IsoKiero

@IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I browse a piece of software from play store and click ‘install’ it’s “installing” and if I do the very same with F-droid it’s suddenly “sideloading”. Fundamentally every language is just made up, but on this occasion the newly coined term is used to obfuscate things and attempting to paint things something they are not.

  I can claim all day that grass is blue and sky is green, but no one will take me seriously. Same thing should happen with ‘sideloading’ vs 'installing. Or if you really insist, sideloading might be something like injecting code to a system in a way which is not normally possible, like how some rootkits for devices work. But ‘sideloading’ is very different from ‘installing’ and installing anything on a general purpose computer doesn’t include any particular tool (like play store). I can install things on my workstation with ‘apt-get install’ or from source via ‘make install’, but the end result is still that a piece of software was installed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what car did you learn in?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the question is ‘vehicle’: Massey-Ferguson 165. Or if you insist a car: Opel Kadett C.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Give users that choice

  That’s the one thing they want to get rid of. Security and other bullshit is just a theater around it to get validation for even bigger walls for their garden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whole thing is well worth a read, but just from the title alone I was ready to write a long rant about the term ‘sideloading’. Gladly that’s covered on the text too:

  It bears reminding that “sideload” is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Where in the FUCK in Outlook currently is an option to use preformatted text? It’s not a style I could pick nor I could find an option to make my own. I send copy-paste from terminal every now and then and if it’s formatted like normal text it’s nearly useless. It used to be a text style I could pick, but this new-new-new-classic-new outlook doesn’t have it anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, I guess it is safe to assume you are an enthusiastic murderer.

  As it happens, I am. I wander around doing all the murdering I want to. It just happens to be none at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not try someone a bit more relevant than Hans Reiser, there’s plenty to choose from. Like Eric Raymond whose work, at least indirectly, influences more or less everyone using a computer on a daily basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Futo updates their website, removing logos, clarifying micro grants⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely agree with your statement. Hell, even the GNU project (RMS mostly) had their own scandal a while ago, so if you really insist on being pedantic about this matter feel free on removing practically every piece of open source software from your systems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "Learn to Code" Backfired on a Whole Generation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  other techies I’ve worked with had humanities degrees

  My sister, who’s been an occupational therapist, personal assistant and on other ‘soft’ jobs recently got hired as a helpdesk employee just for that reason. Apparently it’s easier to teach a humanist to reset M365 passwords and do simple troubleshooting than teach a techie on how to deal with humans (which is a major part of being an on-call support for anything).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selfhosting Sunday! What's up?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually did something for quite a while. Finished long overdue wiring for outdoor access point and one more camera, replaced a main switch since the old one started to behave unreliably, installed frigate (which still needs some work), cleaned up some wiring while messing around, updated a bunch of firmwares, replaced switch in garage to managed one and made some changes on my workstation and some other minor stuff.

  Next would be to move cameras into their own VLAN and harden that setup a bit. And I really should get around on better backups for my VPS. But it’s a new week coming up, if the work isn’t too busy I might get something more done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I watch Iron Man or Batman talking to a computer, I don’t see some pinnacle of efficiency, I see inefficiency.

  Things like Jarvis from Iron Man are far beyond of just translating speech to computer commands. Like in the first Iron Man where Jarvis pretty much manages the whole process on manufacturing the suit and can autonomically manage a fleet of them. I could see benefit if some kind of AI could just listen on a engineers discussion and update CAD models based on that, taking care of that the assemblies work as they should, keeping everything in spec and managing all the documents accordingly. But that’s pretty much human-level AI at that point and specially the current LLM hype is fundamentally very different from it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whoa! Windows 7's market share surged, tripling in users last month⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Snap Controversy

  Just today at work other team wrote a bunch of ready-made images on their SBCs. In about 10% of them snap shat the bed by corrupting one json file which rendered their environment unusable. They did it in a pretty stupid way by writing an sd card, inserting it into SBC, booting up and disconnecting power after very short visual confirmation that system gave some signs of life. And snap was doing whatever it’s doing in the background. So I had the pleasure of removing said json-file and reinstalling all their crap manually on those failed units.

  So, maybe not strictly speaking fault of snapd, but yet another problem it caused for me without any practical reason other than the environment they chose just uses snap instead of something more robust.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In here it’s mostly not, but it’s currently +5 degrees celsius outside so I’m keeping my clothes. And whatever little is left of my privacy too, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can wait until someone else than Zuck® offers something better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The wristband is what he called a “neural interface” – in a genuinely remarkable feat of technology, it allows you to type through minimal hand gestures, picking up on the electrical signals going through your muscles.

  That would be genuinely a piece of hardware I might adopt if it’s actually working as well as normal keyboard with touch typing. And obviously it has to work locally like any HID without sending everything I type to Zuck or someone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨where to move for cheap VPS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Another happy Hetzner customer here. ~10 years so far, both for business and for personal use. 1€/month won’t happen, but they’re not that expensive either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are ‘customers’ not ‘civilians’. Totally different thing, pinky swear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for Selfhosted mail server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  DNS PTR records belong to the entity who owns the IP addresses, you can’t make reverse records for arbitary addresses like you can with forward zones. I haven’t heard about any residential ISP which would give access to PTR records and even on business lines that’s usually a premium.

