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Observed mentions: 2014-10-02 17:36:47 UTC to 2025-02-06 11:28:31 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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andreasha·Mar 28, 2024
Haven't tried it but sounds like it should, it already have a few shell scripts for some captive portals. "captive portal auto-login hook (configured via uci/LuCI), you are able to reference an external script for captive portal auto-logins (see example below)" https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/travelma... It can also auto join open networks "automatically add open uplinks to your wireless config, e.g. hotel captive portals (disabled by default)"
In Hotel Hotspot Hijinks
westurner·Aug 27, 2023
OpenWRT has a SQM "Smart Queue Management" package and LuCI web UI config that defaults to the CAKE scheduler. SQM is not installed by default. There is an x86 container with OpenWRT that can probably be used with load simulation and additional network interfaces on the container. IIRC I had to figure out how to start procd (~systemd) in the openwrt container myself. /? OpenWRT bufferbloat https://www.google.com/search?q=openwrt+bufferbloat /? automatically optimize bufferbloat https://www.google.com/search?q=automatically%2Boptimize%2Bb... : sqm-autorate/sqm-autorate https://github.com/sqm-autorate/sqm-autorate : > sqm-autorate is a program for OpenWRT that actively manages the CAKE Smart Queue Management (SQM) bandwidth settings through measurments of traffic load and latency. It is designed for variable bandwidth connections such as D
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OCIS/cable and LTE/wireless, and is not so useful for connections that have a stable, fixed bandwidth. speedtest-netperf.sh: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/speedtes... : opkg install speedtest-netperf speedtest-netperf.sh [-4 | -6] [-H netperf-server] [-t duration] [-p host-to-ping] [-n simultaneous-streams ] [-s | -c] You can run the Flent CLI in a Jupyter notebook with a heading for each test location. There are various ways to template Jupyter notebooks; e.g. `cp nbtemplate.ipynb wifitest_yyymmddhhss+z.ipynb`
In MOOC: Reducing Internet Latency: Why and How
ayushnix·Mar 24, 2022
Which is why I installed openssh-server on my OpenWrt hosts. However, due to a bug [0] in openssh-server package in the latest 21.02.2 release of OpenWrt, OpenSSH doesn't allow you to login in failsafe mode on an OpenWrt host. Because my OpenWrt host lacked a recovery mode, it was essentially soft bricked. I was able to recover it using the serial port but even after all this, the comfort of using SSH certificates on all of my nodes was enough to keep making me use it instead of Dropbear. [0]: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/issues/17833
In If you’re not using SSH certificates you’re doing SSH wrong (2019)
1vuio0pswjnm7·Sep 28, 2021
"At this point if you have even the most basic connections (US bank account, home owner, gps, insurance, a car) the more sophisticated tracking methods can still learn about you and reach you with a decent success rate." Lots of younger people do not have all of the above. If everyone had all the above, then the statment would not contain "if", it would be a given. But lets assume every living person can be "learned about" and "reached". That does not necessarily mean every person is worth learning about or reaching. This sounds very much like a person with a heap of surveillance data trying to make it sound valuable. "It's just that most companies are using crap ad tech." As an unwise HN commenter once said, "The market has spoken." :) "... and reach you with a decent success rate." How effective is "decent". Why should I pay for th
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is. No doubt people are working hard trying to improve surveillance and are making progress against users who havent a clue whats going on, nor any interest in getting one. Kudos for the easy victory. Like shooting fish in a barrel. But whats the point in trying to surveil someone like Mr Peguero. Hes not hiding his identity or location, or his preferences (Silicon Valley is garbage). If "adtech" surveillance succeeds against someone blocking Google IPs, then what. Whats the end game. Anyone who is willing to take the time to block Big Tech with a firewall is, IMHO, unlikely to be a very profitable ad target. Advertisers should only care about people who are likely to spend money on their products/services. However people conducting blanket surveillance trying to pitch to advertisers ("adtech"), they are the ones who have an interest in arguing, honestly or dishonestly, that every last "identified" individual is a worthy ad target. If I am an advertiser, I am not going to be particularly interested in trying to advertise online to someone who is running OpenBSD or blocking Google IPs with nftables. Individuals like the OP are proactively saying, "No, thank you." (The OP is actually saying "FU".) Personally I find its quite easy to control/limit/stop data transfer initiated by websites/popular_browsers using a forward proxy. And I can use AI, too. However I think blocking 8.8.8.8 and other Google IPs at the firewall is also good practice, not necessarily to stop ads/tracking by websites but to limit the users resources available to Google. Given their incentives and the fact we as users do not pay them like advertisers do, I think its naive to trust Google's employees will, for example, always honour the system DNS settings. Unrelated but its possible that many OpenWRT users using default settings are actually pinging 8.8.8.8 https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/mwan3/fi...
