• 0 Posts
  • 44 Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

help-circle
  • It still doesn’t matter.

    • They can coopt all the open source licenses they want, the development work doesn’t need them.
    • They’re not capturing all commits going forward in time, they’ll have to redo it every time they need an updated library.
    • Any legal work done later that legitimizes this relicensing will open the door for the public, open source world, and more importantly, other relicensing companies to do it to them.

    I believe the end game of legitimizing open source relicensing theft is accidentally abolishing software copyright altogether.

    https://nedroidcomics.tumblr.com/image/41879001445


  • Honestly, what can you do? Most of these guys barely have time to pull the trigger without aiming before the drone is in death range. A bunch of the clips had a second drone watching from a distance, probably ready with a second charge. Maybe you get lucky once, I doubt you get lucky twice.

    You could imagine solutions to an explosive fpv drone in a test range scenario. Maybe flechette/buckshot from a 40mm grenade system. A net thrown like pocket sand.

    I don’t see how any of these are practical in the open field, or with <5s reaction time.

    EMP is basically useless here, what you could make with what you could scrounge in the field would only be useful in death range of the explosive.

    Assuming you could juryrig a signal scanner and reliably figure out what they were operating the drone on, maybe you could turn a field radio in to a jammer, if you’re lucky. But now you’re a walking black spot, that’s broadcasting its location constantly. They still only need to lose one drone to signal interference to know somewhere near there’s an artillery target - and even civvy radio operators are really good at finding illegal signals by triangulation.

    Eventually something will be thought of to provide some sort of counter, but I don’t see how that’s going to happen without extensive testing and time. Military equipment and manufacturing does not change overnight. War doctrine takes even longer to change.





  • By enabling controls? You can prevent generic internet access and installing apps. I won’t be giving my kid access unfettered to the internet until they are much older.

    And let’s be clear, the owner of my kids phone is me. My respect for their privacy extends to not looking over their shoulder when messaging friends. It doesn’t extend to letting them install whatever or scan some random qr code or calling/receiving with numbers not in their contacts.







  • Instead of trying to build reputation, you can buy it. Pick a reputable spam solution that offers accounts for like $3-5/m and route all mail through it.

    Still your server, your mail, but you’re buying their business reputation, and getting some spam filtering back. Plus you might get some protection from outages or maintenance windows if they can cache some mail for delivery for you








  • The right way is some sort of inline water flow sensor, so it’ll trigger within seconds of you turning on the shower to warm it up. With an esp32 and a sensor, and some clever use of the sleep function, it’d probably last a year or so on a couple of AA’s.

    Low effort and price tech is probably better in a wet environment though! If you just want the mood lighting, get a wireless button and stick it somewhere near. Tap it on, tap it off!

    If you want to feel that automatic magic, consider a cheap battery powered temperature sensor. If you fix the chassis to the shower head pipe it’d probably be accurate enough. Also, assuming you need to wait for your shower to heat up, you’d have a pretty good idea when your shower was hot too - when it triggers your automation for the lights!

    Just make sure the sensor polls often enough or can be made to report on a significant temperature difference in a timely fashion. Something like this might do it: https://sonoff.tech/products/sonoff-zigbee-temperature-and-humidity-sensor-snzb-02p

    Also avoid WiFi for buttons, connection and addressing takes ages and sicks for an instant response needed for something like lighting changes


  • tl;dr:

    If you think something is blocking DNS traffic, you could try configuring DNS-over-HTTPs or DNS- over- TLS and picking a reputable upstream. This should obfuscate the traffic somewhat and get past common DNS interference issues and tactics.


    So building on what yourself and everyone else has said, it does seem to be a DNS issue.

    I found that at select times my local ISP was up to shenanigans with DNS.

    I live in a very small country and work in IT. The NOC for all three ISPs and I have met. It would surprise me if they were competent enough to do this intentionally for malicious purposes.

    If you can get access out to the internet via ping, see if you can do other things - get on a VPS and test with tcpdump at both ends. There’s a few free ones or trials great for disposable purposes like this. Set it up in advance…

    You won’t know what it is til you troubleshoot.

    I’ve had huawei firewalls reaching some simultaneous connection limit and fail, reversing their ruleset - blocking everything except ICMP, tr069 and ssh (concerning) outbound…

    I’ve had problems with specific DNS servers, through the ISP’s network.

    I’ve seen regular BGP changes causing outages all over the place (the ISPs locally don’t peer with each other…)

    Post your findings, would love to help/hear!