#OpenWrt

[utopicwork]

Was poking around on the Meshtastic discord, just found out they have an openwrt channel for the exact setup I was thinking about (plugging a Meshtastic device directly into an openwrt router and running a node that way) and even more then that someone got the very recently released openwrt open hardware router running Meshtastic

[opensuse-official]

People should talk to me about openWRT actually

[a1291762]

Apparently the reason my mesh wifi is misbehaving is because openwrt ships half a system by default and you need to install a package to do the other half.

But my routers have not been updated in 2 years and cannot download packages anymore.

The new version is not "config compatible" so I had to manually reconfigure each device after upgrading it.

And in the end, I still could not get mesh wifi working properly so I swapped it out for client/server anyway.

Also, the new version supports WPA3 but if I enable support for it, at least one (brand new) device cannot use the wifi.

At least I got everything back up and running.

[leixue]

Kwrt，在线配置编译软路由专属OpenWrt固件定制工具 - 泪雪网

[recogiendofrutos]

Articulo: Fingbox ha muerto. Larga vida a OpenWRT

Poco a poco voy aprendiendo a hacer cosas y dejo de depender de las iniciativas de empresas que tienden a desaparecer. Aquí un ejemplo.

Bueno, yo me quejaría de todo en Fing, no solo de Fingbox. Entiendo que es una empresa y necesita generar ingresos y una maquina totipotente y casi inmortal, obviamente no le iba a dar los recursos necesarios. GoPro tiene experiencia en eso. Diría que es consecuencia del capitalismo, pero parece mas bien un error de calculo. no puedes fundar una empresa para vender un producto estático. Igual, no…

[fanly]

ImmortalWrt，为大陆用户优化的OpenWrt固件 - 泪雪网

[veuhoffblog]

Micro Appliance: Ratgeber für Hardware und Software 2023

Eine Micro Appliance ist eine kleine Hardwareplattform, die für bestimmte Aufgaben innerhalb der Netzwerkinfrastruktur entwickelt und eingesetzt wird. Die häufig nur handgroßen Systeme, erfreuen sich aufgrund ihrer hohen Energieeffizienz...[Weiterlesen]

[vpease]

La herramienta que todo Ingeniero de red debe tener

Mientras mas vas aprendiendo de redes, te vas enterando del peligro que supone conectarse a redes públicas y la necesidad de trabajar como nómade digital, requiere que puedas conectarte a diversas redes en configuraciones diferentes y en todas debes asegurar que tu laptop se mantiene segura en todo momento y que tu tráfico también está protegido, y además, debes poder conectarte en forma segura a…

[niconiconwo]

Neat thing about Frontier fiber is their ONT just gives any old router an IP lease so that means the gaylord eero box is gonna be yeeted very soon.

I pay for this god damned service, I won't have Uncle Bezos' nanny-box tell me I can't browse freely while stealing my usage data.

[thatnoulguyorsomething]

Not a good or useful advice/solution but that's exactly why I just have a stack of old laptops with all manners of outdated/wonky OSs on them

Windows movie maker used to let me open a video, remove all sound from it with one little click, and save it that way. I need the sound stripped from almost all videos I take before I can do anything else with them but now windows trashed movie maker and every other method is so much slower. WHY is such a simple little task now behind so many hoops??? I have openshot video editor but that requires I adjust a bunch of settings and slowly export the video. I don't want to do all that. I want the one button that quickly deletes the audio track.

[opensuse-official]

My Somewhat Complex Thoughts on Chromium

Chromium and Firefox are both free and open source, as are both of their browser engines. Blink is the engine for Chromium, and Gecko is the engine for Firefox.

Mozilla's products lack basic sandboxing in almost every OS. The sandboxing for Firefox in Android and Linux, the two OSs I use, is quite honestly God AWFUL.

Gecko based browsers are significantly more vulnerable to exploitation, both internally and externally.

Gecko has a much more attack surface than Blink does.

No Gecko based browser has per-site process isolation.

Gecko's fingerprint protection is not great at best, bordering on a bit useless at worst. Both Tor and Mulvad fix this issues.

Gecko also is less resource efficient. While the discrepancy of resources efficiency between Gecko and Blink is getting smaller by the year, the gap is still pretty large.

The monopoly that Blink has on the browser market is fucking despicable, and has been one of the large reason the web as we know it is getting worse.

There are many websites that simply do not retain full functionality when used with Gecko based browsers.

Having to use a Chromium browser is an unfortunate reality for a lot of people. A lot more than you think.

Further Reading

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/desktop-browsers/

https://divestos.org/pages/browsers

https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/mozilla_firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/

https://nvd.nist.gov/

https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-452/product_id-3264/cvssscoremin-7/cvssscoremax-7.99/Mozilla-Firefox.html

[dragon-in-a-fez]

Just saw your post on avoiding ads and I’d love some advice!

I just came across OpenWRT and wanted to know your thoughts on installing it onto a rented gateway. Also does pi hole still work?? Been thinking about setting that up in the next few weeks..

Thanks!

I've never used OpenWRT - I used to have pfSense on my router and now use VyOS, which is command-line-only so not what I normally recommend to anyone. but in general when you're dealing with hardware you're renting from your provider, just make sure you know how to restore it back to normal if/when you have to give it back.

I'm sure Pi-Hole still works, the only reason I haven't used it is I tried AdGuard Home first and it worked lol

[sztupy]

Aki igazán bátor, az az utcán se lát reklámokat, mert nem csak pihole van otthon, de a telefonjára rak LineageOS-t, megrootolja Magisk-al, rak rá AdAway-t, vesz saját router-t, rak rá openwrt-t, felrakja a WireGuard modult, rak a telefonjára is WireGuard-ot, csinál dynDNS-t, rak a telefonjára Tasker-t és leprogramozza, hogy ha a telefon nincs az otthoni wifin, akkor azonnal csatlakozik a WireGuard-ra és minden forgalmat oda irányít, tehát az AdAway mellett a pihole is védi.

Mármint elvileg, én természetesen senki ilyet nem ismerek.