WhyJiffie
@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
a mediabox. maybe a small PC or a big one. but if you know what is a VLAN, how routing works, and how your router works, you can make it safe to connect it to an internal network with only a jellyfin
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
I wonder what was his goal with that
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
through HDMI. be a little creative
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
unbound, bind, or if you want a gui then technitium DNS.
but this thread is so, so full of misinfo. you don’t need a local doh capable DNS server at home. having one won’t solve anything either, because your advertising fridge won’t be using it. that’s the actual problem. you need to block any doh servers that the fridge might access (and regular DNS servers too), so that it doesn’t have a choice but respect your pihole, but that is very difficult because doh traffic looks like regular web traffic (because it is). yeah the fridge does not need to load websites, but it does all its questionably useful functions through HTTPS APIs too, so if you want to give it internet, you can’t just block web traffic for it.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
the difference is that it’s very hard to block doh connections because it looks like web/API traffic. and if you don’t block it, it will work around your pihole without you noticing. doh is not used for connecting to pihole, it does not even support it.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
and also block outgoing connections to port 53 when it’s not the pihole device’s allowed IP
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 1 day ago:
but then how will I watch tiktoks on it!
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 1 day ago:
veracrypt supports that
- Comment on EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED 1 day ago:
theyll ban general purpose computing
- Comment on Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly 1 week ago:
a very specific feature, so you should open a feature request at the repos of the jellyfin audio players that you mostly like, probably the devs didn’t even consider it yet
- Comment on Sep 12, 2025 - Self-Host Weekly by Ethan Sholly 1 week ago:
not really. share it over a ducking vpn, done.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
kde plasma runs better than 11 as it’s user interface was not created with web tech.
but my concerns about 11 are rather the further erosion of user privacy, on more fronts than just recall. automatic bitlocker encryption is also not something I can stand behind, several people lost all their data needlessly because of it.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
shows you actually don’t understand what is needed to run win 11.
TPM is not needed either, it’s an arbitrary restriction.
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 week ago:
its often a bug, because the clients who have the keys don’t know they should retry sending.
but also it’s all been fixed a year ago as I know. I don’t usually use dm rooms and public ones are not encrypted, so I wouldn’t know if I didn’t read about it.
- Comment on was this average bullying behavior? 1 week ago:
if they say you should die because you wanted to talk with them, they are not nice people. you should avoid them for your own benefit. try to find other people if you can, but I would say being alone even is better on a scale. I was in a similar situation for years. and when I thought it ended, it all came back with other people for another few years. if you are a child in school, locked together with them, mentally prepare yourself that they’ll continue bullying you even if you don’t contact them, and that most teachers won’t care. still, you should try getting help if the madness does not stop.
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 1 week ago:
I don’t think so, or not always. humans need to find the EULA on the website by first loading the main page or another they found a link to. but if the path of that document was standardized, it could be enforced that way for robots
- Comment on Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month 1 week ago:
file backups? settings > chats > backups, and sync it to your computer with syncthing. just set up versioning in syncthing at the receiver side, so that you don’t loose it if there’s some weird issue. a week or so of versions is probably enough
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 week ago:
matthew the ceo addressed aot of the criticisms recently, check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyuqM7RbX5E
transcript with links: gist.github.com/…/190ad712965d0f06e17f508d1a45b55…
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 week ago:
definetly report the problem. there’s a function for it in the app, 3 points menu on the chat list menu, use it after making those errors show up. tick the contact me box. ceo recommends to also notify himself directly: gist.github.com/…/190ad712965d0f06e17f508d1a45b55…
- Comment on What is the current state of Matrix? 1 week ago:
afaik those errors can’t really be solved by users. I mean other than using an up to date client and server.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
the salt does not need to be encrypted. the point of it is that it makes a generic rainbow table useless, because the crackers need to compute hashes themselves for all passwords.
as they said, the purpose of hashing is to slow down the crackers, because they need to find the string that produces that hash. a rainbow table cancels that, it makes password lookup for an account almost instantaneous. but a rainbow table is only really useful for unsalted hashes, because for salted hashes a different rainbow table is needed that takes the salt into account.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Even if you do cache everything, each site hosts their own copy of jQuery or whatever the kids use these days, and your proxy isn’t going to cache that any better than the client already does.
don’t they always have a short cache timeout? the proxy could just tell the client that the cache timeout is a long time, and when the browser checks if it’s really up to date, it would redownload the asset but just return the right status code if it actually didn’t change.
and all the jquery copies could be also eliminated with a filesystem that can do deduplication, even if just periodically. I think even ext4 can do that with reflink copy, and rmlint helps there.
- Comment on DDR4 costs soar as manufacturers pull the plug — panic buying and stockpiling impact DDR4 spot pricing as supply dwindles 1 week ago:
I stopped using a computer and been only buying flagship phones for the past 8 years. you can’t beat my foresight.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 week ago:
oh yes it still is
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
B. E-Health Dataset
The E-Health dataset [20] contains CSI collected from 118 participants (88 men, 30 women) in a controlled indoor environment measuring 3 m×4 m (Fig 4). The setup consists of a router set in the 5 GHz band at 80 MHz bandwidth as a transmitter, a laptop as receiver and a single-antenna Raspberry Pi 4B with NEXMON firmware for CSI data collection (234 subcarriers). Participants wore a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 for the ground truth.does that mean a passive observer can do all that observations? and that a raspberry pi, with its single average antenna is capable of this?
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 2 weeks ago:
Which would mean modifying android which could mean failing some CTS tests for play services.
they are already massively modifying android, not just on the UI but the system services too, and CTS tests pass because google approved their software.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 weeks ago:
Oops, I meant self-hosting a wireguard server, not actually doing an alternative to wireguard or openvpn themselves…
oh, that’s fine then, recommended even.
With my previous paid VPN I had to use natpmpc to ask their server for forwarding/binding ports for me, and I also had to do that every 45 seconds. It’s nice to get a bash script running in a systemd demon that does that in a loop, and also parses output and saves remote ports server gave us this time to file in case we need them (like, for setting up a tor relay).
oh so this is a management automation that requests an outside system to open ports, and updates services to use the ports you got. that’s interesting! what VPN service was that?
All this by Copilot, without knowing bash at all.
be sure to run shellcheck for your scripts though, it can point out issues. aim for it to have no output, that means all seems ok.
- Comment on Google gets to keep Chrome, judge rules in search antitrust case 2 weeks ago:
you said this:
They need to maintain compatibility with play services to access apps on play store.
but that does not explain why don’t they already block installing 3rd party apps.
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 weeks ago:
a custom VPN without security minden planning and knowledge? that sounds like a disaster.
surely you could do other things that have more impact for yourself, still with computers. use wireguard and spend the time with setting up your services and network security.
and, port forwarding… I don’t know where are you running that, but linux iptables can do that too, in the kernel, with better performance. - Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 2 weeks ago:
where did I imply it is black and white? I did not say that there are no people who reasonably want to rent, of course there are.
but I’m pretty sure that it’s not even half the people.
the problem is not that people who want to rent can’t, they have plenty of options! but that people who specifically dont want to rent, very often does not have amy other choice.
buying a house for a family comes with a lifelong loan, with all the aid possible, and buying a house as an individual or as a couple is just not possible anymore where I live. unless you have an exceptionally high salary. even just buying an empty parcel or one where there’s only a house so bad it needs to be demolished costs so much, if there’s a habitable house the bank won’t even give a loan.