ITGuyLevi

@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Throw in a dash of track-me-not (www.trackmenot.io) and maybe they’ll start ignoring your search queries too! Worst case my actual searches are so buried in the bs deciding what to market would be easier from my screen-name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pebble Has Been Brought Back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently did out my old 401B after the screen fell off my Galaxy Active2. It charged right up and still lasts about a week.

  Finding a new band was a PITA because of the weird segmented hinge bit but one person was selling diver bands for it on Amazon (I think it was Amazon)… Really not bad for a watch from a decade ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I used Kodi for years (back before and during the XMBC - > Kodi shift) before moving to Plex, it was great (a pain for a good config, but once your clients have remote access and use a shared database its insane how good it can be) but Plex was touted for so long I figured I’d give it a try when I saw a good sale. I’ve been using it for the past 8 years or so but may go back to Kodi or Jellyfin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You also have the best shutters ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Web-based Document Editor?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same experience, tried other stuff and eventually came back. Maybe I didn’t have redis and Maria setup right before but it’s much better for me this time around.

  Totally not saying that’s what was up for you though, it’s not for everyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to get serious with E2E encrypted messaging⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely host your own node! It’s trivial for a server admin to add a hidden bot to every chat and while it’s still E2EE, an unknown party could still have a copy and key to read it.

  Really good talk from DEFCON 32 about the service “Anom” by Joseph Cox (sorry for the lack of a link, at lunch, on mobile and about to get back to work).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost blog adding activitypub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explaination!

  That definitely sounds like it could be a nice upgrade depending on well it could be filtered (I could see that spidering out pretty quickly if the things you follow interact a lot). Definitely something I’ll have to check out sometime, thanks again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost blog adding activitypub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honest question as I finally dusted back off my interest in RSS. With RSS I need to add the URL to my client and it periodically checks back to show me when new content is posted, does ActivityPub handle this differently? Like how does it know which sources to use without having to hunt down their AP feed and add it to a client?

  I could totally be missing something super simple or implied.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prioritizing de-clouding efforts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not the guy you asked, but I self-host it because I like a couple of the features (like making an org for house stuff, and sharing that with certain family members), it’s really awesome for OTP as well. I honestly don’t know which features are the paid ones because I went straight to Vaultwarden as I knew I wanted it in house (physically) and Bitwarden didn’t offer that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Came back to drop a link (sorry for the delay) and it seems others have already provided it. Dropping it here again just because it’s an amazing talk by an amazing dude that was taken too soon.

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkteGFfvwJ0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just read an article somebody stole 40k from an atm. How is that possible that an atm carries that much? And is it even possible to get inside an ATM if so?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be surprised how insecure they are (or were) from the non-physical side. Check out Barnaby Jack’s talk from DefCon 18 (Jackpotting Automated Teller Machines Redux).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nostalgia and remake culture⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m torn on the FFVII remake, waited 20 years and I feel like I was handed a different game; it is a good game without a doubt, and the characters feel familiar. After eagerly jumping in and playing a while I found myself longing for a remake of the game I played for months before saving up enough for a memory card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what do you use for screen sharing?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played around a bit with Remotely (github.com/immense/Remotely) from what I’ve seen it’s great for when a family member needs some remote support, it also has persistent agents for some stuff. Personally for remote administration I LOVE Apache Guacamole, it’s super handy being able to use RDP/SSH/vnc/etc from a browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it invisible to accessibility options as well? Like if I need a computer to tell me what the assignment is, will it tell me to do the thing that will make you think I cheated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll admit I didn’t open the article, as far as I’m aware the best way to sidestep silly requirements like warrants is to just purchase data intended for advertising. Databrokers really have an amazing wealth of info ready to be tapped into, all you gotta do is pay.