Pika
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- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 4 hours ago:
Like the other person said, its never justified, its just they run the company so who can really tell them otherwise.
Shareholders maybe? but they won’t rock the boat.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 1 day ago:
I saw Silksong and split fiction and I had one creator I follow play death stranding 2. one just started e33 last week so I been watching that. The rest fell out of my circle of 40 or 50 streamers.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 days ago:
the nominations for most things this year was fairly disappointing. I hadent heard of any of the events, the content creator one I didn’t watch and only knew of one by name,
I pegged myself as a fairly casual gamer and I do a lot of stream watching but, a good chunk of the games nominated I had never seen or never saw anyone streaming, many I had never heard of. It was surprising since most of my entertainment is via watching people play games or by gaming myself.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 days ago:
this entire thing has made me really rethink whether I want to swap to the new repo or not.
Why was there no communication about it. The gplay repo maintainer wasn’t informed of anything, no public notice to anyone was given, just a transfer of the repo and a status issue here explaining it.
Obviously the act is genuine as they were able to keep the original keys but like, this entire system seemed really sketchy.
- Comment on Self hosting Sunday! What's up, selfhosters? 3 days ago:
One of my drives crippled itself a few days back, not sure what caused it. Wasn’t able to be resolved without a host restart which was unfortunate. SMART isn’t failing and has been working fine, so I’m chalking it down to a weird Proxmox bug or something.
For sure expected I was going to need to do a rollback on an entire drive though so that was troublesome.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
I believe they are replying to the article you posted in regards to the download from legit sites comment, not the fact that the sites have shit web practices (which while correct is a different thing).
Basically the modified software was a trojan keylogger combo that was forwarding passwords created and used to a home server.
That’s not something that the sites are going wrong, nor is it the password managers fault. That’s fully the users fault for downloading a trojan.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
Keepass does a pretty decent job. I have keepassXC on my Windows, Debian and Android devices. On Android it’s integrated into the phone(and the autofill service if actual 2fa isn’t supported on the app) so it works on every application. With IOS though I know they can be a stickler on anything remotely technical so I’m not sure if something similar exists with it. I also use syncthing as the service to make sure the same copy of the database is on each device to prevent having to use a password manager that requires a subscription for a cloud service, this also minimizes my risk factor of a cloud service being compromised.
- Comment on Backups of Backups 1 week ago:
I have Proxmox Backup Server backing up to an external drive nightly, and then about every 2 or 3 weeks also backup to a cold storage which I store offsite. (this is bad practice I know but I have enough redundancies in place of personal data that I’m ok with it).
For critical info like my personal data I have a sync-thing that is syncing to 3 devices, so for personal info I have roughly 4 copies(across different devices) + the PBS + potentially dated offsite.
- Comment on Proxmox Backup Server: Bare Metal vs. Privileged LXC vs. VM? 1 week ago:
despite recommendations, I run PBS along side the standard server barebone. I don’t store the backups on the same system they are stored to an external drive (which gets an offline copy every once and awhile) but I don’t like the idea of having PBS in a virtual environment, it’s just another layer that could go wrong in a restore process.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 1 week ago:
he currently has an adblocker and a pihole setup to filter DNS, but that only works so well with facebook.
- Comment on Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show 2 weeks ago:
don’t get me started on their malicious ads system. My grandfather calls me AT LEAST once a week because he clicks one of the posts on facebook and it brings him to a “your computer has a virus please call this number” scare page. I basically have had to tell him “if it says sponsored just don’t click it” because Meta has like no vetting system it seems.
- Comment on Mullvad Leta shutting down 2 weeks ago:
I never knew this SE was even a thing.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My only thing with this is the claim is a glass cannon if its true. If no company resources were given out in this ordeal, if I was one of the 40 employees involved I would be leaking the forum messages publicly to show how there wasn’t any inside information involved. Make the entire case fall apart because if it’s shown no public info was involved, the claim it wasn’t over unionization becomes harder to fight. But I guess that is a better situation for in a court scenario.
