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- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 2 days ago:
They’re not talking about with Steam customers though, but rather with the religious idiots who have decided to crusade against porn, feel emboldened by recent age-ID bills and are now pursuing the “MasterCard funds filth” angle.
I’m kinda wondering what the ratio of anti-porn religious knobs is you gamers. There’s a lot of religious folk but many of them also enjoy porn so …
- Comment on hygiene 3 days ago:
That’s horrible but kinda hilarious too. Wondering how the hell they tracked that one down.
“Well this one had bits of corn and bean in it but only Bob had that today for lunch and I’m positive I saw him bolting for the men’s room, so mayyybe…”
- Comment on hygiene 3 days ago:
I’ve got a cheaper, tap-cold only version (mainly because that’s the easiest to install without running new plumbing or electrical in that particular location). Honestly the cold water isn’t so bad. It can even numb things up if you’ve been dehydrated and launched a particularly stressful cannonball.
- Comment on heaven 4 days ago:
I thought it was supposed to be a pineapple?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
I’ve read plenty of books, and I’m not really a huge Potter fan but it happens that my kids were re watching the old movies.
Still, Umbridge stands in my mind as one a great example of somebody who assists evil by hamstringing good and chipping away at hope, all while stating “this is for your own good” mentality.
It’s one of the few TV characters that actually made me angry because she’s so believable
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
She’s the Umbridge to his Voldemort
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
Uh… you can’t just “expose a LAN network to the Internet” in this manner. Local subnets aren’t routable over the Internet, so you can’t just enter 192.168.2.3 and end up on somebody else’s private LAN.
geeksforgeeks.org/…/non-routable-address-space/
They would have needed to either have all their internal devices being assigned public IP’s or had NAT+firewall rules explicitly routing ports from their outside address(es) to the inside ones. The former is unlikely as normally ISPs don’t allocate that many to a given client, or at least not by DHCP. the latter would require a specific configuration mapping the outside addresses/ports to inside devices, likely on a per device+port basis.
Either your story is missing key details or you’ve misunderstood/made-up something.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 1 week ago:
The storage facility concept is kinda close, if you count it as “a storage facility beside a major intersection in a big facility, with the locker doors left open despite meant the warning at the front desk not to do so”
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
So how about when a link is shared on Lemmy or Reddit or FB? Do the latter strip out the identifiers, or does that one person’s reshared post associate them with the clicks of thousands of others?
For web links, they’d also be able to find the source from the referrer tags etc
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
Did you even watch the video
Did you even read the comment? I said “in front of” (as in perpendicular to) not “into”.
That is EXACTLY what this car was trying to do. Take a second to read things properly before you comment maybe.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” 1 week ago:
Stopping might have still been a better result than turning in front of incoming traffic though
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 2 weeks ago:
You can actually already do this to an extent. Make certain bookings from a different country by VPN and it will affect your price (for the same flight/hotel/etc). I tried this a year ago and it made a difference!
- Comment on the universe about to have a little minty b 3 weeks ago:
And figured out parallax a long time ago
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 weeks ago:
And no competition. I’m pretty sure that they can shave some of the price off from that massive jump that came with COVID due to [checks list] “supply chain issues” and yet never went back down after…
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 3 weeks ago:
I think the idea behind a phone with a camera is that your can immediately upload what you’ve got in case some thug with a badge takes your device and smashes it
- Comment on Could I get a photo of the bag on you? 5 weeks ago:
You’re not the only one
- Comment on Plan for my first homeserver 5 weeks ago:
I run backups to a USB drive which is way to grab in the event of an emergency. Just make sure you test them every more and again, and possibly only connect it when needed if you’re at all worried about malware (a cryptolocker will happily take out any attached storage if your machine is infected).
- Comment on Plan for my first homeserver 5 weeks ago:
A lot of that stack looks similar to mine, though I’m running bigger hardware for various reasons. You might want to go with something with more cores than an i5 depending on how much you find yourself utilizing.
Have you considered Nextcloud for documents and syncing functionality? I went through a few ways of running it before ended up with the Snap package which has been fairly solid for over a year now (Docker was good for setup, but upgrading was problematic if not kept up with religiously)
Vaultwarden is Excellent.
Calibre-Web is good, especially if paired with the application to “extract” books, and an app like Moon+ on mobiles
Audiobookshelf is pretty solid. Pairs well with Libation.
HASS I initially ran on my server in a container but moved to dedicated hardware so updating and reboots didn’t break automatons. Got a HASS Yellow for the PoE and Zigbee.
If you’re looking for audio/video library management, JellyFin is pretty easy to get running and has apps for phones plus many TVs. Finamp is a good mobile app for the music part
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 5 weeks ago:
You can also use a router that can run wireguard/openvpn and have that run the tunnel back to home for you. I’ve got a portable GL-Inet router with OpenWRT that I use for this when I’m on the road
- Comment on McPenis 1 month ago:
Yeahhhhh. It used to be when we called the place McDick’s it was commentary on the food/service quality not the menu items
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 1 month ago:
A lot depends on the implementation rather than the idea itself. I’ve read plenty of stories of people stuck on hold with 9-1-1 - including deaths - as well as cases where they’ve been hung up on by shitty operators.
An AI system might be able to do some basic triage to prioritize calls for the human operators and actually result in faster access/response and saved lives. It might also be able to do things like transcribing information such as addresses or location for responders. If the AI is planned to be a replacement for humans rather than an augmentation though, lives will likely be lost
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
It’ll be interesting too as federations are a bit of a wild-west right now with some domains dropping off or being federated, while others may still be created in the future
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 month ago:
That sounds kinda cool. I’ll have to check it out. It’s kinda hard sometimes to push FOSS stuff in a largercorporate environment but this looks like something I could recommend/build for small-mid private SOHO clients.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 month ago:
Used to run OpenVPN. Tried Wireguard and the performance was much better, although lacking some of the features some might need/want fit credential-based logins etc
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 1 month ago:
I didn’t really get the allure of it TBH. For most home-based nerds a simple Wireguard host (or OpnSense, OpenWRT etc running such) should be fine, and there are better options for commercial from better-known vendors in the network security space
- Comment on Google Restricts Android Sideloading—What It Means for User Autonomy and the Future of Mobile Freedom – Purism 1 month ago:
Honestly other than a fingerprint lock, I’ve found the apps suck compared to just a browser on a PC anyhow. Half the apps could just be webpages, and a bunch of those are just wrappers to a web rendering layer anyhow
- Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't? 2 months ago:
I think it very much depends on the type of and source of pain.
For me, Tylenol works for headaches and some cold/flu stuff but I’ve never really found it effective for strained muscles etc
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 months ago:
Yeah but Nintendo doesn’t always seem to give a shit just because something is legal. They’ll still play the “but our legal department has more money than YOU” card
- Comment on A last-minute SteamOS update has saved Doom: The Dark Ages on Steam Deck, and it runs surprisingly okay-ish 2 months ago:
All these Doom sequels… a proper Descent would kick ass
- Comment on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings 2 months ago:
Or just use the smartphone camera that almost everyone is going to have anyhow…