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by g1sm 1y ago
This outage made me realize the script I was using to test my internet connectivity was depending 100% on cloudflare: I was both pinging 1.1 AND querying 1.1.1.1 using dig and, if both failed, the script would restart pppd.
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by g1sm 1y ago
Thread doesn’t depend on DHCP or DNS either.
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by g1sm 1y ago
The little ssh that (sometimes) couldn't: https://mina.naguib.ca/blog/2012/10/22/the-little-ssh-that-s... Discussed also here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4709438
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by g1sm 1y ago
So how will this work, if this becomes law? Ok, I understand whatsapp and signal and whatnot will have to change their code inorder to be able to provide cleartext messages for the goverment. But there are other, maybe less known apps. Will
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by g1sm 2y ago
I’m selfhosting both miniflux (after being a paying customer for a while) and freshrss. Main reason for adding freshrss was to test the flaresolverr plugin. I haven’t been able to get it to work, but I kept using freshrss. If you’re interes
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by g1sm 2y ago
This seems to be specific to Home Assistant: > Note that while this component is named bluetooth_proxy, only BLE devices (and their Home Assistant integrations) are supported. One specific use-case I have in mind is controlling a Chromec
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by g1sm 2y ago
> held nuclear missiles for the Soviet Union during the Cold War, essentially putting them incredibly close to our shores. I think those missiles were installed (at least partly) as a response to US deploying nuclear weapons in Turkey (a
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by g1sm 2y ago
She mentioned she can’t rely on DHCP for deterministic address assignment, but if one can rely on DHCP and has a sufficiently smart switch, one can use DHCP option 82 to identify the end device based on which switch and switchport it is c
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by g1sm 2y ago
The only solution I can think of is for Frontex to take full control of the external EU border. The way I see it, Frontex officers guarding the border would answer directly to Frontex (NOT to some national authority), would be paid by Front
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by g1sm 2y ago
I’m guessing it’s actually răchie from pine cones, not needles. Either way, now I’m curious to try it.
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by g1sm 2y ago
Well, sure, but then any kind of encapsulation is less than ideal. However, here the context is VPNs and this means there’s always going to be some sort of encapsulation. And if the choices are between encapsulating something in TCP and e
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by g1sm 2y ago
As far as I know, TCP over TCP is less than ideal. I don’t see why UDP over TCP (or the other way around) would be bad.
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by g1sm 2y ago
Yes, as far as I know, the order of preference is GUA > IPv4 > ULA. Which I guess basically means you either have to tweak the preference on each device in your network or you have to go IPv6-only.
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by g1sm 2y ago
> [0] IIRC the Netherlands is the only country left where you can buy SIMs without ID. As far as I know, in Romania you can still buy and activate a prepaid SIM card without having to show your ID. There was an attempt a few years ago to
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by g1sm 2y ago
He wasn’t randomly messing with it, there was a bug report about this: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=953529
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by g1sm 3y ago
Some discussions here [0] some months ago. Seems they are stuck in the design phase. I had high hopes regarding this project. Shame nothing came out of it. [0] https://gitlab.com/esr/upside/-/issues/67
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by g1sm 3y ago
I’ve been using display-switch[0] for this for a while now. No problems whatsoever. Works on windows/mac/linux. [0] https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch