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- on New York sues prediction market Polymarket, calling it an unlicensed gambling operation in c/technology@beehaw.org · 1h ago
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on Home server on old android phones? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
I’ve already got solar panels on my roof. Originally they fully covered our usage, but my wife and I have two EVs now (a BMW iX and an i4) and charge them at home, so we’re back to having to pay the electricity company.
I’ve got 1:1 net metering (grandfathered into an old plan) so don’t need batteries.
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on Home server on old android phones? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Makes sense! 30W is great for your system. My home server has an older 10Gbps NIC that uses an Aquantia AQC107 chip, which has poor support for ASPM and prevents the CPU from entering lower C states. I’ve been considering swapping it out for something newer (like an AQC113), I just need to work out whether it’s actually worth it.
Mine used to cost $0 in electricity since I’ve got solar panels, but we’ve got two EVs now (my wife has a BMW iX and I’ve got an i4) so we’re back to having to pay the electricity company again.
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on Home server on old android phones? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Creating a cluster could help me self host more websites I create as I want to move away from using hosting services
Just jeep an eye on electricity prices. This is probably not an issue with a phone server, but for me, hosting at home with a decent server PC costs more per month just in electricity compared to using a cheap VPS. Continuous draw of 50W 24/7 is ~37kWh per month which can cost $15 or more in California.
I do still host some things at home, but all my sites are on VPSes. The enterprise hardware and fast, data center grade internet connection is worth it for me. Some of my VPSes are only $40/year.
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on Home server on old android phones? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
A friend is running Linux, Nginx, Hermes Agent, and a few other things on her old phone. Definitely doable! It’s a decent idea - very small form factor, phones have pretty powerful CPUs, and a lot of people have an old phone they’re not doing anything with.
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on Home server on old android phones? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 3d ago
I’m not sure about the Note, but the Samsung Galaxy S series phones have an option to limit charging to 85%.
Cycling the battery is a good idea too though. I used to do that with a wall mounted tablet and a smart plug, until I swapped it for a Lenovo tablet that has this as a built-in feature
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
It depends on what you set your swappiness to, too. I think Linux distros still have pretty aggressive defaults that swap more than they probably need to.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Yeah I shut down every day. It boots up fast enough that it’s really not an issue.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Even without hibernation, data in apps you have open will end up in the swap if your system is ever RAM-constrained.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
It’s not as bad with LVM since LVM is more flexible. A swap file does still make it easier to change the size as needed though. If you need more swap, you can spin up a new swap file pretty much instantly while the system is running, without having to repartition. You can have both a swap partition and a swap file active at the same time though.
On systems where the data is encrypted, also encrypting the swap makes sense so I’m glad Debian does that.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
I don’t use hibernation so I’m not sure.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
I’ve seen so many setups where people encrypt their data but forget to encrypt their swap.
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on Stop Doing Swap Partitions in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 12 Sep 2026
People still use swap partitions instead of swap files?
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Definitely true. The Pi 5 is especially powerful compared to older versions, but it can get kinda expensive once you add things you’d want for a server, like a case, SSD hat, etc.
Ex-office mini and small form factor PCs (Lenovo Tiny/ThinkCentre, HP ProDesk/EliteDesk, Dell Optiplex, etc) can be a better deal than a Pi. In the US at least, you can often find 9th or 10th gen Core i5 systems for less than $150 on eBay. Works great as a server.
A lot of companies have a 3-4 year refresh cycle, after which the hardware is fully depreciated (essentially meaning its value to the company is $0) and they have e-waste companies collect them. The e-waste recyclers test them, refurbish the ones that still work, and list them on marketplaces like eBay.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I forgot to mention - stay far away from SSDNodes. Their prices look good, but they massively oversell their RAM. They use ballooning (
virtio_balloon) to overallocate RAM, and require you to use their customized Linux distro images that have it enabled. Ballooning means that they take unused RAM from your VM and lend it to other VMs to use. If you try to use all your RAM, they shut down your VPS.GreenCloud, HostHatch, and RackNerd all let you install whatever OS you want, by mounting an ISO, connecting to the VPS via VNC, and going through the normal setup process just like you would on a regular computer. They do have pre-built images, but I always prefer to install from my own ISO so I know that the installation doesn’t have any non-standard modifications.
