spaghettiwestern
@spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Tech industry is in tariff hell, even if refunds are automated 3 days ago:
The tech industry will get to keep refunds of the of tariffs they’ve collected AND will make more money automating the distribution of those refunds to themselves.
Sounds like the tech industry is in tariff heaven.
- Comment on Windows 12 Reportedly Set for Release This Year as a Fully Modular, Subscription-Based, AI-Focused OS 5 days ago:
These AI features won’t come cheaply, with Windows 12 set to debut a new hardware requirement just as its predecessor did with the TPM 2.0 requirement. This time around, a dedicated NPU would be required, a specialized processor designed to handle AI tasks.
Requiring new hardware for AI when there’s already a serious SSD and memory shortage caused by AI? What could possibly go wrong?
Next up: Microslop will file lawsuits to shut down Linux distribution.
- Comment on Using VPS for remote access of my server - some questions 6 days ago:
When I looked into this configuration a few years ago the security improvements seemed minimal. Adding yet another provider to the mix plus the additional risk of a server misconfiguration didn’t seem to be worth the trouble unless I was dealing with CGNAT.
Besides hiding endpoints from your ISP and exposing them to the VPS, how much security does this really add?
- Comment on What us the best way to add remote access to my servers? 1 week ago:
DDNS (Dynamic DNS), one 3rd party service I do use.
My network is reached by URL, not IP (although IP still works). When my IP changes the router updates the DDNS service in minutes. Lots of providers out there and it’s easy to switch if needed. I like DuckDNS. It’s free or you can choose to donate a bit to cover their expenses.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Sorry I wasn’t clear - I was referring to whomever did.
- Comment on How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked 1 week ago:
Does “the feds” include Amazon?
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Gotta laugh at the downvotes. Maybe you’d like to be her tech support?
- Comment on How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked 1 week ago:
If the Kindle never has Internet access (and that includes access through another app) Amazon should not be able to connect at all. YouTube buffers content and your device may have already downloaded the entire file, but if it’s a phone it would just switch to the mobile network.
Sometimes I think I’m too paranoid about this stuff and the next day they’ll be another headline about corporate abuse of “protected” consumer data or yet another breach. Remember Facebook’s years long access of protected medical records through a tracking tool installed on a third of medical websites? I’m probably not paranoid enough.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Pretty sure a decent amount of them are bots.
Could be, but those bots must be programmed to simulate actual Maggots. They don’t know how to spell, capitalize or use punctuation, much less write more than a single barely comprehensible sentence.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Apple.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Not an option. A few years ago I helped a friend when her printer quit working on Windows 10. What started as occasional help turned into near daily phone calls and demands for tech support. Turned out her boyfriend was getting pissed off when he was playing a game and killing the PC with the power button on the PC.
I’m willing to help her occasionally but am not going further than that.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
I found it useful for some things. We have a pack of coyotes in town that preys on dogs and occasionally is spotted in the neighborhood. It was also useful for business & contractor recommendations, but have to otherwise agree with you.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
It goes deeper with Nextdoor. During Covid someone living next to a local evangelical church posted pictures of a packed event where no one was wearing a mask. Some of those pictures included the backs of a few kid’s heads.
The church members complained that he was a pedophile(!) and Nextdoor deleted his account, something that could not be done by moderators and required Nextdoor executive approval.
Nextdoor is a Maggot haven from top to bottom.
- Comment on Introducing Habitat - A Social Platform for Local Communities 1 week ago:
Even in my relatively liberal U.S. city, Next Door is overrun by Magats who are cheered on and protected by right-wing Magot moderators. It needs to die and this looks like a great replacement.
- Comment on How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked 1 week ago:
I find it puzzling that people are OK with allowing a mammoth, regularly hostile corporation know exactly what books they’re reading as well as the exact details of their reading habits. Everything is accessible to Amazon- how often you access a book, how fast your read and when you linger on or return to a page. I wonder when they’ll implement camera-based eye tracking so they know what word you’re on?
The same Public libraries that vigorously defend the privacy of our reading lists are simultaneously fine outsourcing all ebook access to Amazon where there’s no expectation of privacy at all. Epubs at those libraries are now so well hidden they’re not even mentioned anymore and access is buried multiple levels deep in the mandatory Libby app.
