u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org) @lemmy.sdf.org 18M I like computers, trains, space, radio-related everything and a bunch of other tech related stuff. User of GNU+Linux. I am also dumb and worthless. My laptop is HP 255 G7 running Manjaro and Linux Mint. I own RTL-SDRv3 and RSP1 clone.
SDF Unix shell username: user224
YouTube also supports longer videos outside of shorts. And they don't even have to be in portrait mode. /j
Or:
Today I will answer all your most important questions. For example, the answer to eternal happiness is... more in part 2!
In case you're serious, a video-centric social media. It focuses on short vertical videos. Naturally, they're generally too short to have much useful information, so it's mostly dumb addictive content, or straight up misinformation. It's meant to feel like you're not wasting time while you definitely are. "I am not spending 15 minutes to watch a normal video, I just watched a few (maybe 50) short (around 1 minute) videos."
It's like YouTube shorts.
Oh, it implies wearing them under pants. That makes sense.
Unfortunately yes. I am 18, there's no way I could live alone right now.
If I'll continue to university, I'll probably have to stay for a while longer. I still have a year of high school left (difference in education system, if the age doesn't add up).
I hope I'll be able to get away from them as soon as possible.
What happened to the previous post? If you felt like you had to remove it, why did you just post it again?
Anyway, yes I am. It's not like I could give a single reason why, it's a lot of things, so simply yes.
I am missing something here. What does it have to do with temperature?
I hate Billboards.
I don't just hate them, but I'd straight up make them illegal. At least next to roads. They are specifically meant to get the attention of drivers. How can that be allowed?
Generally yes. If I don't need it, I don't need it for free either. The price doesn't change how much I don't need a product.
Only made sense when some supermarkets had samples of hams and cheeses in those sections before COVID. Helped decide which one to buy.
funny thing parents do to embarrass their kids
And what is funny about that?
School, bus station, many other places of my city with free internet.
I also used to steal neighbor's WiFi for years. Since I was 8 until I was 14. But for larger downloads I used public networks. By larger downloads, I meant >50MB. Yeah. Huge. Though I was watching YouTube quite a bit, usually at 144p/240p. In the end I still spent quite a bit.
Currently I just use mobile data. Still no normal internet connection at home. But hey, my school finally has symmetric gigabit. The only problem is, most classrooms are connected via Fast Ethernet.
I would also recommend All+Top 6 hours if you want to participate in posts that will most likely still have plenty of activity.
Because the post was removed. But the reason is right there:
Edit: Nevermind, you should still be able to see your own posts if you are logged in.
The driver required is “Rtl-sdr driver”, available via F-droid: https://f-droid.org/packages/marto.rtl_tcp_andro/
Nope. SDR++ on Android supports RTL-SDR directly. This is just adding unnecessary latency when tuning.
If you go to source tab there's "RTL-TCP" and "RTL-SDR". Latter is the one to use unless you're actually using your SDR over network.
My earphones' cable has grown a pimple. It popped today.
Image on left is from 4 days ago, but the pimple was slowly forming over around 2 weeks.
The goop was sticky, not oily. Earphones are Panasonic RP-TCM130.
I was not able to find an explanation. Something to increase cable lifespan, lubrication, rubber disintegrating, sweat and earwax that somehow got into the cable, dielectric grease, SCP-1407, no clear answer.
At first I thought the wires just somehow twisted. Nope.
When you were little, how old did you think people used to get, and at what age did you consider a person old?
I used to think that age equated to percentage of life lived, thus I thought that most people live to close around 100. But it also made me think that people only get old when they're like 80.
I mean like actually "old". The "old" adults were referring to. At that age I considered those 14/15 year old 9th graders old, just a bit different "old".
Do Orbit chewing gums fall apart in your mouth when you stop chewing them?
For some reason this happens to me, but only with Orbit. At least the watermelon ones (I prefer chewing gums that leave minimum taste), I don't know about others. It just turns into a disgusting paste.
