CameronDev

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CameronDev, (edited )

Not the person you asked, but i have a mitsubishi electric heatpump, which i have hooked up to homeassistant via an esphome library. It has a header on the controller board that you can connect to.

Normally the header is for their $200 controller and app, i spent $10 on the parts.

github.com/geoffdavis/esphome-mitsubishiheatpump

I think i better start mirroring the repo…

CameronDev,

Some of them used to contain bog standard DSLRs, so they were worth stealing.

VPN to home network options

I currently have a server running Unraid as the OS, which has some WireGuard integration built in. Which I’ve enabled and been using to remotely access services hosted on that server. But as I’ve expanded to include things like Octopi running on a Pi3 and NextcloudPi running on a Pi4 (along with AdGuardHome), I’m trying to...

CameronDev,

I run a wireguard vpn into my home, and i can access my local services. It was a small matter of setting up routing properly.

I am using www.firezone.dev to set it up and manage it, but i believe it can be done manually if desired.

Can I pre-install Ubuntu on an SSD?

Ths might be a silly question, but asking those is how i learn sometimes. I’m trying to install my first Linux distro to set up a Plex server and one of the few things I know is you need a wired internet connection. My intended server location is across the house from my router, and there isnt much room there to set up...

CameronDev,

Since when do you need a wired internet connection? You need it to get updates, but it should install offline just fine. Just use the dvd installer?

CameronDev,

I was under the impression the latest “firefox” package was a kind of “meta” package that caused the snap to get installed instead.

Certainly seems that way according to: packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=firefox

Note that 22.04 is described as a transitional package to snap.

Apt does use debian packages (.deb files), but on ubuntu it uses ubuntus repositories.

CameronDev,

Correct me if I am wrong, but apt-get install firefox installs the snap version unless you go out of your way to fix that?

CameronDev,

Buy another NAS and run it at a mates house? Ig your house burns down hopefully theirs is fine?

Installies, a site for managing, organizing, and retrieving shell scripts for installing things on Linux and Unix-based operating systems. (installies.org)

Hi, for the past few months I have been working on my website Installies. It is a site for managing, organizing, and retrieving shell scripts for use to install, remove, update or compile apps on Linux and Unix-based systems....

CameronDev,

You have probably invested a lot of time and effort into this, so please take this as constructive criticism.

Your security systems are probably not going to be sufficient, for a whole number of reasons.

Script Voting

The general public is not able to appropriately audit shell scripts. This extends even to sysadmins and more technical people. The people who can properly audit scripts are a minority, and they may not even be amongst your user base. Anyone who gets a script that “does its job” is going to upvote it as fine, because they may not even be aware of its malicious side effects.

Scripts will naturally need to evolve over time, so script updates will be a normal part of your system. Will the votes reset for new versions? Is there anything stopping someone uploading farming votes with valid scripts, and then backdoor the script once it gets sufficiently popular?

Is there any form of vote manipulation prevention planned? If not, bad actors can create an army of accounts and upvote their malicious content. Can you remove a users votes if they are found to be acting maliciously? Will it even be possible for you to tell the difference between a naive user who doesn’t understand the maliciousness of the script, versus an account actively increasing the rating of a bad package?

User Reputation

This seems easy to game as well. Upload a host of valid scripts, gain reputation, and then when ready, upload malicious scripts.

Collaboration

Allowing non-maintainers to edit and upload scripts seems like a wildly bad idea. There must be some level of maintainer approval for that right? Still will have the same issues, easy for someone to build trust on a script repo and then exploit it when it suits them.

None of these issues are unique to your site, pypi, dockerhub etc have all hit these issues in the past.

I think the only real answer is to have very strong human moderation, but I fear that if your site takes off, the workload will rapidly spiral out of control. Otherwise, interesting idea, Good Luck!

CameronDev,

Have you considered some form of CI? I.e: Spin up a VM, run the script, reboot, report what changed? Might be a little expensive, but could help auditing?

CameronDev,

Yup, there is a lot of prior art on how to get this wrong :(, and I dont know of any good solutions either. Curation and moderation are probably the best case, but arent bulletproof either.

I raised this not to kill OPs project, but to make sure they go into it eyes open. I personally would be very uncomfortable if my website was being abused to distribute malware, so they deserve to at least be aware of the risks.

CameronDev,

I’m of the opinion that computer textbooks are out of date the second they are published. That one was published in 2017, so 6 years ago, which is an eternity. It might have some generally useful advice, but in terms of resources, google and online wikis are going to be more up to date (still probably outdated, but less so, and free).

CameronDev,

Do you have a cat. If its not ghosts it could be a cat.

CameronDev,

Probably not normal. And a bit sus?

CameronDev,

Yup, for sure, but while a nation state can risk exploitting a zero day to turn on your microphone, an ad tech company certainly can’t. As soon as it get patched they’d be ruined.

CameronDev,

Oh, absolutely. Google/apple/MS definitely could do this. But some no-name company? Not really.

CameronDev,

Almost every OS nowadays has some form of microphone detection right? So if this was on, you would be aware of it? And to jump ahead, even google is incentivised to prevent this company listening in, as they are direct competitor.

I wonder if this company is just trying to fleece advertisers with a made up tech? The “Claim your exclusive territory before your competitor” feels like the high pressure tactics that other scams use?

I might go disable the microphone in my TV remote anyway :/

CameronDev,

I routinely 100% my root volume accidentally (thanks docker), but my machine has never crashed, it does tend to cause other issues though. Does having a full /usr, /var or /tmp not cause other issues, if not full crashes?

CameronDev,

Getting the size wrong and needing to resize is the effort part for me. Resizing/moving my partitions is always a pain.

CameronDev,

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment, and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me. Again, sorry for any offence caused, it was not intentional.

CameronDev,

Maybe Terry Davis was the real world Wonko the Sane?

CameronDev,

Goes back further than that, Turing was gay, so anything building off his works must also be transitively gay.

To add to the modern examples, Reiser murdered his wife, which really puts “devil cunts” into perspective :D

CameronDev,

The original post called it a mental illness, i was following that. Apologies if I caused offence it was not intended.

CameronDev,

The original post referred to it as a mental illness, and claimed that was a reason to ignore their contribution. I was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic. I dont think its a mental illness, amd I have absolutely no problem with the trans community.

CameronDev, (edited )

Lol, if we start excluding tech based on the inventors mental illnesses we are gonna end up bashing rocks together to make fire.

Edit: To be clear, I am not saying that being trans is a mental illness, only refuting that mental illness is not a reason to discard ones contributions. Apologies for any offence.

CameronDev,

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I was under the impression that warrent canaries were a broken concept. Anyone with the power to submit a warrant to a company also has the ability to prevent the company from triggering their canary.

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