I’m split on this. On one hand, I don’t want to be tracked, but know I am anyways. On the other hand, bringing awareness to these problems is important.
One reason companies get away with horrible invasions or privacy is they limit those privileged to access it. Opening up a system to show how invasive it is could be a good thing. Big tech has become the juggernaut it is by operating in the shadows as much as possible.
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I didn’t see the /s
Seen these. Pretty creepy but some folks don’t mind.
But you said Amazon has access to my fingerprints? Got proof?
Since you can’t use GPU for rendering or recording, a faster CPU couldn’t hurt and is probably your best bet, but it isn’t really thaaaat old. (There being no other hardware bottlenecks of course)
There are, cough cough I think, ways to decrypt and record HDCP protected streams but I’d imagine you’d have to have a render unit and recording unit in your setup. Sort of complicated.
Ah bummer. That’s most of my software tricks. I’d break out my hardware equipment next step, but that’s pricy.
That PC should be able to play a stream just fine. I’d check if there background apps hogging resources and make sure hardware acceleration is active. Scale the resolution down (no point of upscaling 1080p content) and record to a lower resource intensive format, perhaps h.264 vs h 265/HEVC.
I feel like all of us are picturing the same exact shop owner right now, never having met them.
Oh, the stories they can tell.
Edit: Whoa, saw the X post pics. Was not far off! Ha!
I use smokeping just for fun. It doesn’t measure throughput, just latency, but they are loosely linked.
I have a cheap ZigBee thermostat and some automations to control temp. Works ok, but I’m trying to smarten it up a bit in the next few weeks.
Those emails have warned me something was pooched in advance many times. I do find them useful.
Sad to see them go, but nice they mention an alternative.
Credit where due, it is just my best guess. I have no evidence.
I simply think if you have custom code on a machine to ingest data, creating a federation interface may be more suitable and stable in the long run than a scraper. The extra server load may draw attention or run amuck with security policies designed to obscure scrapers.
But that is certainly an option.
Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn’t easy, but at least make them work for it.
Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.
We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it’s highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.
Actually… I’ve heard chocolate releases oxytocin so no, don’t eat healthy!
I’ll chip in too.
Wait, what?
So you take a pic, it’s analysed, the analysis is encrypted, encrypted data is sent to a server that can deconstruct encrypted data to match known elements in a database, and return a result, encrypted, back to you?
Doesn’t this sort of bypass the whole point of encryption in the first place?
Edit: Wow! Thanks everyone for the responses. I’ve found a new rabbit hole to explore!
There are some really efficient systems out there, but power requirements depend a lot on what is run.
A simple website is very different that a photo gallery running content ID for example.
Should I worry?
I’ve had this stuff in logs since the late 90’s. It was concerning at first, but port scanning and scripts are the internet’s background static now.
Is this normal internet behaviour?
Yup. Welcome to self hosting!
Should I expect even worse kinds of attacks?
Not that it will happen, but good security expects attacks. I like to say “Obscurity is not security.”
What can I do to improve security on my website and try to block these kinds of requests/attacks?
As these scrips are targeting code you don’t run, they can be ignored relatively safely.
You can take a couple steps to lock things down like not responding to ping on WAN (less enticing to port scanning) locking down firewall settings, geolocation blocking, authentication, etc.
That said, if the script changed to something you DO host, you may be in for a bad day. Good to stay on top of security patches in that case.
You can use an expansion unit DX517 to add more dives or upgrade existing to larger ones if you use some form of Raid/SHR.
The swap-drive-and-rebuild-array route can take it’s sweet time.
I have 10Gbit and hunted that whale. But I didn’t build my own router. Electricity is $0.51 Kw/h. Ouch.
First, 10Gbit hardware is more available now than years ago, so you have more options. I started off with the router my ISP gave me. It worked, but it was 1Gbit. Not going to do for me. Plus, basic function was paywalled. Booooo! Snagged a broken Asus router and got it working great.
With IDS/IPS enabled, I get about 3.5Gbps. There is newer router tech today that looks interesting with fewer bottlenecks that would have been nice years ago, but not worth the upgrade right now.
My desktop hits about 2Gbps downloading Steam games/updates, but my partners desktop lags behind with SATA SSD storage. Definitely need NVME with that speed.
I will say my experience with 10Gbit Ethernet cards is not positive. I have a lot of intermittent disconnections and there are a lot of bugs vs 1Gbit switches. They do not like sharing with 2.5Gbit devices. I keep my server on 1Gbit connections. It’s plenty fast for my needs though.
Watched as much as I could stand. Man, does he draaaaag on.
Mars had a DB breach, 2.7 billion accounts, only for IOT devices.
Conflicting data: phone app doesn’t collect user data, but lo and behold, data collected anyway. Possibly direct from IOT devices.
SSID/pass screenshotted but official response said that was on separate server not involved.
Meh, don’t trust IOT, guys. Keep that crap on a vlan or second wifi. Man, this vid was painful to watch.