Relaying info from SDF relating this outage - 2024-05-29 (possibly a hardware issue)
```<> TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. lemmy.sdf.org and old.lemmy.sdf.org are down DATE: 29-May-24 14:17:40 HOST: mx
there looks to be a possible hardware issue with one of the nodes that hosts lemmy.sdf.org. a spare is being staged to take on the additional load. ```
Source: REQUESTS bulletin board on SDF public access UNIX system
A bit of a weird question: Can modern medicine be a threat to humanity long-term by greatly reducing effects of natural selection?
OK, I hope my question doesn't get misunderstood, I can see how that could happen. Just a product of overthinking.
Idea is that we can live fairly easily even with some diseases/disorders which could be-life threatening. Many of these are hereditary. Since modern medicine increases our survival capabilities, the "weaker" individuals can also survive and have offsprings that could potentially inherit these weaknesses, and as this continues it could perhaps leave nearly all people suffering from such conditions further into future.
Does that sound like a realistic scenario? (Assuming we don't destroy ourselves along with the environment first...)
Soldered-on RTC batteries (with type covered as a bonus)
>This battery lasts the life of the router under the operating environmental conditions specified for the router, and is not field-replaceable.
But who determines its lifespan?
Knowing there is a battery set to fail and I can't simply replace it makes me physically uncomfortable. Enough so that I'd rather it not have RTC.
Thanks Cisco.
From SDF about the (not only) Lemmy outage
From bboard ANNOUNCE BBOARD:
```<.>
TACKER: membership (SDF Membership)
SUBJECT: network outage in second cabinet
DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:22:19
HOST: mx
It looks that we're experience a network outage to our second cabinet this evening. A ticket has been opened to address the issue.
This affects ryo.sdf.org, lemmy.sdf.org and ma.sdf.org
Thank you for your patience.
<ANNOUNCE.1.0/2>(87)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ]
TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 01:59:59 HOST: mx
Confirmed that this is only a network outage to the second cabinet and is currently being worked on by our network service provider. Hopefully it will be resolved soon. Thank you for your patience.
<ANNOUNCE.1.1/2>(6)[ <ENTER> follow thread, (R)EPLY, (F)LAG or (Q)UIT ]
TACKER: membership (SDF Membership) SUBJECT: .. network outage in second cabinet DATE: 16-Apr-24 20:19:30 HOST: mx
our network provider has reassigned our uplink port for the second cabinet and the hosts are once against accessible.
(it even blinks! What!? Why?)
<ANNOUNCE.1> Command: ```
Just relaying it here.
Note: I am not affiliated with SDF
LRPT from Meteor-M No. 2-4 received with RTL-SDRv3 and handheld dipole using SatDump on Android.
Both received and decoded in SatDump on Android. The 321 composite PNG is 65MB, so I compressed it... and then Imgur compressed it even further so there's some extra compression artifacts, but anyway.
And a note: Look4Sat app seems to have wrong TLE for M No. 2-4. Thankfully there was a similar pass to one shown, just 15 minutes later and more to the west. TLE on N2YO.com is right.
Edit: Ran the decoder again with baseband. It removed the lines from middle.
[SOLVED: Updated every 24 hours] Display name and Bio updates don't seem to be federating
E.g.: https://sh.itjust.works/u/testaccount789 https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]
I know in past I've successfully updated my display name, and it shows on other instances, so perhaps this problem is new to 0.19.x, but I am not at all sure about that.
Free ProtonVPN now doesn't allow selection of specific servers and split-tunneling in its client (+ workaround for Android)
First of all a disclaimer: I am not upset about the removal of manual server selection as this is a free service. They don't need to provide such services at all, so something is better than nothing.
What happened: This morning I opened the ProtonVPN app on my phone and got greeted with a message stating free accounts can now only use automatic server selection and addition of free servers in Poland and Romania. However, I also noticed split-tunelling is now paywalled as well.
