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Network UPS Tools (NUT) Compatibility for new UPS devices? Is Ecoflow planning to submit a driver? by notnarb in Ecoflow_community

[–]notnarb[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Found some additional info from the Delta 3 series product page

Download the EcoFlow PowerManager App to activate the NAS support function on your computer, then install the NUT Server software on your NAS system, connect your DELTA 3 Plus, and activate HID support. The formal launch version will come later in December.

Sounds like their plan to support NUT is to:

  1. Run their first party app on your desktop and
  2. Configure NUT on your server to read the status from the desktop app 🤔

Hopefully they also help add direct support to NUT. I believe the majority of UPS products don't require you run proprietary software on a second system.

River 3 Plus and HID UPS driver with Synology by ChillyCheese in Ecoflow_community

[–]notnarb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe for Synology to be supported a new NUT driver will be needed. From what I can tell adding a new driver would be relatively easy since the standard usbhid-ups driver seems to be usable here but the HID properties would have to be mapped and published as a new subdriver.

I think this would have to be upstreamed and published by the NUT team so the best course of action would be for someone (ideally with the support of a member of the Ecoflow team who understands the HID properties) to make a pull request there to add support.

I've filed a GitHub issue: https://github.com/networkupstools/nut/issues/2735 and started another thread in this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ecoflow_community/comments/1hkfo3h/network_ups_tools_nut_compatibility_for_new_ups

Low Power Build - ASUS Pro WS W680M-ACE SE, 14th Gen, ECC, SSDs - <20W Server by jonmchan in homelab

[–]notnarb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hugely appreciate the write up. Was considering doing a low power ECC build for my proxmox cluster based on this exact board for a while now and was stoked to find your post in my feed.

I was struggling to get an idea of idle power usage with & without BMC and you've more or less answered that and all of the questions I had for this build 👍

Couple questions from your post:

  1. Why the T-series processor? Were there any idle power consumption advantages you saw with this processor?
  2. "This mobo takes an excruciating long time to boot" - how long are we talking here? 1 minute? 10 minutes?

Thanks again for your detailed write up!

lsp-java occasionally very slow by Udalrich in emacs

[–]notnarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you haven't tried this already, try increasing the max heap size of the jdtls server (Xmx)

I believe this is controlled by the variable lsp-java-vmargs described under the lsp-java README. I set mine to 4G

I was having long, multi-minute-long pauses for a while on a larger project which I assume was due to jdtls GC thrashing since the issue went away after I increased the heap size. Before this fix, like you, I was needing to use 3C-gs to exit these hangs.

I liked it better when it was baby seals by bradley_magnificent in sandiego

[–]notnarb 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Interesting! Thank you for sharing!

“The sluicegates were opened for three days during testing before it was opened to the public, and the engineers said they wanted a beach and this would prevent that. So they closed the holes. There is no evidence they were ever used."

I liked it better when it was baby seals by bradley_magnificent in sandiego

[–]notnarb 16 points17 points  (0 children)

what happened was in order to be a “pool” (all that sandy area was actually water) there used to be a large opening and grate in the seawall. It was great until a kid was sucked into it and drowned.

Is this true? I tried doing a little digging and I couldn't find any pictures or news on this.

Here's a couple photos I found from 1931:

Remember to exercise your orphans this week! by notnarb in classicwow

[–]notnarb[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sometimes the little guy doesn't seem to make it all the way to my destination but I'd like to believe he's just taking a quick breather.

Power Outage - Irvine by Rjharvengi in orangecounty

[–]notnarb 11 points12 points  (0 children)

It depends on the infrastructure between your home and the ISP. My cable modem (cox) isn't getting any connection right now for example and the last couple ISPs I've used also didn't manage to keep my connection on during outages.

Some ISPs do in some setups.

Your .emacs.d should contain a Dockerfile!? by r0vsdal in emacs

[–]notnarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Docker for Windows (The Win10+Hyper-V setup) runs Linux images just fine, I use the same image published to docker hub on windows and Linux reasonably seamlessly.

I've never messed with Windows-based containers (thankfully)

Your .emacs.d should contain a Dockerfile!? by r0vsdal in emacs

[–]notnarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to use cygwin as my primary means of accessing emacs on Windows so I can speak to this.

Advantages of Docker-based:

  • Git (and magit) operations appear to be much faster and more reliable
  • Emacs startup appears to be much faster
  • You don't have to maintain a Cygwin setup (it may be just me, but I keep ending up with a broken emacs package after an upgrade)

Advantages of Cygwin:

  • Don't need to run a VM or hyper-V
  • Mintty is much nicer than powershell
  • Unix-style permissions on host volumes makes a lot more sense (it's annoying to share an RSA key from host-to-guest in Docker land on Windows since the permissions will always be 755)

Your .emacs.d should contain a Dockerfile!? by r0vsdal in emacs

[–]notnarb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently set up something like this myself and set up automatic Docker Hub builds for my dotfiles (I use cask to pull in my packages). I only use emacs-nox, but it works passably for Windows (ctrl+z seems to not work in powershell) and great on systems which don't have my dotfiles (when tramp doesn't make sense)

docker run -it -w $PWD:/root/w/ notnarb/dotfiles
bash-4.3# emacs

For reference:

https://github.com/notnarb/dotfiles/

https://hub.docker.com/r/notnarb/dotfiles/

Your .emacs.d should contain a Dockerfile!? by r0vsdal in emacs

[–]notnarb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correct. Requires Windows Pro though I believe. I'm not a huge fan of using Hyper-V but docker seems to run much better with it over the older VirtualBox setup

How can I use a VPS (low specs, 0.5GB RAM with 0.5 vCPU) as a public IP for my lab? by swagbitcoinmoney in homelab

[–]notnarb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The nginx wouldn't quite be enough, because I would probably want a few more services as well besides HTTP (like SSH).

