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- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 5 weeks ago:
RustDesk, it’s by far the best remote desktop software I’ve used on any platform.
Tons of great features, open source, self-hostable, easy to install and configure, works on all major platforms including mobile. Cross platform works like a charm.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 months ago:
Oh no. You either die the hero, or…
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
Sure as hell feels like it!
- Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question. 3 months ago:
Yeah, and it’s free for a basic account + up to 100 devices, so plenty for most home lab needs.
- Comment on Basic networking/subnetting question. 3 months ago:
Have you looked into Tailscale or an equivalent solution like Netbird?
You could set up a tailnet, make create unique tags for each machine, add both machines to the tailnet, and then set up each machine’s network interface to only go through the tailnet.
Then you just use Tailscale’s ACLs with the tags to isolate those machines, making sure they can only talk to whatever central device(s) or services you want them to, but also stopping them from talking to or even seeing each other.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Oh wow sounds great, can I get in line now to not use it?
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 months ago:
I really hope Brother is telling the truth!
- Comment on Least terrible domain registrars 5 months ago:
I’ve used two, NameCheap, and PorkBun.
Hated Namecheap, would never use them again. Janky pricing, tons of email spam, terrible UI.
Porkbun has been pretty great. Simple, solid prices, easy to use, no issues for about a year and a half.
- Comment on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says his company is 'out of GPUs' to which I reply 'welcome to the party, pal' 5 months ago:
I wouldn’t even give that scumbag a quarter.
- Comment on Sergey Brin says AGI is within reach if Googlers work 60-hour weeks 5 months ago:
A liar, scam artist, and scumbag.
- Comment on The future of the internet is likely smaller communities, with a focus on curated experiences 5 months ago:
Check out Neocities, a great community of indie web fans, built in the spirit of the old GeoCities sites.
Some really great sites there, it really captures that late 90’s to early 2000’s internet vibes.
- Comment on Microsoft tests ad-supported Office apps for Windows users 5 months ago:
Been using LibreOffice and OnlyOffice since university, well over a decade ago, haven’t once missed MSOffice.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 5 months ago:
Free speech readings, increasing! Liberty levels, maximum! Freedom metrics, exploding!!! IMA BUSSSS!!!..oh nvm, the techno-fascist douchebag was a lying hypocrite the whole time.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Second influx to the Fediverse?
- Comment on ICE Wants to Know If You’re Posting Negative Things About It Online 5 months ago:
Hey ICE, go sit on a fire hydrant and make it disappear.
- Comment on Self host websites 5 months ago:
If you’re very comfortable with containerization, networking, and security practices, plus you are a pretty decent full stack web dev, sure.
It’s pretty trivial to set up a separate business internet line from your local ISP. Depending on the volume of traffic, a basic load manager and reverse proxy, combined with strong firewalls and container safety would be sufficient for most SMB needs.
You don’t need much power to host a basic website. Setting up a local box with a low-impact distro, Docker, and some solid control-plane MGMT software should be plenty to host several dozen SMB websites.
There are a lot of technical and even legal considerations though. Do these small businesses need a web app on their site? Do they need a storefront? What about member-only content locked securely behind an authentication layer? Does your local ISP have rate limitations? Does your city/state/country have restrictions on offering business services like that?
Ultimately, you have to answer the question: Why shouldn’t those businesses just go with an easy pre-made hosting solution like Squarespace, Wix, etc? Not saying there aren’t good answers to that, but from a business perspective, the businesses will want to know that.
As with anything in business, ask yourself, what are you able to offer that they can’t get easily somewhere else? I used to work for a tiny MSP that offered in-house data backups. Our clients paid a good chunk of money to have us backup their data to our own servers. I didn’t say anything at the time, but our clients could have gotten much more secure and faster backup services for cheaper using something like Backblaze or Synology’s S2 cloud backups.