Now, this is rather weird. Split-tunelling is already in the app and is something that works only on the client side, thus not putting any extra load on the servers. Quite the contrary, actually, as it allows some apps to not use the VPN, thus use less bandwidth. The automatic-selection-only allows for better load balancing, so that makes sense.
Now to the workaround. They still allow manual OpenVPN and Wireguard setup even for free accounts, at least for now. To do so, login to ProtonVPN and go to account. There's OpenVPN credentials which are used for OpenVPN authentication. Then go to downloads, select appropriate options including the specific server and download the ovpn config file. Client: OpenVPN for Android This app also supports split tunneling (edit config -> Allowed apps).
ProtonVPN has an article on how to set up this app, but it's really just importing the config and adding your OpenVPN ProtonVPN credentials which you grabbed before.
Is there a way to connect DD-WRT router over HTTP proxy so that it routes all traffic over it (using HTTP CONNECT method)?
Idea
There's a computer connected to the WiFi router as a client. This computer has access to internet and shares that connection over HTTP proxy. This also provides ad-blocking. Clients connected to the WiFi router shouldn't have to configure HTTP proxy server settings, nor should they have access to the computer running the proxy server. This is done via unbridged guest VAP with "client isolation" and "net isolation".
The idea is the same as OpenVPN client setting, or rather like Matsuri proxy toolchain on Android.
The only answers I found talked about redirecting port 80 traffic to HTTP proxy via iptables, but that's not what I want. It would also only work for web traffic I believe, since it's just redirecting it to proxy, and not issuing CONNECT requests.
Specific use case
So... my phone has mobile data. It is also connected to VPN and uses NextDNS for (not only) ad-blocking. In Termux, I setup tinyproxy and also null-routed access to private IP ranges and CG-NAT:
... #Here I am attempting to null route local IP address ranges by pointing upstream proxy option to 0.0.0.0:0 as described in tinyproxy.conf man page. #IPv4 localhost Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "127.0.0.1/8" #IPv4 private adresses Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "10.0.0.0/8" Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "172.16.0.0/12" Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "192.168.0.0/16" #IPv4 CG-NAT (I am not sure this helps anything, but it doesn't hurt either) Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "100.64.0.0/10" #IPv4 link-local Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "169.254.0.0/16" #IPv6 localhost Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "::1" #IPv6 Unique Local Addresses Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "fc00::/8" #IPv6 private addresses (excl. ULA) Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "fd00::/8" #IPv6 link-local addresses Upstream http 0.0.0.0:0 "fe80::/10"
This is fine if the phone is accessible to other hosts and setting up proxy on each host isn't a problem. For example, it's useful on a school network.
But that's not the case here.
Purpose
Forcing all users to use VPN, be subject to my blocking, and provide larger range than phone's hotspot. Fun fact: The first thing can be achieved via hotspot on devices running PixelExperience custom ROM.
Not so possible solution
Running OpenVPN server on the phone. DD-WRT already has OpenVPN client. Unfortunately, this would require root, it seems.
Partial solution
The partial solution is connecting the router to VPN somewhat directly and also setting it to use NextDNS.
I was trying to write a guide here, but it was getting unnecessarily long. So just TL;DR: Setting up the router to use OpenVPN but replacing IP and port with phone's desired options, setting up the router to use only NextDNS, connecting phone to both WiFi and mobile data, forcing it to use mobile data for internet, doing port forwarding to the actual OpenVPN server using socat in Termux.
This has flaws though. I either have to setup split-tunelling for Termux, or end up with VPN-over-VPN if I also want VPN on the phone. Secondly, whatever VPN you're using may only allow limited number of clients per user.
Other use cases
Simple internet access in network where only internet access is via HTTP proxy (e.g.: campus network), connection via Tor using its HTTP proxy.
____________ If you have any ideas, thanks. If not, still thanks as you read at least a part of this.