore it all. In which case the bulk restore isn't terrible in pricing and the other option is, losing your data.
I guess the question of whether this is a service for you is how often you expect a NAS (that likely has redundancy) to fail, be stolen, destroyed etc. I would expect it to be less often than once every 5 years. If the price to store 12TB for 5 years and then restore 12TB after 5 years is less than the storage on other providers, then that's a win, right? The bigger thing to consider is whether you're happy to wait for the data to become available. But for a backup of data you want back and can wait for it's probably still good value. Using the 12TB example.
Backblaze, simple cost. $6x12 = $72/month which over a 5-year period would be $4320. Depending on whether upload was fast enough to incur some fees on the number of operations during backup and restore might push that up a bit. But not by any noticeable amount, I think.
For amazon glacier I priced up (I think correctly, their pricing is overly complicated) two modes. Flexible access and deep archive. The latter is probably suitable for a NAS backup. Although of course you can only really add to it, and not easily remove/adjust files. So over time, your total stored would likely exceed the amount you actually want to keep. Some complex "diff" techniques could probably be utilised here to minimise this waste.
Deep archive
12288 put requests @ $0.05 = $614.40
Storage 12288GB per month = $12.17 x 60 = $729.91
12288 get requests @ $0.0004 = $4.92
12288GB retrieval @ $0.0025 / GB x 12288 = $30.72 (if bulk possible)
12288GB retrieval @ $0.02 / GB x 12288 = $245.76 (if bulk not possible)Total: $1379.95 / $1594.99
Flexible
12288 put requests @ $0.03 = $368.64
Storage 12288GB per month = $44.24 x 60 = $2654.21
12288 get requests @ $0.0004 = $4.92
12288GB retrieval @ $0.01 / GB x 12288 = $122.88Total: $3150.65
In my mind, if you just want to push large files you're storing on a high capacity NAS somewhere they can be restored on some rainy day sometime in the future, deep archive can work for you. I do wonder though, if they're storing this stuff offline on tape or something similar, how they bring back all your data at once. But, that seems to me to be their problem and not the user's.
Do let me know if I got any of the above wrong. This is just based on the tables on the S3 pricing site.
- Comment on FCC Denies Starlink Low-Orbit Bid for Lower Latency 1 month ago:
I would expect it's the sheer number that would be BELOW the ISS. Active tracking or not, there's already plenty of things that influence when you can launch to the ISS. Having to navigate a route through 10,000 satellites between the earth and the ISS is just adding another obstacle they don't need.
The article seems to make clear, they can get this if they clear it with NASA. The implication being NASA believes this will be a problem for them, and if I had to choose who to believe between a company run by Musk, and NASA. I'd choose NASA personally.
- Comment on F.A.A. Audit of Boeing’s 737 Max Production Found Dozens of Issues 1 month ago:
Base pay $25,000
Performance related bonus per quarter:
0 issues found: $25,000
1+ issues found: $0 - Comment on Avast fined $16.5 million for ‘privacy’ software that actually sold users’ browsing data 1 month ago:
It's capitalism. You get to choose who steals your personal data.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
How does the game industry deal with this? Pretty sure the auto industry will go the same route.
Yeah there will be a game of cat and mouse with the die hards. Most will just roll with it when it gets too hard.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 1 month ago:
It's OK. I crossed it out with a marker on the screen before clicking agree.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 2 months ago:
The other side of that coin is, if we all read the bullshit extended legalise in every licence/privacy agreement for everything we've ever used, we'd never do anything else but read them.
Besides which, it's not like there's a choice aside from accepting the agreement or not using the thing. Alternatives? All have similar agreements attached.
Basically, this is just a symptom of how much "better" modern life is. But hey, at least we don't need to worry about lions eating us quite so much.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 2 months ago:
Cars have had engine management since the 90s too. I remember my Ford (UK) from 1998 had engine management (including the key based transponder to immobilise the ECU). My current car is around 9 years old and doesn't have any internet connectivity. So, there's a pretty wide range to work with.
But, yeah eventually the cars that don't invade your privacy will become not economically viable to keep running in most cases.
But really, it won't matter in this case. Once more than half the cars on the road are reporting you to big brother insurance co, the insurers will just add a surcharge for vehicles that don't report data on you.
Not to mention all the other increasing routes for personal data to be extracted and sold.
- Comment on Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' 2 months ago:
Well, procedural when applied to generation of scenery/galaxies etc means to create the exact same thing using random values that are the same random for everyone. It just saves on storage.
But, I cannot tell you how this would apply to recoil. It would only make sense if there were an absolutely huge number of possible weapons.