Cyber

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Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 2 points 2 days ago

Hmm, I'll check that out... I've avoided rooting due to a botched cyanogenmod conversion (my fault not theirs) back in the day...

Tried to rm -r my .cache but accidentally did .config instead... in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Cyber 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For which shell? I just tried that on a bash system and the command was still stored in .bash_history πŸ˜”

Good barebone with dual 2.5gbps nic? in c/homelab@lemmy.ml
[–] Cyber 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Check out Serve The Home - (the youtube channel might be easier)

Thwy reviewed a load of these a while back

Android will soon instantly log you in to your apps on new devices in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's a good point actually.

If I could self-host a server that my devices were authenticated with and constantly backing up to (and geo-tracking), then that would be useful.

Currently I have syncthing and no authentication with anyone/thing else.

D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers β€” D-Link told users to replace NAS last week in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

β€œEasierβ€œ, no. Not for the average person on the street.

Don't get me wrong, I've built several NAS over the years (dropped OMV for just Arch and the packages I want) and loaded OpenWRT (etc) on routers

But, building my own NAS, servicing my own car, repairing my own house, felling my own trees, at some point I'll just lack knowledge and buy something simple / pay someone to do it... and that's where cheap consumer electronics fits (unfortunately)

XFCE Vs MATE in c/linux@lemmy.ml
[–] Cyber 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just on your Enlightenment point there, I tried Bodhi Linux a few years ago because the Enlightenment desktop looked really good, but over time they (Bodhi) had to create their own desktop because Enlightenment appeared to have almost stopped work.

Might be something for you to check out...?

DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 2 points 4 days ago

I love to see professionals in action.

That's craft(wo)manship right there.

Post your setup. no matter how uggo in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 1 points 4 days ago

Ah, good call on using the power to get the tablet to respond... I don't have that problem (tablet freezing), but it does drop off the wifi sometimes.

Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

It's just not quite yellow enough, esp. on 1 side where's it's been too close to a window... otherwise, yeah, bring back beige

Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Just a casual bystander with no clue what's going on... why's change.org a problem?

Edit: ok, read more posts, understand now

Post your setup. no matter how uggo in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've done similar with an old Android tablet. Installed Fully Kiosk Browser to display the dashboard AND read the battery level - above 75%, switch off power...

But... automations only trigger when going past the threshold once, so if there's a random issue where HA doesn't see the battery drop below 10%, (had that happen a few times in the past), then I also have multiple triggers for 5% and 2%... to turn the power back on again πŸ˜‰

Chinese immigrants in the U.S. are running Temu shipping centers out of their homes in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] Cyber 13 points 1 week ago

But the U.S. government’s moves to crack down on cheap e-commerce parcels from China have pushed sellers to rethink their business strategies.

So, there's the problem then. If they made it all more expensive for the American consumer, then that solves the problem. /s

On a serious note: it's obviously cheaper because there's no physical shop with no staff. Isn't this how Bezos started out, from a garage?

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Options for "iPlayer will stop working on this device" (self.technology)
 

"On 11th November BBC iPlayer will no longer be available directly on this device."

OK, so, I didn't purchase this particular (Blaupunkt) TV, but as it's my mother's then, well, I'm the one that has to "fix" this.

Personally, I use TVs as a simple screen and watch everything through other devices (Roku, or a Linux PC running MythTV).

I see the BBC website has some links to review sites, but I thought this might be another place to ask for - preferably open source - devices that could be used.

Comments?

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Any MythTV Users Here? (self.selfhosted)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Cyber to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
46 comments fedilink
 

As a long-term MythTV user, I read all the discussion about Plex vs Jellyfin, but I'm still here... recording Live TV, watching films, listening to "me choonz" all on free, open-source software. What am I missing? Any other MythTV users out there?

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NAS vulnerabilities (www.theregister.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Cyber to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink
 

Just stumbled across this (overly dramatic?) article and thought I'd just post it here...

It's more to act as a reminder that if you've got a NAS that is serving content to the interwebs, then make sure it's behind a proxy of some kind to prevent weaknesses (ie in the management Web UI) being exposed.

Obvz, this article is pointing to Zyxel, but it could be your DIY home-built NAS with Cockpit: CVE-2024-2947 - just an example, not bashing that project at all.

I've used Squid and HAProxy over the years (mostly on my pfSense box) - but I'd be interested to know if there's other options that I've not heard of

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Sanity check: Vivaldi high CPU usage (self.archlinux)
submitted 5 months ago by Cyber to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
5 comments fedilink
 

Before I dive headlong into debugging and throwing bug tickets around, I just needed a sanity check from someone else..