Thankfully, most VPS providers don’t oversell RAM or disk space.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
My guess would be renting a dedicated server, or a home server. It can end up cheaper than colo.
self host?
Hosting at home, renting a dedicated server, or colocating are all considered self-hosting.
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
They’re reliable, but overpriced for what you get, especially after the Akamai acquisition. Akamai are not known for affordability :)
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on DigitalOcean contributes 3 million and joins the Omacom (Omarchy) Foundation in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
I use GreenCloudVPS for a bunch of things. They used to have VPSes starting at $15/year for 2GB RAM and 20GB disk, but their current budget deals are still good (starts at $25/year for 4GB RAM and 35GB disk). These are on older hardware (mostly AMD EPYC Rome Zen 2 systems, ~5 years old) which is why they haven’t been affected by increased RAM and storage prices yet. greencloudvps.com/billing/store/budget-kvm-sale
They also have “premium” plans which are newer (AMD EPYC Milan Zen 3 or Genoa Zen 4, and PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage in RAID10): greencloudvps.com/billing/store/premium-kvm-sale
HostHatch is good too. Their regular pricing aims to compete with Hetzner, but in 13 locations worldwide. hosthatch.com/products. They do sometimes have sales on LowEndTalk with pricing similar to GreenCloud’s “premium” plans.
RackNerd sometimes have good deals, although they’ve discontined quite a few of them recently. You can use racknerdtracker.com to see currently active deals. I still see a 2GB RAM + 35GB storage deal for $35/year for example.
I suspect all the very cheap ones (<$50/year) will eventually increase pricing. GreenCloud and HostHatch own all their hardware. Right now they use older hardware that’s already reached break-even, but all hardware needs to be replaced eventually, and the replacement cost for things like enterprise SSDs is a lot higher than it was in the past.
If you want to stick to big names, OVHcloud and Hetzner both have pretty good VPS pricing. OVH runs theirs on very old hardware like Haswell (2014/2015 era) Xeon E5 CPUs which is the main reason why they have cheaper pricing that Hetzner.
There’s also AWS Lightsail that’s essentially Amazon’s version of a VPS. Storage and data transfer are included in the monthly price, unlike EC2 where it costs extra. I’d only use it if you like AWS or want the comfort of using a very big company though - performance is notably worse than a provider like GreenCloudVPS or Hetzner.
I’m not affiliated with any of these companies. This is just my personal experience :)
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on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
I wish more modern TPUs were available for purchase. Google’s TPU v8i is very powerful, but you can only rent it via Google Cloud. (that and they’re most useful in big clusters, and the pricing for such a cluster is definitely out of reach for anyone that’s not running their own data center)
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on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 9 Sep 2026
For small options, there’s mini PCs with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, and the Nvidia DGX. Their memory bandwidth is quite low compared to a GPU though, so expect slower performance.
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on Any external NPU that can be hooked to a proxmox miniPC? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026
Do you want to run TensorFlow Lite / LiteRT models? PyTorch Mobile? TensorRT? onnx? YOLO? vLLM? Something else? The recommendations will vary based on your use case.
Google Coral was decent for TensorFlow Lite, but it’s EOL (end of life) now. I’ve got the dual TPU Mini PCIe version in my home server, via a PCIe adapter board. I use it for object detection with Blue Iris + CodeProject AI and it works pretty well for that use case.
Hailo-8 is supposed to be like a more powerful version of the Coral, but I don’t have experience with it. It supports a bunch of frameworks: TensorFlow, TensorFlow Lite, Keras, PyTorch and ONNX. I’d be interested in hearing other people’s thoughts on it.
I don’t know if any of these work over USB though. They’re usually internal devices. Google marketed the Coral USB as being for development and testing only, pointing people to the M.2 and PCIe versions for production usage.
As for something totally different… There’s the Nvidia Jetson single board computer which supports TensorRT, but I don’t have experience with it either. I also think it’s a bit older too. You could also consider getting a newer mini PC with a AMD Ryzen AI processor in it, or an Nvidia DGX Spark.
