rubenbe

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by rubenbe 4mo ago
I'm developing opensoho as a central controller for SOHO OpenWrt setups. I've recently added support for usteer and I did notice a significant drop in wireless clients with a bad connection. https://github.com/rube
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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract(jeffgeerling.com)
1404 points by rubenbe 4mo ago|428 comments
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Norwegian consumer watchdog calls out 'enshittification' of video games, devices(tomshardware.com)
4 points by rubenbe 6mo ago|0 comments
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by rubenbe 10mo ago
I've built OpenSOHO using this, and it has been an amazing timesaver! Even though I modified it a bit to reuse the backend. It's clearly not what it's made for, but it wasn't too hard either. If you have a look at the sc
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by rubenbe 10mo ago
OpenSOHO: built to manage a small number (from 2 to ~20) OpenWRT 24.10 based network devices. https://github.com/rubenbe/opensoho
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by rubenbe 11mo ago
Thanks for the info! I didn't know about the multicast "storm" in usteer. I had a look at dawn too, but that one doesn't seem to support limiting its functionality to a specified subset of wifi interfaces.
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by rubenbe 11mo ago
Thanks! I've noticed that the 802.11k/v needs extra daemons to be configured (e.g usteer) and overall the documentation is very spotty. (for quite most "modern" features actually). You almost have to be lucky to find the
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by rubenbe 11mo ago
OpenWRT does support 802.11r fast roaming for multiple APs. The problem with OpenWRT is/was the configuration of multiple APs. There is OpenWISP, but they mostly target very large setups (>100 APs). So I built OpenSOHO using the Ope
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by rubenbe 1y ago
OpenSOHO and OpenWisp do both send parts of /etc/config files to the AP. While we're discussing: someone did an attempt in the OpenSOHO discussions to have a freshly flashed AP register automatically with OpenSOHO: https:&#x
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by rubenbe 1y ago
Nice idea! I do notice quite some people focus the autodiscovery part where for me that's less of an issue (I do agree it would be VERY nice). The OpenWISP configuration on each AP is limited to: set IP address of controller & shar
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by rubenbe 1y ago
Initially I fiddled a bit with full Open wisp stack to try to make a smaller edition. But I quickly stopped that. But I know their two daemons well. The config one is a neat little piece of software. It will merge UCI configs and check the
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by rubenbe 1y ago
It's for exactly that reason I started with OpenSOHO. It is targeted towards the typical home and small office network with less than 20 OpenWRT devices. (although there is no hard limit). https://github.com/rubenbe&#x2
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Echelon kills smart home gym equipment offline capabilities with update(arstechnica.com)
16 points by rubenbe 1y ago|2 comments
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Building What Michelin Wouldn't: Its Awards History(jerrynsh.com)
3 points by rubenbe 1y ago|0 comments
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A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life(spectrum.ieee.org)
98 points by rubenbe 1y ago|110 comments
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by rubenbe 1y ago
No, that's the advantage is that the kernel/processes don't need to be trusted since your kernel guarantees the isolation. So you can have a Linux kernel running next to some high security process with the guarantee that they
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by rubenbe 2y ago
Incredible that there is no graffiti on any of them.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I've always found openwisp to be tailored to massive fleets of OpenWrt routers (100+). Not really for a home setup where you have a handful of devices (5-10). Alternatives are welcome since I haven't found anything yet.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
This would be extremely useful, since phones typically add the correct accents automatically. But on my laptop I need to do this myself (using a deadkeys layout).
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by rubenbe 2y ago
Does someone know a good Android client?
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by rubenbe 2y ago
You actually don't need a shell script to mount the different pseudo filesystems. You can do that in your application. So all that remains is an initramfs with a statically linked binary.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
It only works with 3+ disks. All data needs to be on two disks. e.g. you have 3 100GB drives, total capacity in raid 1 is 150GB. If you replace a broken one with a 200GB one, the total capacity will be increased to 200GB.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
For me the killer feature of btrfs is "RAID 1 with different sized disks". For a small and cheap setup, this is perfect since a broken disk can be replaced with a bigger one and immediately (part of) the extra new disk space can b
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I agree, the dialogs are getting increasingly frequent and harder to "click" away. I'm open for suggestions for an open-source Android image gallery app.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I've keep running Fedora coreos on my home server. My biggest issue with it, is that it is very cloud oriented and doesn't seem to allow to rerun the provisioning config on an already existing machine. This turns the thing again i
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I agree, programming is fun, but using ESPHome to quickly have project finished and working reliably is arguably even more satisfying.
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I started valuing the enclosure that comes with the 10 dollar versions (e.g. the M5stack atom). Since most use-cases for me are literally 1 sensor connected to an Atom, it (largely) fixes the enclosure problem. Although I'd like to hav
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by rubenbe 2y ago
I actually have quite a simple structure that serves me well (your mileage might vary) projects/ 2023/ 2024/ 0000-something/ 0312-other-project/ 0419-hn-comment/ each year I mak
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by rubenbe 2y ago
The Darknet Diaries podcast recently had an episode on this type of scam: https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/141/
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by rubenbe 3y ago
I have a similar thing with the google photos app. Almost every day it asks "You photos are not backed up, enable it now". I say no (obviously). Then it asks "But maybe you should backup these 100 images?" Pretty please?

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