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- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 3 hours ago:
With any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
- Comment on Potential upgrade 2 days ago:
I love those little Lenovo boxes, also recommend.
Proxmox has also been good for me - great for just quickly spinning something up to play with before committing.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 1 week ago:
A third, and hopefully final attempt at getting an iredmail setup going. SPF, DKIM & DMARC all checking out fine. It’s actually working this time. Need to get the ISP to change our PTR record though, last bit of the puzzle.
Also picked up a used negate device, so we now have pfsense fronting everything. That’s allowed me to move the original router to a better location and put it in AP mode.
Emby media server moved off a Synology and into a proxmox container. Finally, we can stream high def with the hardware acceleration we weren’t getting before.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update 1 week ago:
Happy to be here, even if it requires certain ‘workarounds’ due to my location. If anyone asks, I’m Hungarian. Honest.
Glad to be supporting such a great instance.
Above all, congratulations on your incoming tiny human. You have your work cut out for you - wishing you the very best.
- Comment on New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla 1 week ago:
Used FF forever, even though the birth and rise of Chrome.
We’re done. The company I IT for therefore is also done. As are friends and family I sort computers for.
The shit now stinks and must be taken out.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 1 week ago:
Grab some keys out a bag in the office while the owner isn’t looking.
Grab a code (it’s out of vehicle range, being inside).
Go to the car park, replay the code and loot the car.
You’d be caught quickly, but it’s doable.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 1 week ago:
An SDR can be made to jam, even if that is not the normal purpose. Just like a kitchen knife can be used to murder people, instead of its normal culinary purpose.
Of course an F0 can’t clone a rolling code as-is. I never said it could. But it can harvest and replay a single or multiple consecutive codes just fine, providing the original key is not used in the meantime. Only need physical access to the key while it is out of range of the vehicle.
This alone puts the F0 on dangerous ground as an “electronic device (such as a signal jammer) for use in theft of a vehicle or theft of anything in a vehicle”
People have locked out their original keys by messing with this before.
The point is that our laws are reactionary, vague, and open to too much interpretation.
If someone gets shit stolen out their car and I happen to be nearby, then I will become suspect merely through possession. Even without intent.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 1 week ago:
Typical BBC reporting of anything technical.
Keyless repeaters and signal amplifiers scramble the signal from remote key fobs inside people’s homes, enabling criminals to unlock cars.
No, they don’t. The situation described is a relay attack on keyless entry/start. Jamming is used in a two stage attack, where the device intercepts the first signal and stores it without allowing the car to ‘see’ it by jamming. The user then tries a second time.
This time the signal is intercepted the same way, and the first signal is played back to the car from the device. The second signal is stored and can be replayed later to bypass a rolling code setup.
It’s very niche and the stored signal quickly becomes obsolete anyway.
Sophisticated electronic devices used by criminals to steal cars are set to be banned
Making or selling a signal jammer could lead to up to five years
Jenny Simms said the possession, manufacture, sale and supply of signal jammers had provided an “easily accessible tool for criminals… for far too long”.
These devices have no legitimate purpose
Basically, fuck you if you happen to have or build a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Again with the UK ‘clamping down’ on something that does have plenty of legitimate use.
I use an F0 for toying with my own equipment, as an interface for my smart devices and as a general purpose keyfob. I may be arrested just for possessing it.
The crims will not care a jot and this only serves to restrict/annoy legitimate users.
The fault and solution lies with the manufacturers who implement insecure tech, and with the users who blindly sacrifice pounds of security for ounces of convenience.
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 2 weeks ago:
All looking good this end :)
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 2 weeks ago:
Monetizing is what ruins other places.
I like the way my home instance does financial backing through an open model, and that’s part of why I chose it.
An ideal is enough contributors to keep the lights on and to reimburse the admins for their time spent in keeping it afloat. Moderation should always be a volunteer position for those that want to support their individual communities.
Any excesses in finance I would hope go towards future running costs (to a point), feature development and then charitable donations in that order. Non-profit on paper and in practice.
This is viable for a small instance. Maybe even larger ones if the users are altruistic enough as a whole.
