Mastodawn

In case you need yet another reason not to use #Xfinity's modem; they can now detect motion in your house using your #wifi and will disclose that information to the police if it's requested.

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion

#comcast #internet #technology

Using WiFi Motion in the Xfinity app

Find more information on using WiFi Motion in the Xfinity app.

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Aaron Soto 2h ago

Andrew (Television Executive)15h ago

A thing I'm seeing with increasing frequency from the younger members of our community is this like ...

Let me back up.

I work with some folks in their early twenties, and I am having a hard time relating to some of them. Some of them are having a hard time relating to one another.

And the root of this difficulty is propaganda, I think. All of them are constantly bombarded with video propaganda via social media. A lot of it is anti-community propaganda. Most of the media they consume is just about strengthening their disaffiliation with various outgroups. Even the stuff that's about celebrating people is, at least in passing, also about excluding or dehumanizing people.

And, for each of them, the memberships in these various in and out groups is unique. One of them has fallen in to a real trad Christian, 1950s fetishization, one of them watches a lot of stuff premised on the idea that nuerotypical people are an evolutionary dead end, and nuerodivergent people are the path forward...

It's... The specific content isn't what worries me. Like, both of those things aren't great, but the particular contents of the propaganda is irrelevant to my current point (because content can be addressed and deprogrammed.) Regardless of what flavor of self-isolating purity test content they've fallen in to, there are some common themes:

- policing other people's behaviors and desires
- shame for basically any expression of sexuality
- an outsized importance on excluding people

I'm sure there's other stuff, and I know this isn't unique to folks under 25, but it seems to be especially pervasive with them.

Social battles that I thought were long settled are not only coming back up, but also going the wrong way.

And I have to assume that this is, intentional and coordinated or not, an attempt to break any kind of solidarity that might build between people who are dissimilar.

Aaron Soto 11h ago

Evelyn

2d ago

so recently my server has unintentionally been inside a DDoS of my own making. any smaller webserver i point my domain at becomes instantly crippled. let me explain the situation...

so i make minecraft mods, right. well, at one point, i made this library mod called CICADA, that has a bunch of shared utilities i use. this is pretty common practice

then once i had that, i realized, hey! why not make a funny thing in this library mod that gives my own minecraft character a cape when anyone sees me! that would be kinda neat.

it couldnt just be simply hardcoded though of course, so i had a genius plan. i would put a simple "api" of sorts up on github pages that would have directories for all the players that i want to have capes. the mod can do a quick http request in the background, and if it doesnt return a 404, load the cape from the png thats returned to display on the player

now you might wonder, this is a perfect idea is it not? how could this possibly have caused any issues? ...yea i think you can roughly guess where this went

for the github pages thing, i used the one domain i had available at the time: enjarai.dev. now, you may notice that this currently hosts my personal website. which is no longer on github pages.

when i made this migration, i realized something quite concerning. my mods are popular.

my servers cpu was consistently pinned at 100% over 4 cores, and i was getting... checks notes thousands of GET requests a second. 24/7. neither me nor my server were very happy about this as you might imagine

for quite a while, i've honestly just kinda... put up with this. there didnt seem to be anything i could do, short of just not using my domain or migrating back to github, neither of which i wanted

its been getting worse and worse though, my disk is filling up with access logs within literal hours after clearing them (so i had to disable those) and im running out of bandwidth quota on my VPS every month. something needs to change

so i shared my problem with a bunch of friends last night, and we brainstormed the hell out of this. after a lot of ideas, including potentially sending malformed PNGs to crash people's games and force them to update the mod (which turned out not to be feasible), i landed on a pretty decent solution i think

everyone using an old version of CICADA will now see this cape. on every single player

i really hope this works, cause if not, im kinda out of ideas

will keep yall posted

Aaron Soto 22h ago

Edmonds_Scanner 22h ago

What could you use more of right now?

	peace & quiet
	hope & happiness
	curly fries & cash
	deep sleep

Poll ends at Jul 10 at 2:38am.

Aaron Soto 23h ago

Matt Linton

23h ago

I was mulling over a principle of incident response today and wondered what others in my field might think.

Yes or no: "To operate effectively, incident responders need to be able to obtain at least the same level of access to a system as the attacker has potentially obtained."

Aaron Soto 23h ago

Ben XCX 1d ago

This is really cool. I'd never heard of this before.

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/weather/astronaut-snaps-giant-red-jellyfish-sprite-over-north-america-during-upward-shooting-lightning-event

Astronaut snaps giant red 'jellyfish' sprite over North America during upward-shooting lightning event

NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured an electrifying image of a giant lightning "sprite" shooting up over Mexico and southern U.S. states. The red "jellyfish" could help researchers learn more about this rare phenomenon.

Live Science

Aaron Soto 1d ago

Troggie 1d ago

Thunderstorms 🌩️

Hate them

5.4%

Love them

76.6%

Ambivalent

18%

Poll ended at 1:11pm.

Aaron Soto 1d ago

bazcurtis 1d ago

This card showed up in my YouTube feed today. It look really good. This video shows it off well. I am looking forward to testing Bubble Card and see if it meets my needs.

https://youtu.be/0hSQOlBxKKI?si=K_h3lI7uTWD8A3Rl

https://github.com/Clooos/Bubble-Card

#bubblecard

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