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philpo

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  • What are some funny WiFi network names you've run into?

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  • I had basically the same idea following a similar thread in a forum around 12 years ago.

    Not FBI,but something similar from my country. Luckily I only used it for my physically seperated guest network(totally different connection)

    ... Thanks to Ubiquiti being asshats and not telling people about a zero day for months it got hacked and renamed into "FreeWeedAndFreeBeerIfyouringat{MyLastName}". They even replaced the background of the portal page with a carefully crafted picture explaining how they did it.

    ... I very much suspected the two CS students next door,especially as the range was shit and it was either them, someone with a really sophisticated array and (as you couldn't park in our street it would even be hard for a average wardriver to do so easily) and I very much rule out the 90 year old lady below us or the family who both were,well,rather non technical it seems. (He asked for help to set up his TV)

    ... As revenge,when one of them got a girlfriend who was as pretty as she was loud we set up a small open wifi on a mikrotik device which was just strong enough to go through one wall that was named "WeCanHearYouHavingSex" that lead to a fileserver that had a .wav in it with a five second proof of that and then Rick Ashley.

    ... He kindly asked for that being turned off before christmas when his parents would visit.

  • The LanguageTool extension will now be paid

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  • And now everyone who is salty about it repeats: If you don't pay for it you are the product.

    Tbh, their product is much better than the alternatives, especially for non English cases and we selfhost it anyway for aged now. Which works perfectly well and remains free and open - source.

  • Do you buy real Christmas trees or put up artificial ones?

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  • Real. But I live in a pretty foresty area and just go to the neighbourhood farmer where I also get my eggs from and my poultry and it's not pricey and goes into the fireplace once it's dry enough.

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    TIL that Anthony Kiedis of The Red Hot Chili Peppers is a self-confessed child molester, according to his autobiography 'Scar Tissue'

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  • Heaps. I part timed as a bouncer/medic at a club when I was 21 and there were heaps of girls below 16/18 trying to get in. Actually one of the reasons I was hired was because I normally used to be fairly good at recognising these and their fake IDs and as the youngest member of the team at least some of them as younger sisters of my friends.

    And nevertheless I had two occasions were it was a "close call". Once I chatted with a girl who stayed till the end and she,well, was, pushing to go to my place - until she made a mistake (can't remember what she said) and I asked her about her age again(I had before and of course she claimed to be 19). She was indeed 14. SHIT. That was literally one day after we had the cops raid the place for minors and if they would have found her inside it would have cost us 10k at least - or our licence. (In theory in my country age of consent would have allowed "it" between us. But no. Never ever ever.YUK) That was a close. (Imagine me always shitting a brick back then and still feeling nauseated today) But would have never ever suspected her to be younger than me actually.

    Other case was a girl very agressively pushing her number onto me, I was busy, so I didn't care, but tbh, she was pretty and looked definitly 18+x. Responded for a call for medical backup, we need an ambulance to respond. Nothing drastic,just someone overly intoxicated. ....next thing I can here my colleague from the ambulance screaming at someone in front of the toilets. ....It was the girls mother -she worked nights and her 15 year old daughter thought it was a good idea to go out with a friend-. Funny enough my shiftleader was mortified as they had texted pretty flirty before - she had definitly made it inside a few times. (I think she claimed to be a uni freshman,which are all above 18 in my country)

    (And fuck,our national IDs were so easy fake back then. Luckily that's 20 years ago)

    I am fairly sure that I never had anything going with someone younger than 16 after I turned 17, but fuck... The first one was a really close call,the second one coud have been. I would have never ever suspected their age. I am so happy that the universe did not let that happen.

    Anyway: Even if someone gets tricked: Why on earth would they go for another round.

    PS: Funny enough it goes the otherway around as well: A female friend of mine looks,well, like she is barely 14. She once was my trainee paramedic and I got regularly stopped by cops for letting an alleged minor drive the ambulance. (She was 20 at that time). Nowadys she is over 40, has two kids, is a chief physician and tbh, still looks bloody young and it's often a nightmare for her with some patients.

  • Solutions for remote access?

