Darkassassin07
@Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Creamy Shits 5 days ago:
Ah, bringing out the old classics for the holidays 🎄
- Comment on TikTok is automatically taking down posts with the Epstein files 1 week ago:
And you’re… Surprised?
- Comment on What are some unique Games to host server's of? 1 week ago:
Bit old, but pretty much everything Source Engine is self-hostable isn’t it? Most of them even come with a pre-configured SRCDS (SouRCe Dedicated Server) you can download and run right from the steam launcher.
I know I ran a GarrysMod server for quite a while; piling a shit ton of mods on it. Plus any source game you’ve got installed, Garrys Mod can and will use the resources/assets from.
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 1 week ago:
:/ shit.
I’m pretty sure I saw this a few months ago and moved to the beatkind/watchtower fork, but it’s not been updated in 6mo either. (Devs only been active in private repos; so they’re still around, just not actively working on watchtower)
Guess I’ll find another solution. Hell, I might just put my own script on crontab. Looping through folders running docker compose down/pull/up isn’t too hard really.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
Setting their management interfaces to be accessed via https because the VPN blocks (after snooping on) http only access would be my guess
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
No. I’m talking about measuring the time in-between inputs being received over the remote connection. Purely observation from the receiver side of the connection.
Network overhead + dropped and re-sent packets, introducing unusual lag in between commands/keystrokes.
A key being pressed and key being released are two separate events that get transmitted separately and usually happen pretty close together. That gap getting larger, due to the long-distance connection introducing lag, could be what they were looking at.
- Comment on North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location 1 week ago:
Perhaps something like time between key pressed and key released being abnormally high? Or erratic mouse movement?
I know whenever a PC I’m using is being remotely controlled, the mouse jerks around instead of moving smoothly around the screen. I’d imagine that gets even worse with ping/more layers of remote connections.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 1 week ago:
Perhaps Mozilla doesn’t quite fit into this category, as their software is far more optional to the average user than say, Microsoft Edge or Copilot being forcibly installed on every Windows PC; but more and more companies are forcing features on users that don’t want them, after being told over and over again:
NO, WE DON’T WANT THIS SHIT
Refusing to take ‘no’ for an answer, and instead doing whatever you want to people IS a rapists mentally and I will not apologize for pointing it out.
- Comment on Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch' 1 week ago:
‘oh, don’t worry; you can turn it off!’
That’s what they all say. Fucking rapists.
Fuck you, it’s not going on my system. It’s sure as hell NEVER being installed in something like a web browser that has access to my password vault when it’s unlocked.
I might(unlikely) have considered it, if it was op-in. But just the fact that it’s opt-out means I’ve got to make a point of turning it off, AND regularly verifying it’s stayed off because it will “accidentally” turn on again.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 week ago:
My wife got very upset. Apparently she likes the ads.
Set static IPs for her devices, then whitelist that device IP past the block lists by adding it to a group, then regex allow domain: ‘*’ for that group.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 week ago:
A bit of redundancy is key.
I have my primary DNS, pihole, running on an RPI that’s dedicated to it; as well as a second backup version running in a docker container on my main server machine.
Nebula-Sync keeps the two synchronized with eachother, so if a change is made on one, it automatically syncs to the other. (things like local dns records or changes to blocklists).
If either one goes down (dead sd cards, me playing with things, power surges, whatever); the other picks up the slack until I fix the broken one, which is usually little more than re-install, then manually sync them using piholes ‘teleporter’ settings. Worse case, restore a backup (That you’re definitely taking. Regularly. Right?)
Both piholes use Cloudflared (here’s their guide) to translate ALL dns traffic into DOH traffic, encrypting it and using the provider of my choice, instead of my ISP or any other plain DNS. The router hands out both local DNS IPs with DHCP because Port 53 outbound (regular dns) is blocked at the router, so all LAN devices MUST use the local DNS or their own DOH config. Plain DNS won’t make it out.
DNS adblocking isn’t perfect, but it’s a really nice tool to have. Then having an internal DNS to resolve names for local-only services is super handy. Most of my subdomains are only used internally, so pihole handles those DNS records, while external DNS only has the records for publicly accessible things.
- Comment on It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects 2 weeks ago:
There’s something about a thick Scottish accent that requires a translator for me. (West coast, Canadian)
Luckily the few I watch on youtube add subtitles for the rest of us.
- Comment on PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup 3 weeks ago:
I have the same issue with Immich on android. It pretty much never uploads files until I manually open the app; then the app refuses to acknowledge it has uploaded those new files until it’s closed and re-opened :(
FolderSync has been the only reliable (non-root) backup solution I’ve used. It’s set to monitor my image folders for changes and upload any new files as soon as they’re created; this works ~85% of the time. Then, It’s also set with a few schedules to check for changes every 3hrs, backing up everything on the phone the app can access; this catches anything the on-change/on-creation file detection misses, while also backing up more data than just my images. I have yet to see that fail after ~3 years.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
- George Carlin
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 weeks ago:
Gotta cater more to windows, where the idiots that would actually run this crap reside.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
(Dis)Prove any claims of misconduct/malpractice? Positioned is such a was as to see the general room, but not looking ‘right up the barrel’ so-to-speak.
