Built an F-Droid repo for my kids inside our local network. Added games and basic apps, let the kid tablets work without unfettered internet.
F Droid wont let me use a self signed cert because, I guess, the CA system is good
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@Julian Foad It was a little thorny to setup, but it probably would be pretty simple! F-Droid is pretty friendly.
apt-get install fdroid server
fdroid init
fdroid update --create-keys
put apks in the repo folder
fdroid update -c
fdroid update
then point a webserver at the repo dir.
not saying that *anyone* can do that - but it's well within the ability to make an ansible playbook for!
But yeah - letting my 5yo install and remove apps gives him power without exposing him to the wider internet
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I asked my church music director if he had a HAM license today, and he replied he never got into radio. I then had to ask how we'd run a pirate radio station together.
One day I'll be a HAM
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@Hypolite Petovan why thank you!
But I wanna be an amateur radio operator!
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As usual my forays into making me enjoy reading RSS feeds is failing
One day I'll find a reader I love
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He produced phonology and semantics from orthography independently!
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A huge mistake the fediverse makes is large instances. It's resource intensive, expensive, and creates wildly large failures instead of little ones.
This is why I'm sad to lose the bots, but also glad botsin.space is going away. BIS was always weird, a place to place bots which cost a lot, but wasn't a community. Bots should live alongside their makers or users (or just have a way of posting without needing a full server).
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Sat down with a large client's IT since email was getting wild. So we talked. We both explained the other side's mail border to each other. Having established we were both real techs. We talked shop and solved the issue with mutual respect.
It was a notable dance I've not done in a while, and a fascinating one.
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if you see this hacker at SECTor, you may tell me I owe you a drink. Prefacing it, "I'm from the fediverse" will make me slightly less confused. But, telling me I owe you a drink will cause me to buy you a drink, be it a fancy coffee, a boring coffee, a beer, a cocktail, a juice, or whatever else.
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@silverwizard Thank you. I love that they have a kid version, as the 6100 works for two of my kids, but is too big for two. I'll probably try that too. The part I can't find for love or money this week is the exhaust filter, but it looks integrated in that mask, which frankly would be fine for our use.
Thank you again. :)
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It's a common and likely hypothesis, yes.
Although I feel like these days I'm more likely to run into people taking video calls on speakerphone in public than blasting their music.
I want the parallel universe where phones kept the headphone jack and it was the cameras getting pushed out into dongles/BT.
One of the things that is destroying the web is WASM and JavaScript.
This isn't really even a joke - it's literal.
By having all these tools to make a web browser have unfettered access to the system, it becomes unsafe to allow users to generate arbitrary code. We can't have another MySpace or NeoPets User Lookup because we can't allow users to write their own HTML, because that's *dangerous*.
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@Hypolite Petovan I didn't want to link originally since no advertising.
But yeah - I also just want to be clear - the game is one of the most awful I've ever played. It was hell.
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As much as I love writing on it, my reMarkable2 (which has already been annoying me with its response to being caught out in the rain a couple years ago, two laptops and another tablet in the same backpack shrugged it off with no trouble but the rM2 now gets days on a full battery charge instead of months) has a jammed power button and no other way to wake it from sleep, so it's time to retire it.
Samsung makes tablets with the same stylus technology so I picked up one of those, and it's... adequate. At least it's half the price and should be durable enough to handle living in a backpack and not just sitting on a desk and never going anywhere (and if this one dies, for the same price as a rM2 I can get a ruggedized one with a bigger screen)
The device I really want is the guts of the new color reMarkable in an enclosure that's actually as durable as a reasonable person would expect from a consumer electronics device at that price point, but capitalism says nobody will buy that, so I can't buy it.
In light of our praise of the Internet Archive - can we make sure to use Indigo as an example of another org that did the right thing after a databreach?
Took everything down, fixed it, and improved the process.
I'm not caping for Indigo. I just know people who still haven't forgiven them, and this is the attitude we need to be encouraging, and putting into people's minds as a good thing.
Staying up during a breach investigation should be seen like running with a broken leg.
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I think it'd be like 255.255.255.3? So the nets are (say) 192.168.1.0, 1.1, 1.2, and 1.3, and the hosts are ... jesus, this is why nobody's tried this.