Google’s latest TPUs are only available in their cloud - they’re not selling the hardware to end users any more.
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on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6 Sep 2026
They should have to get a warrant, because of the fourth amendment.
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on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6 Sep 2026
I agree. I don’t like that a private company is involved, at all. Companies should just supply the hardware, and not have full access to the system.
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on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026
the alternatives do not include a nationwide search as part of their features
Yeah I think people would feel much better if the cameras were operated by the local police department, and they were the only ones that had access to it.
ALPR (automatic license plate recognition) cameras have been around for a long time, but it previously wasn’t an issue because access to the data was restricted. Same with security CCTV cameras. Other jurisdictions had to subpoena the data rather than being able to instantly access everything.
Flock’s cameras are much more than ALPR though. They make a profile of every car they see, and can track cars even if they don’t have license plates based on identifying features (dents, big scratches, bumper stickers, etc).
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Interesting. I’ll take a closer look and read the article you linked to. I haven’t used Kagi much, but I did try the trial and their search results are definitely better than Google.
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Their mission has always been about making the web better for humans, though. Their AI stuff is all opt-in and they have a decent philosophy about it: help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/ai-philosophy.html
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on The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026
Kagi are trying to do something similar with their smallweb project, where they’re building a list of personal sites/blogs. These types of sites usually don’t rank highly in search engines, but Kagi does rank them above other results since they’re almost always better than the SEO slop that ranks highly in other search engines.
They have a site to randomly browse them too, kinda like StumbleUpon if you ever used that. kagi.com/smallweb/
The list is in this repo: github.com/kagisearch/smallweb
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on Push for import ban on 'pervert' smart glasses amid privacy concerns in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Meanwhile there’s rumours of Apple working on airpods with built-in cameras 👀
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on You wouldn't download furniture in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
Now that’s a throwback. I remember the migration from ipchains to iptables taking forever, kinda like the migration to nftables now.
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on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
In my area, they removed the data caps last year, when they also rolled out the higher upload speeds (eg the gigabit plan now has 350Mbps upload speed instead of 25Mbps). I don’t think they’ve rolled that out everywhere though.
They also have a habit of keeping people on old plans that are either slower or more expensive. If you’re still using Comcast/Xfinity, check their site and see what they offer to new customers at your address. (you may need to use an internet connection other than your Comcast one, otherwise they may detect that you’re an existing customer)
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on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Their pricing can differ by region. Not every region got the data caps back when they rolled them out.
It also depends on competition - if there’s a lot of competition in your area, Comcast will have better deals compared to if you live somewhere where Comcast is the only option.
I used to live in an apartment that had an exclusivity deal with Comcast (residents were only allowed to use Comcast for internet service). Now I live somewhere in the same county where there’s three different fiber providers in addition to Comcast, and their prices here are noticeably cheaper vs the old apartment.
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on Comcast turns your Xfinity WiFi into a home motion detector in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
They used to charge you more for unlimited data if you didn’t use their modem. Renting their modem plus getting unlimited data was $30/month, but just getting unlimited data with your own modem was $50/month.
Not relevant any more though, as (at least in my area) they completely removed the data caps.
I’m so glad I have a local ISP that provides 10Gbps for cheaper than Comcast’s 1Gbps.
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on GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers — daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
rcrypt can handle encryption transparently: rclone.org/crypt/. You can use
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on Ken Thompson Hack 2.0 in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
At work, I use AI for some things. Right now I’m rewriting some legacy spaghetti code that’s had a bunch of things hacked into it over the years. I spoke to the person most familiar with the expected behaviour and used AI to combine his info plus the existing code and unit/integration tests into a list of requirements.
I wrote the new code and tests based on the requirements rather than based on the old code. After each commit, I used AI to check for parity between the old and new code, and it keeps a Google Sheet up to date with the progress (which features were fully implemented, and which ones were missing or had gaps). I had AI write some tests cases too - given the list of requirements, write integration tests for them based on the style of a few tests I wrote by hand.
It has some quirks (eg for tests it loves over-mocking even though our skills tell it to mock as little as possible) but it definitely speeds things up.
