Interesting, I’ve been wondering how OSM deals with malicious changes

Is nickel not magnetic? I guess the outer cladding must be pretty thin.

It’s not like it gives you questions in a particular order, it just puts a pin on the map everywhere there’s missing information. For instance if your neighbourhood only had house numbers missing then that’s all you’ll see nearby, other places could be completely different.

Prime opportunity for some evangelising!

Definitely ticks the “something interesting to do out on a walk” box that pokémon go did

Street Complete is definitely the gateway drug here, very simple and beginner-friendly way to get started

Any idea how I go about setting up a second sub(?)network? I’ve got a load of old routers but I’ve always assumed they’re too locked down to be of any use.

Alright, alright, I’ll add it to the todo list!

I mean that buying a new device (which I guess I then might have to replace in X years) and configuring it to use openwrt is going to take some time and effort, and ultimately I might end up in a worse situation (than my current “working OK” setup). Maybe if I had infinite time but there’s only so many hours in the day!

I’ve seen it mentioned a lot over the years, ultimately I think I’d just be making a rod for my own back by giving myself another device to support! I have considered it before but I just feel I’m going to spend a load of time tinkering every time I move house or change ISP, and paying for the privilege of buying my own hardware while I’m at it.

Ah, sadly not something mine can do

Yeah, so to reach out does it not need to use DNS to know where it’s reaching out to?

Can you explain this a bit more to a networking beginner?

More reading for me to do then, thanks!

Yeah that was going to be my plan, I think I can set that on my router but its UI isn’t particularly clear!

If you’re using DHCP, you might be able to tell your router to assign a specific IP to the MAC address.

Hopefully, seems pretty unlikely that the untrusted devices will bother spoofing their MAC addresses

can you add them to an allow list and deny traffic to every other IP?

Yeah that’s what I meant by manually adding trusted devices to a group with a normal block list

The trouble is that I don’t want an untrusted device to be able to call out at all, and I won’t know where it’s trying to reach until I connect it

Does it? I don’t know much about networking but I thought for a device to even send something out it still needs to go through DNS first.

Ah, I see it. Thanks!

What am I looking at here?