lmns

If your access point doesn't advertise your SSID, your clients will. It's a bit counterintuitive, but in practice hiding your SSID does the opposite of what it says.

This happened to a friend with a Samsung TV. One of his devices relayed Ethernet via HDMI to the Samsung and suddenly it started a firmware upgrade.

Your link says nothing about Google Public DNS.

> since they're internet based, they aren't vulnerable to SS7 exploits.

I think the problem with SS7 is that there's no authentication between providers. At least as far as I know.

That's true for TCP as well. Almost all consumer-grade routers block all incoming connection attempts, not just UDP.

From a stateful firewall's point of view both UDP and TCP have state.

No problem with Chrome here, but I've heard Samsung's browser runs a lot smoother.

Some Windows wifi drivers offer an option for roaming aggressiveness. I think I've seen this with some Intel cards.

Security patches. OpenWRT hasn't had any in the past year.

>For me the first NExus 7 tablet was a prime example of what happens, released - ran fine, Android update and became darn near unusable, and then dropped.

The Nexus 7 2012 had degrading NAND performance because Asus skimped on the chip quality. No Android update could've prevented this.

>frankly MIMO as it stands is basically voodoo snakeoil that provides no consumer benefit whatsoever.

MIMO works fine for me. The jump from 802.11g to 802.11n with two or more spatial streams was a significant bump in speed. And yes, I mean speed as in TCP, not PHY rate.

You should have a look at traffic shaping and different networking queues. Fq_codel is great, but even SFQ works better than nothing. No need to turn off updates.

>I also feel like it would be much easier for me (a non-traditional student) to get into a better university over there, as they pretty much just look at your test scores.

Some don't even do that, but I think most (not sure) have some kind of language requirement for both German and English: https://www.daad.de/deutschland/studienangebote/internationa...

This is for Computer Engineering, which is a blend between Computer Science and Engineering at the university of Duisburg-Essen.

B1 shouldn't be that hard, but as a native speaker I can't really comment on the difficulty.

>Do they provide many undergrad programs in English?

At least the program I linked to has 50% of its courses in English and exams are always available in English. I have no idea about other programs.

I'm pretty sure native apps with the same functionality consume less energy than web apps. Native apps and their frameworks are highly optimized.

Depends on the "coffee enthusiast". If you don't need the crema, an AeroPress and an electronic burr grinder are almost certainly the better choice. It's extremely convenient and the coffee tastes "full" without the bitter aftertaste.

So, in this sense, vaccination should be an individual choice? This is something which concerns the individual, but has consequences for society as a whole.

On the contrary: You can even enable push notifications with Chrome for Android. Chat included. I haven't touched the native apps for ages and everything works just fine.

At least with Android you can switch keyboards very easily.

At some point there was a fake uBlock Origin in the Chrome Web Store and it ranked even higher than the original (afaik). Since then I'm a bit wary recommending browser extensions.

It's actually quite useful on many consumer devices, especially those with multiple cores. Most of the time I'm happy I can trade a few CPU cycles for better I/O performance.

Maybe some of them thought they were fine if they were using AV software? I know what you mean, but the marketing departments of many AV vendors praise it like some kind of all-around solution. I'm pretty sure some people think they can get away with disabling updates etc. and than just buy AV software afterwards when they feel they can't handle their systems anymore.

Maybe the perception that you can achieve some kind of security through band-aid solutions is exactly the cause for the lacking security of many organizations?

That's exactly what I had in mind when I read the GP. If third party AVs have a large and complex codebase with unknown or even known security flaws, they won't help much against targeted attacks or make them even easier.

On the other hand, AV usability is so bad you can't expect it to help "normal" people. All those popups do more harm than good when people start ignoring them.

It'll just break and you won't have a working DNS.

> If you also want to secure a lookup of, for example, pool.ntp.org then DNSSEC for A and AAAA records also makes sense.

The fun part begins when you realize you can't validate DNSSEC because your time drifts too much. So how do you get your initial sync from pool.ntp.org with DNSSEC validation enabled?

I know some Samsung TVs which receive Ethernet via HDMI. So all connected devices have to be offline as well.

There's an official SSH extensions from Google.

Without any updates for the vendor blobs.

They release snapshots which are already quite stable in my experience. OpenWRT is practically a dead project, so you shouldn't expect security updates anymore. The last openwrt-security-announce mail is from march.

Why should I use DD-WRT? As far as I can see, they don't release any stable versions and their nightlies are broken all the time. The software in OpenWRT / LEDE seems to be much more up to date and they release stable versions.

> I think the opposite. I prefer to have an open OS installed.

An open OS with closed source drivers? The comparison with Android XDA images wasn't so far fetched.

> And did you try the recent version of DD-WRT there by the way?

You mean the nightlies? They don't even release any stable versions anymore.

LEDE / OpenWRT actually are quite nice if (and only if) your hardware is supported by free drivers. With proprietary drivers, of course, not so much.

My TP-Links with OpenWRT (I know, I should upgrade to LEDE) are probably much more stable than any other networking gear I've ever owned. Everything is old 802.11n gear powered by ath9k.

But if you aren't into flashing your own firmwares, MikroTik is fine too. I use a pair of SXT 5 lites and the uptime (yes, even wireless uptime!) is approaching 100d.