In Sirubo: Packet filtering to block Google and Facebook tracking
westurner·Mar 31, 2020
An opkg (for e.g. OpenWRT) with this mesh software would make it possible to use WiFi/LTE routers with a LoRa transmitter/receiver connected over e.g. USB or Mini-PCIe. ... cc'ing from https://twitter.com/westurner/status/1238859774567026688 : OpenWRT is a Make-based embedded Linux distro w/ LuCI (Lua + JSON + UCI) web interface). #OpenWRT runs on RaspberryPis, ARM, x86, ARM, MIPS; there's a Docker image. OpenWRT Supported Devices: https://openwrt.org/supported_devices OpenWRT uses opkg packages: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/additional-software/opkg I searched for "Lora" in OpenWRT/packages: lora-gateway-hal opkg package: https://github.com/openwrt/packages/blob/master/net/lora-gat... lora-packet-forwarder opkg package (w/ UCI integration): https://github.com/openwrt/packages/pull/8320 https://github.com/xueliu/lora-feed : > Semtec
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h packages and ChirpStack [(LoRaserver)] Network Server stack for OpenWRT > > [In addition to providing node2node/2net connectivity, #batman-adv can bridge VLANs over a mesh (or link), such as for “trusted” client, guest, IoT, and mgmt networks. It provides an easy-to-configure alternative to other approaches to “backhaul”, […]] https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/mesh/batman > I have a few different [quad-core, MIMO] ARM devices without 4G. TIL that the @GLiNetWifi devices ship with OpenWRT firmware (and a mobile config app) and some have 1-2 (Mini-PCIe) 4G w/ SIM slots. Also, @turris_cz has OpenWRT w/ LXC in the kernel build. https://t.co/Rz0Uu5uHJQ
In LoRa+WiFi ClusterDuck Protocol by Project OWL for Disaster Relief
pkgsupplysec·Feb 2, 2020
And those package repo sha256 checksums are signed and verified with ed25519 by usign and ucert (with a key built into the firmware) usign: https://git.openwrt.org/project/usign.git ucert: https://git.openwrt.org/project/ucert.git Firmware releases are also signed with GPG: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatu... openwrt/openwrt: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt openwrt/packages: https://github.com/openwrt/packages openwrt/openwrt/search?q="usign" https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/search?q=usign
In OpenWRT remote code execution via MITM due to bug in package manager
ronjouch·Jan 23, 2020
Also, if you own a router able to run OpenWrt ( https://openwrt.org/supported_devices ), you have access to several packages providing the same technical solution as a pi-hole (DNS-based blocking). As far as I know, the most common and maintained is https://github.com/openwrt/packages/tree/master/net/adblock/... . It's easy to install, full-featured, ships with lots of lists to pick from, auto-updates lists, doesn't need an additional device, and you will benefit from router features shipped as part of OpenWrt and probably unavailable in your router's proprietary firmware. Much recommended. If that sounds attractive and it sounds like a good opportunity to change your crumbling unpatched router, the question "what's today's good cheap router running OpenWrt without trouble?" is frequently answered by https://www.reddit.com/r/openwrt/ :) .
In “This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server”

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