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  • Yeah, because it works? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

    Today I fixed a carrier’s router by simply rebooting it, something was messed up with port forwarding, everything looked good on the webui, but it didn’t worked correctly. Reboot, bam, works.

    As more things become “smart” (for the better or worse) and filled with microprocessors, it will become more common. Also it’s not just digital I remember some analog things could be helped by a reboot, the extra surge after a switch on can help some electrical components, waiting for capacitors to loose current can help.

    And electric toothbrushes are much older, the first patent was filed in 1937. 40 years ago it was 1985, cordless electric toothbrushes are with us since 1960s…

    And 40 years ago we couldn’t chat about an article with people on the other side of the planet, so I don’t really understand the comparison. Yes, Mr. Chen you are becoming older, as everyone else, wow, nice observation… The common workflows to fix your medieval daily things back in the day were different, obviously, we have different workflows now. I guess you couldn’t help your great-grandparent troubleshoot an issue with the gadgets of their time.

    An actual problem is in the last sentence of the blog post, and nor the author of the article, nor Mr. Chen thinks of this as a much more bigger problem:

    Oh, by the way, my attempts to reboot the electric toothbrush were unsuccessful. I had to replace it.

    That shouldn’t be a solution. ONLY AFTER RESTARTING SOME TIME? No other ways were tried to fix it? Did he tried too take it apart an look for some clear problems? You should be able to fix it. Maybe just the battery died? or if the battery is alright, you can reuse that in your next toothbrush. I would restart a thing a million times instead of throwing it out. They are yelling at the wrong thing, and ignore the elephant.










  • And with SS7 they can get even more precise location, and you can’t really hide from that if you want to use a phone with a phone number, what is the point. This is an interesting way of attack, noone really thought about this before, but it’s not “oh-my-god everyone can be tracked via signal”. I guess the closest server doesn’t even selected via geographical distance, but much more depends on network infrastructure of your location, so Google Maps API can’t really help here.

    And again any VPN could defend against this, so if you want to hide which country you are in currently, it should be the 0th step to use a VPN.


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    16 days ago

    Was posted yesterday to a lot of communities, it’s very clickbait:

    allows an attacker to grab the location of any target within a 250 mile radius

    So it’s a bit rough… In Europe it means basically which country the target is in. Also cloudflare servers are not evenly distributed in the world, so resolution can differ wildly worldwide.

    With a vulnerable app installed on a target’s phone

    So it’s not really zero click.

    Sounds interesting though, nice writeup, but not as scary as it sounds from the title.





  • My offline android music workflow:

    • Server: Navidrome but any music server supporting Subsonic API would work here. Navidrome has a nice UI, and reads MusicBrainz IDs, and can scrobble to ListenBrainz, that’s why I settled with this.
    • Mobile app: Ultrasonic, on Fdroid. There are a lot of ways you can set up caching. I set up that it should automatically download everything from my “Now playing” playlist, at home on wifi I just add a bunch of albums and playlists to the “Now playing” list, it takes a while but it transcodes and downloads everything in a couple of minutes. It has very good Android Auto support, and a widget. Due to an annoying bug I had to downgrade to version 4.7.1, but otherwise I love it.