- Comment on Apple Reportedly Moving Ahead With Ads in Maps App 3 weeks ago:
this is me as well. I’m the /only/ person in my town that updates data on OSM, and if you leave the area its just a void of nothingness. Outside of the automatic survey info that gets added its a ghosttown.
- Comment on Your Kindle Can Finally Be Jailbroken Again. [22:00] 3 weeks ago:
the irony that it can be jailbroken by modifying the ads is funny. Sadly I expect this to be a super easy patch on Amazons part so if you have the device probally should do this fast lol
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 4 weeks ago:
Minecraft.
I usually hate creative builder games with a passion, I joined fairly early in the alpha process and fell in love with the blocky design.
Then when i thought the game couldn’t get more engaging, forge was released for it and mods started being made and it opened a whole new universe that I’m /still/ playing today.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 4 weeks ago:
the implication of that is weird to me. I’m not saying that the horse is wrong, but thats such a non-standard solution. That’s implementing a CGNAT restriction without the benefits of CGNAT. They would need to only allow internal to external connections unless the connection was already established. How does standard communication still function if it was that way, I know that would break protocols UDP that require a fire and forget without internal prompting.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 4 weeks ago:
this might be my next project. I need uptime management for my services, my VPN likes to randomly kill itself.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t used a guide aside from the official getting started with syncthing page.
It should be similar to these steps though, I’ll use your desktop as the origin device.
- install syncthing on all devices you want to be syncing with
- on your desktop syncthing page, click “add remote device” and add the device ID of your phone(found on your phones syncthing app), you can also add any other device you want to have communications with
- make a backup of your current keepass file just in case these steps shouldn’t cause files to change but, since the end goal is syncing two devices that you have mentioned have differences with files with the same name better safe than sorry
- create a keepass share on one of the devices (the folder path of this file should be wherever your keepass file is stored on your device. If this file is in a folder with a bunch of other files, you may want to move the file to it’s own subfolder or you will end up sharing all of the files in that path)
- under file versioning chose what type of file version control you want. I prefer staggered since it when a remote device changes the file it moves the old file to a folder, and then deletes them according to the settings
- at this point you should double check the name of your mobile devices keepass file name, if its the same as the name of the db on the desktop, you should rename it prior to continuing. Keepass should be able to detect a file conflict and rename it on it’s own but, better safe than sorry.
- share the folder with the device you want to sync it(your phone in this case)
- Your phone should get a notification that a device wants to share something with it. Approve it, be careful not to clear it because it’s a pain in the butt to get that notification back if you accidentally deny or swipe it away, the mobile app isn’t /amazing/ with it’s UI (but it has gotten better)
- once approved configure it to where you wanted the file to be on your mobile device.
- You should be done at this point. Syncthing should be automatically syncing the keepass files between the two
Some things you may want to keep into consideration. Syncthing only operates when there are two devices or more that are online. I would recommend if you are getting into self hosting a server, having the server be the middle man. If you end up going that route these steps stay more or less the same, it’s just instead of sharing with the phone, its sharing with the server, and then moving to the server syncthing page and sharing with the mobile. This makes it so both devices use the server instead of trying to connect to each other. Additionally, if you do go that route, I recommend setting your remote devices on the server’s syncthing instance to “auto approve” this makes it so when you share a folder to the server from one of your devices, it automatically approves and makes a share using the name of the folder shared in the syncthing’s data directory. (ex. if your folder was named documents and you shared it to the server, it would create a share named “documents” in where-ever you have it configured to store data). You would still need to login to the server instance in the case of sharing said files to /another/ device, but if your intent was to only create a backup of a folder to the server, then it removes a step.
Another benefit that using the server middleman approach is that if you ever have to change a device later on down the road, you are only having to add 1 remote device to the server instance, instead of having to add your new device onto every syncthing that needs access to that device.
