ShellMonkey
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- 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:
This is a company that's been reported to use the dwell time of you mouse over a product as a potential indicator of interest. Something like a Citrix remote desktop is extremely chatty trying to keep the origin and server in sync with every move of a mouse or keystroke. If the ACKs from the origin confirming the receipt of screen change data took an abnormally long time it could show in system performance metrics pretty easily.
- 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:
HSTS says it must be encrypted but a proxy will create two connections and look at it clear in the middle. On the other hand cert pinning says it must be a specific cert that breaks the site if decryption is used. Apple is big on doing that for a lot of their site and apps.
- Comment on How do you "feel" gender? 1 week ago:
Myself as a cis male don't particularly major 'need' to associate with the stereotypical guy things, and enjoy plenty of things historically associated with women. That said though I feel my more native strengths are things attached to men.
Why makes for a gender though seems much more tied to society and the expectations of each, and are really a fluid thing that changes as we go along in the world.
- Comment on BacK iN MY dAys 1 week ago:
Works fine in they Voyager app
- Comment on hosting a VPN with a different ISP 1 week ago:
Right, and if both sides have their public ally routable IPs on their respective firewalls it'll work. If on gets put behind a NAT of some sort then it would be able to speak outward, but would require specific packet routing inward (port forwarding) to have someone connect in. Stateful sessions will be fine so long as the one inside a NAT is the initiator.
- Comment on hosting a VPN with a different ISP 1 week ago:
If only one side is behind a NAT then so long as that one initiates the tunnel it should work fine. NAT only really is a problem on the inbound side.
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 1 week ago:
Snapshots largely, most everything is VMs and docker containers. I have one VM set aside for dev work to test configs before updating the prod boxes as well.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Looks like greenland
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Start with he premise that energy is not created or destroyed, it only changes state. Pushing processors to perform a task uses energy and creates heat to rearrange numbers and pixels. Combing through huge numbers of data vits takes a lot of energy. If you've ever worked with systems larger than a desktop you know how much they can draw.
My whole home lab uses about 700 watts for basic server duties. To power a single 3090 GPU to run some larger models my PC needed a 1000 watt PSU. Extrapolate that out to a commercial size org and you can see where the major power draw comes in.
- Comment on Am I the only one who feels weird about AP News links dominating some communities? 2 weeks ago:
They're one of the most respected sources, it makes sense to link to them rather than some semi-tabloid where possible.
- Comment on Thank god! 2 weeks ago:
Bert on the cob
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
I'll give ya a hint, women, or any other involuntarily grouped together association of peoples (gender/race/sexuality/etc) are not a monolithic block that should be generalized in some fashion.
Taking issue with A woman is one thing, saying ALL women is another. An individual is not the standin for the group.
Groups that one wilfully joins who act badly as a standard protocol can be shit on all you like. Nobody is going to flame you for shit talking a nazi, but saying 'women (or pick a group) are like this' always has exceptions.
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
An interesting point, to some extent I think that response can be strongly correlated to generational lines. Those of us born not of this century can be a bit curmudgeonly and take it as an attack on the self rather than seeing it for the impact on society.
The phrase 'man up' has a different connotation when it was instilled from a young age to mean 'be strong' rather than being seen as an isolationist closed off mindset.
It takes time, even for those willing to learn.
- Comment on When a man says anything bad about women online or criticize them based on his experience, Comments: 2 weeks ago:
Today we have a new poster Bob, coming in fast and furious on comms across the spectrum...
Ooh! It seems 'King' tried to pull the 'women bad' card, and I just don't think that'll work out for him...
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 weeks ago:
Looks like it'd still a thing
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal
- Comment on Mozilla’s Betrayal of Open Source: Google’s Gemini AI is Overwriting Volunteer Work on Support Mozilla 2 weeks ago:
Google puts up a major chunk of the funding Mozzia gets in a year. If you don't want them being the default choice in search or having your queries fed to their bots then start putting up the money to make their support no longer required.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 weeks ago:
Sooo, they act as an admin and can assign mods instead of using someone else's node and being a mod?
