SONOS speakers seem to be decent hardware. So when a friend mentioned the IKEA branded, SONOS produced Symfonisk speakers, I had to take a look. At 130€ for a single speaker, they are not exactly cheap, but they are certainly a lot cheaper than anything SONOS would usually offer. The build quality is good, audio quality is supposedly good. But the important question for me is: can I use them at a decent level of privacy? Is it possible to make these speakers useful without the SONOS app and a SONOS account and without sending usage information over to SONOS every couple of minutes? Let’s find out!
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SONOS sans App
Posted by Claudius Coenen on August 1st, 2024 | No Comments »
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Removing Git Credentials (Windows)
Posted by Claudius Coenen on November 7th, 2023 | Comments Off on Removing Git Credentials (Windows)
I found myself in an environment where I need to be able to log out users automatically.
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Spotify CarThing Internet Access
Posted by Claudius Coenen on June 26th, 2023 | Comments Off on Spotify CarThing Internet Access
The Spotify CarThing was discontinued late 2022 and subsequently heavily discounted. I got a friend of mine to send one to me, because at that time it was pretty apparent that there was a good chance of this being very hackable. First order of business for me was: internet access.
Here, we’re setting up a Raspberry Pi with a Socks-Proxy, a local webserver and the relevant settings on the CarThing itself.
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Securing a QNAP NAS
Posted by Claudius Coenen on July 9th, 2020 | 1 Comment »
I recently bought a new NAS, after my old one turned ten. I am very satisfied with the reliability of my old QNAP which is still supported with software updates. This makes me a happy customer, and so I did not see any reason to switch brands. After initial setup (networking, firmware update, disabling most services) I did not get around to finishing its setup for a few days. It basically sat there from late May 2020 to early July 2020. Somehow it contracted QSnatch in that timeframe. I’ll explain what I did differently after that.
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tcpdump docker traffic
Posted by Claudius Coenen on November 16th, 2018 | Comments Off on tcpdump docker traffic
Tiny howto, so don’t need to look this up as often. In order to tcpdump your own docker traffic, you will need to identify the appropriate interface first:
# docker network ls NETWORK ID NAME DRIVER SCOPE 15a300de bridge bridge local 88d8d7d1 nextcloud_default bridge local
From that, we get the network ID. This will be included (at least partly) in the interface name, so we’ll just take the first few characters and grep:
# ip addr | grep 88d8b 9: br-88d8d7d1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default
this gives us the full interface name (ok, basically this is just “br-” followed by the network ID).
We can then just use tcpdump any way we like:
tcpdump -i br-88d8d7d1
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