You could start troubleshooting by manually executing DNS queries from mainDesktop.lan, and watching the DNS server logs. Not sure what OS the desktop is running, but assuming Windows you could run:
I’m currently having trouble with the phone component I’m writing. To be extra vague about it, on my onChange, I’m using a function to move to the next text box. However, when I use my data handler function to raise the value to the parent, it doesn’t work. In addition, by adding my data handler to the individual text...
when I use my data handler function to raise the value to the parent, it doesn’t work.
What doesn’t work? What is happening? Is the function returning some unexpected value? Some exception being thrown? Does some other component get in an unexpected state?
Hopefully we can help out with some more context :)
Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the...
I can imagine it’s a collection of bugs where it’s sorta the OS’ problem but sorta the application’s problem. It probably reached a stalemate. Nobody really wanted to spend the extra engineering effort; maybe it would all have to be undone then rewritten again to get something out in time.
Cool insight - thanks! All points even more to bad planning by the Instagram team as you said originally.
I guess I wouldn’t be particularly surprised. Apple put shitloads of R&D into power-efficiency. Can’t imagine the culture at Instagram/Meta is like that.
Not that simple, unfortunately :( The problem is that one particular vendor (Meta) controls the client - the app - to the service (Whatsapp). Right now we can only hope that Signal doesn’t add this kind of feature. There are already cryptocurrency features in the Signal app of dubious utility.
I never expected that they’d put generative AI in WhatsApp, like, why???
it doesn’t really add anything substantial to what the chat app is already good for: chatting with our fellow humans.
A lot of this is for WhatsApp Business. Meta are monetising WhatsApp. The idea is that businesses will use WhatsApp Business and the shitty AI features to (direct from their website): “Engage audiences, accelerate sales and drive better customer support outcomes on the platform with more than 2 billion users around the world.”
My understanding is that the anonymous profile thing won’t really work. That’s as far as ActivityPub is concerned - one of the protocols behind Lemmy, Mastodon et al.
Every person/bot/whatever which comments, posts, upvotes; any social “activity” must have an independently verifiable publicidentity (via WebFinger). Here are some example identities:
When some “activity” is performed by that identity, a message is delivered to many (many!) servers. They could be running anything but we commonly see Mastodon, Lemmy, Meta’s Threads (soon?).
Each server can really do whatever it wants with that message. For example:
There’s no way to make a profile private because there isn’t really a profile to begin with. What we really have is just the activity received from @otl. The whole thing feels a lot more like email than popular social networking sites when you get down to the nuts and bolts.
Old-school mailing lists archives also offer a way to search for posts by author. e.g. Richard Miller
Yeah I’ve always found that AllowedIPs name a little bit misleading. It is mentioned in the manpage:
A comma-separated list of IP (v4 or v6) addresses with CIDR masks from which incoming traffic for this peer is allowed and to which outgoing traffic for this peer is directed.
But I think it’s a little funny how setting AllowedIPs also configures how packets are routed. I dunno.
Slightly off-topic: I’m not too familiar with FreeBSD (I use OpenBSD), but others may be interested to know you may be able to configure wireguard interfaces without installing any packages. It probably just involves running some ifconfig commands at boot via some entries in /etc/rc.conf. See docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network/
It was in the right place at the right time with easy UX. A big audience were developers not so familiar with sysadmin in the commercial software world. It provided an easy way to get a kind of executable package. Devs could throw in all their Python/Ruby/JS dependencies and not worry about it. “works on my machine” was basically good enough because you just ship the whole damn thing over.
Docker then supervised the process for you, too. The whole Docker package took care of a lot of things
PS: for those really interested in containers, I always recommend looking into Plan 9: the OS from the original UNIX team intended as a successor to UNIX. Every process has its own namespace and the whole OS is built around that concept (plus a few other core things… too much to go into here). see also pdos.csail.mit.edu/~rsc/plan9.html
Cut from 6(!) years to 2 years. I had no idea the support stretched as far back as 6 years. 2 still seems totally reasonable, especially given all the work put into backwards compatibility in the kernel already.
I have been reading about internet privacy for a long time. As time went on, I got a vpn subcription, a custom domain, a paid email hosting, etc. No regrets on the services themselves....
Something that people do is self-host software that respects its user’s privacy more than services some company provides to you for a monthly subscription. For example, you could host your own music streaming software on a server that you rent instead of using Spotify.
That’s a good question. The hope is that the VPS provider is not reading the disk or sniffing the network traffic and using that information for commercial gains. For example, I could try to find a trustworthy VPS provider with a clear privacy policy for my music streaming server. To the provider, all they ideally see are encrypted bytes over the wire (probably using Wireguard or HTTPS for example).
Spotify, on the other hand, rely on customer usage data for their business. They sell advertising and do things like suggestions based on listening history across many users.
There is no guarantee that using someone else’s computer is 100% private. But it is probably more private than Spotify in this music streaming example.