  What you could do is to get a VPN service which gives you these options, if there is one, I don’t know. Most likely you’re looking for a VPS for that and tunnel traffic with some kind of VPN-setup to your local instance. And at that point you might as well run the whole thing on VPS unless you happen to need a ton of storage or some other reason makes pure VPS server too expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted family archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends heavily on what you need/want. My current installation doesn’t have anything extra, mail and calendar with “standard” file storage (with sync agents on desktop/laptop) is well enough on what I use it for as my photos are in Immich instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosted family archive⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nextcloud offers practically everything you ask for besides the family tree and even that might be available as a plugin (or “App” as Nextcloud calls tem). Or if you’re willing to split photos in a different app, Immich works great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Know your place⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meaning that if you could travel at the speed of light (which is impossible), it would still take you 100,000 years to cross the galaxy from edge to edge.

  It’s just highly improbable to cross the galaxy in less than 100 000 years. You just need a device which generates infinite improbability and that’ll pass you trough every single point in the universe simultaneously and you can just stop where needed. Side effects may apply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I do it. Postfix+dovecot+spamassassin managed with ISPConfig running on a VPS. Works just fine, but my domains already have a long-ish good reputation so that may play a part on my experience. Biggest headache is to keep things running, which occasionally means jumping trough hoops microsoft(mostly) and others throw at you by flagging your server as spam for no apparent reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s quite likely that any given IP, unless you get one from shady VPS provider or something, is “clean”. And if it’s not it’s usually not that big of a deal to get it cleared from major blacklists (spamhaus, google and microsoft covers quite a lot). You just need to dig up proper forms to tell them that you’re a new owner of said IP and promise to play nice.

  Same goes with domain names, but if you get a new one that’s a non-issue. Just set up SPF-records properly (and preferably DKIM/DMARC, but those aren’t strictly necessary and need a bit more than a single TXT-record) and you’re good to go.

  And then you of course need to stay away from those lists. If you configure your SMTP to act as a open proxy you’ll be on every shitlist on the planet pretty quickly. So, reasonable measures against compromised account (passwords, firewalls, rate limits…) and against other threats (misconfigured/unsafe web service used for spam and stuff like that). Any of those alone are not too difficult to accomplish, but there’s quite a few things you need to get right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If people are paying someone to “install” their printer, why would it be different with Linux.

  With printers spesifically I’d bet people don’t need to pay for support with Linux as much. Sure, there are models which just won’t work, but in general my experience is that printers are mostly plug’n’play with Linux.

  A few months ago I did a helpdesk gig on one local small business. They consume a lot of paper due to requirements on their business and they have some fancy KonicaMinolta photocopier. They guys who installed the printer had struggled for hours to get that thing to work on their Win10 machines. I did what was requested and they asked if I could print out notes I wrote for them for reference but immediately started to wonder if that’s feasible as the printer was so difficult to install. It took less than a minute for my mint-laptop to locate the printer and start using it. No idea if the printer company techs were just incompetent or if the software for it is bad, but apparently I’m now some kind of tech-deity in their office…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Time Self Hoster- Need help with Radicale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe easier to get anything runnin quickly. But it obfuscates a lot of things and creates additional layer of stuff which you need to then manage. Like few days ago there was discussion about how docker, by default, creates rules which bypass the “normal” INPUT rules on many (most?) implementations. And backup scenario is different, it’s not as straightforward to change configuration than with traditional daemon and it’s even more likely to accidentally delete your data as a whole.

  As I already said, docker has its uses, but when you’re messing around and learning a new system you first need to learn how to manage the ropes with docker and only after that you can mess around with the actual thing you’re interested of. And also what I personally don’t really like is the mindset that you can just throw something on a docker and leave it running without any concern which is often promoted with ‘quickstart’-type documentation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Time Self Hoster- Need help with Radicale⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You absolutely can run services without containers and when learning and trying things out I’d say it’s even preferable. Docker is a whole another beast to manage and has a learning curve of it’s own.

  Containers can of course be useful but setting everything up, configuring networking, managing possible integrations with other components (for example authentication via LDAP) it’s often simpler just to run the thing “in traditional way”. With radicale you can just ‘apt install radicale’ (or whatever you’re using) and have a go with it without extra layer of stuff you need to learn before getting something out of the thing. And even on production setups it might be preferred approach to go with ‘bare metal’, but that depends on quite a few variables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What I host myself⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On residential connections it’s a bit pain in the rear, but if you get VPS (or something similar) it’s perfectly manageable. You just need to maintain stuff properly, like having proper DNS records, and occasionally clear false positives from spam lists. The bigger issue is to have proper backups and precautions, I’ve hosted my own emails for over 10 years and should I lose all the data and ability to receive new messages it would be a massive personal problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My TV is also 4K but my amplifier which eats all the inputs can only do 1080p. 4k quality on that 65" is better, but not by that much that I’d throw 500+€ for a new amp since the current one works just fine and it fulfils all my needs on a TV/media set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This actually is a really good idea.

  Yes, for the reasons you mention. And very, very much no. My corporate hat immediately thinks about a crapload of stuff our network drives have which is under various NDAs, restrictions to store outside EU/ETA, restrictions to store even outside our country and so on. At least our accounts have mandatory MFA and other standard safety features, but cloud storage has a different threat model than our local hardware which also makes it’s own little headaches.

  I don’t play on the contract/legal field on corporate at all, but I do know that some of those NDAs have numbers big enough to bring the whole circus down and other clauses which can even throw someone in jail if things really go wrong. I just hope I’m not the scapegoat at that point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s plenty DIY projects around the net with various raspberry models. You just need some knowledge, preferably access to a 3D printer, an soldering iron, some tools and other bits and bobs. It’s definetly doable, but I can understand if someone prefers to throw some money on the table and get one pre-built.