WhyJiffie

@WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  switch routing? what is that? and what solution do you use for packet inspection?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  you could use a VPN though. protonvpn has measures to work around network restrictions, or set up a wireguard at home, and if they would block it, tell them you need it for work. your own notes related to the trade and your task planning tool stored on your homeserver, or something like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Teams in browser is the only way that I use it either, and it isn’t “broken” like it used to be, but you need to use a Chromium based browser.

  so, it’s broken. Either buggy, or just straight up not follow common web standards

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teams’ invasive Wi‑Fi tracking sparks backlash as users say Microsoft crossed a line — “There must be a team at Microsoft tasked with making Teams worse”⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  firefox or a fork of it, but I would be surprised if teams could read wifi info even in chrome. this is about when you install it as a desktop app, so that it can collect more data and consume more memory than it would otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows has Limited User account, Family Safety in the control panel, and a advanced Firewall. 3rd party Net Nanny was\is a net filtering\alerting software that had visiting-server-side support in case the kid knew how to onion route or obfuscate a url or ip.

  limited, as in, not an administrator? that does not help much with limiting a kids computer use.

  family safety only works for the microsoft edge browser, which is not at all private. and it seems it requires a microsoft account, and accepting its shitty terms of service and privacy policy.

  netnanny seems to require a microsoft account too.

  Androids can install firewall software like PersonalDNSFilter, AdGuardDNS, or RethinkDNS (the premium version creates for you a custom dns server – no software needed.

  and they can’t be just disabled by the user of the device, right?

  these and pihole… are useful but not for this. even if they can’t disable the system VPN app, the kid just enables secure DNS in either firefox or chrome, and bam! its worked around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  this is not a checkbox, but a date field. and the hard part is, KDE needs to implement it, other desktops need to implement it too, and somehow it has to be fit into the existing linux user database that does not have a dedicated place for information like this.

  it also means using older operating systems became illegal, including windows 7, xp, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not really easily bypassed though, if only the administrator can set the date of birth for an account. if the parent does not use the admin account for daily usage (and they shouldn’t for other reasons), then the majority of the children won’t be able to change it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California introduces age verification law for all operating systems, including Linux and SteamOS — user age verified during OS account setup⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And it is speaking of widely available tools that are already available such as parental controls in routers, devices, etc.

  widely available? what kind of parental controls are available in

  • windows
  • linux
  • ungoogled android

  ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Make regular backups of the DB.

  tbh that should apply to any kind of selfhosted service, especially when its not only for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, I would not recommend kubernetes to most people not already familiar with it, but especially to beginners. It’s too many moving parts, and fir most selfhosted setups, its capabilities are not needed I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s ridiculous. not even linux is that secure, unless you only store the luks keys on ramdisk haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I did not downvote you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ok, but who is the target audience for that? I am interested now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  ok, but won’t they also demand tech support for the mac? and if others can’t give them help for windows, and you won’t either, who will for the mac?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  in the consumer versions, yes. but more generally that will still remain an option for some time at least.

  for now, there’s windows 10 LTSC, updates until 2032. I would get her this. after that she could still use windows 11 LTSC releases, which don’t receive surprise function changes because businesses use it for critical things.

  massgrave.dev/windows_ltsc_links

  same site also has an open source forever activation tool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  it was just a joke, to the “one more dashboard” part :D its fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  soo… servers your router doesn’t like for whatever reason blocked for everyone else? with gov ID checks? why would we want that?

  and how is this a dashboard idea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Presenting ilias, yet another dashboard because obviously the world needed one more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  wonderful! now somebody needs to rewrite this in Rust and we are done!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When she does buy a new PC it’ll be an Apple.

  an apple? Because of this? why? why is it not an option to use a computer without an online account?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  the bad things started earlier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  quite fortunately it’s not at all hardcoded. there’s a setting for it on the librewolf-specific settings page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish they’d start containerizing sites by default, but for now this is what I do.

  afaik strict tracking protection has been doing that for long

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  well those are really not supposed to be happening, weird

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not, it’s booting from small storage, then it uses remote desktop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Free computer full of ads? No. Scan cat?

  people are paying for that nowadays. they call them smartphones. even the operating system and base apps show ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  now that you say this, it is also so wasteful for all of us to leave our homes empty while we go to work! we need to destroy homeownership, and we need to require all landlords to host multiple families in their properties! It’s not only the empty space, the empty beds and toilet, but also the fridges that keep consuming power, even though nobody is actively using them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  doesn’t this use elevations compared to sea level? while the elevation of this turbine is compared to local ground level

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A time limit after disasters would be necessary. It’s difficult to think of a proper time limit though, as even a month might not be enough time if your entire house burns down.

  and also accounting for low bandwidth connections… whats more, some shitty providers even have monthly data caps

  Maybe a payment system could be set up to where, if your server doesn’t ping for a week, your credit card is automatically charged (after pinging you with many emails).

  yeah, that would be almost a necessary feature. being able to hold on to the backup when you really can’t restore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  such a system would need a strict time limit for restoration after the catastrophe. Otherwise leeching would be too easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you effectively backup your high (20+ TB) local NAS?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  better would be something that can just eat a zfs send stream, but I guess for an emergency it’s fine. but I would still want to encrypt everything somehow.