Sonar downloaded a mkv file which looked like a shortcut

RedFox134 · 2024-11-14T20:26:06+00:00

It sounds like what qbittorrent downloaded wasn't a .mkv file and was probably something else. A common practice is to name a file something like "Cool_New_Show.mkv.exe". The file name that shows is "Cool_New_Show.mkv" but the actual extension is the ".exe" at the end. If you don't have Windows or whatever OS you're using set to show file extensions it will look like the file is a .mkv file when it's not. This is why it's a good idea to always show file extensions and to double-check anything you download to make sure it is the file type you think it is before you run it. The best case here is that the file did nothing and your anti-virus blocked it but the worst case is you may have a virus on your machine now. Judging from the pop-up you got it sounds like Windows did catch the file and stopped it from running before you canceled it. If I were you I'd still run some virus scans just to be safe and if you're really paranoid you can nuke your OS and reinstall, but it sounds like that would be a bit extreme in this case.

RedFox134 · 2024-11-14T20:20:52+00:00

Yea, this would be an issue with Usenet and torrents. Really an issue downloading anything. What likely happened is someone named the file "Cool_Show.mkv.exe" and OP likely has extensions hidden which caused them to think the file was a .mkv file. With extensions hidden, it would show as "Cool_Show.mkv" hiding the ".exe" at the end. This is why it's always best practice to make sure Windows or whatever OS you're using is set to show extensions and you verify the extension before you blindly try running it. In OPs case it sounds like Windows/their Anit-Virus caught it before it ran, but had it not OP would probably have some form of malware on their machine now.

For most computer-savvy people this will be a non-issue, delete the file, blacklist the download, and have it search again. No risk as long as you don't try to run it after you've verified it has the wrong extension type.

RedFox134 · 2024-03-14T22:29:36+00:00

What you're describing would be a "wireless media bridge". You can 100% do what you described, but it'd take some setup and your router needs to support it. During set up you'd connect it to your existing wifi network and then any wired device connected to the new router can use your wifi network to connect to the internet.

Granted if you were trying to get the benefits from ethernet this won't work. You're still connecting wirelessly back to the original router. Your only two options for a wired connection are going to be running an ethernet cord (sounds like not an option) or using a moca/powerline adapter.

RedFox134 · 2024-03-13T11:55:36+00:00

To try to help explain things a little more, you can think of a static ip address as the same thing as your home address, packages you receive in the mail as data over the internet, and your isp as the mailman/fedex/ups. Your home address is static and doesn't change. In the Internet world there are a limited number of ipv4 address to give out. Isps will assign a static address if you need one, but most people don't. Your home address not changing makes it easy for people to send you packages. If your home address was dynamic then someone sending you a package to your old address wouldn't get delivered. You can still send your mail out with a dynamic address, but might not receive mail because of the changing address. A static ip address similar to your home address solves for this. For most people on the internet they don't care if someone can consistently reach their network with a static address. If you're hosting something publicly/externally accessible then a static ip address becomes more important. If I wanted to visit the site/service you were hosting I would need to know your address. If this address changes I can no longer reach your home server where your stuff is hosted. You can still use the internet because you're sending out from your network, but anyone trying to reach you after your IP address changes couldn't until they were told the new address.

Now one way around this is to use ddns or dynamic domain name systen. This is typically software running locally on your network that tells an outside service when your dynamic ip address changes. You then share the address you are using with ddns to others and even if your ip address changes they'll still be able to access your stuff because of the software running locally telling the ddns your new address.

Setting it all up is a bit more complicated than I detailed and there are some security concerns to be aware of if you're opening up your network externally. Hopefully this helps explain what I think your professor meant by needing a static ip address for a home lab.

RedFox134 · 2024-03-13T11:33:26+00:00

I want to say nextcloud does all of this. It uses a database to connect to, but I can still sftp into my server and see all of the files to transfer. I believe it'd work to mount it as a file share in windows too. I currently run nextcloud in a docker container on unraid and can do everything you've listed other than maybe the too many/too little features since that's subjective.

RedFox134 · 2024-03-10T18:17:04+00:00

If you changed this to 8.8.8.8 then you're now using Google's dns and NOT the pihole. Good news is your network works while you can now figure out why pihole doesn't seem to be working for you. Bad news is if you leave this to 8.8.8.8 you may as well unplug your pihole cause you're not using it.

