Land of the free
Home of the slave

Federal Bureau of Ingestion?

You wouldn’t even really question your new device on the network. Since the monitor must forward the packets from and to your PC it’s MAC address would show up in the network, but that’s expected. And good luck separating the traffic of your monitor from that of your PC if it originates from the very same MAC address as it’s basically the new network card of your PC connected via USB C. And since it could act like a bridge, it could strip out the responses to its own requests and not forward those to your PC so you don’t even see them there. On the other side it’s all TLS encrypted so nothing to see either. Heck, it could even only send its own requests when your PC is actively using the connection so that it’s less noticeable.

You might do some DPI and check what IPs you connect to but good luck finding if it really is your monitor and not some random app on your PC. If it’s using DoH, you can’t even inspect its DNS traffic to get a clue what’s going on (SNI in the handshake might still offer some clue).

Also all of the above enables tracking and spying on you covertly. Ads are quite obvious, so there’s nothing to hide there.

HDMI and USB C are used in monitors. Both can transmit more than just the image data, e.g. tunneling an Ethernet connection. Not sure if Display Port also supports that

Most people will be on Win Home which usually locks you out of gpedit. Or ignores your settings there, some even from the registry. In the recent times there are even some GPOs locked for Pro and only available on an enterprise version or Windows server…

Die Bahn hat MerzWeg-Abteile?! Ü

Correct. It’s Bayrische Motoren Werke which translates to Bavarian Motor Factories or maybe Bavarian Motor Workshops.

The German Werk has several meanings:

1. The process of work/the work itself needed to finish a specific task.
2. A specific action. E.g. used to imply someone did $thing
3. A specific thing that was produced by someone (e.g. a piece of art) or even someone’s lifeworks as a whole.
4. A factory or industrial complex BUT ALSO depending on context the workers on said factory/complex.

Ein Trecker im Wasser, da ist er, da ist er,
Ein Trecker ist im Wasser, im Wasser ist er!

Warum ist er denn dort, meine Brüder, meine Brüder,
Warum ist er denn dort im Wasser da drin?

Was weiß ich denn davon, hab kein Plan, hab kein Plan
Was weiß ich denn davon, ich meimei nur mit!

🎼🎶🎵

Found the guy (or gal) who added themselves to the docker group and is using Claude on the same user account

Handelt der Bauer nun mit Daten,
Muss er nicht mehr durch Gülle waten

Warum auch immer ich erst „mit Daten handelt“ gelesen hab und verwirrt war…

Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P
And on his network he has some traffic
E I G R P
With an ACK here and an ACK there
Here an ACK, there an ACK
ACK ACK everywhere
Old McDonald has a network
E I G R P

https://xkcd.com/243/

Im Zweifel einfach X drücken Ü

*Scamuel

https://xkcd.com/323/

Accidentally stumbled upon Overwatch when a streamer that I follow played it a bit on stream while experimenting with other games.

It scratched an itch. I hadn’t played competitive FPS in ages. All friends were either ignoring that genre or were playing games where a death kicked you out of the match basically (no respawn). That meant that you’d end up spectating a lot or waiting in queue if you played with them. Also the concept of a hero shooter and those abilities looked fun.

I sunk hundreds of hours in it, even got some proficiency in the workshop when that was released. I drifted more and more into custom games and ignored the ladder but still had fun.

Then there was a content drought. They were preparing for OW2 and neglecting the current game. It felt more and more like a chore. I played less and less. Then OW2 came out as a forced upgrade - you couldn’t play the original anymore, there was aggressive monetization, 5v5 instead of 6v6 and most of my used synergies as a tank player wouldn’t work anymore. I encountered way more toxic players than before (probably partly because of the influx of new players). Either the workshop and custom games were gone, or they were hardly played - I can’t remember. Then I quit for good and haven’t looked back.

…home of the slave