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[–] [email protected] 81 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I simply can't wrap my head around the thought process behind launching a clusterfuck like this. Y Combinator probably didn't do their due diligence and simply rode the fading AI Bubble, so I can at least understand how the funding might have been approved.

But actively leaving your $250,000+/year job to team up with some questionable choices to basically fork two OS projects, change the discord links and generate an illegal licence for that shit show, all while proudly stating, publicly, "dawg i chatgpt'd the license, anyone is free to use our app for free for whatever they want. if there's a problem with the license just lmk i'll change it. we busy building rn can't be bothered with legal" when they are made aware of the fact.

This is absolutely insane, sounds like someone was about to get fired and decided to use some personal relations and fresh graduates to somehow successfully cash in one last time with absolutely no regard of even the basics. Pretty wild that those guys even managed to figure out how to found a Startup. Probably asked ChatGPT for instructions there, as well.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's one of those tropes I hate pretty much everywhere, but (old) Star Trek is great enough to look past it.

They are skilled and professional. But how incompetently was the playbook written, if pretty much everyone can come up with something previously not derived spontaneously, if it's that easy?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yup. A variation of the quote (basically capitalists instead of American businessmen) is commonly attributed to Lenin instead of Khrushchev. But that, too, can't be verified and is said to be fake.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Buying a domain. There might be some free services that, similar to DuckDNS in the beginning, work reliably for now. But IMHO they are not worth the potential headaches.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

DuckDNS pretty often has problems and fails to propagate properly. It's not very good, especially with frequent IP changes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Damn, that's wild. Cheers for sharing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I have an understanding of the underlying concepts. I'm mostly interested in the war driving. War driving, at least in my understanding, implies that someone, a state agency in this case, physically went to the very specific location of the suspect, penetrated their (wireless) network and therefore executed a successful traffic correlation attack.

I'm interested in how they got their suspects narrowed down that drastically in the first place. Traffic correlation attacks, at least in my experience, usually happen in a WAN context, not LAN, for example with the help of ISPs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Sounds interesting, got any links for further reading on that?

I can't quite connect the dots between wifi/internet traffic spikes when IRC is so light on traffic that it's basically background noise and war driving.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (8 children)

Nice message, but the thought of the existence of a competitive scene of contractors specializing in mounting TVs is hilarious. Also, that mounting plate is crooked af.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Windows, as any operating system, is best run in a context most useful to the user and appropriate for the user's technical level.

  • Need to run Windows apps/games and aren't afraid to tinker around if and when something doesn't work as expected or your software simply isn't supported? WINE/Proton.
  • Need to run mostly light Windows apps and don't want to tinker around? VM.
  • Need to run Windows apps/games that don't rely on Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat, want direct hardware access and aren't afraid to tinker around, especially if you only have one GPU, and when something doesn't work as expected? KVM
  • Need to run any Windows app/game without things constantly breaking or the need to tinker around and staying on top of things? Dual-Boot from different disks, utilize LUKS/FDE and be done with it.
 

I'm strongly considering adding another backup location in the form of an old Raspberry Pi and a USB HDD.

I want the Pi to exclusively use the available network to connect to my Wireguard Server, so other devices (local to the Wireguard Server and remote connected to the server) can use it as a secondary backup location.

I'm kind of worried about a scenario, where my network is compromised and, through the VPN connection of the Pi in the external network, the external network is as well.

What are the best practices to secure such a setup?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10823519

So I wrote a little web app that allows a user to move their user data, like settings and subscribed/banned communities, from one account/instance to another.

It runs completely client-side, but is hosted on GitHub for the moment. Maybe it'll be of some use!

Features:

  • Don't trust me or GitHub? Clone the project and host it yourself or run it locally (Example in Wiki)
  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data, e.g. to add or remove followed users/communites (Example in Wiki)
    • "display_name" ​
    • "bio" ​
    • "avatar" ​
    • "banner" ​
    • "matrix_id" ​
    • "bot_account" ​
    • "settings" ​
    • "followed_communities" ​
    • "saved_posts" ​
    • "saved_comments" ​
    • "blocked_communities" ​
    • "blocked_users" ​
    • "blocked_instances"
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance
 

So I wrote a little web app that allows a user to move their user data, like settings and subscribed/banned communities, from one account/instance to another.

It runs completely client-side, but is hosted on GitHub for the moment. Maybe it'll be of some use!

Features:

  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data in the browser, e.g. to add or remove followed instances
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance
 

An dieser Stelle reposte ich auch auf der neuen deutschen Main-Instanz zwei einfache Wege, um seinen User (Settings und abonnierte/geblockte Communities) von einer Lemmy Instanz auf eine andere umzuziehen, beispielsweise von feddit.de auf feddit.org, von meinem ursprünglichen Post unter feddit.de/c/main ( https://alexandrite.app/feddit.de/post/11325409)

Update: Ich habe für die erhöhte Userfreundlichkeit noch eine Web Applikation erstellt, welche den Prozess so einfach wie möglich gestalten soll. Zu finden hier:

https://stablenarwhal.github.io/Lemmy-Userdata-Migration/

Features:

  • Export user data from any Lemmy instance (>=v0.19)
  • Download user data as a text file
  • Modify user data in the browser, e.g. to add or remove followed instances
  • Transfer user data to the target account on the target instance

Update 2: @[email protected] hat auch eine Web Applikation mit ähnlicher Funktionalität entwickelt. Zu finden hier:

https://elvith-de.github.io/lemmy-migration/

Features:

  • Login and export settings from any Lemmy instance (e.g. feddit.de)
  • Optionally: Find local communities on the target instance that match followed communities
  • Optionally: Backup your settings to a file (can be imported on any Lemmy instance in your profile)
  • Login and import settings to any Lemmy instance (e.g. feddit.org)

Weg 1, falls man noch einen Browser mit aktiver Session auf feddit.de hat:

Lemmy bietet seit Version 0.19 eine Funktion an, um die user data zu ex- und importieren. Das geht normalerweise über einen Button in den Settings des Webinterfaces, das geht aktuell bei feddit.de nicht.

