plorb 6d ago
Andrew  

RE: https://unbound.social/@aaronpettman/116703910562731794

Anyone with a Pi-hole or similar, you should add these domains to your block list:

proxyjs.brdtnet.com
proxyjs.luminatinet.com
proxyjs.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.bright-sdk.com
clientsdk.brdtnet.com

Just one more reason my TV will never go on the Internet.

Jun 7 at 12:02amWeb
Show thread四Jun 7
@piepants I genuinely want a TV with open source software. Would be glorious.
Show threadMegaeggz6d ago

@yon @piepants I saw this new interface for KDE Plasma which looks like a good step in the right direction

https://plasma-bigscreen.org/

Plasma Bigscreen

A privacy-respecting, open source and secure TV ecosystem

Plasma Bigscreen
Show threadAndrew  6d ago
@megaeggz @yon ooh, I’ll have to check that out later, thanks!
Show thread四6d ago

@megaeggz @piepants While cool I must have been a bit unclear on my end. :( I’m thinking of the firmware. The thing that runs the TV itself. Swaps inputs, does the burn in reduction, auto turn off, screen casting, handles the image, scaling, CEC, and most disturbingly the surveillance.

Having all that be open source so things can be fixed and just do the things we want would be such a boon imho.

A small puck with KDE big screen would be a cool idea though.

Show threadMegaeggz6d ago
@yon @piepants ah yeah that would be cool. I suppose you would have to convince a manufacturer like pimoroni there was a market for something like that. Perhaps regulators need to mandate that more firmware should be open source (for mobile phones too 🙌)
Show threadtootbrute3d ago
@megaeggz @yon @piepants me want!!!!!
Show threadRay McCarthy6d ago

@piepants
my Fritz!box with stock SW lets me block domains.

I'd never connect a TV to WiFi or ethernet. That's been a no-no ever since they added networking to TVs.
Nor would I have any streaming box or stick.

Show threadKerplunk6d ago

@piepants

Know why I searched and eventually managed to find an purchase a non smart tv. It connects to SAT Only

Smart TV is the dumbest purchase any household can make.

Friends feed SAT TV in to a huge computer monitor.

The receiver has no back channel.

Show threadAndrew  6d ago
@Kerplunk I've got a smart TV, because it's bloody hard to find one that isn't these days. But it's not connected to the internet, never will be, it displays a HDMI input and that's it.
Show threadKerplunk6d ago

@piepants

@Kerplunk I've got a smart TV, because it's bloody hard to find one that isn't these days. But it's not connected to the internet, never will be, it displays a HDMI input and that's it.

Good, what often foils that is automatic connection to any open wlan the tv can find.

Open wireless access points are not uncommon, in Germany at least.

Show threadAndrew  6d ago

@Kerplunk I’ve not heard of TVs automatically joining open wifi before, that sounds like a horrible idea from a security point of view - anyone could set up an open hotspot and MITM traffic from the TV 😱

Mine (a Toshiba) thankfully doesn’t do that, though all the apartments in my building in rural Japan have passwords.

Show threadTom_Huth6d ago
@piepants Guess why I block all smart TV at all from accessing the internet? At the Mac address level.
I use linear SAT TV and I'm far away from using all these spying modern fancy provides like Netflix and Co.
And of course I don't trust any of TV manufacturers.
I have an older LG, and even this old device try to open a lot remote connection, as my FW tells me.
How about no?
Show threadkkarhan6d ago

@piepants ain't they already on well-maintained blocklists¹ like OISD?

- If not, I'd consider putting it on mine² if you have more details about them…

¹: https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/blocklists.list.tsv
²: https://github.com/greyhat-academy/lists.d/blob/main/drop.domains.block.list.tsv

lists.d/blocklists.list.tsv at main · greyhat-academy/lists.d

List of useful things. Contribute to greyhat-academy/lists.d development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadMark Bryant6d ago
@piepants @Viss My LG is hard coded for Google. If it can’t use 8.8.8.8 for lookup, it no work. So I just black hole outbound packets from my IoT VLAN that I object to.
Show threadAndrew  6d ago
@Spartan_1986 @Viss hard coded DNS? Wow, that’s a new level of awful.
Show threadViss6d ago
@piepants @Spartan_1986 i have horror stories about my old samsung tv trying to break into my wifi network even after i factory reset it
Show threadAndrew  6d ago
@Viss @Spartan_1986 good lord, I’d be ripping it open and yanking the wifi antenna at that point.
Show threadViss6d ago
@piepants @Spartan_1986 i was running an aruba stack at the time (which i actually have up for sale) in which i had the enterprise licenses for containment (super handy) so i had to contain the tv.
Show threadMark Bryant6d ago
@Viss @piepants
Show threadViss6d ago

@Spartan_1986 @piepants samsung, famously, has fucking washing machines that catch fire.

the ones full of water.

on fire.

Show threadDarkAthena 🐝6d ago
@piepants @tom I’ve never connected our TV to the Internet. I never will.
Show threadWhatisgoingon5d ago

@piepants my TV is behind a pi-hole with very restrictive lists.

When I start the TV the screen stays black as it cannot load the start-menu-screen.

So I think I am doing something right 🤣