The no ventilation at all is *chef’s kiss

Also really loving the half-ass hot glue and staple job where there’s no structure beyond “this needs a staple somewhere.”

10/10 junkbox

All right I think we got a lot accomplished here today, we’ll pick this up again tomorrow.

I mean, fair take, but sometimes more thoughtful and forward-looking companies aren’t looking for fast return on investment.

It could be argued similarly for Valve that all their investment in Linux ecosystems and open source in general when Linux desktops account for just over 3% of all desktop installations while Windows sits comfortably at 70% of the desktop market, just isn’t a lucrative investment.

While in the long-term it frees Valve from the restrictions of the Microsoft environment and from the risk that Microsoft would make it more and more difficult for Steam to integrate as they try to make their own game store and Game Pass the premiere gaming experience on Windows, those are future risks that are speculation, even though they are rational speculation.

Investing so deeply in open source isn’t a lucrative thing for Valve to be doing, but they’re looking at long-term goals.

In other words, I could see the goal here being something like protecting the Bitwarden brand and making sure more people are using their official client than unofficial with the goal of making it easy to use and enticing people into the general Bitwarden ecosystem long-term. Ten years from now, people who have been running Bitwarden Lite might have a lot more options for integration and paid services than people simply using Vaultwarden.

Is that lucrative? No, but it’s still pursuing brand-name dominance and keeping people officially within their ecosystem as a way to grow userbase and give users more features (including paid ones) that may not be immediately available or easily integrated with Vaultwarden.

“Molester” is putting it lightly.

Eat shit, Musk glazer.

Oh I didn’t catch that part, that’s even better than how I understood it, thanks so much for clarifying!

This is very cool but all the machines I would use this on are headless with no GUI installed. Womp womp for me.

When you do it for work, you log what you have changed each time you make a change to try to fix it, and you log what you revert, so you can keep track of what you have tried, what worked, and what didn’t and have a clearer idea of what the solution was.

Sometimes it really does take a while to nail down though, and sometimes it isn’t entirely clear why what worked worked. Especially if you’re a junior network engineer without as much experience.

That’s the way to do it, smart planning. I’m glad you were able to make it happen even if it set you back more than you had hoped.

I only wish I had money to get in before prices bump up. 😭

Being poor sucks.

I had never heard of this so went looking. Super useful stuff here!

A link for anyone interested: https://thingino.com/

I feel like this headline is misleading because I don’t think there is a way to convince privacy experts this is a good idea.

Like, the entire idea is antithetical to privacy experts understanding of the issue. You aren’t going to get them to suddenly turn tail and go “gosh you’re right, I wasn’t thinking of the children!”

I think a Degoogled stock Pixel will be far more inconvenient than you want it to be because of the work you would have to put in for simple things like Push Notifications to work without Google services.

The reality is that security/privacy will always be a balancing act with convenience.

If you increase your security and privacy, you will lose convenience.

If you increase your convenience, you will lose security and privacy.

It’s always a tradeoff.

It’s up to you what things you’re willing to trade off, in the end. Everyone can give valuable input, but it will always be up to you to make the final decision on what level of tradeoff you’re willing to accept and what level fits your threat model.

For total security and privacy you would basically have to not use electronics at all and live in a cabin in the woods and have a good grasp of chemistry, scavenging and farming to take care of yourself. I think a guy named Ted did that once and it didn’t work out so great for him, but of course, he also didn’t actually just keep to himself in those woods.

And to be fair, these days even that’s not a guarantee of total privacy with satellite imagery, drones, etc.

Yeah my point was less about the copyright aspect and more about the free distribution aspect. It’s definitely sad that they don’t have their own free-and-open-for-all version but oh well.

Look into the Gideons. I don’t agree with all their philosophy obviously, but they’re like the Open Source/Open Knowledge group of the Christian faith.

One of their main things is that they think since the Bible is the word of God, and people deserve to be saved, that it’s their job to ensure everyone gets a fair shake at access to a Bible without having to pay for it. You used to always be able to find a Bible in a hotel thanks to them, and they’re often at public gatherings handing out copies as well.

I’m not religious, and I don’t agree with much of what they believe, but I do think that is an appropriate way to view the situation, that it should be freely available to all instead of essentially locked behind a paywall.

Hello everyone, what is your go-to password manager?

KeePassXC for something hosted locally on your home network. Best aspect of KeePassXC is the support for OTP codes built-in, in my opinion. For mobile OTP codes, I personally use Aegis.

What would you suggest for friends and family that aren’t very tech savvy?

Bitwarden for non-tech-savvy family and friends.

it can end up receiving packets not meant for it because switches will flood all the ports for packets they don’t know how to route

This is only applicable to IPv4 networking and is very much “the old way” of doing things. If you have properly designed and set up your own home network, you shouldn’t be having broadcast traffic happen at all, because all your switches should have a MAC table that includes all the devices you have physically connected. Especially if you have bothered to take the time to hand out static addresses tied to the MAC address. A broadcast should generally only be happening if there is an unknown destination on the LAN, and an unknown destination only happens when there is a new device added at an unknown location. Once a broadcast packet has been sent and replied to, the switch fills it’s MAC table with the information on the new device, now knowing it’s location.

Wi-Fi’s packets can be intercepted by anyone, it’s technically sending all packets on blast as radio waves at all times. Sure, modern Wi-Fi can be encrypted, but that encryption can also often be broken.

Finally, IPv6 doesn’t use broadcast packets at all, instead using multicasting, which is similar to a broadcast but doesn’t flood every port in the wired network and is a bit more tightly directed.

Everything old is new again.

Reminds me of the documentary called Spin from 1995. It was built from behind-the-scenes footage captured from live satellite feeds from the 1992 Presidential election and the 1992 Rodney King LA riots.

Really kicked in with Windows 8 though, that’s when they started pushing the Microsoft Store app to install programs. If I recall correctly Secure Boot also became the standard requirement to install Windows in 8.1.

In other words, began with 7 but kicked into high gear with 8.