Buelldozer
@Buelldozer@lemmy.today
- Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 1 month ago:
Which would mean that every single StarLink system in Ukraine would have to be registered with the Government, even the ones owned by private citizens.
- Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 1 month ago:
It’s really not all that difficult from a technical perspective.
I’ll go ahead and reply to you, @BurningRiver@beehaw.org and @School_Lunch@lemmy.world at the same time since you all three had the same idea.
All that Ukraine or Starlink would need to do is keep track of the MACs in use, blacklisting those which have been lost or destroyed.
A whitelist of authorized MAC addresses is easy from a “technical” prospective. It would simply be a looong list of 24 bit addresses but you are ignoring the massive challenge of managing that list.
Making this work would require the Ukrainian Government to setup an official StarLink registration process for every StarLink system in the country, including the ones that are privately owned. Then once a SL system was registered with the Government SL would have to setup a whole separate system to process those registrations.
Now you also need the opposite. Every time that a registered system shouldn’t be used because it was destroyed or someone stopped paying their bill the Ukrainian Government would have to process that and send it StarLink to have it de-authorized.
So no it’s not at all difficult from a “technical” perspective but doing this would require stomping privacy rights into a mudhole and without perfect execution across a warzone the size of a nation it will do little to nothing to solve the problem.
If this was a practical solution Ukraine would have already requested that StarLink make it happen. The fact that the really smart people in Ukraine haven’t asked for this means that they’ve already dismissed the idea as unpalatable, unworkable or both.
- Comment on Starlink dishes found on Russian military drones after being shot down 1 month ago:
It’s nearly impossible for Starlink to stop this from happening while still allowing the capability for Ukraine to do it. If Russia obtains SL systems through intermediaries and then uses them over Ukrainian territory there’s realistically no way for SL to know whether it’s Russia or Ukraine using the service.
- Comment on Proton 9.0-2 brings better controller support in launchers, more playable games, lots of bug fixes 5 months ago:
I got the latest version to work on Linux Mint but don’t ask me how because I can’t tell you.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t expect HDMI 3 given the HDMI group are openly hostile to open source implementations of HDMI 2.1.
It just takes a company with sufficient market power, like Valve, to get involved. For example Android had this same problem in the early days, then Google realized that their OS required it for market adoption and found a way to get it done.
I understand that it may not be possible but that doesn’t stop me from wanting it. :)
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I don’t know if there’s any pre-built scripting out there (yet) for this but it’s relatively straight forward in Windows to use powershell and either look in the registry for the assigned dhcp options ( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Dhcp\Parameters\Options\1) or check the routing table and for illogical routes.
Assuming that you aren’t using split tunneling you could also have powershell check your external IP address for the expected result.
Another possibility is to grab the dhcp test tool from Github and have it run in non-interactive mode and parse it’s output. Something I find VERY interesting is that Andrey Baranov specifically added Option 121 to that tool in March of 2023!
With any of those it’s a matter of what you want to have happen when you detect the problem such as warning the user and disconnecting the vpn or attempting to mitigate the problem by reconfiguring the routing table.
I’ll probably be scripting up a remediation over the next few days, I’ll try and remember to come back and share what I did.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I know you are making a funny comment but my Wife would be exceptionally displeased if I did that while she was watching “Outlander”. People who live alone don’t have that concern but for the rest of us a TV and it’s attached streaming box are not single user devices. :)
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
4K, Dolby Vision, and Dolby Atmos to start with. Then it needs an HDMI 3.x port along with support for a regular TV style Remote.
I meant it when I said I would like a “user customizable, privacy respecting Xbox.”, so basically any capability that an Xbox has (aside from Live obviously) is what I’m looking for and why I want Valve to officially bring back Steam Machines.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
What are the missing pieces you’re still looking for?
The addition of JF or Plex, even with a Steam Dock, doesn’t turn a Steam Deck into a user customizable, privacy respecting Xbox.
For starters it needs integrated streaming apps. I don’t WANT to have to use a web browser to access streaming content. Next up those streaming apps need Audio and Video support for 4K resolutions, Dolby Vision / HDR, and Dolby Atmos. My Wife doesn’t want to watch Outlander in 1080p with stereo sound on a 64" 4k television and I don’t want to do it when I’m watching shows on Disney Plus.
How about an HDMI 3.x port? (Steam Dock is only 2.x).
It needs support for a normal tv style remote control. Game controllers are great but I’ve yet to find a half decent one that has volume and mute buttons.
The last time I checked a Steam Deck wouldn’t automatically start in a 10’ interface.
Please understand that I’m not bagging on the Steam Deck with these comments. It’s a damn capable device for mobile gaming but it wasn’t mean to be an HTPC and because of that its never going to function quite right if you try and make it be one.
An Xbox Series X absolutely murders a Steam Deck as an HTPC when used with commercial services but its not user customizable nor privacy respecting. That’s why I want Valve to bring back Steam Machines.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
You have to use your internet-facing programs in a VM in Windows to achieve the same effect
Eh, there’s 20 different ways to detect DHCP Option 121 fuckery and once it’s detected it’s rather trivial to shut down. Any VPN client worth its salt will be updated in 60 days or less to fix this and existing VPN clients can be hardened against TunnelVision with some fairly simple scripting.
It’s a serious vulnerability but it’s hardly the unfixable world ender that the media has made it out to be.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
Home Theater PC.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
What you, @crawancon@lemm.ee and @mipadaitu@lemmy.world are missing is a TV isn’t necessarily a single user item.
Deck hooked to the TV to play a game? Great…now what happens when you leave and someone else wants to play?
The problem gets even more obvious if you use the Deck as an HTPC to stream content. How does anyone watch a show once the deck has gone walkabout?
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 6 months ago:
I’d like the Steam Machine to come back with the addition of being an HTPC because Valve is big enough to arm wrestle streaming services into releasing an official app.
I basically want a user customizable, privacy respecting Xbox.
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 6 months ago:
A MS DOS thin client?
Sure, people have been doing it for years. Here’s a YT walk through for doing it on an HP Thin Client but there’s a whole world of this out there.
I assumed the guy wanted to run DOS natively…
So did I.
But hey, if you have links to new small form factor 386s for under 100 bucks please do share…
Why does it have to be a 386? Why does it have to be new? All that’s really necessary is “DOS Native” and if you head over to ebay and search for “used industrial computer”, you can often find those for around $100.
In fact the YT channel “Cathode Ray Dude” has a series going right now called “Little Guys” where’s he testing a variety of SFF systems, at least some of which are DOS Native.
Honestly my good person, what you’re looking for is out there if you’re willing to be the tiniest bit flexible.
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 6 months ago:
You can buy a used thin client on eBay for $40 that will do the job so no, I DONT understand what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 6 months ago:
I added an edit that brought the cost down to $80. If can deal with 16W of power draw then there’s a variety of old Thin Client for sale on Ebay that can be had for $40!
At that point the materials to build the cabinet would cost more than the computer running it. Get busy!
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 6 months ago:
I don’t understand the “relatively rare and quite expensive” part, can you explain that?
- Comment on Microsoft open sources MS-DOS 4.0 6 months ago:
i would love to have a gaming board for a small Commander Keen cabinet with ultra low power reqs
Huh? You can already get a DOS capable gaming board that uses less power than the display would. If nothing else for $200USD you can get a “Hand 386”, yoink it out of it’s case and put it in the cabinet of your choice.
There’s lots of low power options out there for you! You can start your dream project NOW…there’s no need to wait!