@ewhac

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Software engineer of a Certain Age, particularly with low-level and embedded systems, and device drivers. Closet extrovert.

(It's pronounced " 'eɪ.wæk ".)

All opinions expressed are solely my own, on my own behalf, and do not necessarily reflect those of my employer.

Home Pagehttps://ewhac.org/
YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/c/ewhac
GitHubhttps://github.com/ewhac
Show threadewhac6h ago
@PuzzlePW @cstross ...A calculator with dead, leaking batteries. That were installed backwards.
Show threadewhac7h ago

@woody Perhaps my eyes are failing, but I didn't see any links in the article to the project:

https://www.scion.org/

And if you'd like to stand up a demo network to play around with, they have a HOWTO page:

https://docs.scion.org/en/latest/tutorials/deploy.html

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Show threadewhac9h ago

@benroyce
Google: "Why U hate Glass?"

What World Said: "Because it's intrusive, invasive, and creep-tastic. We're not performers for your private collection, or click-fodder for your TikTok. Get out of our face with that shit!"

What MetaCreeps Heard: "We can tell when you're recording us." Okay, what if we hid it better, so they couldn't tell...?

ewhac9h ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116280575943263005

It would be nice if this resulted in an increased uptake of OpenWRT. I put it on a couple of cheap TP-Link units (before I switched to UniFi), and it worked fairly well. I wouldn't recommend your Average Joe attempt to install it, but technically astute people should have no difficulty.

Unfortunately, what will probably happen is all the ILEC and cable Internet providers will send scare-o-grams to their captive audience saying, "IF YOU'RE NOT USING OUR ROUTER, YOU'RE AT RISK!!!1!1!"

Show threadewhac10h ago
@tomshardware Unfortunately, judging solely from the viciously intrusive spyware LG jams into their televisions, there's no way I'd touch a laptop made by them.
ewhac3d ago

Okay, that's cool...

The latest release of the @Vivaldi browser has a new feature called Auto-Hide, where pretty much the entire browser UI disappears, showing nothing but page content. Move the pointer near the edges of the window, and the UI elements for that edge slide back in, and then disappear when you move away again.

Quite nice when visiting browser-based games.

ewhac4d ago

The Slob has ordered the Department of The Interior to stop talking to the San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate:

The "logic" is that the press is free to ask what it wants and print what it wants, but the government is under no obligation to respond.

I will be amused to see how fast that idea evaporates when the Democratic administration very properly shit-cans OANN, Breitbart, and Fox News.

https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/interior-blacklist-sfgate-national-parks-22082140.php

Show threadewhac4d ago
@Rabon @georgetakei Bonus points for doing it down NYC's Fifth Avenue, with spectators shooting spitwads at him.
ewhac5d ago

Well, that was surprisingly easy(-ish).

Just installed Forgejo into a BSD jail running on my NAS. The package was very thoughtfully put together, called out the configuration bits I needed to fill in, and I had a Git server running on my LAN within a couple hours. After a few minutes additional work, it was speaking TLS, and had 2FA enabled.

Show threadewhac5d ago
@tero Nice to have one's long-held informed-by-actual-experience opinions validated and confirmed by government experts. Shame it didn't make a damned bit of difference...