chaospatterns

@ chaospatterns @lemmy.world

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5mo ago

Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First
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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 5mo ago
Are those networks marked as hidden SSID networks? Hidden networks require the client STA to broadcast them to find them.

5mo ago

Software craftsmanship is dead

You're describing what agile should be, but Agile™ is the variant you get in toxic companies where they say they are agile, but it's just a mechanism to micromanage developers with bad managers asking why you're not burning down enough points or why you haven't met the estimated date you thought before you realized there was more technical debt than a bankrupt business.

5mo ago

Building a React App with Formally Verified State

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Pretty cool. I played around with Dafny at work for some security-related software and I was pondering if Dafny could be effective for other problems like complex web-app state management or even more standard services.

5mo ago

America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 5mo ago

Wealth in economics refers to the amount of assets (home, stocks, cash, bonds, art, etc.) That one owns. Wealth is a lot easier to grow than income is.

Family wealth likely refers to a single family unit, ie parents and kids.

5mo ago

Music Assistant 2.7 - Taking over the airwaves

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 5mo ago

I use it to play music from Jellyfin to my Sonos speakers. It won't fix a Jellyfin library that has bad data, but it can pull in music from multiple different sources and push to different players.

It works well enough. Some issues where songs get interrupted, but I think that's issue with the Music Assistant/Sonos integration.

6mo ago

You can do anything at Zombocom

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

I developed my own scraping system using browser automation frameworks. I also developed a secure storage mechanism to keep my data protected.

Yeah there is some security, but ultimately if they expose it to me via a username and password, I can use that same information to scrape it. Its helpful that I know my own credentials and have access to all 2FA mechanisms and am not brute forcing lots of logins so it looks normal.

Some providers protect it their websites with bot detection systems which are hard to bypass, but I've closed accounts with places that made it too difficult to do the analysis I need to do.

6mo ago

You can do anything at Zombocom

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

I scrape my own bank and financial aggregator to have a self hosted financial tool. I scrape my health insurance to pull in data to track for my HSA. I scrape Strava to build my own health reports.

6mo ago

Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

~~Can't be a passive adapter or else that would mean DisplayPort and HDMI have to protocol compatible. If they were then we wouldn't have this issue.~~ Apparently I was wrong.

6mo ago

Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Just an update. Firefox 146 just dropped with:

Firefox now natively supports fractional scaled displays on Linux (Wayland), making rendering more effective.

After upgrading to 146 and natively using Wayland, it feels faster. Some fade animations are still choppier, but on average it's at least tolerable.

Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

6mo ago

Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Interesting. I played around with X11 vs Wayland settings just to see what different configurations give me

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Exhibits low FPS issue
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=0 DISABLE_WAYLAND=1 /snap/bin/firefox - Actually feels fast like it should be. Most animations feel faster, some are still choppy though. It's hard to tell.

It seems like running with X11 sort of the problem? Which seems unexpected and concerns me since I know distros are starting to default to Wayland.

6mo ago

Low FPS in Firefox on one monitor

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Yep, both are plugged into the graphics card. Other programs and games are a lot faster.

6mo ago

Anubis is awesome and I want to talk about it

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

If the app is just a WebView wrapper around the application, then the challenge page would load and try to be evaluated.

If it's a native Android/iOS app, then it probably wouldn't work because the app would try to make HTTP API calls and get back something unexpected.

6mo ago

How does "DNS" work on the dark web?

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

On Tor dark web domains, you use the .onion domain. Tor is configured as a SOCKS proxy, so it doesn't perform a DNS query. Instead, Tor itself sees you're trying to connect to an onion domain name. Then it takes the URL and translates that into a public key that it knows how to find in its own hidden service directory.

Only the actual hidden service has a valid private key corresponding to that public key in the URL so cryptography (and the assumption that quantum computers don't exist) ensures you're talking to the right server.

Tl;dr effectively no DNS for onion hidden services

https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/overview/

6mo ago

Do you think standard batteries like A, AA, AAA, C, and D, 9V etc will eventually become obsolete?

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Putting the charger circuit inside the battery takes away battery capacity, so I still buy the external chargers

6mo ago

DFRobot router board with a CM4

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Unless you're running VLANs, in which case the inter VLAN is normally handled by the router. I also expose my home lab services over BGP so all my traffic hits the router then comes back to my lab services.

6mo ago

It's your fault my laptop knows where I am

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

Every WiFi router and network has something called an SSID and a BSSID. The SSID is the friendly name that you use to show off your puns to your neighbors. The BSSID is a 6 byte MAC address. All devices use the BSSID when connecting and communicating.

With a non hidden SSID, your router broadcasts the SSID and BSSID.

The BSSID doesn't change even if you change your SSID (Though APs with support for multiple SSID create a different BSSID per network) and it's what is actually used for geo location.

When it's hidden, it doesn't send the SSID out, but sends out packets with the BSSID. Clients then scream out to the void "anybody know the SSID 'My Secret SSID??'" Then it'll respond.

So basically hidden networks still send out the unique identifying address and then when you take your phone with you, you're just telling everybody what your home WiFi is called.

Hidden SSIDs are not that useful.

6mo ago

PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/discontinuing-syncthing-android/23002

According to this post, it was partly that and lack of maintainers. Given there's maintainers for a fork, I'm curious why they didn't bring them into the main project.

Reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes.

6mo ago

PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 6mo ago

We're sort of in this situation because the official project decided not to continue providing an official Android app, yet people want to use it on Android forcing unofficial versions to be created and maintained.

I get that they don't want to deal with Google Play anymore, but somebody has to deal with it and them not owning the app is putting users at risk.

7mo ago

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 7mo ago

I tried that with my KeePass database and then I ended up with different conflict versions if a device didn't sync to my server before I updated on another device. Then I ended up with the conflict versions and old versions I had manually resolve. The Android Syncthing app could get auto killed by the Android OS for memory/battery saving, so I had to go back to OneDrive style syncing where the KeePass Android app would internally merge and resolve conflicts. It couldn't do that using the Syncthing style syncing.

7mo ago

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chaospatterns @lemmy.world 7mo ago

If you check the folder in the HDD, are there any other files like the database backup or log files?

If not, then strace -e file -p pid is my best friend for figuring out what files a process is touching.