kieron115

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 6 points 5 days ago

I would also put a good bit of the blame on executives and marketing people being way out of touch with the average person.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Rip, I havent seen the latest season. That's funny though.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I bet you he played pranks on them with Trelane.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago

Apparently there is a holiday edition in the US that uses cane sugar. https://youtu.be/UC6bv6Ies3A

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Maybe Q will rub off on Janeway a bit and make her less murderous.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

i haven't seen academy yet, have they explained how the Jem'Hadar were able to breed? In DS9 they were grown synthetically by the Changelings afaik.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 2 weeks ago

this is so cursed

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

to get something as flexible as my android tv i'd need an nvidia shield and those are going on ten years old at this point. maybe if/when they do a hardware refresh, assuming sideloading isn't completely impossible by then.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah. To be honest on the DNS side it would probably be far easier to just do a whitelist instead, block everything except your specific service. and yeah, its a stupid amount of work. i hate smart tvs but i'll be damned if im gonna pay extra for a streaming box =|

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

just saying its possible

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Not sure if you mean hardcoded DNS IPs or hardcoded "phone home" IPs. Hardcoded DNS addresses in devices are annoying, the only way i've found to get around that is using destination nat rules (DNAT) which requires more than a consumer router typically. hardcoded phone home IPs would get blocked by your firewall. you're right that most firewalls are set up by default to implicitly allow outbound traffic. you set up a rule that explicitly denies all outbound traffic from the TV, then only allow port 443 (or whatever port your streaming service uses) on the specific IP/IPs that your service uses. Here's Netflix's published IP info for example.

edit also i'm fully aware it's fucking ridiculous that we as consumers have to go through this much rigamarole. you shouldnt have to be a literal network engineer to do something as simple as have an internet-connected tv that doesnt spy on you.

 

Inspired by a comment I saw earlier calling it the "Prime Suggestion".

 

Just a daily reminder to be nice to your AI robot slaves.

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