ordered a new phone so I wanted a new SIM for a clean slate. My country require KYC for SIM cards. So i ordered this https://www.ebay.com/itm/295938085941 I see now that the card is being shipped from Israel....
Why would you ever be buying a sim card seprate from the carrier servicing it...?
Honestly asking, that's incredibly unusual to me. Where I live, the mobile carrier always provides the sim card. Usually free with a monthly phone plan, or as a part of a pre-paid plan. (pre-paid you can usually buy from a corner store like seven eleven. monthly you'll actually have to visit their store/mall booth)
I have a TrueNAS install with SMB turned on and nothing else. Even when it’s idle and nothing is accessing it, there’s constant disk activity. Very low bandwidth, but it’s like some log is in verbose mode....
I think what OC was getting at was how some animal breeds are bred with very limited groups to maintain desired bloodlines/genes. This leads to health issues due to inbreeding.
Pug dogs are a somewhat common example; same with a lot of 'pure bred' dog breeds.
I'm not sure how much that applies to sphinx cats.
It can be done ethically, with a sufficient gene pool. It can also be done cruelly; especially when profit is involved. I can't say I have much faith in it being done ethically... But I'm sure there are some alright groups out there.
You were already provided with examples in this comment thread:
Non-apple watches, for instance, can't use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation
We aren't talking about two phones paired with each other, were talking about a pair of headphones or a smart watch, causing the phone it's linked to to make a sound. Nothing more.
There is absolutely 0 opportunity to acquire a location from that.
Beyond that; apple products, specifically airpods and apple's smart watch, have these abilities.
Why would it be a security flaw to allow an Apple manufactured device to perform these functions, but not a third party device, utilizing the exact same implementations?
They weren't storing your name in the first place; they've acquired a new service 'blowfish' for which an account is automatically created for you if you currently or in the past have used glassdoor. Blowfish demands a real name to be used at all. (including to delete your account)
Ontop of this, after linking the two services on your behalf; glassdoor will now automatically populate your real name and any other information they can gleam from blowfish, your resumes, and any other sources they can find, regardless of whether the information is correct (users have reported lots of incorrect changes). This is new.
I haven't looked at any streaming service in at least 5 years.
Want to watch something >
Open Ombi >
Search title >
click 'request' > (request is processed by the arr stack)
15-25min later receive notification 'request ready to watch' >
Open emby from anywhere >
stream request from my home pc.
Most of the time the media's already been acquired from previous requests from users, monitored imdb lists, friend recommendations randomly tossed in throughout the week, etc; and can just be streamed immediately.
After reading this thread and a few other similar ones, I tried out BorgBackup and have been massively impressed with it's efficiency.
Data that hasn't changed, is stored under a different location, or otherwise is identical to what's already stored in the backup repository (both in the backup currently being created and all historical backups) isn't replicated. Only the information required to link that existing data to its doppelgangers is stored.
The original set of data I've got being backed up is around 270gb:
I currently have 13 backups of it.
Raw; thats 3.78tb of data.
After just compression using zlib; that's down to 1.56tb.
But the incredible bit is after de-duplication (the part described in the above paragraph), the raw data stored on disk for all 13 of those backups: 67.9gb.
I can mount any one of those 13 backups to the filesystem, or just extract any of 3.78tb of files directly from that backup repository of just 67.9gb of data.
I'm currently debating on how to manage files on my servers. I have a jellyfin and a minecraft server on which I need to add, remove or download files quite often. I don't really want to use scp for everything, so I was wondering what everyone uses....
I currently use keePass, and use it on both my PC and my phone. I like it because I can keep a copy of my DB on my phone and export it through a few different means. But I can't seem to find an option to actually sync my local DB against a remote one. I've thought about switching to BitWarden but from what I can see it uses a...
Bitwarden is (primarily) a single db synced between devices via a server. A copy is kept locally on each device you sign into.
Changes made to an offline copy will sync to the server and your other devices once back online. (with the most recent change to each individual item being kept if there are multiple changes across several devices)
/edit: the local copy is for access to your passwords offline. Edits must be made with a connection to the server your account resides on, be that bitwardens or your own.
If you host your own sync server via vaultwarden, you can easily maintain multiple databases (called vaults) either with multiple accounts, or with a single account and the organizations feature. (options for creating vaults separate from your main one and sharing those vaults with multiple accounts) You can do this with regular bitwarden as well, but have to pay for the privilege.
Using vaultwarden also gives you all the paid features of bitwarden for free (as it's self-hosted instead of using public servers)
I've been incredibly happy with it after setting it up ~3 months ago. Worth looking into.
Interesting, that I was not aware of. I've never run into a scenario where I've had to add/edit while offline.
When using vaultwarden however, you can be offline as long as the client can still reach the server (ie they are within the same lan network or are the same machine). You'd still be fine to add/edit while your home wan is out for example, just not on the go.
Plus there's the no-internet package mentioned in that link, but it's limited to the desktop application.
