I think what they were talking about is the TV actively scanning for similar models and connecting to those to reach the internet. I’ve read similar articles showing how smart TVs will even connect to an open WiFi network to try to get online.
All this would bypass your LAN restrictions of course.
Especially on a forum-style network dedicated to discussion 🙈
Hard agree, except I do have an issue with the last paragraph in that I think it’s far dumber than you’ve described.
Simply blocking (a shit ton of) domains can really get you 99% of the way there. I’m a web developer and it’s stupid dumb how third-party stuff is hosted. It’s either exactly that (third party hosted) or a CNAME or a third party which is easily blocked.
Look, I know how complex tracking and fingerprinting can be. But from my experience, it’s really not hard to block. Of course, I’m not really speaking to first party tracking where blocking would destroy the entire experience. But for the most part, you can prevent a profile being built about you (at least for tracking and advertising) by blocking with DNS.
If you’re thinking specifically of torrents, then a seedbox or torrents are probably more your speed. I forgot which community I was in for a second.
As far as large files go, I feel you. I have a NAS at home that I share with friends but my residential internet upload speed is slow. What I’ve ended up doing is opening a Storj account and mirroring the NAS to it. Not sure if this is relevant (at all).
Maybe someone else can comment here, but there’s got to be some dead simple web interface you could host where you copy/paste a URL and it downloads it… maybe just wget or curl from the host instance?
I’m no Oracle Cloud expert but I’m wondering how Telegram fits into transferring files.
Is there a reason you’re not using traditional tools like ssh or rsync? You could even use Samba or FTP if you really wanted to (not recommended).
Just trying to understand the problem.
I use primarily DNS blocking myself, but it’s a custom solution that pulls in a ton of blocklists. I get tired of the “just use a browser extension” as the solution for everything, and any time I bring up IP/DNS-based solutions people say “but that doesn’t block everything” as if browser extensions do.
Browser extensions aren’t the answer to preventing tracking (as apps and other processes outside the browser aren’t blocked)
I’ll take that off your hands there buddy
Oh yeah, that makes sense.
Don’t get me wrong, this is cool, but is there some reason not to extract a .zip file locally?
I’ve been using Linux, UNIX for a long time so I don’t know if it’s a Windows thing or what.
Z-Wave. I could never get it working quite right despite purchasing highly recommended Aeotec stuff.
The MultiSensor 7s and door sensors would always report a battery level of 100%, fall off the network, and do other crazy stuff. I spent a year with a Z-Stick 7 before finally bailing a buying a fifth generation stick.
Firmware updates would take weeks because they just wouldn’t install. Constantly factory resetting them never fixed anything either.
I really hate to say it, but Zigbee ended up working much better despite living in a 2.4GHz interference hell hole.
I feel the same, but my anger is scoped to cloud-connected “smart” things.
Like you, I can’t stand my iRobot gear. My Roomba hasn’t updated its map in over a year because it always has “some problems” (probably due to pushing everything to the jank us-east-1 data center).
On the other hand my recent Aqara gear is very nice but it took me time to finally call it quits on Z-Wave beforehand.
What universe do you live in? Liberals are like this? 🤣
An old friend moved across the country to where I’d been living for a few years. About two months later he lost his job due to skipping a shift to go party (small town → big city move).
He then neglected to find another job so when I tried talking to him about it, he got angry then disappeared and drove back to our home state that night.
I could’ve written a Tailscale App Connector to route it through the home connection, but I ended up blocking their domains outright and writing some CSS rules to hide Reddit from SearXNG results. It’s better than that annoying page.
Hell no, I’d whip up vegan breakfast burritos from a block of tofu and soy chorizo (or a complicated fake meat recipe I have) before doing that.
If you’re in Los Angeles, Burgerlords’ breakfast burrito is where it’s at.
I’ve been reporting spam for years (old iCloud email account I can’t destroy was leaked everywhere back in like 2015) and using the websites to report spam seems to have zero effect.
What does seem to work well is reporting to the originating server’s owner, but it’s mostly hit or miss.
If the email happens have suspicious links, reporting to the IP address owner and the registrar the domain is hosted at is usually very successful. I’ve filed simple reports for those and have received a “we took down this host/domain” within minutes several times.
I probably can’t be of much help yet unless for some reason you want to take up programming. I’m just not familiar with web scraping outside programming.
Selenium is a “driver” that controls browsers, you would need some type of software to actually drive it. If you have programming experience it’s pretty easy to get going.
Personally, I use it in Ruby on Rails development for unit testing but I also use it to log in to websites and perform some actions on behalf of a user (where the websites don’t offer an API).
I don’t have experience with the others, but thought my comment may or may not be useful.
Have you missed the other comments? It’s pretty well documented that the TV will either find a similar brand TV to connect to (and reach the internet) or as I’ve read, it’ll find an open WiFi network to do so.