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Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

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Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

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post #2

Clever hacker needs to look up a Bloom Filter

The README mentions it and conventionally it seems right.

But back of the envelope it seems you're shaving not much off if the latency is primarily WiFi latency (tens of milliseconds) not flash reads (microseconds?).

If you use loads of transient clients perhaps a LRU cache would help since round trips might be quite slow.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#12
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lazy commenters need to look at the README to see that the bloom filter is mentioned as a next step. The hacker is indeed clever.

Only if the hacker also tests for false positives.

The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#14
post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only if the hacker also tests for false positives.

The way it's worded in the readme makes it sound as if this was exactly the intention.

Very clever hacker indeed!

May even have Sonnet or Opus level of intelligence.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#16
post #7

is it enough to block all ads on tomshardware?

Last time I visited Tom Shardware it felt like the whole thing is basically an ad. Is the content still any good? I recall back when it was the go-to.

They seem to have locked a lot of interesting content behind the Premium News package, correct me if I'm wrong I can't read the Premium content to judge how it compares to the free Reddit reposts.

That and the shuttering of Anandtech sucks.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#17

This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute. This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.

> $5 compute

Unrelated but the author at Tom's Hardware is apparently unaware of AliExpress so they bumped the price from $2 (or less) to $5. And that's the price for just one. These things are so cheap you can throw them in everything. They're the perfect alternative to a Raspberry Pi because they have WiFi, Bluetooth, lots of GPIO, and decent compute. Not enough to run Linux but you don't need Linux for IoT.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#18

This really begs the question as to how much juice you can get from $5 compute. This IS IoT in my opinion, not whatever bloatware comes with your Samsung fridge or wifi-connected faucet.

A pregamgamanagany test can be $5 and apparently it can run doom, so in bulk compute has to be pretty cheap.

Re: Clever hacker fits 537,000 domains in a $5 ESP32 ad-blocking dongle

#20
post #2

Clever hacker needs to look up a Bloom Filter

What do people use bloom filters for in production? I've only ever used as part of a blacklist

Search partition pruning in distributed databases is one concrete application I'm aware of.

Hashtables optimized for really large item counts; it can be a useful fast pre-check for item existence.

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