I love the ease of access and convenience of ebooks, but paper books are becoming more and more appealing by comparison.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Microsoft is making it impossible to use Windows PCs without an online account. Obviously there’s Linux, but I’m not willing to be her only source of tech support. That leaves Apple.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Lots of people miss posts and there’s always someone who oh-so offended and thinks if they’ve seen something, everyone else has too. Thanks for (re)posting this.
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 1 week ago:
Let me, for once, not mince words here: Windows 11 is a travesty, a loose collection of dark patterns and incompetence, run by people who have zero interest in lovingly crafting an operating system they can be proud of. Windows has become a vessel for subscriptions and ads, and cannot reasonably be considered anything other than a massive pile of user-hostile dark patterns designed to extract data, ad time, and subscription money from its users.
I ran into the same type of problem trying to reset the forgotten MS password for a friend. In her case she could log in to her PC with a PIN but not her password, and her MS email was still accessible from the PC but not her phone.
Attempting to change the password resulted in an “SMS service not available” message 90% of the time over a period of days. The few times the service was available and it said we successfully changed the password, the new password would not work, even when we were positive it was entered correctly. The SSD wasn’t anywhere near full.
Microsoft then turned the days already wasted because of their incompetence into a week. As a last ditch effort we tried Microsoft’s 24 hour turn-around password reset questionnaire three times. The new password was still rejected both on her PC and phone every single time.
We eventually had to give up. If her PC or her Outlook app ever asks for a password she’ll lose all access and that’s apparently just fine with Microsoft. When she does buy a new PC it’ll be an Apple.
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- Comment on Availability issues 2 weeks ago:
Similar to a mechanical device that wears out faster with heavy use, the depth of discharge (DoD) determines the cycle count of the battery. The smaller the discharge (low DoD), the longer the battery will last. If at all possible, avoid full discharges and charge the battery more often between uses. Partial discharge on Li-ion is fine. There is no memory and the battery does not need periodic full discharge cycles to prolong life. - batteryuniversity.com/…/bu-808-how-to-prolong-lit…
Your chance of being struck by lightning in the course of a lifetime is about 1 in 13,000. Lithium-ion batteries have a failure rate that is less than one in a million. The failure rate of a quality Li-ion cell is better than 1 in 10 million. batteryuniversity.com/…/bu-304a-safety-concerns-w…
Battery swelling (not caused by manufacturing defects) is primarily caused by overcharging, deep-discharge, physical damage, and heat, none of which are problems for my server installation.
- Comment on Availability issues 2 weeks ago:
After having my server fail to recover after a power failure while I was out of town for an extended period I moved all important server apps to an relatively inexpensive laptop.
The battery is firmware limited to a 70% charge which means it will last for years with no significant safety concerns. Even at a partial charge, Debian indicates 7 hours of run time when the power fails (I’ve had none longer than 4), and it’s unaffected by power blinks. It saves a bit of electricity too and costs $150 less per year to run than my old UPS alone.
Ir’s been running for nearly 2 years without a hitch.
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- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Running cables is not possible in lots of homes and there are plenty of wired cameras that send video to corporate clouds. The mistake is allowing those corporations access to those videos. Camera output should be encrypted and only usable for the camera owner unless they choose to opt in to the corporate spy network.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Booo. Well done.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
The cameras have no Internet access at all. Someone would already need access to my network for this vulnerability to be a problem.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Your prior comment was for newcomers?
"How is it encrypted, with what algorithm? was the alg implemented securely? who has the decryption keys? how were the keys generated? were they generated from a good enough entropy source? "
This was writting for people with quite a bit of knowledge. Newcomers would have absolutely no idea what any of it means.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
When people in this community say “encryption” it should be obvious we’re referring to effective encryption.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
Frigate is a marvel. Setting it up and tweaking it does take time but once done it requires almost no maintenance (at least in my experience) and is close to flawless. It’s only had 1 false alert in the last year and that was caused by a spiderweb on the camera. I wish all my applications were as trouble free.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
There’s no focus on my cameras, but they’re set not to detect people unless them come into zones near the house.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 3 weeks ago:
I have absolutely no problem using these kinds of devices.
I have an old phone and a generic Play account that I used for setup so the companies have nothing of consequence but my public IP address. Setup takes less than 15 minutes and after that all Internet access is completely blocked just like it would be if I unplugged my cable modem. There is no way for the cameras to override my router settings.
My smart TV is much more of a concern.