I use AI for small side projects at work too. Tweaking and adding features I want to shared libraries, internal tools to help our team debug stuff and automate triaging of bug reports (they’re all still reviewed by a human), etc.
The entire reason I can trust its code is because I can read it and tweak it myself. I sometimes need to go through a few iterations to get AI code into an acceptable state. AI writing machine code directly, like what’s been talked about recently and what this post is referencing, is such a dumb idea.
There’s other people at work that use AI for absolutely everything. Writing code, reading code, writing posts in our internal groups, etc. That’s something I don’t understand. Some people that are all-in on AI produce so much low-quality AI slop.
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on Meta's $1.4 Trillion Reckoning: Can Infinite Scroll Be Illegal? - Gadget Review in c/technology@lemmy.world · 22 Aug 2026
Infinite scroll is used in so many UIs that I can’t imagine it being wholly banned.
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on As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings | Ars looks at Zuckoff, the latest free app detecting Meta AI glasses amid privacy backlash. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
I’d like to see that too, but R&D costs for a product like this are enormous so I doubt it’d happen any time soon.
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on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore in c/technology@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026
My wife upgraded from a Samsung S21 Ultra to an S25 Ultra but uses it mostly same way.
The one new feature I have seen her use is the AI person/object removal in the gallery. Samsung’s AI tools can run entirely on-device, which is nice (avoids sending the photos to the cloud and using an AI data center for the processing). I tried them while in airplane mode to confirm they do indeed work with no internet connection.
She upgraded because the old one had a pretty scratched screen (we installed a screen protector on the new one!) and the battery wasn’t lasting long any more. The official repair store that Samsung use in the US, UBreakIFix, don’t stock S21 batteries any more, and I didn’t trust myself enough to replace it myself.
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on There's No Reason to Buy a New Phone Anymore in c/technology@beehaw.org · 20 Aug 2026
I really hope some phones are released with support for MicroSD Express.
One of the practical reasons companies started removing MicroSD slots is because SD cards were far slower than the internal storage, and installing apps onto them could make everything laggier. That’s mostly solved with MicroSD Express which is up to 9x faster than the legacy MicroSD standard.
Of course, there’s also the financial aspect, which the manufacturers love. If you can’t insert an SD card, you have to pay the manufacturer for more storage.
Here’s hoping the EU mandates that phones need to support removable storage.
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on Never seen it this bad in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
The title of the page I linked to is “Websites using Cloudflare in the Top 100k Sites by Traffic” so I think my interpretation was correct.
Also, one domain can use multiple CDNs (eg one subdomain uses Cloudflare while another uses Bunny) so I’m not sure how their percentages work.
I’m also not sure how they count sites that use Cloudflare but not the CDN product (for example, if they disable caching and only use the WAF). That looks identical from a client side so there’s probably no way to tell.
Maybe I shouldn’t trust their data.
AWS(just 8% seems sus),
The chart wouldn’t be showing all of AWS, just Cloudfront (their CDN). There’s plenty of services that use AWS EC2 or Lightsail but front it with Cloudflare.
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on Never seen it this bad in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
If you’re considering hosting Github Enterprise on-prem then it might be worth considering Forgejo too. It’s the system that powers Codeberg.
Codeberg doesn’t allow proprietary code, only open-source. You’d have to self-host Forgejo if you want to use it for private projects.
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on Never seen it this bad in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 18 Aug 2026
Something like 40% of the top 100k sites use Cloudflare. Builtwith says 44%: trends.builtwith.com/…/High-Traffic-Volume
The pricing on their paid plans is very competitive. For small to medium sites, it’s orders of magnitude cheaper than Akamai. The WAF and DDoS protection is pretty good too.
The largest sites like Google, Facebook, Netflix, etc have their own CDNs, including servers they provide to large ISPs for free since it significantly reduces upstream bandwidth usage (Netflix call this Open Connect; Meta’s is Facebook/Meta Network Appliance). Outside of the largest sites, you’d be surprised how many companies rely on Cloudflare. It’s kinda scary.