Bitwise, it'd be: xxx00, xxx01, xxx10, xxx11
0 net: .4, .8, .12, .16, .20…
1 net: .5, .9..yeah, that makes sense.
2 net: .6, .10…
3 net: .7, .11, .15, .19, .23…
and so on.
This was asked in a meeting with NeXT engineers while I was a contractor at a government agency in the early 90’s. I think their answer was... "We support it...maybe? Why would you want to?”
I've always wanted to try, just for the hell of it, but I suspect 99% of networking gear would break.
It used to be (I guess this was before CIDR became popular) that netmasks were expressed as literal bitmasks. So a /24 would actually be written as "192.168.1.0, netmask 255.255.255.0” where the "24" represents the leading 24 bits representing the network (192.168.1).
So a /28 would be..255.255.255.240 (11110000).
But it was always a consecutive string of “1” bits, and the hosts were the remaining block of lower-most "0" bits. Usually 8, for a /24, but often smaller (for, say, a small block of public IPs your ISP gives you). I remember the net my office desktop was on in school that was 255.255.254.0 (or /23). That network used 9 bits for 512 hosts. (ish - router and broadcast addresses are still needed out of that 512).
A non-contiguous netmask would mean that consecutive final octets would be on consecutively different networks.
255.255.255.3 would be all 1s, then 00000011, so the NET portion is .0, .1, .2, and .3. So hosts .4, .5, .6, .7, .8, .9, .10, .11, .12... would be on networks 0, 1, 2, 3, 0, 1, 2, 3, 0….
Like I said, I doubt much of anything would support it now. Even when we wrote netmasks as bitmasks, it's likely most gear would've just failed using this approach.
It really is a cursed idea. :)
This wiki page may help, too. Once you see it, it's ... logical? (I won't say "easy”). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnet
@David Schuetz Oh, I see, a subnet mask bitmap with non-contiguous 1s - that makes sense.Gross.
So something like 192.168.90.256/192.255.148.45, not just a wall of 1s.
(I know enough to set subnet masks on weird ancient gear ;), but I almost always am setting 255.255.255.0 and 255.255.255.255 because /24s rule everything around me. But yeah - reasonable)
I just don't know if I have any gear that would parse subnet masks like that enough to confuse it.
@Jonathan Lamothe @David Schuetz Are you aware of the RFC 864 Compliant Dungeons and Dragons Character Generator I worked on?
@Dave worked on a bunch of it and I need to replace his work (not because I don't like it -but because I want to do the actual work not just crib his, the goal was to learn socket code).
Tragic. I was hoping I could get firefox to accept my bullshit, but it's correct it doesn't work
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Why does the SecTor app contain several trackers?! I mean - I'm not installing it because of this, and that's a pain in the ass?
Shouldn't we, as security people, be able to notice this shit and be better than it?
@Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran :donor: One day the risk management discipline will manage risk
Uuuug, I'm already so concerned about SecTor, vaxing, nitrite nasal spray, and an N95 mask, baaaaah
The kids helped, they definitely got distracted, but they helped!
They, most importantly, got to see inside a computer and were allowed to touch all the pieces.
My kids have been able to use their computers for lots of little things
And to be clear:
the 5yo is playing Mario and a few other small games, mostly micro-indie games
the 3yo is listening to audiobooks and lullabies using a device he's built.
This isn't full hacking - this is still kids.
I'm looking at sourcing some classic lego motors to see if I can use these as the brains of a lego robot.
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@Michael Brown lol - that's also a pretty good option.
My goal is to make an ebook reader that will start playing when a CF card is inserted. And then bulk buy 128MB cards and put books on them.
My 3yo got through 1 paragraph of @Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: 's SSH Mastery before saying "I'm done with this book"
I think these books aren't for toddlers!
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He's far too young to have chosen a preferred OS.
Give him ten years, and he'll experiment with Inferno just because he think it'll piss off Dad.
@Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail: @SirWumpus His grandpa's university friend wrote Inferno, so uh... he has the access
My dad wrote Coherent, so I rebelled against my OS dev dad by becoming a sysadmin, so I hope he makes better decisions than me
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in reply to DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab • •@DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab Yeah, I basically said that I didn't know what smart meant, because there's lots of ways someone can be smart, and that we're mostly different.
But he's insistent smart means number of facts known.
But honestly, the part that tripped me up as Andre the Giant
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