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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a job, and the office is 35km away. I get a locker in my office.

  I have two backup drives, and every month or so, I will rotate them by taking one into the office and bringing the other home. I do this immediately after running a backup.

  The drives are LUKS encrypted btrfs. Btrfs allows snapshots and compression. LUKS enables me to securely password protect the drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Far Out, Brussel Sprout⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had both books as a kid and I have no idea where they went.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unfortunately happens too often I think⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My neighbours were like that. I saw them walk their dogs once in 10 years.

  Their dogs are long gone and mine turns 18 in July.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What OS should I use for self-hosting that doesn't require extensive terminal knowledge?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost all of selfhosting is editing config files, setting permissions and starting/stopping services.

  Setting it up so you can administer a server by desktop is probably as hard as learning how to edit config files from a terminal. Maybe harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped reading when it started suggesting VPNs. Your’re far more likely to be profiled by a VPN provider than your ISP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg's reboot homepage design⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it, but it’s a desktop layout and they’ll get no adoption until it’s available as a native mobile app

  My work PC is so locked down these days that social media happens on my phone even when I’m at my desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can be absolutely certain no apps can access my mic in the background. Even when in the foreground, there is a hot-mic indicator.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s such an easy fix too. Create a separate wall that only contains your friend’s OC (not reshared garbage).

  It’s about 3 posts per day for someone with 200 friends, but I’d take it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d think they would make it increment every half mile instead of doing something stupid like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not because of advancements in technology, but because of erosion of regulations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ray tracing at 24fps is not a big ask for a modern gaming PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swapping out red meat and creamy pasta sauce could significantly cut household emissions, Australian research finds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, the manufacturers can pollute as much as they want and push the guilt on us?

  This is a regulatory problem on the supplier side, not a consumer problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a reasonable assumption that someone in China is Chinese.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Web is Broken — Botnet Part 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google has found exactly what you’re searching for. It’s just they can make more money by suggesting something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese robots ran against humans in the world’s first humanoid half-marathon. They lost by a mile⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first robot across the finish line, Tiangong Ultra – created by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center – finished the route in two hours and 40 minutes.

  The winner of the men’s race on Saturday finished in 1 hour and 2 minutes.

  What a misleading headline. This was a 13 mile race. The robots lost by about 8 miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I tested my car and the speedometer, trip meter and OBD give 3 completely different values. It’s kind of expected because all manufacturers make overreading speedometers.

  I think comparing trip meter/odometer, OBD and GPS is the way to go. It would be amusing if Teslas are programmed to behave when something is monitoring it over OBD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just fit your own dashcam. Some models have GPS logging so you can track where it is every second of driving.

  Another way would be to log OBDII metrics, and compare the vehicle speed, odometer and time. If you don’t get s=d/t then something is up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It takes a bit of effort. A chromecast sideskirts your DNS and uses 8.8.8.8. I had to intercept the traffic and redirect it to my DNS server with easylist on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an open access point and my neighbour’s TV is on it. I’m not sure if it was deliberatel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  4chan is kill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg’s 2012 email dubbed “smoking gun” at Meta monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Musk and Zuck want to literally fight recently? I don’t think they are friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨aight... i'm out..⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed they would log everything and create a profile in you from day one. I signed up with a fresh email account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Governments identify dozens of Android apps bundled with spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even Aurora store vets all the apps for trackers. Google just take the money and serve up malware.

  At least these days it’s farily obvious when an app is looking at your location or listening in with the mic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Antivirus en Linux – ¿Lo necesitas?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a link to a podcast page that returns a 404.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Companies Don’t Fix Bugs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every company I worked for is like this. I sneak small improvements into daily work. If I call an old function, I’ll often fix it while I’m there. Don’t raise tickets. Don’t ask. Just fix it.

  I also have a shelf of a hundred fixes that I never merged. I’ve done the work, but the real hurdle is PR and and testing. It takes days of effort to push code that took an hour to write.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia did this once. We called it “robodebt”. An algorithm that falsely cut people off social security and ultimately killed some of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a Hisense and there isn’t actually a button to view TV off the antenna. It takes about 5 button presses to get there. Absolutely cooked.

  This Google Free TV thing is not TV by definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Basic networking/subnetting question.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done this. I have 3 subnets on a single L2 switch without vlans, and the device isolation works. There’s a few caveats:

  1. I used a 4-port NIC on my router so I could have each subnet on its own interface. They all go directly into the L2 switch.
  2. You can only have one DHCP server broadcasting. If you have two, there is no way of predicting which subnet you land on.
  3. My guest subnet is only accessible via Wifi. I have specifically set up my access points so that a particular SSID is assigned to a particular subnet. The access point can broadcast DHCP on a single SSID.
  4. My third subnet is for my security cameras. It’s IPv6-only, and each camera has a static IP address. There is no DHCP. It means my cameras never physically use the same cables as my primary LAN, although they are on the same L2 switch.

  All traffic between subnets seems to go through the router, so I have some nftables rules to ensure my guest wifi can only see its own subnet and the public internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m in a toxic mood, I go to reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s becoming quite rare to change the CR2032 on a PC motherboard these days. Even those tend to outlive the hardware.