NotAnArdvark

Purely a curiosity on my part... But has anyone ever looked at how their Microsoft Teams calls get routed? During Teams calls I'll check OpenWrt to see the endpoint IP I'm sending all my traffic to, then do a traceroute to that IP. So far, I think, it's always been a bizarre path.

For instance, today:

$ tracepath 52.115.76.111
 1?: [LOCALHOST]                      pmtu 1500
 1:  OpenWrt.lan                                           1.200ms 
 1:  OpenWrt.lan                                           1.511ms 
 2:  ...                              15.008ms 
 3:  ...                            18.429ms asymm  4 
 4:  ...                            22.477ms asymm  5 
 5:  six2.microsoft.com                                   39.117ms asymm  6 
 6:  ae32-0.icr02.mwh01.ntwk.msn.net                      40.610ms 
 7:  be-162-0.ibr04.mwh01.ntwk.msn.net                   190.062ms asymm 15 
 8:  be-2-0.ibr04.fra30.ntwk.msn.net                      78.997ms asymm 12 
 9:  be-8-0.ibr02.dsm05.ntwk.msn.net                      77.944ms asymm 12 
10:  51.10.19.124                                         78.474ms asymm 11 
11:  104.44.54.110                                        75.460ms asymm 10 
12:  no reply
^C

I think that:

• mwh01 = Moses Lake, WA
• fra30 = Frankfurt
• dsm05 = Des Moines, Iowa
• ibr04 = ??

Assuming I'm right on those names - and the hostnames can be trusted - what a strange way to route traffic...

Most the time when I check these Teams IPs I'm just routing through Southern states before being sent back to the Eastern US, but today's was weird enough I thought I should ask if anyone else ever looks at these things.

Somehow I collect low-powered laptops, and it would be nice to video chat on them without teetering on the edge of my desktop being frozen while I do it. Unfortunately, aside from Zoom - which doesn't have an ARM+Linux client - most of the video conferencing software I know of are WebRTC-based.

My question - can anyone suggest video conferencing software that is speedier than your average browser-based solution? I expect that whatever it is will require the other end to run the same software, and that's ok.

For reference, Google Meet and Jitsi Meet are the two I've tried. I briefly tried Teams, but it was having none of it.

Thank you!

Here's the situation: I use the Obsidian Flatpak with Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed. For a long time the Obsidian file picker was the Plasma version, and life was good. After an update of openSUSE and my Obsidian Flatpak, I'm now getting the Gnome file picker. Life now makes less sense.

I've confirmed that other Flatpaks are still using the Plasma file picker. I've also been investigating my xdg-desktop-portal configuration based off of what I've been reading here, but it all looks correct to me.

I can't decide whether this change was because of Obsidian, the Flatpak packaging of Obsidian, or an openSUSE change. Does anyone have tips on tracking this down?

The following command works even though I really don't think I should have permission to the key file:
$ openssl aes-256-cbc -d -pbkdf2 -in etc_backup.tar.xz.enc -out etc_backup.tar.xz -k /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key

I'm unable to even ascertain the existence of the key file under my normal user. I'm a member of only two groups, my own group and vboxusers.

The permissions leading up to that file:

drwxr-xr-x   1 root root 4010 Jul 31 08:01 etc
...
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root      206 Jul 14 23:52 ssl
...
drwx------ 1 root root    26 Jul 31 14:07 private
...
-rw------- 1 root root 256 Jul 31 14:07 etcBackup.key

OpenSSL isn't setuid:

> ls -la $(which openssl)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1004768 Jul 14 23:52 /usr/bin/openssl

There don't appear to be any ACLs related to that key file:

> sudo getfacl /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key
[sudo] password for root: 
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key
# owner: root
# group: root
user::rw-
group::---
other::---

> sudo lsattr  /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key
---------------------- /etc/ssl/private/etcBackup.key

Finally, it's not just the case that the original file was encrypted with an empty file:

> openssl aes-256-cbc -d -pbkdf2 -in etc_backup.tar.xz.enc -out etc_backup.tar.xz -k /etc/ssl/private/abc.key
bad decrypt
4047F634B67F0000:error:1C800064:Provider routines:ossl_cipher_unpadblock:bad decrypt:providers/implementations/ciphers/ciphercommon_block.c:124

Does anyone know what I've missed here?

