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- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 1 week ago:
This is interesting. I haven’t heard somebody use “Apache” as a reference to httpd in a long time due to the rise of nginx and because Apache.org does so much more than just httpd.
But I agree. Apache httpd 0.x was one of the softwares that first showed me how much better Linux is than Windows. IIS at the time was an insecure confusing monstrosity. I wonder if it still is.
- Comment on The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos 1 week ago:
Yeah. How do you think they trained it?
- Comment on Fixing an expired SSL certificate remotely 1 week ago:
I’m not aware of a way for it to notify if the internet is down. An expired certificate would not create that failure scenario though.
- Comment on Fixing an expired SSL certificate remotely 1 week ago:
It has a built in alerting mechanism. Also
Uptime Kuma is integrated Apprise which supports up to 78+ notification services.
- Comment on Fixing an expired SSL certificate remotely 1 week ago:
uptime-kuma will monitor your https availability and automatically check your cert expiration.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 2 weeks ago:
All my coworkers. Full volume.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 3 weeks ago:
My experience running several ssh servers on uncommon nonstandard ports for over 10 years has been that it has eliminated all ssh brute forcing. I don’t even bother with fail2ban. I probably should though, just in case.
Also, PSA: if you use fail2ban, don’t try tab completing rsync commands without using
controlmasteror you will lock yourself out. - Comment on Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired? 4 weeks ago:
Can you explain why it’s not possible to stabilize the voltage on the receiving side before the power is sent to the battery?
- Comment on Here, have some unpleasant knowledge about Mario. 4 weeks ago:
You’ve never had to chase down a 1up mushroom?
- Comment on Brazilian court gives Apple 90 days to allow sideloading on iOS 1 month ago:
That’s the fast lane to having every company that values their IP exiting Brazil. Apple would roll their certificates and quit signing whatever Brazil was building with and Brazil’s economy would be way worse off for nothing.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 1 month ago:
No, it’s authentic.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 1 month ago:
Hosting the server is free. I’m actually not sure about windows because I don’t use that. We actually play on our iPads. We have a family set up. Pay once for the app, everybody gets to install it on their own device.
For free stuff I think people run Java edition? Again, I’ve never done that. There is an itzg Java server container github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-server
- Comment on The Volkswagen ID. EVERY1 is an affordable EV for the masses 1 month ago:
The Volkswagen Bug Zapper.
- Comment on Self-hosting minecraft 1 month ago:
My kids and I use github.com/itzg/docker-minecraft-bedrock-server and would recommend.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 1 month ago:
The Maple Eh-phone
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 1 month ago:
This era was before smartphones and always-online lifestyle. Being always online is a prerequisite to the attention economy.
So, yes, you’re right that the best internet was back then. Back when we could leave it at home and go out into the world knowing everybody else had also left it at home.
Laptops are an obvious exception back then, but almost nobody took their laptop to the bar with them, or to a concert, or on a hike, or to the grocery store. And the trouble of pulling it out and trying to find WiFi meant that it wasn’t easy enough to distract the majority.
- Comment on Researchers surprised to find less-educated areas adopting AI writing tools faster 1 month ago:
This does not sound good for those people. Writing is a way of thinking. AI is a competitive cognitive artifact. People who use AI to write most of their written communication will get worse at thinking through writing.
- Comment on Microsoft Outlook servers down, reports say 1 month ago:
Office 364.93
- Comment on You should swap your work or gaming monitor for a pair of AR glasses, and I'm not joking 1 month ago:
I’ve really wanted to do this, in large part because of tech neck. I’d love to have a HMD that has focusable optics so I don’t subconsciously strain my neck to look at my screen.
Anybody have recommendations? I’d love a dumb HMD with hdmi or usb-c video input.
- Comment on When You Block the Internet on Your Phone, Something Astonishing Happens Mentally 2 months ago:
the subjects could still go online using a computer
Are you suggesting that people who are intermittently connected to the internet instead of tethered to it by a pocket device are somehow more ignorant?
- Comment on Docker Hub limiting unauthenticated users to 10 pulls per hour 2 months ago:
I think they mean pull-through cache. shipyard.build/…/how-to-docker-registry-pull-thro…
- Comment on Amazon boss Jeff Bezos could face prison over knife sales to children 2 months ago:
He doesn’t have to. He already paid off Trump, who will pardon him.
- Comment on place yer bets 2 months ago:
Thankfully I live in the USA where we’re totally safe because we reject science! But don’t you try coming here for safety, we hate everybody else. You’ll probably just be sent to gitmo.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
That person is missing the point that a randomized MAC will often get a different DHCP lease, and the MAC address is used in that, so the IP address will change.
On a trusted Wi-Fi network, disable MAC randomization on your clients, and if possible reserve an IP address for their non-random MAC address. Some devices have a deterministic random per WiFi network, which could also work. In iOS this is WiFi network -> private WiFi address “fixed”. “Rotating” would cause your hole problems.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 2 months ago:
Some libraries offer large sections of the O’reilly Safari Bookshelf, a collection of educational tech books.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 months ago:
No fucking way. Not even if the car was free.
- Comment on ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases 2 months ago:
I recently took a critical eye to the lyrics of the USA national anthem and was surprised to realize that it’s basically about killing people all night long and not getting killed yourself.
- Comment on Does anyone actually know what MAGA all agree they are getting out of all this? 2 months ago:
I live in a northern border city. What benefit should I be on the lookout for?
- Comment on Report: Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech 2 months ago:
I hope kids ditch social media and start loitering ITL.
- Comment on Meta tells Brazil it's only axing fact checkers in USA 3 months ago:
Because facts are different depending on your national jurisdiction.