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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud zero day security⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve used rclone with backblaze B2 very successfully. rclone is easy to configure and can encrypt everything locally before uploading, and B2 is dirt cheap and has retention policies so I can easily manage (per storage pool) how long deleted/changed files should be retained. works well.

  also once you get something set up. make sure to test run a restore! a backup solution is only good if you make sure it works :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah I don’t know; I imagine the per-unit cost of this will be pretty low in the end, and won’t incentivize much change at all to the products since it’ll be a fraction of the cost, but I would love to be wrong: things that last longer and are supported longer are obviously the best choice, and feel in very short supply. but something is changing: look at the Android phones from Google and Samsung which have seen a tremendous increase in support length; that’s (probably?) due to consumer demand and government pressures, so yeah it might matter in the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s fair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s a good point, I would love it to work out that way. I’m not super optimistic (esp since electronics aren’t the things I typically see, but that’s just my experience/bias), but it could help.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recycling: Plans for electrical goods to be included in UK collections⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Home collections would not require any extra bins, the government said, adding the cost of the pick-ups would be financed by the producers of electrical items and not fall on taxpayers.

  you’re going to see it in the final cost of the products though, which to be clear isn’t a bad thing, but it’s extremely disingenuous to act like there’s no end cost to consumers when the companies are definitely going to pass that on. language like this tries to obscure that fact: it’s actually true, but people take “the taxpayer” to mean “I won’t pay more” but you certainly will.

  I think this is a great idea and an important thing to do, but stop babying people about the costs: things cost money, and buying things that are difficult to dispose of has consequences that need to be dealt with, don’t try to hide it.

  my actual biggest wish, which I will never get because the administrative costs would be astronomical, is that the cost added to goods be directly tied to their recyclability (both in materials and labor) as it would incentivize building more easily recycled products by manufacturers to keep costs competitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  content id is a wild one that I only discovered a year ago: I had always used my own Chromecast when traveling, and I plugged it into a Roku TV which kept saying “did you know you could watch [content that I was currently watching] on Roku” which really freaked me out, so I looked into it. honestly not sure why they tipped their hand like that: I found the setting and turned it off. otherwise I would’ve been none the wiser.

  creepy af though. the amount of tracking you implicitly accept by using random devices out in the world is staggering. even if you read every privacy policy and opt out of everything (I do) you have no chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve worked with marketers for years. many of them have a blind spot for what they create: they can realize something is irritating, or invasive, but not when it’s their marketing, which is obviously superior and what people want to see. it’s some sort of artist+marketer brainrot.

  sorry to generalize, I’ve just seen it a lot over the years.

  I imagine this is something like it: we’ll reach them with the perfect message, it’ll be exactly what they want! won’t that be delightful?

  …completely ignoring how horrifying it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this was such a weird claim, and I never really understood how it could be true specifically for phones, where they aren’t in control of system software. there’s like a gradient of possibility here:

  • Android phones from major manufacturers, and Apple phones: doubt it. those things are too heavily scrutinized, someone would’ve found it, and the companies that make them don’t have the impetus.
  • official “smart” voice devices from Amazon, Google, et al: doubt it, same reasoning as above
  • Android phones from small players, heavily subsidized models, etc.: sure, could be
  • smart TVs from major manufacturers: probably not? medium “maybe”? I bought one of these with a hardware mic switch so I guess that shows my paranoia
  • other smart TVs: I dunno, feels highly likely

  so: I’m careful about what I use so my risk felt pretty low, but I also feel like if this were true security researchers would’ve discovered it. let alone the fact that what they describe is bandwidth and battery intensive (off-device or on-device respectively, I don’t remember what they claimed as I read the 404 media report some weeks back) but it still makes me wonder: what led them to make these claims then? fascinating, pretty scary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If: No Social Media Anonymity⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  agree with all these points. another thing I think about a lot is: I have the benefit of having grown up with the Internet but before social media, and so all of my embarrassing teen content is long gone. can’t imagine having that follow you around for the rest of forever, tied to your real name, looked at by potential employers and being asked to defend it for the rest of your life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Those who are self hosting at home, what case are you using? (Looking for recommendations)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got out of the “surplus hardware” a while ago; way too expensive and noisy to run, so super recommend ditching the poweredge. for home use, I ended up just going with a USB3 JBOD for storage, and a Intel NUC (which I think they don’t make anymore). it runs a ton of virtualized servers under kvm, a virtualized NAS, all without issue because it honestly spends most of its time nearly idle. point is: it’s definitely nice to have it all in one case and with high speed storage but maybe having to find something that can house a ton of drives isn’t a strict need if you aren’t actually going to put a ton of load on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What If: No Social Media Anonymity⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, there is already a great example of what would happen, and it pretty much proved what many of us believed: governments and employers used it as a surveillance tool, and it’s not a replacement for a real content moderation strategy. People are just as happy to be cruel to each other and spread disinformation even if their real name is attached to it.