InnerScientist
@InnerScientist@lemmy.world
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I doubt the os switch is happening too, some will probably switch but that will be a small amount, either they get Linux or afaik all other “popular” options require new hardware anyways (Macos)
I think many will just stay on windows 10 if their hardware doesn’t support 11 but ehh
Difficult to say, that’s why I’m waiting on the EOL for headlines like “millions of pcs vulnerable due to missing updates” or “maybe we were a little hard on crowdstrike”
- Comment on Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police 4 weeks ago:
Linton said that last year the Australian Federal Police (AFP) visited a Session employee at their home in the country. “There was no warrant used or meeting organised, they just went into their apartment complex and knocked on their front door,” Linton said. The AFP asked about the Session app and company
But why
- Comment on Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it 4 weeks ago:
I’m just waiting for the EOL of window 10 to see which of the following will happen:
- Many PCs will stop getting updates, people don’t care
- Many PCs will be replaced for windows 11
- Turns out people already have replaced their PCs due to other reasons
- Microsoft removes the hardware requirements
- People switch to another OS
- People just don’t buy a home PC anymore
- ???
- Profit???
- Comment on No excuse 4 weeks ago:
Floor it?
- Comment on Empires fall 1 month ago:
…or nothing to be left
- Comment on Adding storage - Best options? (External USB drives, automatic decryption, media, etc.) 3 months ago:
How does mergefs compare to btrfs and bcachefs in using multiple partitions?
- Comment on Adding storage - Best options? (External USB drives, automatic decryption, media, etc.) 3 months ago:
Drives connected to usb have an unstable connection in my experience, this is very annoying and gets worse with hubs.
RAIDs reduce the time a system is offline and reduce data loss, if a drive fails and you can afford to wait for the new disk and the backup to restore, and have regular backups that ensure no important data gets lost (though remember the data added between backups may be lost) then you don’t need a RAID.
I don’t use RAIDs cause if my disk fails then I can stomach the 2-4 days it takes to buy a new one and restore the backup
Very important: use S.M.A.R.T and a filesystem with checksums to make sure you’re not backing up corrupted data and know to get a new one
For encryption at rest you may want to look at clevis and tang, though you need a server in your home network for this to work. The client (with clevis) then decrypts the disk at boot if it can reach the server (tang). The server can’t decrypt the data without the client secret and the client can’t decrypt it without the server public key.
Don’t know what your server could be though, maybe a router with custom firmware?
You should also look into cloud storage/rclone, that way you can automate your backups more and reduce the need for manual intervention.
I use rclone and restic to automatically backup my servers daily which takes a few seconds most of the time due to them being incremental backups.
- Comment on Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive hosted PDF files without permission — user complains feature can't be disabled 4 months ago:
Or encrypt it before uploading
- Comment on All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project 4 months ago:
That’s fine as long as it can self reference.
- Comment on Immich x FUTO Q&A 6 months ago:
It doesn’t though? IANAL but as far as I can tell you can fork, modify and redistribute it as long as you provide the source code to your users .
It’s AGPL-3.0 so… tldrlegal.com/…/gnu-affero-general-public-license…
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
We asked Microsoft if a Copilot key would be required on OEM PCs going forward; […] it expects Copilot keys to be required on Windows 11 keyboards “over time.” Microsoft often imposes some additional hardware requirements on major PC makers that sell Windows on their devices […].
From what I understand, this either means that this will only affect laptops and similar devices, or that they want to force companies that sell windows PCs to sign a contract disallowing them from selling keyboards without a copilot key, with or without a PC. I think (hope?) they mean the former.
- Comment on Running AI is so expensive that Amazon will probably charge you to use Alexa in future, says outgoing exec 1 year ago:
Good to see people already training ai to kill.