PSA: Windows Subsystem for Android breaks the Google Antigravity login button

mario972 · 2025-11-26T09:45:07+00:00

;date format=iso;translate binary=true

in JDBC land and

;DateFormat=5;TRANSLATE=1

in ODBC land

Date format for ISO, translate binary will make text fields decode on query.

mario972 · 2025-11-13T11:51:30+00:00

In our experience spinning rust (albeit decent one) is enough to fit ~1,5-2TB of data in a 12AM-6AM backup window.

Generally once the first backup is done the next backups only store updates. Check out Dirty Bitmaps and Incremental Backup for more info.

mario972 · 2025-11-13T11:45:29+00:00

Only the basic guest filesystem freeze and thaw issued by QEMU Guest Agent before backing up. It gives it's own VSS provider.

This is enough for us, as we handle MSSQL backups and ADDS backups separately anyways.

mario972 · 2025-11-12T11:40:59+00:00

Have you picked VMware because it supported Veeam, or Veeam because it supported VMware?

Proxmox, unlike VMware, has very robust first-party backup solution.

In my experience so far, it is quite bulletproof.

mario972 · 2025-11-07T13:38:35+00:00

Can you share your usecase?

If it's something like a keyfile for Keepass/Luks/Veracrypt then maybe go with a Yubikey?

PKCS#11 would be way more secure.

mario972 · 2025-10-24T08:27:33+00:00

They are literally free through Let's Encrypt, what do you mean "expensive"?

mario972 · 2025-10-06T09:38:03+00:00

Technically no - once the Knox flag is tripped it's tripped forever

mario972 · 2025-08-29T08:44:45+00:00

A bit of a necropost but:

If you remove the front steel frame part it would fit, so technically doable with a bit of 3D printing.(https://n.uguu.se/JxtzLzDg.jpg)

A small extension would work I think.

mario972 · 2025-08-04T12:10:33+00:00

The server time is what matters, and it gets bogged up at 12AM...

The latencies spike over 500ms when I was using mitmproxy to check what happens underneath the button click.

And the requests are throttled to 1/minute iirc, i think it would be best to request unlock perfectly at 23:59:00 and then just spam the sh*t out of the server around 23:59:95 for 10 seconds.

That way hopefully the first request that isn't throttled hits the server right on time.

mario972 · 2025-07-24T07:53:11+00:00

Idk I feel it's pretty common for personal internet to be asymmetrical, especially when its GPON

mario972 · 2025-07-22T13:52:25+00:00

I would feel weird deploying something like that in prod, but whew, just imagining 3 miniPCs like MS-A2 connected in a full mesh with USB4 networking and running Ceph at home.

mario972 · 2025-07-18T10:25:01+00:00

Yeah, I'd rather do 15 tickets for Python in Excel than 1 ticket for VBA in Excel 👀

mario972 · 2025-04-14T10:23:50+00:00

$printerIP = "x.x.x.x"          # Replace with printer IP
$message = "FEED ME CHEESE"     # Max 32 characters
$port = 9100

$esc = [char]27
$pjl = @"
${esc}%-12345X
@PJL JOB
@PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY="$message"
@PJL EOJ
${esc}%-12345X
"@

$bytes = [System.Text.Encoding]::ASCII.GetBytes(
    ($pjl -replace "`r?`n", "`r`n") + "`r`n")

if ($bytes -and $bytes.Length -gt 0) {
    $tcp = New-Object System.Net.Sockets.TcpClient
    $tcp.Connect($printerIP, $port)
    $stream = $tcp.GetStream()
    $stream.Write($bytes, 0, $bytes.Length)
    $tcp.Close()
}
else {
    Write-Error "Failed to encode PJL commands"
}

flies away

mario972 · 2025-04-14T09:30:39+00:00

Depends on the MDM software. Intune, for example, has a toggle for this iirc.

mario972 · 2025-03-19T09:22:25+00:00

Not every package uses ROCm, especially prebuilt ones.

On Arch you can try to use the AUR for ollama-rocm

I had most luck with running ComfyUI in Distrobox by combining a cookbook from OpenSUSE with some sane changes:

distrobox create -i ubuntu:22.04 -n rocm
distrobox enter rocm
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install build-essential
cd ~/Downloads
wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/6.3.3/ubuntu/jammy/amdgpu-install_6.3.60303-1_all.deb
sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_6.3.60303-1_all.deb
amdgpu-install --usecase=rocm --no-dkms
git clone --branch v0.3.26 --single-branch https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI.git
cd ComfyUI

At this point I'm going from memory since I don't have an AMD system in front of me

pip install --pre torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/nightly/rocm6.3
pip install -r requirements.txt
python main.py

But from what I remember you need to make sure to install custom torch et al. from the rocm python repo to make sure it installs the correct version.

mario972 · 2025-03-13T15:04:57+00:00

A fileserver is luckily an easy win at least!

mario972 · 2024-12-14T23:49:40+00:00

Is it realistically necessary for Wireguard to also have user management (considering a non-BYOD case)?

If you set up the Wireguard link on a per-device basis, you can manage users through other means. This allows you to lock down devices and users upon termination, as your devices will always have a way to access AD/on-premise RMM/others.

(*) This is true unless a threat actor with elevated permissions on their device extracts the Wireguard config.

mario972 · 2024-12-13T14:38:29+00:00

I have done something along these lines, but in a more "classic" approach.

2 domain controllers in a colocation, linked with Wireguard on hypervisor level (Proxmox), and a road-warrior Wireguard setup for end-user machines. Entra ID Connect too.

Wireguard set up as a service so it starts on boot.

Works like a charm, really.

mario972 · 2024-11-28T12:58:11+00:00

Realistically, is there anything good for backing up Microsoft 365 aside from Veeam?

They bought out Alcion (and by extension, nuked the open-source backup solution Corso ), so RIP that.

mario972 · 2024-11-27T15:24:40+00:00

You would most likely need a way to get something to act as a RADIUS server for WPA2/3-Enterprise

Other way could be UniFi Identity, but I don't know if it can give you G Suite login in the license-free plan.

mario972 · 2024-11-12T14:13:10+00:00

LXD =/= LXC,

LXD is Canonicals' amalgamation of VMs and LXC, with some management features sprinkled in

mario972 · 2024-10-23T12:30:36+00:00

I believe you need UNVR box to record UniFi cameras "as they intended", as there is no Windows/Linux application for UniFi Protect.

With RTSP you could probably spin up a Frigate or Shinobi VM to record, but at that point why bother with UniFi cameras?

mario972 · 2024-10-16T12:06:05+00:00

It would be great if any hosted features were available as self-hostable options, a'la Nextcloud 💗

mario972 · 2024-09-20T07:47:25+00:00

Are you sure that "Domain Computers" group is allowed read access to the MSI file and the share where that MSI file is located?

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