user224

joined 2 years ago
[–] user224 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

"3 days without humans"

[–] user224 1 points 4 hours ago

Only happens to me on a VPN.

[–] user224 1 points 8 hours ago

I've had some issues yesterday, but it started working. Still works today.

[–] user224 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, I see now. Actually a config issue. It should return text/plain. But it's odd, I recall it working, I literally just copy pasted it from local NGINX config where I recall it working in the past.
I added default_type text/plain; into the location block which now loads normally, and still returns the same 418 code.

[–] user224 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Or perhaps worse (like paying extra money or installing provided malware (at least seems like it based on VirusTotal)).

I've checked the official guides. They're awful as hell. They use some random programs, which are provided on there as exe files. Considering that the one I checked makes VirusTotal blink like a Christmas tree, they're probably not good. Mind you, the card was still taped in with warranty void sticker.

For restoring the image, they provide disk images as .pmf files, which I have trouble finding information about.

They also talk about file access over SMB and SFTP. All is well, except that they show you to log into your router to find the device's IP address to connect to it. Meanwhile, it responds to mDNS for emuelec.local. They don't even know their own products? Right, they just copied FOSS software and sold it.

Worst part now. The provided software to browse the SD card will mount it read only. As people report in YouTube comments, they had to pay for a license to mount it read-write and modify configs as the official guides instruct.
Guess what that is doing.
Mounting ext4 on Windows. That's it. Paying money to use ext4.

[–] user224 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (5 children)

Welp, seems like browsers don't like 418. Edit: Nevermind, I am idiot.

location = /teapot {
                        return 418 "I'm a teapot\n";
                }

https://167.160.186.15/teapot

[–] user224 2 points 22 hours ago

Maybe. But only if I don't know how to approach it. For example, I just found copying partitions using Gparted and opening detailed informations has a high chance of crashing entire KDE Plasma desktop.
But it restarts and doesn't kill Gparted, so...

I have no idea what's going on though, and no idea what to look for.

 

Weird one, but there's always that feeling that it's my mistake. It's just too suspicious.

So the matter is one of those cheap game consoles you see on AliExpress. This one could do PS1 emulation as well, so sounds cool.

Welp, first a software issue. It wouldn't boot. I contacted the seller, he said it worked, and has been laying unused for 2 years, and that I can find guides on how to fix it myself.
OK, the software is booting from SD card and happens to be Linux based. In fact, it's just EmuELEC with "Kinhank" skin. Checking the hashes on there, I found SquashFS file to be corrupted. I tried Manjaro ARM unsuccessfully, and then went back to EmuELEC, also copying the required device tree blob image which happened to survive.

Software fixed. Mostly. I don't know if the ROMs are OK. By the way, there's also a random .exe with trash icon that gets 29 detections on VirusTotal.
But anyway, this would still fly with me.

Issue 2, the controllers don't work. Just some cheap ones with 2.4GHz dongles. I found others with same issue based on status LEDs, and the solutions are none. I tried them with my PC, I tried them with the original software just replacing the SquashFS, I tried in another room just in case it's RFI, I tried connecting one of the controllers to 3V PSU. Nothing.

So I once again wrote to the seller.
But now I feel bad. How the fuck does just everything break?

[–] user224 1 points 23 hours ago

5G is fine when comparing with 4G. Just a step up. My issue with them is rather whatever is going on with VoLTE and VoNR. 2G/3G just worked for phone calls, but now you only get that guaranteed by purchasing a phone directly from the carrier. Hell, some carriers even blacklist or whitelist devices just because.
And in Australia phones are now getting blocked completely, even if they worked with VoLTE because the carrier decided they didn't.. Hugh Jeffrey also made a video about that.

[–] user224 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, they'll get monetized to hell.

[–] user224 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This was the reason I stopped consuming it. I am not against porn, I like it, but verifying it is basically impossible. The issues usually boil down to money, same as usual.
Could be someone being forced by an individual.
Could be someone being forced by society (sex work as only way to afford college/healthcare/feeding a kid etc. even though the person feels being destroyed by it).
Could be private recordings posted as revenge.
You can't really know.
Of course that's a problem with other professions too, but all that can be done under capitalism is harm reduction. Similar to not buying from Nestle.