Aside from what I understand as an inability to actually remove bad content that gets in, how does that differ from something like hosting a fedi site?
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 weeks ago:
Then you get things like the platform you're on where in my case it resides in my house and lets me be that big scary admin/mod. Having the ability to purge bad content and actors from a central space is needed for anyone but the most thick skinned masochists to use a platform.
Plenty of people just want to go talk/post without wading through a swamp of the crap that one uncle brings up at Thanksgiving on a regular basis.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 weeks ago:
The system formerly known as Freenet has a module known as the web of trust that uses a similar model. It's interesting but runs into a problem of forcing users/hosts to propagate content and messaging they don't wish to be associated with.
There's a reason places like gab or hexbear end up isolated islands, the general population has no desire to be preached to be the lunatic fringes.
- Comment on Plebbit is the the most decentralized selfhosted social media protocol And why development slowed Down 3 weeks ago:
Last I ever was hearing this pushed around the fedi the big 'sell' was that mods/admins can't delete posts making it a 'freeze peach' platform.
The only people typically drawn to those are the people who tend to get banned for being intolerable on civilized platforms.
- Comment on How long after starting Vitamin D supplements should you notice results? 3 weeks ago:
Guess that'd depend on how muchos needed/taken and how well it's absorbed. Far as I've ever seen the seasonal affective disorder (usually what people look at for D-ficiencies) tends to be a subtle shift rather than a solid good/bad moods.
- Comment on Oechslegrad 4 weeks ago:
Tried, but things got so slow the picture hasn't made it here yet.
- Comment on Family Email w/ Custom Domain 5 weeks ago:
Has worked well for me, but keeping in mind that email is probably about the hardest thing to properly self host.
DMARK/DKIM/SPF records have to be set up properly, DNS for auto config and such preferable, and dealing with a myriad of mail IP blacklists (good monitoring service for free: https://mxtoolbox.com/) all come into play.
- Comment on virtualizing OPNsense is....not going great 5 weeks ago:
It can make a big difference just in the processing power needed if there's anything more intense than a straight firewall. IPS tend to be a resource pig. What are the load numbers saying vs the number of CPU cores available?
I ran into similar (or even worse) choking trying to get it virtualized even with a proper passthrough that I eventually shelved but might take another run at someday. Knocking a couple hundred watts off the stack is always welcome.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 month ago:
Linux on phones or desktops suffer from one major problem as I see it, to much choice.
You make a Windows app it has to work with the latest couple versions, same with Mac.
Make one for Linux and you have to test it against dozens of popular distros, package it in multiple ways, and hope the dependencies are gonna match.
It's an awesome system for IT people and server admins, but for the end user, ehhh... That seems to be the problem things like snap and flat packs are aimed at fixing, which could transition to phones but first you gotta herd the cats into an agreed state.
- Comment on what would you do with an old dell server? 1 month ago:
I have one around that same class that is running Security Onion, because why not record and analyze all the things.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 1 month ago:
Poned, but occasionally pew-ned for reasons
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Since when is RegularJoe gonna be constipated?
- Comment on Are You Need Loan ? 1 month ago:
I am needing to Robin Hood up this joint and to redistribute some wealth, not to shill more debt load.
- Comment on How to keep adding on 1 month ago:
Depends a lot on budget, space, and electricity costs. Going to 'overkill' level once can save a lot of these issues down the line.
Mine started similarly, some small box with a couple drives that got up sized and then moved to another to add more...
Eventually I bought a used 2U box with 14 bays and set it up with a ZFS pool all made up of mirrored disk pairs and auto snapshots so it can have a drive fail without issue and go back 2 weeks if something gets oops deleted.
Downside, now the whole lab uses about 700 watts continually so the power bill is kinda nuts.