Zoom is vital to my job this month and prior to an update last week I had the openSUSE version of Zoom's RPM installed and working fine.

I updated my Tumbleweed installation to openSUSE-20240704-0 last week, after which Zoom started crashing when sharing a screen. There was a message in the logs about the library libqt5qml.so and I thought I could fix this by backing out either the update for the libQtQuick5 package in particular, or just booting from the pre-update snapshot.

To make a long story short, I ultimately installed the Zoom Flatpak and resolved to get back to this when I had a bit more time.

My question - Can people suggest the right way in openSUSE Tumbleweed to handle the situation where an update breaks something on the system?

Assuming libQtQuick5 was the updated package that was at fault here, is there a way I could have downgraded just that package? Would booting from the pre-update snapshot and then just carrying on with my week have been a reasonable way to proceed?

To be clear - I'm not so much concerned about Zoom, I'm more curious about how to use the openSUSE Tumbleweed tools to recover from updates that cause problems.

Thank you!

I'll be emailing the site admin... or some contact at the site, but, is there anything else that can be done to try to put pressure on these websites that tell me "you're not getting the best experience... download Chrome."?

I know Firefox has a "Report a broken site" feature, but, the site isn't technically broken. They're just telling me to switch browsers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/14107888

I have a very specific questions about Linux Traffic control and u32 filters in particular. However, I don't know where the right place is to ask such a question as it's fairly niche.

The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control site says it has a mailing list for questions, but the last post was from 2019. There is also the incredibly busy 'linux-netdev' mailing list, but, the traffic there looks like strictly source changes.

Any ideas?

The question I'm trying to find an answer to is: The u32 tc filter seems to support negative byte offsets which allows you to examine the Ethernet frame header (I don't think I even found documentation on this, this is thanks to ChatGPT). However, when using u32 values to examine 8 bytes I can only use offsets in increments of 4 - like "at -8" or "at -12", with any other increment giving me the error Illegal "match".

This seems like only a curiosity, but, I've been struggling to get my bit-matching to match the way I expect, and I'm wondering if this suggests that matching doesn't function the way I think.

I have a very specific questions about Linux Traffic control and u32 filters in particular. However, I don't know where the right place is to ask such a question as it's fairly niche.

The Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control site says it has a mailing list for questions, but the last post was from 2019. There is also the incredibly busy 'linux-netdev' mailing list, but, the traffic there looks like strictly source changes.

Any ideas?

The question I'm trying to find an answer to is: The u32 tc filter seems to support negative byte offsets which allows you to examine the Ethernet frame header (I don't think I even found documentation on this, this is thanks to ChatGPT). However, when using u32 values to examine 8 bytes I can only use offsets in increments of 4 - like "at -8" or "at -12", with any other increment giving me the error Illegal "match".

This seems like only a curiosity, but, I've been struggling to get my bit-matching to match the way I expect, and I'm wondering if this suggests that matching doesn't function the way I think.

With the cold weather I was hoping to hear of some experiences people have had with their heat pumps.

What kind of backup heat do you have? Are you using it? Is there some temperature where you just stop using the heat pump, or are you even consciously thinking about it?

Thanks!

I really had no idea where on Lemmy to ask this, so apologies if this seems like a bit of a strange place to post.

I'm a computer guy, but "fixing computers" isn't usually my thing. However, I offered to migrate my veterinarian's accounting laptop to a new laptop she had bought. This involved getting an old version of Quickbooks running on Windows 11, a bit of back-and-forth with login details for various accounts. Generally though, it was straight forward.

This took me about 4 hours (more, really). The only other time I did contractor work like this I picked my rate based on what my mechanic was charging - $95/hour.

So my invoice, for my tiny-town vet, is going to be $380. Can I get input from anyone on whether that's high? The laptop itself probably only cost $500. Something that makes me feel a bit better about the number is that I've helped her out lots over the last couple of years and never billed her for it, despite her saying I should.

Thanks!

My hood fan vents into the top of this metal box, which then has a vent to the outside about halfway down the metal box. The box itself it maybe two half-height shoe boxes in size. I looked pretty hard, and the closest I could find was that it might be related to collecting condensation.

Does anyone know what this is for?

Thanks

I should say! The picture that comes up for this album is clearly the outside vent and is not what I'm talking about. Click on it to see all the pictures!