I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it's the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn't coming in the foreseeable future....
Is the old device still plugged in while you setup the new one? Perhaps they connected to each other. My previous Samsung phone did this with my new one without prior setup of the 'feature', though after I signed into my Samsung account onnthe new phone.
Or it could have come pre-loaded with data on your account...
I'm not very comfortable with either option really.
In other words: your amazon devices are freely giving your wifi info to any nearby new amazon device regardless of whether you've signed into that new device or not.
Begs the question: What other clearly private info do they give away with 0 auth or verification?
Depending on a setting being disabled thats more than likely on by default isn't much comfort. Most people won't know about or look for those kinds of settings, especially with the deceptive descriptions often used for features like these.
To be clear, I don't use these devices either; I'm just concerned for those that don't know any better.
The verification still needs one of the devices listed in my post to be active on your wifi to allow the setup and communication.
Yes, that's what I said; your amazon devices are giving away your wifi info to new devices. As in once you've allowed an amazon device onto your network, any new device can add itself to that network via your existing device without your input.
This happens before the new device has authenticated into your amazon account as it doesn't yet have an internet connection (ie before its proven to be your device and not say a neighbours) and before you manually provide authentication for your wifi. Hence the 'with 0 auth'.
The auth is likely done by device to device handshake. Its just that there isn't a human involved.
A handshake between a device you own but have little control over and a device you've never seen before, may not have physical access too, and that could have been compromised before requesting your info. Great.
I'm not saying they're beaming it out in plain text for all to read; just that they'll give your info to a device you may not even be aware of let alone own or have any control over. That device may be a stock Amazon device, or it could be something more malicious.
Yes, that is exactly what I'm saying as that's what it sounds like.
If you can buy a new amazon device and have it connect to all your stuff without your input; what stops someone else buying an amazon device and connecting to your network with it?
Obviously I'm not worried about the device I actually receive; I'm concerned that someone can buy their own device and use it to connect to other people's networks via existing amazon devices.
First of all, they have to already know you have that device.
Ie: any amazon smart device; which are becoming increasingly popular and found in many homes globally.
Also, I'm not taking about someone targeting me, you, or anyone specifically. I'm talking about someone wandering around looking for homes that happen to have a vulnerable device and seeing where they can get from there.
Really not hard to find.
THEN they have to hang around long enough for any sort of updates and shit to happen.
Trivial when you consider not everyone lives in a single-family home with significant yardspace around it. Apartments exist, so do smaller multi-family dwellings.
THEN THEN they have to try and figure out how to get any useful data from this connection
The useful info here being your WIFI password (the info this connection is intended to spread) allowing an attacker to piviot to the rest of your network.
THEN THEN THEN they have to find a way to remove said useful information to a device that can actually store it.
This would be where I've repeatedly talked about an attacker being able to purchase an amazon device, jailbreak it, and use it to connect to your network
They can buy a device from Amazon then have all the time in the world to figure out a method of retrieving data from it. Once a method is worked out, they then deploy it against unsuspecting victims. (ie any random home they can get near and find an amazon device thats broadcasting looking for new devices)
if someone is able to just walk up to your house with a random device and hang out long enough to establish a wifi connection and pull out any sort of useful data you have WAY BIGGER PROBLEMS
I completely agree which is why I'm not happy with Amazon providing a hole to achieve exactly that.
American nonprofit OCLC is known globally for its leading database of bibliographic records, WorldCat. A few months ago, many of these records were posted publicly by the shadow library search engine, Anna's Archive. OCLC believes that this is the result of a year-long hack and, with a lawsuit filed at an Ohio federal court, it...
(stock Android) I've yet to find any android call recording app that works on a device that doesn't have permission from Google to use the built in call recording features :/
~9mo ago they all got broken by an android update and haven't worked since.
I am running this docker image: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker with a cloudflare tunnel, meaning the webserver would see all the traffic coming from a single ip in 172.16.0.0/12 ....
Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it's at for this stuff. Of course he didn't elaborate, so I need some help here....
From a user aspect: nowadays all that is burried in/handed by the usenet client you use.
Downloading from usenet is very similar to torrenting in that you receive an index file (.nzb) that is effectively equivalent to a torrent file. You pass that to your usenet client, and it'll handle downloading each of the parts, called articles, then stitching them together into the actual file shares. (while even recovering missing/corrupted data via added parity data)
The big difference is you're downloading each of these articles from whichever usenet providers you've configured; instead of from random individual peers discovered through public/private trackers.
Usenet providers usually offer more consistent and faster speeds, typically saturating my disk write speed; where as torrent peers are often slow or unreliable in comparison. Also as it's a standard tls connection between you and a private service, and you don't have to re-upload the data you download; you're not exposed to copyright claimants and don't need a vpn.
That's down the the indexer you decide to use. The one I use (NZBGeek) does have a requests section where you can enter an IMDB id, TVDB id, or just a general description and any other necessary/desired details like quality and they'll be filled by volunteers.