I have an old Lenovo laptop as my daily driver / experimentation box (ie it gets a lot of paclages installed and removed)

Recently I've been using Vivaldi's built-in calendar to use as a CalDAV client for my radicale installation.

It's the only open tab and Vivaldi's using ~20% CPU (according to htop)... actually, I just closed that tab... even with 1 blank tab the CPU's the same.

Is this just my battle weary laptop needing a good clean, or can someone else confirm?

TIA

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pfSense DHCP (& DNS) Performance (self.selfhosted)
 

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs.

Just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, the network loses DNS so I "break the internet" for a short while.

Would Kea fix this?

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pfSense DHCP / DNS performance (self.networking)
 

pfSense... Anyone have much experience with the new Kea DHCP server?

I'm using 2.7.2 (Community Edition) on a fairly good Celeron based system that's not heavily loaded, but I have 7 network segments (VLANs and physical interfaces), so I have 7 DHCP pools / configs and just adding 1 more static reservation can cause a significant delay when reloading the service and because I register static reservations in DNS, I can lose comms.

Would Kea fix this?

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Pause alerts during the night (self.selfhosted)
 

Well, as the title says, I've had a few notifications that alerted over night and I'm wanting to sleep instead

These are ntfy alerts, but driven by Uptime Kuma... and I can't find a programmatic / config option that says "don't notify between 11pm and 7am" (but willing to admit I've just not found it... yet...)

I need my (Android, ofc) phone to be on in case of family calls / messages, so I can't use "Do Not Disturb", and remembering to manually mute the ntfy app each night just doesn't make sense to me - computers are quite capable of automating my requirements for me.

So... any pointers? I'm sure you're not all getting alerts at 2am because your ISP dropped a few packets...

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Desktop Security (self.linux)
submitted 8 months ago by Cyber to c/linux@lemmy.ml
15 comments fedilink
 

I secure systems for my day job. That means installing AV software, ensuring Windows Firewall is ON, etc. (Plus many other things...)

I've seen discussions around disk encryption here, but I don't recall much about a malware protection. Maybe a little about personal (desktop) firewalls.

I'm aware of Clam, etc, but is anyone actually using these tools much?

Or are we just presuming we're all immune from the bad guys targeting Windows?

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XMPP... on a Pi? (self.selfhosted)
 

So, I've had it up to here (^^^) with the family using WhatsApp, etc and I'm heading off into the land of XMPP to find a better solution.

I've got a Pi3 hanging off my pfSense firewall acting as a kinda DMZ box, so thought I could setup an XMPP server on it (Prosody?)

Any advice? Will the Pi crumble (see what I did there) under the pressure of 4 people using it?

Issues with proxying outside with a Lets Encrypt cert on the pfSense box, but maybe not inside the network?

"Better" server software?

Thanks

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AUR with Ansible (self.archlinux)
submitted 9 months ago by Cyber to c/archlinux@lemmy.ml
13 comments fedilink
 

I've started looking at Ansible to manage all the laptops, VMs, SBCs that I have running Arch Got the ol' pacman installs / updates working fine, but I'm having some problems understanding how to setup AUR to install some of those packages.

Main issue is where Ansible is basically doing everything as root, and AUR helpers don't want to run as root, so ok, create a 2nd non-root user first...

But even installing an AUR helper (yay) brings problems:

I can setup a folder in /tmp/aur , I can git clone the yay package, but then I have no idea how to run makepkg or then yay as that non-root user.

Does anyone have this already figured out?

Or... am I going about this the wrong way?

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HA redundancy options (self.homeassistant)
 

I'm currently running HA on a Pi3... it works fine, but it's now a single point of failure.

I have some new hardware arriving to run VMs in and was intending to move HA to it, but now I'm wondering if I can have HA in 2 places for fault tolerance.

I'm aware that there's no built-in failover options, but has anyone done something similar?

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Sonoff S26 R2 Zigbee (self.homeassistant)
 

Ok, I've done a fair bit with wifi devices, now I'm waking up to zigbee.

Got myself an S26 R2 to play with, but just wanted to clarify a few things...

So, if I had a few of these around the house, would they form the man backbone of the zigbee mesh network? Or do they not provide that function?

And also - possibly n00b question - I presume there's still a need / benefit to flash with esphome? Couldn't see anything obvious on the site and only searched online for a few mins before giving up and asking for experience rather than random sites...

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