EncryptKeeper

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago⁩:

  You can use programs like Ripper or Automated Ripping Machine to watch for inserted disks and rip them automatically. You can even add remixing or transcoding into the workflow so that all you do is insert the disk into the drive and after some time out pops the file in the exact format and size you want, even directly into your media library if you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Digital Packrat Manifesto | DRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine that’s the case for a lot of people actually. People don’t just pirate to get things for free. Lots of people buy easily pirateable games on GOG because it doesn’t have DRM. Lots of people buy and rip Blu-rays instead of torrenting movies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is discontinuing its “watch together” feature⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Lack of feature parity is the number one thing holding so many people back from switching to Jellyfin. Of Plex is going to start deleting beloved features, a lot of minds will be made up very quick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And active

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to discover someone’s posts on Mastodon, they need to be on the same instance as you, or someone else on your instance has to already be following them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, looks like it doesn’t. It’s Friendica that uses both ActivityPub and Diaspora protocols

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because a fediverse is any group of technologies that talk to each other via a common protocol. In 2025 that’s ActivityPub and has been for awhile. It would be one hell of a stretch to assert that a single platform with its own home made protocol that doesn’t talk to any other technology in the entire fediverse as part of that fediverse. So at best you can say Bluesky has its own fediverse. And if one fediverse is going to be “the fediverse” it’s going to be the one that actually connects all the most common platforms people use today, including Diaspora.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume the same reason anyone chooses it over the fediverse, because they want their content to be be easily discoverable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A fediverse, but not the fediverse (ActivityPub)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you very much still have the privacy issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Jellyfin is still not up to snuff with where Plex was pre-enshittification, but Plex is enshittified. For everyone in between, there’s Emby, which I have been very happy with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m going to play devils advocate for Apple here because unfortunately I do know exactly what would happen if they were to do that. If they release any official tool or even ability to do that, and somebody gets all their data stolen because their home backup solution was not secured properly, all the headlines will read something like “Apples iCloud backup system hacked, user has all data stolen”, and 98.5% of the general public will assume that includes apples actual cloud ICloud backup system, will NOT understand that the user himself is at fault, and their reputation will tank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, well yeah Standard liters per minute specifically refers to flow rates measured in the U.S.

  So the “other” measurement would evidently be Europes “Normal liters per minute”.

  What the difference is, I couldn’t tell you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You mean the flow rate of a volume of liquid? What are you confused about exactly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FromSoftware didn’t want Sony to publish Dark Souls as it was ‘disappointed’ by how Demon’s Souls was treated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sony doesn’t really do that, not in the way that we’ve seen Microsoft do it at least. And most PlayStation exclusives are on PC now or are planned for PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Pi-hole v6⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  NextDNS isn’t selfhosted, is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The same amount of laptops will come over, we’ll just be paying more for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You having a domain or not has no bearing on which of these you use lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which reverse proxy do you use/recommend?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At that point you might be better off just using Nginx without the gui. SWAG is a nice reverse proxy focused implementation of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s a bot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can stop telemarketers from calling you (Canada)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That vast, vast majority of spam callers are operating out of illegal call centers in India, they’re spoofing phone numbers, and they could not care less that you’re on a do not call list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For automating maintenance and updates? How exactly does it not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep up?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ansible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fossil Fuel Interests Ramp Up Their “Solar Makes Electricity More Expensive” Falsehood⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean you can and they probably will. Unless something is easy enough to make yourself in your garage there will always be a free market to expand into and then extinguish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Using browser exploits to steal commissions from affiliate links without even the user knowing.

  Then if you used PayPal checkout, they would also “find” you discounts but swap them out with lower ones and pocket the difference. For example you buy something for $10 and they find a 30% off coupon, but tell you it’s a 10% off coupon. You go to checkout with PayPal and they charge your card $9 but only pay the merchant $7 and pocket the other $2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Encode Joins Musk in Fight Against OpenAI’s For-Profit Transition⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Postiz (v1.19.1) - open source social media scheduling tool (tons of new featrures)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to feed it an OpenAI key. You can deactivate it by not giving it the OpenAI key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Everyone liked that*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This fella shot the CEO of UnitedHealthcare (An American health insurance company) dead in the street in NYC yesterday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bluesky doesn’t even have to be Mastodon. It just has to Twitter before it went bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New to selfhosting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately not as self hosting is really just an amalgamation of a number of different technologies, concepts, groups of best practices, and there are nine and a half viable ways to do any given thing you’ll want to do.

  I think if you wanted a rough plan of what would be the most valuable things to learn in which order it would be

  1. Docker, especially persisting your storage and also how its network works. Use containerized services only on your local network at first to get a feel for things, and give yourself the ability to screw things ip without putting yourself in any danger.

  2. VPNs and how they work. You can start with a direct stupid simple VPN like WireGuard, or Tailscale if you want a mesh-VPN. This will allow you to reach your services remotely without having to worry too much about security and the micromanagement that can sometimes come with it.

  3. Reverse proxies for things you’d like to expose to the public. At this point you want to learn as well about things like server hardening, have a system in place to automate software updates etc. there’s a common misconception that using a reverse proxy is innately much safer than port forwarding directly to your services. It can help by obscuring your home IP, and if you pair it with a WAF of some kind that’ll help you with much of the chaff attacks that get tossed your way, but at the end of the day in both cases you’re exposing the web services on your local network to the internet at large, so you have to understand the risk and reward of doing this.