This looks really cool. And I just setup Pihole 😐

I meant it as a joke.

But for all practical purposes, it’s true. I don’t pay flying car accident insurance premiums because they are not mainstream. But I am insured against regular car accidents.

Jio Fiber in India

You can check this forum post for details. Other IoT appliances were connecting to the hidden SSID.

suricata

TIL about suricata. Thanks!

I guess I am safe then. There is too much spying in the living room anyways.

Please don’t give them any ideas. I know that some ISPs already provide routers with hidden SSIDs which are kind of used like a mesh. TVs, in collaboration with those ISPs, them can communicate.

Security by obsoleteness

Right now, I have one of those cheap google sticks. But I want to eventually shift to an open-source solution using an RPi or a mini-pc.

Ethernet over HDMI

Thanks for this. Looks like it’s a rare protocol.

Excerpt from the article

If you have an HEC-compatible device, it will most likely be self-described somewhere in the user’s manual. Unfortunately, this technology is rarely implemented, and you would be hard-pressed to find a device that uses HEC. Through our research, we were unable to find any modern consumer device that uses HEC.

I am slightly relieved.

But if you are unsure you can test it by connecting and seeing if the TV is getting a connection

I might be a bit paranoid but I suspect that in such a scenario, the TV will report that there is no connection but will keep on sending data to remote servers.

Fortunately in my area there are no open WiFi networks but disconnecting the WiFi card is a good suggestion. Wish we had physical kill-switches in all devices.

Lol, I was playing Minecraft on my own self-hosted server the entire time.

Would you like my custom xz tool?

Amar toh ekbaare chokhe poreche 😁

Bangali “hobby” programmer khub kom i ache. Beshir bhag IT company te ache, aar shudhu kaaj er jonnoi joto ta programming dorkar pore, kore.

Fediverse e arek bangali dekhe khub i bhalo laagche 🤝🤝

The name is a dead ringer for a Bengali coder 🤝

I use my friend’s Sunshine setup which is setup on a different continent. The lag is tolerable but maybe it’s because of my shitty connection. But otherwise the setup works fine. My friend uses it inside their house and there is zero lag.

If you virtualize, you’ll have to deal with the overhead. Unless you’re not running anything high-throughput, this approach is fine.

What an excellent resource! I can spend hours on that page.

Stage 1: Ubuntu server

Stage 2: Ubuntu server + docker

Stage 3: Ansible/OpenTofu/Kubernetes

Stage 4: Proxmox

TIL of hashcash

And quite frankly, cute anime girl doing some math is so, so much better than those god damn freaking captchas

One user complained that a random anime girl popping up is making his gf think he’s watching hentai. So the mascot should be changed to something “normal”.