I think my interview/offer ratio is somewhere below 1%. One factor that you probably guessed is I have very low social skills, well documented in my psychological evaluation that I did to diagnose my ADHD....
For many jobs the ones doing the hiring are thinking of their domain, so more experience in the domain means a better worker. But a software developer who has developed CRUD apps 50 times on-budget and on-time over 20 years is almost certainly going to be a fantastic candidate alongside the dev who specialised in the health insurance (or whatever) domain for the entirety of their 5-year career.
Now I’m aiming for more software-focused companies and consultancies since I think I’m more likely to meet people who appreciate that broader experience.
I wonder whether that many people actually do this. From my quick look, I saw jobs flooded with offers for well below the minimum wage of my country (Australia).
I am currently in the market for some wireless access points and thought I’d get some suggestions here first. I am currently using some old eero pro’s as access points with a firewalla router. The firewalla isn’t old and I am happy with it so I am not looking to replace it with something at this time....
If you’re up for a bit of a learning/DIY project, you could get some small form-factor PC with some ethernet and WiFi interfaces and run OpenBSD with hostapd. You can be almost certain that it’s not leaking usage info to 3rd parties.
For transparency sake, I’m the new maintainer of this website. Just wanted to share it here. I was thinking of creating a community for it, but I don’t know if it is worth it....
For sure he notices; the author runs their own email server and founded a direct competitor to WhatsApp. The author is making the point that what each of those have done - build proprietary software around federated protocols - is a financially lucrative business model. I’m sad to agree.
FWIW my opinion is that Signal’s actions against these clients is petty and just shit. Thankfully, elsewhere we can see things happening differently: the interaction between Tailscale, Headscale and Wireguard gives me hope. Sourcehut is a cool project too.
Totally agreed the project’s actions against the community are shit. From a LibreSignal issue:
I understand that federation and defined protocols that third parties can develop clients for are great and important ideas, but unfortunately they no longer have a place in the modern world.
This sounds like a jaded, cynical individual. It’s hilarious, sad, probably even delusional. How do they think the Internet and their operating systems work in this “modern world”? Magic fairy dust? It’s difficult, thankless work put in by loads of people around the world despite enormous commercial pressure to do otherwise. Over decades. I respect Signal’s work, but it’s boneheaded attitudes like moxie’s which impede progress, especially for the younger generations.
I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended....
I guess so - I’ve actually never used Teams. There are lots of potential mitigations, but sandboxing is not really a solution to buggy code. For some better engineering discussion on the topic, there’s the series of articles Transparent Telemetry, in particular The Design of Transparent Telemetry.
Pi-Hole Local DNS Record Spamming Query Log (aussie.zone)
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Can anyone walk me through a React phone component?
I’m currently having trouble with the phone component I’m writing. To be extra vague about it, on my onChange, I’m using a function to move to the next text box. However, when I use my data handler function to raise the value to the parent, it doesn’t work. In addition, by adding my data handler to the individual text...
Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot (www.theverge.com)
Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the...
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Fort Nine put this together. Where does your motorcycle land? (fortnine.ca)
I’ve got two on the “bad” right hand side. Super Duke and Trident 660.
I don't want Meta AI in WhatsApp, even if it doesn't snoop on my texts (bgr.com)
On Casual Privacy and Lemmy (coship.bloggi.co)
wireguard on freebsd
I am trying to setup a wireguard server on freebsd using this guide. the only thing i’ve done different is make the AllowedIPs 0.0.0.0/0...
I kinda wish there was a better way to do if err != nil in go (github.com)
Did I break a taboo by doing this?
Gitness: Open-source code hosting and pipeline engine (gitness.com)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/3419564
LXD: Containers for Human Beings (secluded.site)
Long-term support for Linux kernel to be cut as maintainence remains under strain (www.zdnet.com)
cost of privacy related services
I have been reading about internet privacy for a long time. As time went on, I got a vpn subcription, a custom domain, a paid email hosting, etc. No regrets on the services themselves....
20+ years of xp, interviews are still hard, still dunno what to do with carrear
I think my interview/offer ratio is somewhere below 1%. One factor that you probably guessed is I have very low social skills, well documented in my psychological evaluation that I did to diagnose my ADHD....
Suggestions for wireless access points
I am currently in the market for some wireless access points and thought I’d get some suggestions here first. I am currently using some old eero pro’s as access points with a firewalla router. The firewalla isn’t old and I am happy with it so I am not looking to replace it with something at this time....
The Privacy Raccoon - Digital self-defense against mass surveillance (privacy.awiki.org)
For transparency sake, I’m the new maintainer of this website. Just wanted to share it here. I was thinking of creating a community for it, but I don’t know if it is worth it....
Molly - a better signal (molly.im)
Windows pc calling home (even while asleep) (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
I have a network-wide pi hole and I noticed that it requested activity.windows.com, a url blocked by my pi hole, even while my pc is suspended. I pinged 10.0.0.217 and it is currently unreachable. So, somehow, windows pc’s turn on networking, phones home, and turns off even while suspended....