Aber der zugrundeliegende API-Aufruf funktioniert noch, solange man noch mit einem Browser auf feddit.de eingeloggt ist:

  1. Man gehe auf https://feddit.de/api/v3/user/export_settings und speichert die zurückgegebene Datei als irgendwas.json
  2. Man nehme einen (neuen) Account auf einer stabilen Instanz der Wahl, gehe auf /settings und lade irgendwas.json über den Import-Button hoch.
  3. Voilà, man genieße die neue Instanz.

Das funktioniert mit jeder Instanz >=0.19, man muss lediglich das "feddit.de" in der URL ersetzen. Und wenn das Webinterface funktioniert, geht das auch über den Export- Button in den Settings.


Weg 2:

Für die Leute, die keine offene Browser Session haben, hier ein kleines, aber funktionales Bash Script, welches im Ausführungsverzeichnis eine myFedditUserData.json erstellt, welche bei anderen Instanzen importiert werden kann.

Anforderungen:

  • Linux/Mac OS X /Windows mit WSL
  • jq installiert (Unter Ubuntu/Debian/Mint z.B. per sudo apt install -y jq

Anleitung:

  • Folgendes Script unter einem beliebigen Namen mit .sh Endung abspeichern, z.B. getMyFedditUserData.sh
  • Script in beliebigen Textprogramm öffnen, Username/Mail und Passwort ausfüllen (optional Instanz ändern)
  • Terminal im Ordner des Scripts öffnen und chmod +x getMyFedditUserData.sh ausführen (Namen eventuell anpassen)
  • ./getMyFedditUserData.sh im Terminal eingeben
  • Nun liegt im Ordner neben dem Script eine frische myFedditUserData.json

Anmerkung: Das Script ist recht simpel, es wird ein JWT Bearer Token angefragt und als Header bei dem GET Aufruf von https://feddit.de/api/v3/user/export_settings mitgegeben. Wer kein Linux/Mac OS X zur Verfügung hat, kann den Ablauf mit anderen Mitteln nachstellen.

Das Script:

#!/bin/bash

# Basic login script for Lemmy API

# CHANGE THESE VALUES
my_instance="https://feddit.de"			# e.g. https://feddit.nl
my_username=""			# e.g. freamon
my_password=""			# e.g. hunter2

########################################################

# Lemmy API version
API="api/v3"

########################################################

# Turn off history substitution (avoid errors with ! usage)
set +H

########################################################

# Login
login() {
	end_point="user/login"
	json_data="{\"username_or_email\":\"$my_username\",\"password\":\"$my_password\"}"

	url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

	curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "$json_data" "$url"
}

# Get userdata as JSON
getUserData() {
	end_point="user/export_settings"

	url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

	curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ${JWT}" "$url"
}

JWT=$(login | jq -r '.jwt')

printf 'JWT Token: %s\n' "$JWT"

getUserData | jq > myFedditUserData.json

@[email protected] hat mein Script auch in PowerShell nachgebaut, welches unter Windows ohne WSL auskommt: https://gist.github.com/elvith-de/89107061661e001df659d7a7d413092b

# CHANGE THESE VALUES
$my_instance="https://feddit.de" # e.g. https://feddit.nl
$target_file = "C:\Temp\export.json"

########################################################
#Ask user for username and password
$credentials = Get-Credential -Message "Logindata for $my_instance" -Title "Login"

$my_username= $credentials.UserName
$my_password= $credentials.GetNetworkCredential().Password

# Lemmy API version
$API="api/v3"

# Login
function Get-AuthToken() {
    $end_point="user/login"
    $json_data= @{
        "username_or_email" = $my_username;
        "password" = $my_password
    } | ConvertTo-Json

    $url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

    (Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{"Content-Type" = "application/json"} -Body $json_data -Method Post -Uri $url).JWT
}

# Get userdata as JSON
function Get-UserData() {
    $end_point="user/export_settings"

    $url="$my_instance/$API/$end_point"

    Invoke-RestMethod -Headers @{"Authorization"="Bearer $($JWT)"} -Method Get -Uri $url
}

$JWT= Get-AuthToken

Write-Host "Got JWT Token: $JWT"

Write-Host "Exporting data to $target_file"
Get-UserData | ConvertTo-Json | Out-File -FilePath $target_file
 
  1. Install the Userscripts extension for Safari, open the app and go through the setup as instructed by the app. Don't forget to activate the extension for Safari.
  2. After fully setting up the Userscripts extension, go to the TwitchAdSolutions git repo and click on userscript next to video-swap-new. You can play around with vaft as well, but video-swap-new works way better on iOS in my experience. This script replaces ads with a lower resolution stream.
  3. Install the script by opening the Userscripts extension in Safari while the script you opened in step 2 is the active tab and clicking the Install button.
  4. Go to twitch.tv and enjoy your ad-free experience.

Optional:

  • When you have the Twitch App installed, Safari displays the annoying "open in App" Bar on top of the website. This also leaks into Fullscreen Mode. To get rid of it, uninstall the Twitch App and optionally install another extension to remove those Bars altogether, like Unsmartifier.
  • Want 7TV/BTTV/FFZ features like Emotes or a customizable Twitch Experience? Install the FFZ userscript, reload twitch.tv and configure your experience and/or install Add-ons like 7TV Emotes by clicking the new icon top right.
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