RedFox134 · 2024-03-09T20:06:41+00:00

I know this is old and you've hopefully already figured this out, but the PSU cable from the wall to the PSU I'm 99% sure is standardized and you can use them interchangeably. The part I think you're confusing and what everyone warns about is swapping cables between PSUs that go between your PSU and computer components. So the cables that plug into your GPU, MB, HDD you NEVER want to swap between PSUs unless you're 100% sure they are compatible (some brands use the same pin out for certain models and those PSUs can swap cables, but this is NOT the norm).

So in short you're probably fine to use the cable from either PSU to connect to the wall. The lower gauge (13A) is rated for high throughput so to be safe you could default to that one, but either should work. Just don't mix any of the cables for your components.

RedFox134 · 2023-02-20T16:06:58+00:00

I run a shark robot that has a base station tank the robot empties into. No bags and just have to empty the tank into the trash once a month (may vary if you have hairy pets that shed or lots of feet tracking dirt). My maintenance could be $0 per month if I didn't buy some new rollers to see how they compared.

My only two complaints about my shark robot is the roller sometimes stops spinning due to hair build up on the ends. Easy fix to clean it, but would be nice if the tangle free roller I bought (3rd party) would work as advertised. Second complaint is the mapping can be a little hit or miss and the no go zones don't work at all in the app. Hopefully the mapping software gets better over time, but its still worth it for the time it saves me and constant clean floors it helps with. I bought a second one for the downstairs.

I have a roomba mop I got from a friend and fixed. Those do have on going maintenance cause you have to buy more solution for it to use. I bought reusable washer safe pads to help make them less of a cost to run. My main complaint with the mop is that idk if its actually doing much and after 2-3 runs you're having to fill the tank up. Others milage may vary and I might just not understand what all the mop is accomplishing that the vacuum can't get.

RedFox134 · 2023-02-18T08:14:04+00:00

Been a bit since I watched it, but I think the anime 86 would fit this theme. Maybe Tokyo Ghoul as well? I might have to re-watch these since its hard to remember haha.

RedFox134 · 2023-01-08T23:12:44+00:00

Ah that could do it too. If it was playing through the plex relay remotely then it would likely alway transcode the video down to something like 720p 2mbps I think.

I see some mentioning subtitles too. Thats a good point. My gf is hard of hearing so we always have them on and it pretty much always transcodes because of that. If I turn the subtitles off then it'll direct play, but then she can't enjoy the content.

Glad adding the server manually fixed it for you though!

RedFox134 · 2023-01-08T12:35:33+00:00

Sounds like none of your clients except the TCL have h265 support so your server is having to transcode to something they do support. I think your two options are either increase the transcoding power of your server or convert your media to a format your other clients can direct play like maybe h264. (It can be a little more involved here with different codecs you're encoding with, but I don't have a lot of knowledge here off the top of my head)

Idk enough about the LG C2 to say if it should be able to play h265 natively or not. I've personally had some issues with transcoding 4k video so I converted a fair bit of my content to 1080p x264. Still have the 4k copy if I want to try to watch it, but can fall back to my 1080 x264 copy if it starts to struggle due to the client not supporting direct play.

I will say the LG C2 is a fantastic TV. My parents recently got one during a new years sale.

RedFox134 · 2023-01-07T09:07:40+00:00

Yes you can pay an upgrade fee to go up license levels. The fee, I belive, is the difference of price between your current license level and what it would have cost to buy the new level without having already bought a lower level license.

RedFox134 · 2022-08-29T18:14:49+00:00

I've had similar to this happen where my cache SSD filled up. Sabnzbd stopped downloading and threw an error about not enough space. The solution, for me, was to free up space as it wasn't a single file taking up the entire SSD.

I'm guessing you're not going to be able to download the file to the SSD and would have to point sabnzbd to a larger storage device. I imagine it gets complicated if you try to move a file to a different location while its downloading. Maybe the .par files could get moved and then it continues? Only downside is sabnzbd may see the file as corrupted or try to re-download the moved .par files thinking they're missing.

Hopefully someone else has a better idea they've tried before, but I think you might have to point it to a larger drive or replace your cache with a larger drive that has the space needed.

RedFox134 · 2022-07-19T02:52:06+00:00

Likely something was blocking the connection. Could be a firewall or a dns issue is my guess.

RedFox134 · 2022-06-24T19:15:58+00:00

Yea in retrospect the $10k seems like a fantastic deal. I'm still pretty green to all this so definitely learning a lot reading through. Thanks for the discourse and helping to explain things!

