Decipher0771
@Decipher0771@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 3 days ago:
I’ll further argue that the Paradox of Intolerance, used in this instance, implies that if we do not tolerate intolerance we can effectively snuff it out or meaningfully prevent it and thus we do not have to tolerate intolerance at all. The sad fact is that that is not true unless you are willing to cull opposing opinions
That is exactly what is necessary, to snuff out intolerant voices as the one thing the tolerant must do. Opposing opinions is what they claim to be, but the intolerant hate spewers isn’t about opposing opinions at all, it’s rather “you are not entitled to your opinion”. It’s a false equivalency that allows intolerant to gain an advantage because they do not play by the same rules or definitions. The whole moving goalposts strategy for instance.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 3 days ago:
If you flipped the situation around and a radical conservative hacker in Russia hacked an LGBTQ site you would immediately call that a crime.
Indeed I would. But that’s because it would be someone trying to silence a group and promote intolerance. The proper equivalent scenario would instead be someone making a hack that amplified and encouraged equality and tolerance……which doesn’t happen.
I feel strongly that rules and laws should be enforced equally and that you can’t put them on a spectrum.
Sure
ere is another example; when Democrats were found to have potentially taken top secret files, by accident or not, the party had to investigate them with the same level of conviction as they had with Trump because failing to do so undermined their own argument.
And therin lies the problem. The democrats may indeed investigate and prosecute their own, see Al Franken……but the other side has no intention of doing the same. So the law is already not being applied equally, and “the high ground” of tolerating intolerance simply backfires. That is exactly the paradox.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 4 days ago:
I think this is an extension of the paradox of intolerance. Laws are never absolute, and when one side has no respect for laws and enforces only what is advantageous for them this kind of action absolutely should count as self defence. We should fully support taking away the anonymity and feeling of immunity from those who abuse the law.
- Comment on The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever 1 week ago:
Nice……but the whole thing is written like an AI did it. I hate the way they phrase everything like Billy Mays “but wait there’s more!”
- Comment on Reverse Proxy: a single point of failure in my lab 1 week ago:
You’re talking high availability design. As someone else said, there’s almost always a single point of failure but there are ways to mitigate depending on the failures you want to protect against and how much tolerance you have for recovery time. instant/transparent recovery IS possible, you just have to think through your failure and recovery tree.
proxy failures are kinda the simplest to handle if you’re assuming all the backends for storage/compute/network connectivity is out of scope. You set up two (or more) separate VMs that have the same configuration and float a virtual IP between them that your port forwards connect to. If any VM goes down, the VIP migrates to whatever VM is still up and your clients never know the difference. Look up Keepalived, that’s the standard way to do it on Linux.
But you then start down a rabbit hole. Is your storage redundant, the networking connectivity redundant, power? All of those can be made redundant too, but it will cost you, time and likely money for hardware. It’s all doable, you just have to decide how much it’s worth for you.
Most home labbers I suspect will just accept the 5mins it takes to reboot a VM and call it a day. Short downtime is easier handle, but there are definitely ways to make your home setup fully redundant and highly available. At least unless a meteor hits your house anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
I’ll probably throw in a spare HD and dual boot the box to test one of these days. Each successive MS attempt to force crap down our throats just further incentivizes me.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 2 months ago:
The only reason I have a windows box is for gaming, specifically sims (racing and flying)
Ever more reason to test and see if the wheel and flight stick work under Proton.
- Comment on Apple has REMOVED the ICEBlock app from the App Store due to “objectionable content.” 3 months ago:
From the heroes who bravely took away the headphone jack
- Comment on v2.0.0: Stable Release of Immich (complete with Merch and DVD) 3 months ago:
I was going to finally do k0/k3 or something kubernetes to set it up. I managed to get it going scalable with just docker swarm. So the kubernetes procrastination survived another deployment!
- Comment on emergency remote access 3 months ago:
That’s called unnecessary overkill and you’ll introduce failures from excess complexity.
- Comment on emergency remote access 3 months ago:
I buy better gear that doesn’t regularly require a reboot
My mikrotik has not NEEDED a reboot ever, except when I run upgrades. Everything is set up to auto recover when disconnects happen, and power up properly if there’s an extended power failure that causes UPS shutdowns.
I will never understand why people think rebooting their router regularly is a normal thing. That just means your gear or setup is crap.
- Comment on Confirm passthrough understanding for proxmox 3 months ago:
You can use vgpu if you have an older nvidia card, up to 2000 series gitlab.com/polloloco/vgpu-proxmox
I don’t think any other cards are nearly as well supported for GPU resource splitting
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Nah not THAT old, interleaving was pretty unnecessary by 1992, IDE drives generally didn’t need it, that was for the older MFM drives
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 4 months ago:
At that scale discs are stamped, not individually burned. Same as how music CDs and DVDs were made.
- Comment on WhoFi: Unique 'fingerprint' based on Wi-Fi interactions 5 months ago:
Gonna have to start wearing metallic strips randomly to mess with my signal dispersion properties
- Comment on Jellyfin over the internet 6 months ago:
Jellyfin through a traefik proxy, with a WAF as middleware and brute force login protected by fail2ban
- Comment on Do you remember Windows 95? How about Windows 96? 6 months ago:
UTM is your friend in lieu of Virtualbox
- Comment on Using DNS4EU in North America 6 months ago:
If you’re using a government run DNS, why not use the CIRA ones instead? www.cira.ca/en/canadian-shield/
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 7 months ago:
Self hosted Sunshine and Moonlight is the way to go.
- Comment on 8 months ago:
It never got over you
- Comment on USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world 8 months ago:
I feel old. The only one of those I haven’t ever used is that AAUI port. What’s that for?
- Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else? 8 months ago:
To add to this….ive added a layer of protection against accidental deletion and dumb fingering by making each year of my photos archive into a separate zfs dataset. Then each year I set each dataset to read-only and create a new one.
Manual, but effective enough. I also have automatic snapshots against dumb fingering, but this helps against ones I don’t notice before the snapshots expire.
- Comment on Incremental backups to optical media: tar, dar, or something else? 8 months ago:
I did (am doing) something very similar. I definitely have issues with my indexing, but I’m just ordering it manually by year/date for now.
I’m doing a little extra for parity though. I’m using 50-100gb discs for the data, and using 25gb discs as a full parity disc via dvdisaster for each disc I burn. Hopefully that reduces the risk of the parity data also being unreadable, and gives MORE parity data without eating into my actual data discs. It’s hard enough to break up the archives into 100gb chunks as is.
Need to look into bacula as suggested by another poster.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 10 months ago:
Different devices. iOS, android, AppleTV. Most of it is likely Apple’s fault for the limited options in the ecosystem tho.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 10 months ago:
It’s not a transcoding power issue. It’s a UI consistency and usability issue. With every device having a slightly different UI, with some apps having issues if playing back natively and some needing transcoding, the experience is inconsistent and frankly doesn’t pass the “wife acceptance factor” test, or the “let your friends use it without needing to handhold them through regular troubleshooting for their particular device” test.
I still don’t use Plex and exclusively use Jellyfin, but it’s still a hard sell to non technical users. Plex has much more polish.
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 10 months ago:
It is……if you use a computer. Their AppleTV app still looks like some random coder’s pet project with random playback issues.
- Comment on Domain instead of ip in Wireguard 1 year ago:
Just an A record, you just need the domain query to resolve to your IP.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 1 year ago: