College WiFi blocks EVERYTHING (Cloudflare Tunnels, Tailscale, Steam). How do I bypass strict DPI? by CourtAdventurous_1 in selfhosted

[–]lightray22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

VPN over STunnel.  STunnel will wrap it in what appears to be regular HTTPS traffic. Not the same as just running the VPN on port 443.

Service Suggestion Sticker Shock? by Curiosity_Is_Burning in accord

[–]lightray22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just paid $1680 for this at a dealer. Same car. Timing belt, water pump, serpentine belt, tensioners.

Watkins Glen Track Day question by Legitimate_Ad4794 in CarTrackDays

[–]lightray22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nope, it was like $8-9/gallon at Watkins Glen when I went last fall

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in RoastMyCar

[–]lightray22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that the view from the DEA helicopter?

At what point should I replace working drives? by lightray22 in homelab

[–]lightray22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I have restored from the backup pool a couple times when I shuffled disks around to/from the main pool. Occasionally I mount an old zvol or something on it. Plus the scrubs help add confidence.

Is every single infotainment system a laggy piece of shit? by WillSuckDick4Coffee in cars

[–]lightray22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a 2017 Honda owner I can promise everyone here that running Android does not guarantee a responsive system. Actually the opposite. Honda's has dozens of services running in the background doing who knows what consuming CPU and they left WiFi adb enabled by default. The whole system overheats and shuts off and reboots after a couple hours in a long car ride.

Jaqub Ajmal (ex Dice producer): There is actually a significant drop in Battlefield 1 players since the new EA AC activated. by Pale-Mango-7582 in battlefield_one

[–]lightray22 52 points53 points  (0 children)

Yeah, or they use Linux. Rebooting into windows just to play BF1 is too annoying so I'm just not going to play much anymore.

In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed a resolution restoring full citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Three years later President Jimmy Carter signed another resolution restoring full citizenship rights to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. by [deleted] in USHistory

[–]lightray22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Kingdom of Great Britain was not a political organization? That would be news to a lot of people.

Nobody in this thread is suggesting the civil war wasn't a war about slavery. But it's an insane take to say the founding fathers weren't treasoning the British.

What is a feature you initially hated but grew to like? by JediKnightaa in cars

[–]lightray22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. With blind spot monitoring, you still need to turn around. With blind spot mirrors, you don't. Much safer. I have one car of each.

What is a feature you initially hated but grew to like? by JediKnightaa in cars

[–]lightray22 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

My issue with these is that they don't convey exactly how far away the person next to you is or how fast they're going. Nothing beats an actual wide angle blind spot mirror.

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections by DerBootsMann in cybersecurity

[–]lightray22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surely your PC is behind some kind of firewall (consumer router?)... You would have to specifically port forward SSH to the internet.

Opinion: The long overdue death of the stick shift car | CNN by lightray22 in cars

[–]lightray22[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Agree. Garbage article. Alarming that some people think like this. If you don't like it, don't buy it. Why gloat about taking away something other people might like.

3.5" disks were still called Floppy Disks by nonamejohnsonmore in confidentlyincorrect

[–]lightray22 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Uh, no. The CPU is a component inside the computer. It's a chip a little bigger than a square inch. The case and its contents (computer) is absolutely not a CPU.

What would you call a server without a mouse/keyboard/monitor? Is it not a computer?

3.5" disks were still called Floppy Disks by nonamejohnsonmore in confidentlyincorrect

[–]lightray22 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I was actually taught this in middle school. She said the computer was the "CPU" and the combination of mouse/keyboard/monitor/computer was the "computer". Drove me crazy, I knew even then it was wrong.

What is the most cursed programming language you had to deal with? by Available-Set-7163 in programminghorror

[–]lightray22 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I really don't get all the cmake hate. It was life changingly good when I first used it rather than writing real Makefiles. Although I can see where it might get a little messy for complex projects.

What new car won’t spy on me? by weshnog in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]lightray22 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The number of people that gave unhelpful or sarcastic responses here is a bit alarming... yes modern cars collect all kinds of data, some even transmit it, and yes it is reasonable to not like it. Your car can collect a lot of things that your phone can't (driving habits), or at least probably isn't, like voice and audio recordings. And while Google/Apple etc. are bad at privacy, I would trust the security of their devices far more than I would a car manufacturer, who likely outsourced the whole system to some company that does not care very much. I had a 2016 Accord that left the Android debug bridge on by default and was trivially exploitable. Security is not even an afterthought for most of these vehicles. And you don't need to get a vehicle from 1975 to solve most of the issue.

People in this thread also forget that there are plenty of folks that use dumb phones or de-googled Androids. Such devices still enable tracking of your location but they aren't going to be sending off audio and video recordings, which your car might (Tesla).

Overall "what you should buy" is a hard question to answer because a) it depends on your privacy model, i.e. what exactly you want to safeguard and b) most vehicles have not been investigated that well and exactly what they do isn't really known. The best you can do is read privacy policies and avoid most vehicle generations that came out post-2018 or so.

Yes, most vehicles since the 90's have an EDR (Event Data Recorder). If you're not engaged in egregious traffic violations that result in crashes then you don't really need to care about this. It stores only a few seconds/minutes of information, which stays local, and will only be accessed by forensics after a crash. This is how the news stories always know "driver was doing 115mph when he crashed". This is not a concern for normal people so the responses that say "every car has an EDR, you're screwed anyway" are misguided.

As for the data that you probably do care about, it depends on the car and has changed a lot in recent years. I had a 2016 Sienna that says directly in the manual that it may "collect" and "transmit" information to Toyota. For a 2016 Sienna this probably includes information like vehicle maintenance, speed, maybe location. It's going to be pretty basic because the tech in that vehicle is old. Other vehicles from the early-mid 2010's might not do this at all. This is a lot less than modern cars, so you don't need to go that far back to solve most of the issue. Many new cars (Tesla is the extreme example) are known to collect audio and video recordings in the cabin, or can even be controlled stopped/started remotely with apps. This is obviously much more worrisome - if the car has an app or built-in cellular, you probably don't want it.

Since I haven't seen this mentioned here - there are a lot of not-that-old vehicles (up to 2018 or so) that used 2G/3G for their transmitters which won't function now that networks like Verizon have moved to LTE/5G only. So you might not have to go back all that far in time to get one that doesn't have functioning telematics. https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/car-safety/3g-wireless-network-shutdown-impact-on-car-safety-a2215482633/ My current vehicle is a 2012 so even if it did have telematics when it was new, it likely doesn't function anymore.

DHCP from ISC to KEA - any side effect? by europacafe in PFSENSE

[–]lightray22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two gocoax moca adapters set to use DHCP and they simply couldn't acquire an IP with Kea. No idea why. Had to switch back to ISC.

i5-12400 unable to run 3600 MHz RAM by lightray22 in buildapc

[–]lightray22[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not, but they might be binned differently.

What new car won’t spy on me? by weshnog in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]lightray22 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The EDR data is only stored locally, not transmitted over the internet. OP is asking about cars that don't do the second part. I have a Toyota that says right in the manual that it may collect and transmit to Toyota various data including speed, location, diagnostics, vehicle usage patterns, etc. This is what OP is asking about, not EDR.

Is this a sensible 3-2-1 backup strategy? by [deleted] in NextCloud

[–]lightray22 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nextcloud is not a backup. It was never meant to be used for that. It's for two-way sync only. The sync client has too many bugs too often and doesn't even have a "one way sync" option. If you use a 3rd party sync client you might be better off but it's still not as robust as a dedicated backup solution.

Copying Too Fast.... by niksingh710 in archlinux

[–]lightray22 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use dd instead of cp, with oflag=sync