jbloggs777
@jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de
Just a regular Joe.
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 1 day ago:
Heh. Tax returns and music should have been the giveaways, although I know someone who takes great satisfaction in taking every tax deduction they legally can, down to the last cent. :-P
- Comment on Why do people like Mario Kart? 1 day ago:
TV and games sure, but embrace music - (try to) learn to play an instrument, and you will appreciate listening so much more!
- Comment on European Union funding an obfuscator 1 week ago:
Not everything will be open source. For whatever reason, they decided to make this obfuscator open source. It might also just be an interesting side project that someone got permission to release.
Obfuscation can make it harder to reverse engineer code, even if the method is known. It might also be designed to be pluggable, allowing custom obfuscation. I haven’t checked.
We also know that obfuscation isn’t real security … but it’s sometimes it is also good enough for a particular use case…
- Comment on Meta is now a defense contractor 1 week ago:
Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn’t exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They “do their own research”, of course.
So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 2 weeks ago:
But not Fire tablets (kids profile) or Samsung TV or many others that Plex currently supports.
JellyFin android phone app’s UI is a little weird at times, but does work pretty well for me.
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What I would adore from any app would be an easy way to upload specific content and metadata via SFTP or to blob storage and accessible with auth (basic, token, or cloud) to more easily share it with friends/family/myself without having to host the whole damn library on the Internet or share my home Internet at inconvenient times.
Client-side encryption would be a great addition to that (eg. password required, that adds a key to the key ring). And of course native support in the JellyFin/other apps for this. It could even be made to work with a JS & WASM player.
- Comment on Microsoft bars employees from using words ‘Palestine,’ ‘Gaza’ and ‘genocide’ in internal emails: report 3 weeks ago:
Don’t they know that the kids deserved it, because they like Hummus. Yes, I’m sure that was it.
- Comment on Pocket shutting down 3 weeks ago:
I used to love Pocket … I remember they changed something, and then I refused to use it since. I don’t remember what it was now, though. I assume enshittification of some kind.
- Comment on Secrets Management 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, at that point I wouldn’t worry. If someone has docker access on the server, it’s pretty much game over.
- Comment on Secrets Management 3 weeks ago:
Encryption will typically be CPU bound, while many servers will be I/O bound (eg. File hosting, rather than computing stuff). So it will probably be fine.
Encryption can help with the case that someone gets physical access to the machine or hard disk. If they can login to the running system (or dump RAM, which is possible with VMs & containers), it won’t bring much value.
You will of course need to login and mount the encrypted volume after a restart.
At my work, we want to make sure that secrets are adequately protected at rest, and we follow good hygiene practices like regularly rotating credentials, time limited certificates, etc. We tend to trust AWS KMS to encrypt our data, except for a few special use cases.
Do you have a particular risk that you are worried about?
- Comment on Secrets Management 3 weeks ago:
Normally you wouldn’t need a secrets store on the same server as you need the secrets, as they are often stored unencrypted by the service/app that needs it. An encrypted disk might be better in that case.
That said, Vault has some useful features like issuing temporary credentials (eg. for access to AWS, DBs, servers) or certificate management. If you have these use-cases, it could be useful, even on the same server.
At my work, we tend to store deployment-time secrets either in protected Gitlab variables or in Vault. Sometimes we use AWS KMS to encrypt values in config files, which we checkin to git repositories.
- Comment on ‘The Worst Internet-Research Ethics Violation I Have Ever Seen’ | The most persuasive “people” on a popular subreddit turned out to be a front for a secret AI experiment. 5 weeks ago:
It would be naive to think this isn’t already in widespread use.
- Comment on Marc Andreessen predicts one of the few jobs that may survive the rise of AI automation 1 month ago:
Challenge accepted.
- Comment on Epic Games is delisting Dark and Darker due to an ongoing legal dispute 3 months ago:
It feels more like a dance game to me. Boring and awkward choreographed moves in response to predictable monster moves. Once you’ve learned the moves, then you can pay and play!
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 3 months ago:
Hah. I was just playing a YT video of modem sounds for my son, after showing him some “history” videos about early PCs, BBS’s, text adventure and early commodore* and PC gaming.
History? I lived it, son.
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 3 months ago:
Grey-stubble Gen-X’er here… The 80s and (moreso for me) 90s were a great time to get into tech. Amiga, DOS, Win3.11, OS/2, Linux… BBS’s and the start of the Internet, accompanied by special interest groups and regular in-person social events.
Everyone was learning at the same time, and the complexity arrived in consumable chunks.
Nowadays, details are hidden behind touchscreens and custom UXs, and the complexity must seem insurmountable to many. I guess courses have more value now.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 3 months ago:
Only in the US, and for mapping companies that now have to treat the US as a “sensitive” country.
The rest of the world can continue to call it by its internationally recognised name.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 3 months ago:
Don’t know about “happily”. “Readily” might be more accurate.
- Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour 5 months ago:
Not A.I, just a terrible system that incentivises (and even demands for public companies) abusive behaviour.
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 6 months ago:
Ha, mia samideano! Tre bon’!
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 6 months ago:
25 or so years ago, I learnt Esperanto ( Y first second language) by chatting on the Internet. I’d have two windows open - one with the IRC client, and the other with a terminal and a shell alias that would grep a txt file with consistent formatting. “esp esperantoVerbPrefix/” or “esp noun,” or “esp affix-” would typically return the correct result in a split second. Thanks to the simple grammar (that I had quickly memorized), I could hold conversations in near real time as a result.
I wish I could have learnt my other languages as easily.
- Comment on Is there any open-source project that serves the same purpose of Duolingo that can be self-hosted? 6 months ago:
Anki ?