JackAttack

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When not even the meds allow you to will your brain into doing work ๐Ÿ’€ in c/adhd@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I feel this way too hard. I work with software and have a busy but chill job in the sense of no one really bothers me except ticket users/cool coworkers.

I get super distracted not only with rabbit holes but also trying to get organized.

Recently I've been trying to find ways to improve my productivity but its led me down hours or trying different apps/programs to try to better my work flow which in turn has hurt my work flow.

On top of that. The meds don't hit the same and I've found myself on my phone more.

I love my job too so it's not even that I don't wanna do the work lol.

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago (7 children)

I feel like the bigger security concern here, if one needs to worry about it for their threat level that is more likely, is just like if someone knows your password, who could force me to unlock my phone via biometrics?

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This was the majority of my experience as well. As a newer programmer, I'm more than happy to always know a better option. But if the way I'm looking to solve my problem is wrong, don't just give me Y, explain to me why it may not work how I think it will. Tell me about X and some pitfalls or reasoning for it not going to work, then recommend Y. Because if others only see the Y answer to my question about X, they'll probably just keep searching for a solution to X not knowing it may not work like I didn't know.

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People have their gripes over the "big corporation" side of this but I also daily drive fedora KDE and I love it. My only complaint is 2 things.

  1. Wireless shuts off after long periods of sleep. Suck if I'm torrenting my Linux isos.

  2. Very rarely it'll freeze up and I need to hard restart.

Both of which could be a me issue. But besides that it's a beautiful, easily and highly customizable system. Highly reccomend as well.

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Finally fixed my torrent ratio (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
 

I'll admit, when I first started torrent I was not really familiar with how it worked and how important seeding was. I would just use magnet links without configuration to save the torrent and seed after completion. Well.. I have finally, got myself back to 1.00 after a couple months and working to try to always seed double what I get for each torrent.

Often times I was one of the few random seeders available for some of these torrents. Friendly reminder to give back because you never know when you're one of the rare cases that can complete someones long lost file download!

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I had tried to build one one time and got the ui down. As I started building the more complex arithmatic (chaining calculations) i realized how insanely complex it actually is. It made me realize how complex the most simple looking apps actually are.

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So from what I understand, theres 2 common ways that browsers combat this. Someone add to or correct me if I'm wrong.

  1. Browsers such as Mull combat this by looking the same as every other browser. If you all look the same, it's hard to tell you apart. I believe this is why people recommend using default window size when using Tor.

Ex: Everyone wearing black pants and hoodies with the facemasks. Extremely hard to tell who is who.

  1. Browsers such as Brave randomize metadata that fingerprinting collects so that it's more difficult to piece it all together and build a trend/profile on someone.

Ex: look like a dog in one place, a cat in another place. They get data for a dog but that doesn't help build anything if the rest of the data is a cat, hamster, whatever. No way to piece it together to be useful.

In both my examples, there are caveats. Just because everyone dressed the same doesn't mean someone isn't taller or shorter, or skinnier or fatter. There can still be tells to help narrow down. Or a cat that barks like a dog suddenly is more linkable to a dog if that makes sense lol.

In other words it still depends user behavior that can contribute to the effectiveness of these tools.

EDIT: got distracted. To answer your question I don't think so. I think it's more about user behavior blending in or being randomized. I think the only thing an extension would be able to do is possibly randomize the data but I'm unsure of such an extension yet. These aren't the only options, these are just ones I've read about recently. Online behavior, browswr window size, and I'm sure so much more also goes into it. But every little bit helps and is better than nothing.

EDIT2: Added examples for each for clarity.

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Finally got a copyright warning from ISP - Reminder (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Well, After hundreds of GB of torrents downloaded, I slipped up. I've been changing around linux distros recently and i believe i configured my VPN wrong or forgot to turn it back on after doing something. Well, I finally got hit with a copyright warning. Just your typical "we had to send this" type of warning but none-the-less, I slipped up.

Sharing this because the day before it happened, I read a post about not only having your killswitch on but also binding your client to you vpn interface for situations like this. Needless to say I didn't take that precaution. For those who are on linux, I found a great post about how to set this up on reddit and wanted to remind people to "double wrap" because why not be safe lol.

The steps were more or less as follows (for QBitTorrent at least):

  1. Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced Settings

  2. Under "Network Interface", select your vpn interface. To test, check what shows with your vpn on, and then turn it off and re-navigate to this part to see what dissapeared. Thats likely your vpn interface if the name wasn't clear. (Do not be seeding/downloading torrents while doing this in case).

  3. To test, download a non-copyright torrent like the Ubuntu ISO torrent. In the middle of download, disconnect or close your vpn connection. This should stop the download.

Not sure if reddit links are cool here but here is the guide source if anyones interested. Binding VPN to Torrent Client

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FYI - Graphene OS has biometrics with pin (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Apologies If I can't list specific 3rd Android OS here. I know you can't on some reddit privacy subs due to some beef between devs I guess. I'll take down if needed :)

Regardless, Ive been running GOS for a while and just found out theres a feature that allows you to use biometrics while still requiring your pin on the initial lock screen. One of my concerns with biometrics is that in some jurisdictions, law enforcement can force someone to open their phone through face ID or thumb print.

I've been using this feature that allows you to use biometrics but when you are on the lock screen, it still requires your pin. I thought this was really cool because it allows me to use biometrics only to unlock my apps while still adding an extra layer of protection to the unlocking of the device itself. Obviously slightly Inconvenient depending on your worries/threat level, but I just wanted to share this in case anyone else was interested and didnt know about it! Very cool!

EDIT: I just re-read my screenshot and it looks like fingerprint unlock is not correlated to using fingerprint for app unlocking. If this is the case then I'm not quite sure what the actual benefits are here. Please feel free to clarify!

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[โ€“] JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

While the original comment has validity, I think it's important to know that a lot of the proton news you'll find is very "drop it immediately" biased.

I definitely think the news left a bad taste that's worth keeping an eye on, but I don't think it should eliminate them completely as an option. Especially for newer privacy advocates.

Edit: full disclosure for future readers, I may be biased as well since I do continue to use proton services and I love it. But I still try to look at both sides on things like this.

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Replacing router with OpenWRT on Proxmox (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by JackAttack@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Not sure if this 100% goes here but I'm relatively new to the self hosting world. Please advise if this needs to be moved elsewhere and I will.

I recently picked up a beelink mini PC and have been running Proxmox for things like jellyfin, home assistant, etc.

I'm looking to set up OpenWRT and found a helper script that sets up the VM but I'm having issues being able to configure wireless. According to the official docs, wireless is off by default if there are eth ports. When I go to edit it, both in the LuCl and in the /etc/config/wireless file, I hit 2 issues:

  1. The web client doesn't have a wireless option.
  2. There is no wireless file In the config directory.

I tried looking for some solutions online but wasn't sure what was exactly specific for me. I wasn't sure if this was a hardware issue or a Proxmox/OpenWRT config issue. Any advice on this?

Side note: My thoughts were I could use the internal wi-fi adapter for wireless but would I need a USB adapter of some sort for this capability?

Edit: I realized later I left some context off. In case i wasn't clear enough. Sorry. Currently I use a Google nest wifi pro router and was hoping to replace it with OpenWRT for more control/customization.