offmycloud's comments

On: What’s on HTTP?

[offmycloud]

Cox Communications used to do it in California to inject JS into sites. I remember seeing little Cox popup/toast messages in the corner of other sites.

On: FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers

[offmycloud]

How does this differ in performance from rffmpeg?

https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg

[steelbrain → offmycloud]

I tried to answer it about a year and half ago and that answer is still mostly correct: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41743932

You can mix and match operating systems, macOS, Windows, Linux, you do not need sudo privileges.

rffmpeg needs a shared file system which could be a huge pain to setup: https://github.com/joshuaboniface/rffmpeg/blob/master/docs/S...

ffmpeg-over-ip patches ffmpeg and only needs one port open for the server, then you just run the binary, no mounts needed at all.

On: Your device identity is probably a liability

[offmycloud]

I've said it before, but Zero Trust is such a misnomer. It implies less trust in firewalls, VPNs, and other network controls, but much more trust in the ability of end-user devices to securely store and use private keys. Also, the server side has has to trust all incoming connections from the Internet enough to verify the certificates, and run a complicated TLS implementation, which can be a huge attack surface. We're sticking with WireGuard for all our internal users.

[parliament32 → offmycloud]

Unless you're storing your wireguard keys in your TPM somehow, what stops malware from just copying the keys out and connecting? Are you IP whitelisting every employee's house or what?

[hinkley → offmycloud]

Wireguard solves the data in motion problem but not the data at rest problem, doesn’t it?

On: U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession

[offmycloud]

Link to report PDF: https://www.challengergray.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/CR...

On: U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession

[offmycloud]

A big part of the job losses were driven by Amazon and the end of their UPS contract.

On: CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

[offmycloud]

How did the word "suddenly" get into the title?

[simonw → offmycloud]

That was editorializing by the person who submitted it, I didn't use that language in my post.

On: NYC Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero alongside explosives

[offmycloud]

I'm using Firefox on a Linux workstation (without Tor) and I still got the CAPTCHA. The statement "blog.adafruit.com needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding" is misleading at best. Shame on Cloudflare, this kind of dishonesty makes me not want to trust your RCA marketing pieces.

[0x1ch → offmycloud]

I received the same prompt from a Windows 11 machine at work. This probably has nothing to do with Tor or Linux, but their Cloudflare settings.

[neilv → 0x1ch]

In addition to Cloudflare's usual nonsense (e.g., give us all the cleartext because reasons, and also unblock our bad-UX code that doubles as an additional tracker), it looks like Cloudflare here might also be blocking Tor exit nodes (either proactively, or in response to detected abuses from those addresses).

[anigbrowl → 0x1ch]

Probably because the HN hug of death looks like a DDOS attack.

[superkuh → anigbrowl]

Probably because they're using the cloudflare defaults which are terrible like everyone else.

[tomstockmail → offmycloud]

Same with Firefox Focus on Android.

On: Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode

[offmycloud]

Reddit used to be free for anyone to view without logging in, but now I get "Your request has been blocked due to a network policy." Sorry, but I'm not turning my ad blocker off.

On: Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

[offmycloud]

Would it be possible to write an addon to use Perl's Finance::Quote [1] like GnuCash does? It supports scraping many financial websites, as well as paid AlphaVantage quotes.

1. https://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/

On: I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced

[offmycloud]

"Your request has been blocked due to a network policy"

Is Reddit going login-required now?

[silisili → offmycloud]

Same. Brave on Linux, no VPN. I didn't at face value care too much, as I find the site cancerous, but it did make me realize how many times I click links into it.

I can't wait until a worthy successor appears.

[ritzaco → silisili]

https://lemmy.world isn't as big and it doesn't have active subgroups for as many things as Reddit, but for a bit of casual doom scrolling it's fully replaced Reddit for me.

[Quarrel → offmycloud]

Just a guess, but are you in the UK and is /r/osint flagged NSFW, harmful or mature?

If so, they want to age-verify you.

[RunningDroid → offmycloud]

Redlib typically has less aggressive restrictions: https://farside.link/redlib/r/OSINT/comments/1opjjyv/i_may_h...

(Farside.link just picks a random instance)

[MallocVoidstar → offmycloud]

They ban VPNs unless you're logged in (and randomly shadowban users using them), and probably other datacenter IPs.

[trianglesphere → offmycloud]

They’ve gotten pretty strict if they think your IP is a scraper (i.e. coming from AWS or another cloud provider even inside a full browser environment).