Don’t find yourself unable to clearly and concisely explain to your clients what you can give them that they cannot easily get somewhere else. If it’s purely the principle of the thing, that’s totally valid, but make sure that’s what you’re selling to them, and also what they are looking for.
- Comment on Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch 5 months ago:
Well yeah, gotta be open to those sweet
defenseoffense contracts. All those brown people on the other side of the world ain’t gunna kill themselves! - Comment on LG and Samsung are adding Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant to their TVs 6 months ago:
🖕
- Comment on Proton 2024 Lifetime account fundraiser for online freedom | Ends on January 5th 6 months ago:
Got my tickets a few days ago, hoping for a win!
- Comment on Startup will brick $800 emotional support robot for kids without refunds 7 months ago:
All companies should be required to release their entire codebase under the GPL if the product is no longer going to be maintained by them.
That way a community of people who actually care can maintain and improve it.
I play several games that run on 20+ year old engines, long since abandoned by their original creators. The community reverse engineered the games and server infrastructure so they can still be run and enjoyed today. Same for all the folks who develop emulators and the entire ecosystem of ROM dumpers, readers, and handhelds that surround them.
Capitalism is a cancer. So amazing that, at least in certain parts of the software world, we have something better.
This is also a friendly reminder to donate to and support your favorite FOSS projects! they need all the help they can get. ❤️
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 8 months ago:
Plese sop.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 8 months ago:
Lol I am so happy about this.
- Comment on Intel CEO Lost A 40% Discount For TSMC's Latest Chip Tech After Taiwan Remarks - Report 9 months ago:
It is if you get your ass spanked hard while it happens, which fairly accurately describes what’s been happening to Intel in the last year or so lol.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 9 months ago:
I don’t think Microsoft can decrypt your DB file, neither do I think Bitwarden can. Encryption happens locally on their open source clients too.
But I’m not the one disparaging trusting an open source program to securely encrypt passwords, you are.
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 9 months ago:
Something tells me you’re the kind of person who sees a car turn the same direction as you twice and stars freaking out that you’re being followed…
- Comment on Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns 9 months ago:
Lol, imagine ridiculing users for trusting an FOSS company to handle their password management, and then storing your encrypted password DB in Microsoft’s OneDrive 😆
- Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus. 9 months ago:
We are entering the era of cyber-warfare, nation-state counter hacking, software and hardware sabotage, underground black and grey markets for both hardware and software.
Sanctions now include software and access to networks, not just hardware imports and generic VPN region locks.
Nations are taking more control over their national network infrastructure, China has shown it’s possible to almost completely isolate a modern technological nation of a billion people in their own intra-net with near full visibility and control into everything their citizens say and do.
Other nations are following, and big tech will always play into whatever is the most profitable, which is why companies like Google and Apple will turn a blind eye to the authoritarian governments and comply with their controls in order to gain more market share.
Now let me be clear; fuck the Russian war machine, fuck it hard and fast, and fuck Putin and his pathetic removed bois that support him. But I feel for the Russian people who are oppressed, there is a deep hacker and FOSS culture that has been there since the 80’s, shame that they are getting screwed by their shitty regime, much like the citizens of China, especially gen-Z having terms like “lying down” banned because it opposes their oppressive and abusive work culture.
Open software and hardware is under attack more and more lately. From the capitalist corpos who hate anything they can’t generate insane profits from and that gives workers and end users control over their data and privacy. It’s also under attack from the government neo-liberals and right-wingers because it allows people to be private and safely express their opposition, and also allows easy organizing of mass protests against their abuses of power.
What a precious thing we have in the world of FOSS. The spirit of human collaboration and free expression, across cultures, races, genders, and ages is so incredible, but we must defend and support it.
Fuck Capitalism, fuck copyright, and FUCK war.
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 9 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI is now valued at $157 billion 10 months ago:
DM me, I got a few bridges to sell you.
- Comment on Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed 10 months ago:
About to build my first really nice homelab NAS for Jellyfin, archiving, etc. targeting between 30-40TB if all goes well :)