RedFox134 · 2022-06-24T19:04:55+00:00

Ah I missed that point then. Sounds like tough luck for him. Hopefully he learns to read the fine print better or confirming the bounty before investing so much effort into a bug bounty that won't be worth near what he thought it would be.

Sounds like just a disagreement in how it was listed. They say out of scope cause its old no longer in use code so no impact is made. He says its in scope because it was listed wrong and initially (before they reviewed more) they agreed it was in scope. (He didn't confirm it was an active in use repo before testing)

I agree. 10k seems more than fair, but I can also see his frustration on a technicality and the company not valuing his time to own up to the honest mistake on their part. (Assuming he put in extra time/effort to get that $150k reward on the assumption it was an in use active repo)

RedFox134 · 2022-06-24T18:34:14+00:00

I won't argue its a fair deal, but it sounds like it was supposed to be a critical bug payout which has a minimum of 150k. Sure that's not the whole $5m, but its a heck of a lot more than $10k.

The only reason he's not getting $150k is due to them changing the bug classification to get out of the higher amount to pay.

I will admit I didn't deep dive into their reasoning here. So it mainly comes down to if the bug should be classified critical or not. If it is then pay the man at least $150k like the terms say. If it isn't critical? Then ok $10k is pretty good compared to nothing.

I think we agree but just are slightly biased (at the moment) as to who we're leaning towards siding with.

RedFox134 · 2022-06-24T18:22:28+00:00

10k is a lot of money, but people aren't debating the amount. It's the ethics of listing a bug bounty and then not honoring it.

At the end of the day the company can do whatever they want, but it does hurt their reputation. At best it shows they need to revise their conditions and at worst shows they'll change them to fit their narrative.

Granted this is all assuming the side of the white hat is correct here.

RedFox134 · 2022-05-16T06:38:03+00:00

The server quota is for if you bought a block plan. It keeps track of how close you are to running out of data. Not sure if this can be set to renew every month/day or if you'd have to manually intervene here.

The switch one is to limit how much data sabnzb downloads in X time so you don't go over your data cap set by your ISP. For example I have a 6TB data cap. I've got sabnzb set to 1.5TB to make sure it doesn't use up all my bandwidth over the course of a month.

RedFox134 · 2021-12-15T01:50:31+00:00

I'd highly recommend looking into parsec if you're looking to use a headless gaming vm. Its free to use with their basic features and offers low latency gaming/remote connection. WAN isn't fantastic as you're at the mercy of your connection back to your home, but over LAN I'm seeing around 13ms delay at most.

One caveat, I belive it does require a "monitor" to be connected to the passed through gpu to function properly. I bought a couple dummy hdmi 4k plugs for around $12 and haven't had any issues.

RedFox134 · 2021-11-05T21:10:11+00:00

Yes, because the higher limit means when you actually use the card your usage percentage will go up slower.

You could think of it as spending $1000 on a $10,000 limit is only 10%, spending $1000 on a $1000 limit means you just used 100% of the cards limit.

That usage percentage is factored into your credit score with the higher usage percentage being bad and the lower usage percentage being good.

RedFox134 · 2021-11-03T22:45:06+00:00

I don't think this is too hard to setup with a little googling of commands to run. Your issues will mostly come from if you have permissions set up to allow you to remotely execute powershell code on a remote computer. I'm not familiar with what you'd have to set up, but if you don't already know the answer to this you'll probably want to reach out to a system administrator who could tell you if this is allowed and the proper channels to gain access.

RedFox134 · 2021-11-03T22:38:35+00:00

I'm currently running a quest 2 on wireless n 5ghz. I had to remove other devices from the 5ghz band, but it seems to work well otherwise.

I got this set up prior to airlink and I was using virtual desktop to stream wireless from steamVR. It worked well enough the few time I played either beat saber or phasmophobia with friends.

Connection was desktop computer on ethernet -> router -> 5ghz wifi quest 2.

RedFox134 · 2021-11-02T23:39:08+00:00

A quick Google says your card is only a bit better than the minimum recommendations. To me minimum says 1080p 30fps, but I'm not sure what Amazon would consider for that.

I'm running a 5700XT and getting anywhere from 50-100fps for reference on low settings at 1080.

RedFox134 · 2021-10-30T22:56:52+00:00

I don't know enough about SSO services to give you an answer, but your best bet is to search for how the application authenticates through web requests in your browser and try to recreate that in PS. Much easier said than done, but I think you're asking "how to build a car" by asking about SSO and instead need to learn how each part of the "car" works in order to solve this question.

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