PleaseLetMeOut

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE's Android TV alternative, Plasma Bigscreen, rises from the dead with a better UI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully this will work with Google TV too since it’s essentially just an Android TV rebrand for Chromecast. Some of them have decent hardware though, but are held back by the all of the Google bloat. Even using apps that allow adb on Google TVs you can’t fully remove it all without soft-bricking the TV.

  I’ve tried setting Kodi up on a few TVs that I’ve fixed, then put them on a VLAN so they couldn’t go online, but could still access my NAS. And even with some having hardware support for AV1, anything over 4-5Mbps or so would cause them to drop frames and lag out. The HEVC support was a little better and will usually do 10-20Mbps+ before running into issues, which is plenty for most YarTube content. So I did a little more digging and noticed that the CPU was sitting at a constant 30%+ usage just doing background bloatware bullshit. So if we had a better UI option, it would open up a lot of cheaper $200-300 4K Google TVs that can stream from a NAS or Jellyfin/Plex server without needing to transcode. Since they have hardware support for basically everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the US Defense Department to Chinese Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve actually seen medical offices setup similarly. Some random computer in a back office with all of their patient data on it, completely exposed to the internet, protected by nothing but a few firewall rules limiting the connections to a few IP blocks. Just so they can share information office-to-office for say… a root canal and dental crown to be done on the same day, but at 2 separate locations due to limited space.

  I’d run out of fingers if I were to count the number of times I’ve seen similar setups, 3-4 toes would be needed at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Little-Known Microsoft Program Could Expose the US Defense Department to Chinese Hackers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fun Fact: I once worked with a team that was mapping Iran’s internet infrastructure… for reasons. One of the ways we were able to zero in on the more important systems was because we kept finding these weird Cisco routers that had Telnet exposed to the open internet. All of which just so happened to share neighboring IPs (or close enough) with some pretty serious government systems. Fun times.

  I’m not a CISCO tech, so I don’t know the specifics beyond that. But I do remember that the Telnet connection would permanently ban any IP that failed even a single password attempt. So they had that going for them, I guess lol