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 2 weeks ago:
Service is running fine otherwise, and the migration is still going. Take the win, it could be worse :)
A stalled progress bar will send you through all the stages of grief if it locks up for long enough 😬
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 2 weeks ago:
6 hours laster it’s 41% done, so my maths is way out.
Epic game of watch the progress bar.
Somehow, I am sure we will manage :)
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 2 weeks ago:
As bad as they are in that way (and many others), I can only consider Dell or Lenovo for mainstream laptops. They are the only manufacturers, to my knowledge, that make service manuals readily available or at least easy to obtain.
If it’s not a terminal or expensive fault, I’d just rather fix it myself than deal with customer support anyway - even in warranty.
Where I am, it is the retailers problem to solve up to 2 years from purchase. This covers the terminal cases.
For desktops I’ll just build myself, and make a point to offer builds to fridnds & family in the market.
a customer support line that wasn’t outsourced to the other side of the planet
Onshore support is indeed a bloody rarity these days.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 2 weeks ago:
We have an LJ1010 that just refuses to die. All we feed it are cheap knock-off carts and it continues to churn out the pages.
Only thing I’ve had to do is force the driver into thinking everything is label stock. The fuser is weak, so the label setting gives it a little more oomph.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Thursday 20th Feb 18:00 UTC 2 weeks ago:
Good luck :)
- Comment on USA | Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal 2 weeks ago:
Spreadsheet jihad
Pinching this. What a phrase.
- Comment on A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole 2 weeks ago:
Feels like the dirt is butter and the drill is a blowtorch.
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure ofcom are going to download an app
Also a valid point 😂
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 3 weeks ago:
lemmy.ca notes that 87% of their traffic is mobile as of their census in 2023, with the lion’s share coming from apps rather than mobile browsers (that would be blocked).
If we have a similar split here, not handling app traffic would undermine the original purpose of the geoblock. “Use an app” is a much lower bar than “Use a VPN” in terms of accessibility.
Only you know the figures though :)
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 3 weeks ago:
Yep, apps are still OK.
Desktop redirects to uk. as intended, across all frontends.
Something to do with Cloudflare I guess. Have you gone for IP or WAF rules?
- Comment on Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback! 3 weeks ago:
So they do.
That’s really neat!
- Comment on Brand new guides for Lemmy and the Fediverse. Looking for feedback! 3 weeks ago:
Site either respects system light/dark theme or is dark by default. Either way, it’s a plus for me that is often forgotten.
Guides are simple enough and the illustrations are cute.
You’ve got the balance of plugging your own instance while reminding visitors that there are others just right.
All useful info and not so much of it that it is overbearing.
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 3 weeks ago:
Just a thought - I’d love to see a side-by-side of how this affects traffic by geolocation in the next monthly.
Not by a lot probably, but it would be an interesting tidbit.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 3 weeks ago:
Years ago, I’d laugh at this.
Yet it slowly becomes reality with every passing year. It’s bad enough that we’ve essentially lost pay-to-own in favour of subscription models for a lot of popular software.
On our corp network, the amount of GPOs I’ve had to mangle together just to make Win11 usable is insane. The users are still going to have a fit in October.
- Comment on I would do this for just 1.99 3 weeks ago:
I’d honeytrap this with a software camera that just plays filth and shock sites on a loop :)
- Comment on ImaGUIck: a simple image processing app 3 weeks ago:
I lean on Irfanview+plugins for this kind of processing - it’s the bedrock of some of my workflows.
Will definitely give this a try though, thank you for sharing :)
- Comment on Never in my life has it been harder to control my spending impulse than this moment 3 weeks ago:
Ahhh. Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 3 weeks ago:
In the same boat as you, I’ve just used this as an excuse to flip the roles of the regular and VPN connections.
Used to be VPN when needed. Now it’s full time with exceptions as required.
- Comment on Bryan Adams concert in Australia is canceled after a 'fatberg' causes sewage overflow 3 weeks ago:
These things can get huge if left untreated, like the one they had in London: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42986433
Once weighing 130 tonnes and stretching more than 250m, the mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms has been conserved by the Museum of London and industry experts.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip updated to 0.19.9 3 weeks ago:
Nice & well done once again :)