TBH not something I'd actually looked into until now. I'm gonna go drop a request or two in there right now. There's not much I'm missing, but the things I am I haven't been able to find regardless of source.
They do sometimes; but they also comply with takedown notices. Thing is, they all mirror each other's data and are located globally. Take one down, 2 more pop up outside your jurisdiction; and files that get taken down are only taken from one provider at a time, while others pick up the slack. It's an endless game of wack-a-mole that's essentially a waste of time.
This is why it's somewhat important to have more than one provider in seprate jurisdictions but not absolutely critical. You can move from one to another pretty seamlessly.
All that section says is you have to explicitly cancel the service yourself. Selling the vehicle you use the service in and not using it via another vehicle/device doesn't cancel the service for you.
This is so you can't sell the vehicle then, 6 months later when you realize you've still been paying for a subscription, demand a refund for the service you didn't/couldn't use anymore but hadn't actually cancelled.
You get ample opportunity to try the service you've paid for, usually at a cheaper bulk price vs monthly, and to decide you don't like it and refund your purchase. Beyond the 30 days is just you changing your mind and going back on a deal you made.
Why should the company have to come up with a refund just because you later decided you didn't need/want as much as you'd bought?
If it stopped working after the 30 days, sure you should be able to get a refund; but just because you decided you don't want it anymore? Most retail stores have a 30day refund window... Beyond that is an added courtesy
sim card from Ebay , bad idea?
ordered a new phone so I wanted a new SIM for a clean slate. My country require KYC for SIM cards. So i ordered this https://www.ebay.com/itm/295938085941 I see now that the card is being shipped from Israel....
What is TrueNAS writing all the time to disk?
I have a TrueNAS install with SMB turned on and nothing else. Even when it’s idle and nothing is accessing it, there’s constant disk activity. Very low bandwidth, but it’s like some log is in verbose mode....
Is this c/aww material? ( lemmy.world )
Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger ( www.pcmag.com )
cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/technology@lemmy.world/t/707049
Your VPN provider won't go to jail for you for 5 dollars ( www.ivpn.net )
It is something to always take into consideration and not forget.
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Martial superiority ( lemmy.world )
Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent ( arstechnica.com )
I'm resolved to just watch from my own collection even as I'm checking Netflix
I am over being disappointed by streaming sites....
Backup solutions
Hands down, I'm way too late to the party with my backup-strategy, and I have no good explanation....
How do you manage your server files?
I'm currently debating on how to manage files on my servers. I have a jellyfin and a minecraft server on which I need to add, remove or download files quite often. I don't really want to use scp for everything, so I was wondering what everyone uses....
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u mad, state? ( lemmy.world )
ssh into raspberry without a router
Hi! I hope this is the right community to ask....
Password Manager that supports multiple databases/syncing?
I currently use keePass, and use it on both my PC and my phone. I like it because I can keep a copy of my DB on my phone and export it through a few different means. But I can't seem to find an option to actually sync my local DB against a remote one. I've thought about switching to BitWarden but from what I can see it uses a...
Amazon FireTv Cube scares the shit out of me
I just received a new Fire TV cube gen 3, because my old one is malfunctioning. I know, I hate these devices myself, but it's the only option right now, since a new version of the Nvidia shield isn't coming in the foreseeable future....
What does your current setup look like?
What are your favorite tools for monitoring Linux and individual docker containers?
CPU/GPU/RAM/Disk usage, logs, errors, network usage, overall status, etc...
Lawsuit Accuses Anna's Archive of Hacking WorldCat, Stealing 2.2 TB Data ( torrentfreak.com )
American nonprofit OCLC is known globally for its leading database of bibliographic records, WorldCat. A few months ago, many of these records were posted publicly by the shadow library search engine, Anna's Archive. OCLC believes that this is the result of a year-long hack and, with a lawsuit filed at an Ohio federal court, it...
what's your wishlist for piracy?
What can be (realisticly) improved for a better and easier experience
new permissions for simple voice recorder app. they're coming! ( lemmy.world )
As per title. Move to a new app peeps, I found this 1 seems fine....
A perfectly normal warning on Instagram. KOSA is going to be perfectly fine... 🔥🔥🐶☕🔥🔥 ( lemmy.ml )
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/1ajd915/searching_for_halo_on_instagram/
How I accidentally slowed down my nextcloud instance for months
I am running this docker image: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker with a cloudflare tunnel, meaning the webserver would see all the traffic coming from a single ip in 172.16.0.0/12 ....
Newsgroups?
Just saw on Titus Tech Talk that torrents are last decade, and newsgroups is where it's at for this stuff. Of course he didn't elaborate, so I need some help here....
XMSirius just changed their terms and subscriptions are no longer cancelable or refundable starting 3/15/24, even if you sell your vehicle and have no way to use the account.
In unrelated news, music piracy is on the rise....