Additionally, if you already have the built in structure but it isn’t seeming like it is working, some standard troubleshooting steps I’ve found helpful:
- if trying to share between devices, make sure that there is at least two devices that are connected as remote devices active in order to sync
- If above is true, make sure the folder ID’s are the same between both devices. that is how syncthing detects folders that should be sync’d
- If also true, make sure the devices are being seen as online in remote devices. If it isn’t showing as online, the connection is being blocked somewhere, verify you don’t have a firewall or router blocking it somewhere.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 weeks ago:
Yes it has, every amazon product is massively subsidized price wise with the expectation they make it up via advertisements.
I think the only one that really didn’t fall down that train was the alexa.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 5 weeks ago:
In the case of smart tv’s it’s obvious why it works. It’s way cheaper to buy a smart tv vs a dumb tv now, and It’s all companies make for consumer side, which only leaves business grade TV’s/advertisement boards which cost more. Even if this isn’t the case though, with how streaming oriented most people are, the general public won’t buy a dumb tv because they would still need to buy some sort of device to allow them to access their stuff. It’s just convenient to have it in the same device rather than buy a tv then spend another $25+ on a device that can allow access to streaming, when one device can do it all.
I upgraded to a “decent” Smart TV for my den (my previous one was an early stage Phillips smart TV that the store was basically deprecated on), and it converted 3 devices I had for my dumb tv, into that one device. It’s just convenient.
I personally think that people should be focusing more on not buying slop-ware, and working on implementing legislation of what companies are allowed to do to consumer purchased products before trying to revert back to dumb tv’s and spending 3x as much.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 5 weeks ago:
Keepass is a great way of password management, I use keepass as well. I also use syncthing to sync my password database across all devices and then I have the server acting as the “always on” device so I have access to all passwords at all times. Works amazing because syncthing can also be setup so when a file is modified by another device, it makes a backup of the original file and moves it to a dedicated folder (with retention settings so you can have them cleaned every so often). Life is so much easier.
- Comment on I am attempting to get into self hosting after a shockingly frightening experience. I am very lost though. 5 weeks ago:
I hard agree with this. I would NEVER have wanted to start with containerized setups. I know how I am, I would have given up before I made it past the second LXC. Starting as a generalized 1 server does everything and then learning as you go is so much better for beginnings. Worst case scenario is they can run docker as the later on containerized setup and migrate to it. Or they can do what I did, start with a single server setup, moved everything onto a few drives a few years later once I was comfortable with how it is, nuked the main server and installed proxmox, and hate life learning how it works for 2 or 3 weeks.
Do i regret that change? No way in hell, but theres also no way I would recommend a fully compartmentalized or containerized setup to someone just starting out. It adds so many layers of complexity.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
ooo I might look into this.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
I agree, I would love seperate “recommendation profiles” so like if I am in the mood for music, swap to music, if I want education, I can swap to that, feeling lets play? swap to gaming, horror could be creepypasta or horror games.
All under the same parent account so the premium status could apply while google would still be able to leech data off the main profile, the only difference is the curated content given is based off the profile.
- Comment on Firefox is adding profiles to separate your browsing sessions 5 weeks ago:
uhhh, this has been a thing for a long time already. I don’t know whats new here. put about:profiles in your url bar for anyone uses a firefox based browser.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 5 weeks ago:
15% off a logitech device purchase for the complete removal of a 100$ smart switch. that’s a slap to the face “Thank’s for being a customer here’s a coupon you can only use if you continue being a customer”
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 month ago:
I’m glad that they added CloudStrike into that article, because it adds a whole extra level of incompetency in the software field. CS as a whole should have never happens in the first place if Microsoft properly enforced their stance they claim they had regarding driver security and the kernel.
The entire reason CS was able to create that systematic failure was because they were(still are?) abusing the system MS has in place to be able to sign kernel level drivers. The process dodges MS review for the driver by using a standalone driver that then live patches instead of requiring every update to be reviewed and certified. This type of system allowed for a live update that directly modified the kernel via the already certified driver. Remote injection of un-certified code should never have been allowed to be injected into a secure location in the first place. It was a failure on every level for both MS and CS.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 month ago:
interesting. The other person explained what it was, I never knew there was a diff between it.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 1 month ago:
oh that’s pretty cool, yea I’ve always just thrown marshmallows in the freezer. Didn’t realize there was a difference between them.