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16 Aug 2026
I still don’t understand your point. With a firewall on the router, there’s no difference between IPv4 and IPv6. Both are firewalled at the router. Where are the “bugs and vulns”?
If you mean my original point of the firewall not being enabled by default, I haven’t seen that recently. It was a problem historically.
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
I don’t trust the prebuilt images that providers provide so I like installing from my own ISO.
cloud-init is useful sometimes, but I recently had an issue with Alpine’s alternative implementation (tiny-init) where it was setting a root password I didn’t know. It was pulling it from some sort of metadata, but there was nowhere in my provider’s control panel to set the default root password. Alpine also doesn’t have any documentation about how to disable tiny-init, so I had to read the code and figure it out myself (create a file called
/etc/tiny-cloud.disabledbeforeinitruns).cloud-init also can’t configure LUKS encryption. I know its usefulness is limited on a VM (since the provider can snapshot the memory and retrieve the encryption key that way), but it’s still useful when the VM isn’t running or if you stop using that provider to ensure they can’t recover the data, and it’s required in some cases (eg Plaid required me to certify that all data is encrypted at-rest before they gave me access to their API)
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
Having a default firewall is also a blessing, which all good routers should do. NAT is a curse.
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
The firewall is on the router.
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
The underlying protocol (RFB) is very simple to implement, and in fact some friends and I implemented both a VNC client and server as part of a project we worked on at university nearly 20 years ago.
Because of this, it’s common to find it in various places, especially for interacting with systems that don’t have an OS installed yet:
Most good VPS providers provide VNC access so you can set up your own OS from an ISO, use Clonezilla to clone the drive over the network, recover files if the drive gets corrupted somehow, etc. It’s a built-in feature of KVM/libvirt that the providers usually expose using something like NoVNC in their control panel. The common off-the-shelf control panels (Virtualizor, SolusVM, Virtfusion, Proxmox, etc) all have it as a standard feature.
A lot of IPMI/BMC and KVM-over-IP systems use VNC too, for a similar purpose, just for physical hardware rather than VMs. The protocol being very simple makes it easy to build a simple version into an embedded system. This is also usually accessed via NoVNC in a web UI.
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on Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026
One of the ways it can happen is if a router doesn’t have a proper IPv6 firewall.
The majority of internet users in the USA have IPv6 connectivity - something like 55-60% overall, and close to 100% on some networks. T-Mobile’s network is 100% IPv6-only, using 464XLAT for connectivity to legacy IPv4-only servers. Most Comcast customers have IPv6 too, as they were the first major ISP to roll out IPv6, close to 15 years ago now.
Without an IPv6 firewall on the router, all devices on your network are directly accessible from the outside world (unless they’re running their own firewall, of course). At least Windows ships with a firewall enabled by default, which reduces the impact for Windows users.
I’ve seen this in places you wouldn’t expect it, too. TP-Link’s prosumer/SMB 10Gbps router (Omada ER8411) didn’t have an IPv6 firewall until about a year after launch. I had to disable IPv6 until then. They did add it, but I’ve since switched to a Unifi Cloud Gateway Fiber.
Thankfully I haven’t seen it recently, so maybe it’s not an issue any more on modern hardware.
NAT is a hack, not a security feature, and IPv6 removes the need for it. The firewall is the security feature. (edit: the firewall on the router)
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Aug 2026
I think people will eventually have to get used to paying for things though, if bots / AI / ad blockers kill off the feasibility of online advertising. Either that or everything becoming a freemium service with major limits for free users.
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
It’s the same way that taxes work. Rich people contribute more than poorer people, but everyone can use things funded by public money (parks, police, fire fighters, public transport, schools, health care outside the USA, etc).
I actually wonder if there should be more taxpayer-funded online services. Lemmy’s development was partially funded by government money (NLNet Foundation via the European Commission) for example.
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on Cloudflare says humans could become a "rounding error" as bots generate 1,000 times more internet traffic in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
I’ve tried that before, but barely anyone donates. People expect the world for free.
I thought Polymarket was still illegal in the USA, but it turns out they launched a new, US-specific version by acquiring an existing CTFC-licensed firm and focusing mostly on sports betting. Their main business is still illegal in the US.