Should be CCTV to a local only DVR, not an IP cam though.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 weeks ago:
Hmm; so about 14Gs + a good long barrel and I should be able to launch a baby at least to Mach 2 or 3.
Stopping might be a problem, but that’s one for whoevers gonna catch it.
- Comment on Ya yeet! 3 weeks ago:
I wonder what the maximum muzzle velocity for a child would be (without just killing it immediately).
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me;
5-6 years ago, I was scrolling through reddit and stumbled across a link to a website that was just a generic white page with hundreds of hyperlinks on it. No other formatting or images, just row after row of links on a plain white background.
Each one was a direct link to an IP security camera somewhere in the world. Presumably these either used default logins, had no login, or the credentials were stolen somehow. There were private residences, public buildings, the interior and exterior of stores, what looked like public security cameras (like pole mounted traffic cams), some spa resort type places, even a few elevator cams. Some of them even had working PTZ controls (tho I only came across 2-3 of those in the few dozen I played with).
I wasn’t entirely sure they were even real; until I spotted a phone number in one of them and gave it a call. Took a bit of convincing, but the lady that answered finally believed me when I told her how many fingers she was holding up.
I wish I’d have saved it, just to see if anyone did anything about it. I really should have fired off an email to the domain registrar or something; but… naivety 🤷
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin and all legal, and each have ways to serve liveTV alongside your own locally stored content, amd DCR that liveTV if you want. You’d just have to purchase a liveTV subscription from your local provider (or go the Pirate route ofc).
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Emby has what they call ‘Emby Connect’ which is entirely optional and is basically a glorified DNS service.
It doesn’t proxy connections, it just passes on the hostname to the client. The server is still required to setup port forwarding or other routing like tailscale or a proxy on a vps.
Emby Connect will let you sign into your local server using your emby.media credentials, but unlike Plex it’s completely optional and only works once explicitly linked to the local user of an Emby server.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I only bring it up because you explicitly said you have no idea why it doesn’t work.
Take things at a comfortable pace; there’s no sense overwhelming yourself. Then you just forget what you’ve done and end up lost in your own maze.
I started with Plex myself, almost 10 years ago. Moved to Emby, where I learned about buying a domain, setting up ssl through a reverse proxy, and just continued to explore from there. Today I run ~26 containers/projects across three systems and I’m always keeping my eye out for interesting new things.
Best of luck with your journey m8.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like you’re behind cgNAT, which essentially means there’s another router owned by your ISP that’s between yours and the open internet, which also requires port forwarding, but your ISP will never do that for you.
It complicates things, but the solution(s) are tools like tailscale, cloudflare Tunnels, or to rent a VPS just to host a proxy/vpn.
Plex solves this by using their own public servers as a proxy for you, but this is part of how they have control over your users/server/data, such as blocking remote streaming… That makes more than a few people uncomfortable.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Plex centralizes authentication at plex.tv
When a user wants to connect to a ‘private’ plex server, they must first sign into their plex.tv account, which then provides the auth token needed to login to the users server (even if both the client and server are on the same lan)
With this system, Plex can monitor and control every single connection to every plex server; limiting access to whatever they want. Even your own local content.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
Plex has an automatic proxy service hosted by their public servers. If you haven’t or can’t configure port forwarding correctly, plex will route the connection through their own servers.
The problem is, that also means Plex co has total control over your server and the data sent between it and clients if they so choose. Anything from quietly logging the data sent back and fourth, to controlling who can connect and what they can do while they are.
Jellyfin has to be correctly exposed to the internet via port forwarding or tools like tailscale/a vpn; but it’s entirely your server under your control. You have ultimate control over how your server can be accessed, but that also means you’re responsible for actually setting that up.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 4 weeks ago:
And I want the Epic CEO to fist himself with a live pin-less grenade in his hand.
We can’t always get what we want.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X botched its security key switchover, locking users out 1 month ago:
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 1 month ago:
You might just be overthinking a joke…
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 month ago:
I currently have 110 unique user+password combos. I wouldn’t want to change all those even once, if I were breached and had used similar credentials everywhere.
Bitwarden keeps them well managed, synced between devices, and allows me to check the whole database for matches/breaches via haveibeenpwned integration. Plus because I prefer to keep things in-house as much as possible, I even self-host the server with vaultwarden walled off behind my own vpn, instead of using the public servers. (this also means it’s free, instead of a paid service)
- Comment on Your last words being "Whoops", probably greatly increases the odds that someone writes about your death 2 months ago:
I’d argue that if you had time to say ‘whoops’ it probably didn’t kill you.