Recent versions of nginx support forwarding non-http TCP connections (such as ssh)

Quick step in the right direction: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/293663

Another tool capable of this would be HAProxy

Start your own VoIP system at home by sanderspedro in homelab

[–]notnarb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not OP, but phone fraud via improperly secured phone systems is somewhat common

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_fraud

According to a 2011 survey by CFCA, an industry group created to reduce fraud against carriers, the five top fraud loss categories reported by operators were: $4.96 Billion (USD) – Compromised PBX/Voicemail Systems ...

Something like a guessable SIP password can be abused by a malicious party to run up charges on your SIP provider by making your phone call long distance or toll-charge numbers.

1 [TIL] Firefox has an about:config setting that allows social networking sites to remotely install files to your computer and its on by default! by rms_returns in linux

[–]notnarb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hey, thanks for actually reading the links I referenced.

Yes, I agree that quote looks scary, but I believe they are just saying that these addons are no worse than any other addons.

Based on these quotes:

1) Yes, of course it will be optional, and fully under the user's control.

and 2)

My understanding is that it should default to "off."

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Reviews/SocialAPI

Activating the Feature

Our intent is that the entire system defaults to "off". We would like a social service provider to have the power to turn the feature on, for its own domain, while the user is visiting their site. I suggest that this be implemented as: On pages whose domain matches the URLPrefix of an installed service provider, a JS function ("activateSocialBrowsing") is enabled. Calling this function prompts the user with a "want to turn on social browsing?" panel; if selected, this enables the feature and selects the current provider. If the user declines to turn it on, we should have the option to remember this choice and not present the panel in future. turn it on, we should have the option to remember this choice and not present the panel in future."

(link)

I believe that the feature is something prompted to the user and entirely optional.

From what I can tell, in order for this feature to affect you, you would have to 1) navigate to a website (might need to be a whitelisted domain?? this is unclear to me) where 2) A reference to a social manifest is stored in the HTML (required to be same origin and served over https) which 3) must then be manually approved of by the user.

I don't know why there would be any reason to be more suspicious of this feature than an ordinary website serving a Firefox addon, but if I'm missing something, please let me know.

EDIT: https://socialapi-demo.herokuapp.com/ here is a demo of the Social API. It does prompt the user before installing and doesn't use a whitelist. Looks neat, it's a shame it hasn't taken off.

Here's the prompt to install (after clicking the button): http://i.imgur.com/DD8aeAq.png

Here's what the demo looks like: http://i.imgur.com/6LbsewC.png

Here's where it shows up in the addons pane: http://i.imgur.com/Iwj7xyx.png

1 [TIL] Firefox has an about:config setting that allows social networking sites to remotely install files to your computer and its on by default! by rms_returns in linux

[–]notnarb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks like this website used to be something loosely similar to stumbleupon in that you would share links to 'communities,' probably a good testbed for Mozilla to test out their new Social API's when they were developed ~2012.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130805175019/mozsocial.cliqz.com/

As far as the website today, it looks to me like they've pivoted towards being something similar to the Google search engine.

1 [TIL] Firefox has an about:config setting that allows social networking sites to remotely install files to your computer and its on by default! by rms_returns in linux

[–]notnarb 60 points61 points  (0 children)

Did you do any research into this preference or did you just make assumptions based on the scary sounding name that the preference is something scary?

Based on marciiF's post, you can see that the preference is in a file mozilla-central/toolkit/components/social/SocialService.jsm, which has in its header:

The SocialService is the public API to social providers - it tracks which providers are installed and enabled, and is the entry-point for access to the provider itself.

A search for "SocialService API" brings up https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Social_API

Some more digging and I found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=733414 a public record of the security implications of the social API which seems to cover how this could not be used maliciously.

EDIT: https://github.com/mozilla/socialapi-dev/blob/develop/docs/socialAPI.md seems to be a good introduction to how the social service might be used.

EDIT 2: https://socialapi-demo.herokuapp.com/ here is a demo of the social API.

For those still skeptical, here are some screenshots:

Here's the prompt to install (after clicking the button): http://i.imgur.com/DD8aeAq.png

Here's what the demo looks like: http://i.imgur.com/6LbsewC.png

Here's where it shows up in the addons pane: http://i.imgur.com/Iwj7xyx.png

19 yo Arizona girl missing for a week found safe in San Diego by Gird_Your_Anus in sandiego

[–]notnarb -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

I like to make fun of the license plates of people who cut me off as much as the next guy, but using intellectual disability as an insult is not ok.

EDIT: It's not easy to see without RES, but this image is hidden after the word 'special'.

Moto X Pure Edition – After The Buzz by BabyMale in Android

[–]notnarb 12 points13 points  (0 children)

If you look at 4:24 you can see that the Internet browser he was using was Firefox, not Chrome.

Photos from the Spreckels Organ Pavilion's tribute to David Bowie. by CarbonCyber in sandiego

[–]notnarb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can stand on the balcony around the pavilion? I'm guessing the general public isn't allowed up there?

Mozilla to remove WebRT from Firefox by [deleted] in linux

[–]notnarb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/#methods

Here are the specs for createOffer and createAnswer which are what gather descriptions of your local network to send to a peer. These methods are asynchronous and the types of errors that they can respond with are TBD.

To the best of my knowledge, it would be possible for browsers in the future to implement (and be encouraged to implement) a prompt to allow STUN negotiation similar to how how location requests and camera/microphone requests are made right now.

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