Toribor
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- Comment on Tailscale n00b questions 2 days ago:
I avoided tailscale for so long because I was already using wireguard and I didn’t know you could self-host with headscale. But once I started using it with headscale the mesh design really is a big improvement to usability. I don’t miss having to carefully manage my config files and ip route rules.
I need to get setup with app connectors and then I think it’ll finally be a high enough wife-usability factor for me to remove some things I still have exposed over the internet.
- Comment on Tailscale n00b questions 2 days ago:
DERP is the service that actually relays packets between tailscale connected devices when they are crossing a NAT (leaving one private network and going across the internet to another private network).
If you host headscale (the self-hosted community version of the tailscale control plane) and use it with tailscale, by default it will still use the public Tailscale DERP servers. Your traffic is still encrypted and not visible to them, but it does still rely on their centralized architecture even though you are hosting the control plane yourself.
That being said, you can also just selfhost DERP or use the embedded DERP that ships with headscale, although there are some other considerations when doing that because it will need to be publicly on the internet, probably with a proper domain name and publicly trusted certificate.
- Comment on Tailscale n00b questions 2 days ago:
Headscale includes and embedded DERP server but you need to run it. Their example yaml does have it disabled by default though.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 2 days ago:
EV’s are probably best for an actually realistic scenario where energy infrastructure is destroyed or there is a mass fuel shortage, both things that happen all the time around the world in times of crisis.
But as far as actually apocalyptic scenarios it’s hard to beat a bicycle which doesn’t require a global supply chain to maintain.
- Comment on Her husband wanted to use ChatGPT to create sustainable housing. Then it took over his life. 3 days ago:
We invented a machine that tells you what you want to hear. Should be fine.
- Comment on Tailscale n00b questions 4 days ago:
You can self host the control plane for Tailscale using a community project called Headscale. I use that along with Headplane which gives you a nice admin web UI.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 2 months ago:
Winget is still playing catch-up in my experience. Microsoft’s own office365 winget package is broken constantly.
- Comment on It Only Takes A Handful Of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds 2 months ago:
Seeing how much they’ve advanced over recent years I can’t imagine whatever that guy was working on would actually impress anyone today.
- Comment on LG Update Installs Unremovable Microsoft Copilot on Smart TVs, Ignites Backlash 2 months ago:
I just set up a rule on my firewall to disallow outgoing web traffic from my TV so I can still control it over the wifi. Then if I want to sell it I haven’t broken any functionality.
- Comment on New Tomb Raider Games Recast Lara Croft With A Gaming Veteran 2 months ago:
I assume it’s because they are using performance capture for all the facial animations.
- Comment on Judge hands Lambo.com to Lamborghini after ruling owner acted in bad faith 2 months ago:
You can do anything…
- Comment on Skate Story is now available 2 months ago:
I played the demo and it was pretty fun. I’ll have to check this out.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 4 months ago:
At least on Android, spoofing GPS location is trivial (not that workarounds like this should be necessary).
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 4 months ago:
Businesses are happy to have their employees be more productive without having to pay for expensive new licenses… But eventually they’re going to find out that letting all your employees share swaths of private data with random websites is not a great idea.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
This exactly. I’d use rsync to sync a directory to a location to then be backed up by kopia, but I wouldn’t use rsync exclusively for backups.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 5 months ago:
Ah yes… Pre-crime… Just like all those utopian sci-fi novels.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 6 months ago:
People just going about their business living their lives as they have for many years…
Silicon Valley: Hey fuck you. Also I came up with a dumb nickname for you.
- Comment on 8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder 7 months ago:
Thank you. It looks like this is sort of working in that I can get the additional buttons to show up in Steam now but I’m hitting what I think is a bug where the ‘Enable Extended Buttons’ toggle doesn’t stay enabled. After searching a bit it seems like I’m not the only one but maybe that will get worked out soon.
- Comment on Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance 7 months ago:
I want the Ubiquiti Doorbell Pro (wired Ethernet) but it’s always sold out. Plus I’ve been hesitant to spend ion a Cloud Gateway or Dream Machine. I just wish I could use my own storage.
I need to just bite the bullet though.
- Comment on Password manager by Amazon 7 months ago:
Won’t longer key lengths increase the overhead for everything?
- Comment on Windows 11 will soon be able to describe images on your screen using AI — and it'll all be done locally 7 months ago:
Bazzite is great.
- Comment on 8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder 7 months ago:
I have an Ultimate 2 and I haven’t been able to figure out how to do that so I can’t remap the back buttons with Steam input.
What’s the trick?
- Comment on 8BitDo Pro 3 Controller Announced with Swappable Buttons, Available for Preorder 7 months ago:
Their controllers are amazing but the naming convention is so bad.
- Comment on Tape drive backups 7 months ago:
Definitely do not do tapes.
I’d also recommend Backblaze. Their S3 compatible storage is pretty affordable. I backup to a Kopia repo and then replicate to Backblaze nightly.
Tapes require so much more work to keep up to date and night not even be cheaper over time.
- Comment on My reason for wanting HomeAssistant and a locked down VLAN... 8 months ago:
I use GarHAge which uses open hardware and software and was pretty easy and cheap too. github.com/marthoc/GarHAge
- Comment on SteamOS finally released by Valve 9 months ago:
On a handheld? Probably depends how much you use it outside game mode and what you do with it.
On a desktop? No. It’s not intended to be a fully functional desktop OS.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 10 months ago:
Everyone on the fediverse is Nicole and you can’t prove otherwise.
- Comment on BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections 10 months ago:
These days 8BitDo controllers are superior to first party Xbox controllers and sold for cheaper.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 10 months ago:
The updated fluid mechanics are a lot more forgiving and basically have infinite throughput. It’s still a whole new layer of complexity but doesn’t have nearly as many confusing limitations as it used to.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 10 months ago:
Bravely running away is the quintessential FromSoft experience. The ultimate flex on enemies is to not even bother attacking them and just rolling to dodge occasionally while you grab items and run past them to the next checkpoint.