I just tried to think of what I can get absolutely ethically. Nothing. Even when thinking of vegetables directly from a farmer, dig in, and pesticides. How do they affect the environment, how were they produced, what happens to packaging. Nothing is 100% ethical. All I can do is try to avoid the worst or unnecessary.

 

Domain names seem expensive in comparison. The cheaper VPS that I use for playing around is just $10.29/year.
I thought I'd get a domain name from RackNerd as well, but they're $24.95/year + I think $4.99 for privacy.

I've checked Namecheap, and that seemed great, until I found that renewal prices are often through the roof.

I don't really care about it being nice. For now, mostly I just want to use the VPS as image host for Lemmy, since Imgur and Catbox are both a bit problematic.
And without a domain name, the images only show as link posts in the default LemmyUI (though it seems to work elsewhere). Plus it makes migration impossible.

 

Yeah, they overlap since I did whole hour (120 30-second codes). I didn't know specific time, so it's 2 pages, 3 hours, 42 minutes and 30 seconds.

Credit goes to oathtool (and LibreOffice Write).
Font: Liberation Mono

 

People often find it odd when I say I don't play PC games, but it seems rather complicated (and also expensive) to me.

I mean, I enjoyed it back when I had friends with PS, but I never had to set up anything myself. Searching around it seems rather... overwhelming, and I don't know if it's actually the case.

  1. PC seems most versatile, and with the prices, I considered piracy, but I would need a separate computer for security. Hell, I wouldn't even trust the device firmware on it afterwards.
  2. So I considered maybe paying the amounts, but I went to check some games and lo and behold, kernel-level anti-cheat. Great, so pirated games might even have less malware in the end.
  3. Since I'd need a separate device anyway, how about getting a PlayStation. With a disc drive, I want to be able to go future proof and fully offline. Well, about that... apparently it needs to verify the disc drive online. For what? It's a BluRay drive, either it works or it doesn't. And then I heard another shitty thing, "most games are released almost unplayable and need updates right away". So they just release Alpha quality software on the most permanent medium???

So that just sounds like shitty experience no matter what. How is it actually? I'd expect consoles to be least buggy and fully future proof.
The only thing I ever had was a $4 NES bootleg console from AliExpress, Contra was glitched out and Battletank unplayable because they forgot the select button, but ok, $4.

413
Stop doing DNS (167.160.186.15)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by user224 to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
 

And it always causes issues.

Anyway, I hope the main joke got spotted too.
Let's Encrypt now does IP certs: https://letsencrypt.org/2026/01/15/6day-and-ip-general-availability

Certbot doesn't seem to be up to the task yet, but lego works.

But I'll probably change it to some image host later, because I have no idea what I am doing.

Why does it not work... It embeds when creating the post.

Seems fine too, it's HTTPS after all, should work.

OK, seems that it's just the default LemmyUI that doesn't like it, which is strange for the number of pict-rs requests in access.log.
Also by the number of 429, 5r/s is probably too low. Was. Anyway...
OR, that's why there is the burst option. Right.

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No Christmas? (i.imgflip.com)
 

Do they have like, free time or something?

In high school it was also not rare that I'd say submit my homework at 02:30, get it graded at 03:00 and then we'd meet in a class on same day at 07:00.
Anyone getting sleep?

 
 

According to the prosecution, Glukhikh searched for pictures of Azov insignia on Google while he was on the bus on the morning of 24 September, though how the security forces had been made aware of the search was not disclosed.

The case materials include an image of Glukhikh’s phone lying on the table, clearly displaying the search query he is accused of making.

Bruh...

 
 

Top image source: https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/9ol79n/are_we_doing_blurry_server_cats_now/

Seen on Cisco Catalyst 3560G during pirated software update (just for playing around, not production use).
The checksums were verified against Cisco download center.

 
 

Sorry for the Imgur link, catbox wasn't loading as image, just as a link again: https://files.catbox.moe/j3a7cl.PNG

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