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  • Yeah. And Netbird/Pangolin go a long way these days.

    Have a look at Layer7,btw. They are more than decent and you can easily install Proxmox on them as a Hypervisor.

  • Solutions for remote access?

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  • Just a theory: There is a good chance that your provider does CG-NAT and that was the issue with OpenVPN. These would persist with wireguard,sadly, unless you solve them properly. (Which can be tricky). But just for the book: Running an Wireguard Container behind your router and have a port forwarded to it is an option. (But still needs CG NAT adressed)

    Thaft leaves you with a few options:

    • Cloudflare: Imho a bad idea - it's evil, it's monopolistic and while it's "an easy way" it has its technical downsides. As you said a domain is still required.
    • Use a small VPS and run a wireguard tunnel and maybe pangolin as a reverse proxy on it.It has the benefit of being very flexible and once configured is fairly stable and it puts the security part outside your network. But it costs money unless you maybe make it work on oracle's free tier. I would still recommend using a cheap domain,though)
    • As others have mentioned: Tailscale/Zerotier/Netbird absolutely are an option if it's just for you. But they get nasty if it's for more people or larger deployments with tailscale and while netbird is far better it's less common and does require a domain as well. (Which,again,is not a bad idea to have)

  • "We Felt Betrayed": Somali-American Who Supported Trump in 2024 Condemns President for Calling Their Community 'Garbage'

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  • He literally did similar comments DURING HIS FIRST TERM about Somalis as well.... But...people have the attention span of a TikTok Video these days.

  • "We Felt Betrayed": Somali-American Who Supported Trump in 2024 Condemns President for Calling Their Community 'Garbage'

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  • Well, I wouldn't directly call it racist. It would have been the same if the Orange would have promised to sell Alaska back to the Russians and an Alaskan still voted for him.

    Or a person who likes democracy and freedom voted...oh well..shit..I show myself out.

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • Go to a brothel and stop harassing poor massage therapists.

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • No,you are spot on,see my other above comment - the type of damage he has is exactly matching a certain,rather rare, type of stroke and sadly manual therapy and massage are amongst the most common causes for that.

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • Massages or (far worse) manual therapy on the neck can lead to a dissection, spasm,etc. of the vertaebral arteries - they are in the back of the neck, fairly vulnerable and sadly lead to real nasty strokes that often lead to major paralysis or death a lot of the real critical tissues in the brain are supplied by them and clots as well as tissuetend to find their way into the basilar artery which is basically the worst place for them to be. The brain can compensate for a lot,especially when it comes to the cortex, but back there, structures are small, tend not to have "collateral" aka backup but are very important.

    The type of symptoms and paralysis he has makes it very likely for him to have suffered from something in that area and well... Manual therapy and massage in that area are the absolute posterboy reason for someone to have these strokes, especially in a comparably young age. I saw 18 year olds have debilitating strokes that way. I had a 28 year old woman go from "talking to me to brain death/organ donor* within 45 minutes. (BTW: Covid is another huge risk factor,but that affects more the venous side of that area. The vaccination does massively reduce these cases,especially in woman on hormonal birth control).

    There is a reason why in a lot of European countries a massage of the neck is forbidden/considered malpractice by massage therapists (beside it not helping much anyway - muscular cervical pain almost always is caused lower, in the shoulder muscles) and manual therapy of the neck above C4 needs special training for physios (and even then is discouraged).

    Don't get me wrong, I am not blaming the massage therapist - One would need to see the MRI for that- but it is a reasonably good reminder of a common cause for these cases.

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • And this is why you never get a massage or (even worse) chiro on your neck.

  • Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

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  • VMs and Clusters are nothing new,neither are KVM/QEMU.

    But Proxmox has given the whole thing a huge boost,made it available for smaller deployments and hobbyists and generally pushed a lot of people away from MS, the cloud and towards digital sovereignty.

  • Enshittification aside, any new technologies you find yourself relying on/using regularly?

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  • Yeah. LLMs are helpful IF you now what they are, what they can do, etc. and that you still have to check their solution.

    For some things they are good and safe time.

    Example: We currently work with a company who has understood this verx well: They provide doctors reports and also validate manually written ones. Their workflow basically is: The doctor orders a doctors report for patient A. The system checks witht the doctor that it has understood the major bullet points from the clinical information system and the order given by the doctor. (Basically a "yes" "no" answer system like "Patient was admited for chestpain?") and then creates the report with a color coding in the version the doctor needs to check. (E.g. "white background for "we are 100% sure about the data as it comes directly from the clinical information system" aka names, dates, lab results, green for "very likely to be correct", yellow for less than 99% certainity, orange for less than 90%,etc.) The system also has a mandatory "minimum verification time", e.g. for a longer letter you will need more time to read it and can't simply click okay without reading it. Nevertheless the doctor needs around 10-15% of their time for a report and overall satisfaction by the facilities receiving them has massively improved as they are more "standardized" in it's format and they find the same information in the same parts every time.

    For quality assurance a cetain degree of reports will be send "upwards" and the QA manager of the facility reads them as well, additionally some departments have implemented that if doctor A writes a report e.g. 5% goes to doctor B to check and vise versa.

    Additionally the system also validates manually written reports (for training reasons med students and interns are not allowed to use it), e.g. "are you sure this patient had hypotension when admitted? He was given large amounts of a anti-hypertension drug within 5 minutes after being admitted". This has significantly reduced errors in manual reports (we check a four digit number by now).

    Whole thing runs locally (*) and does not need any outside connection at all and the model is open to the clients (they are actually encouraged to train it with their own data and to let their data security officers check it).

    (*: This is actually an issue,sadly. As doctors reports are basically written all at the same time during the day and of course the model needs a fair share of ressources it needs a somewhat beefy appliance for it. While that is not an issue for a larger hospital it is not feasible for a smaller community hospital who barely manages it's own IT infrastructure or even a small doctors office - but we found these to be the ones who would benefit the most from it. At the moment we don't have a good answer for that beside hosting it elsewhere which would defeat the purpose and make it a privacy nightmare. We will see if these guys solve that before they fully introduce it into the market)

    That saves time, money (even if it's only for the larger facilities atm) and benefits patient care directly.

  • In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

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  • Yeah, and Eich is the a***e behind brave....

  • How should I properly document my homelab?

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  • Netbox,especially when combinded with Plugins is so incredibly good and might,that's it's almost funny how good it is. What I do Plugin wise:

    • Documents: not implemented yet by me,but one could store manuals,etc. directly within netbox.
    • Lifecycle and Inventory: While it's not as good as snipe-it (tbh, inventory is imho one of the worst plugins) it does the job for my small deployment
    • Slurp it to scan automatically
    • QR Code for obvious reasons
    • Floorplan as well

    Of course that sounds overkill for a small deployment, but I simply forget too many things after a few months otherwise and it's something my family (wife is in IT and far more qualified than me) would need if something happens to me,so a proper documentation would be essential for that as well.

  • Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days

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  • Just saying:

    There are alternatives for LE,not for all things, but for a lot. Afaik not all of them do follow suit.

  • What's the best apocalypse?

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  • Basically they underdosed so hard that even 14 year old drug addict does take more - and very likely their stuff didn't partially work at all, as they put it in tea. So... Most of them did only feel very good/bad/nauseated, some got unconscious.

    The crazy part was me coming into that room seeing them and VERY MUCH reconsidering my life choices. I graduated a few weeks backs, just got pissed and spat on the call before and now that. And then panicing a bit and calling dispatch to "send me everything ". Which they did and ended up...a bit much... Like...very much too much.

    Can't remember the name and can't tell either,sorry. That is a long time ago,20 years+ some.

  • What's the best apocalypse?

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  • When I was a freshly graduated paramedic I responded to a attempted mass suicide of a cult.(Around 15 people)

    They thought the apocalypse would be coming... By inciting, well, basically an orgy,with all sexual inhibitions falling and humans sinning beyond belief. While some of their fears were at least somewhat relatable (like fathers laying their hand on their daughters) most of it was batshit crazy. They believed they need to kill themself before that happens so they would still get into heaven.

    ...they fucked that up,massively,as well. None died.