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- Comment on Canadian parliament on lockdown amid large police presence: ‘Lock all doors and hide’ 2 days ago:
apnews.com/…/canada-parliament-lockdown-76efd0030…
The Canadian Parliament’s security force locked down Parliament on Saturday after a man barricaded himself in the East Block section, Ottawa police said.
A social media post from Ottawa police said a “barricaded man is in the area of East Block” and urged people to avoid the area, noting there were no reports of injuries.
Ottawa police Insp. Mark Bouwmeester later told reporters the man “gained unauthorized access” to Parliament Hill’s East Block and that “the circumstances of this incident are considered suspicious.” But he gave few details about what was happening inside.
“We’re currently in contact with the individual and our priority is to resolve this situation peacefully,” he said. “At this time there is no known injuries and we believe that the man is the only person inside the building.”
Police would not say whether the man was believed to be armed or whether he had made threats.
Ottawa police brought in specialized units, including at least one canine unit and explosives units. Two bomb disposal unit robots were seen in front of Centre Block.
- Comment on Repurposing TB16 dock 1 week ago:
Its just a dock, so no.
It works with most laptops running Linux, but its still just a dock. That gigabit port is just a usb-c/thunderbolt device, it is not a full machine. Same with the video, its just DP alt mode, there is no GPU in there.
If you want a small form factor machine to use a server, look for a used tiny/mini/micro workstation.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
I want to live in your fantasy land.
Its not hard. Just have a production Linux desktop and a production windows laptop, and it becomes pretty clear what you can do. Basic memos and emails are no problem through the web, and thats a huge number of people.
Why do I want even more shit in the cloud? Some stuff I want on-prem and don’t need it in the cloud.
Why buy cloud shit and then not use cloud shit?
Just don’t buy cloud shit and join to a local domain.
Plus, it’s now Entra ID.
Let me know when I need to type that at the CLI and I’ll stop calling it aad.
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 1 week ago:
Eh, depending on what’s being done office.com is fine for most.
That aside, if this is a business and you’re using office apps, you have an account that should be getting used during setup. Thats not who this workaround is for, and not who the “just install Linux” comment is for.
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 1 week ago:
That was my followup to the P133, a Cyrix MII chip (when they added MMX to the series), with the 266mhz chip! Ran like shit 😄. I think I replaced that with a K6.
Those were… Quickly changing times haha
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 1 week ago:
I always dumpster dived for computers.
We played the same game! Thats how I ended up with a DEC pizza box (multia with an alpha 166 processor) and a SparcStation. Then I’d take them over with me to the computer show (it was more like a flea market, its unfortunate they no longer exist) after I played with them to trade - thats how I was able to get my hands on a 1x (yes you read that right) CD burner.
Good times!
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 1 week ago:
For a ti-99/4a? Me too! It was my favorite thing (up until my dad bought a used 286 from work, then skipped a few generations and went right to a Pentium 133)
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Its not, AFAIK. I think they are thinking of live captions.
Annotation is on the sharing toolbar, usable with full screen share only.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 1 week ago:
Are you thinking of live captions?
Annotation is on the sharing toolbar (full screen share only, not a window only share).
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 2 weeks ago:
Its actually a pretty well aged reference, of legal drinking age in the US.
- Comment on Someone help me understand the sonarr to jellyfin workflow 2 weeks ago:
You would need to post your config.
First guess is read/write access. Either sonarr can’t read the download directory, or it can’t write to the media directory.
- Comment on Release 0.25.0 · Freika/dawarich, improved 'visits' experience 2 weeks ago:
That looks pretty damn cool… Going to have to try it out tomorrow.
- Comment on Meet the spy 2 weeks ago:
Yes to both!
- Comment on Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in April 2 weeks ago:
Authentik + jellyfin SSO plugin?
I haven’t tried it out personally, but I use authentik, for that you can just create a password policy, then add a new stage for identification (just make sure to add the email field), and an email stage, then create a flow.
More work on your end than paying someone else obviously.
- Comment on Starting to self host 4 weeks ago:
Here are a few of my favorites, some of which are exposed, some are not:
- Mealie - Recipe management. Import recipes by URL is my favorite feature, then I tweak and try it out (I have to be gluten free, so this makes it easy to track what worked for us).
- Homepage - a homepage to put quick links to all of my stuff, neat and clean.
- Grafana - for visualization of current data of my systems, paired with Prometheus.
- Technitium DNS - for all of my DNS needs.
- Comment on Online office suite alternatives 5 weeks ago:
Apache guacamole plus your own libreoffice install maybe?
- Comment on Amazon is changing what is written in books 1 month ago:
Source: I sell my “Foundations of Amateur Radio” ebooks on the Kindle store
And thank you for the reminder that I should go get a license before the entire system is so messed up that it wouldn’t be possible.
Well or it would be irrelevant because no one would care.
Either way!
- Comment on Advice / sanity check for torrenting & media server 1 month ago:
Yes you can. You select what it is at import.
I’d also suggest not setting up your torrent client (or not enabling it) u til you’ve finished your import, and setting what you are monitoring and what you are not.
This way you can just import, and enable/disable monitoring of items easily before you start any new downloads.
- Comment on First home server advice 1 month ago:
FYI, now that tteck has passed, the new home is:
- Comment on I can not over express how happy I am with having setup my NAS from scratch. 1 month ago:
Tiny/mini/micro.
You can grab a used box for under $200. Most I’ve picked up have been around $100-$125, then I drop in a new m.2 for the host, maybe add/change ram depending on what I got it with.
Data lives on the NAS (really multiple for me, but besides the point here), and you’ll get waaaayyyyy more compute with a usff PC like that than you will with a pi or what a NAS can offer. They also run really light on power when you aren’t putting the CPU to work, so budget friendly in a bunch of ways.
I’ve got a goal after a move my wife and I are planning to run the whole shebang on solar, with battery and a switch to utility power. I’ve got 10 of these little monsters now, after a recent addition, and its quite doable from my measurements of actual power usage.
Which is a really long way of saying you may want to look at some tiny/mini/micro PCs.
- Comment on Modding the Gulf of Mexico Back 1 month ago:
Unfortunately they also go out of date pretty quickly.
OSM is a great option, and you can host it yourself.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 month ago:
What was not authorized and was a terms of use violation was scripting the download. Namely the python script, keepgrabbing.py.
he didn’t have the right nor a permission to access for establishing a separate machine on the network to download everything.
This is TOS, not copyright.
He had the ability to download. That is provided through the JSTOR site, which he had credentials for. There is a button that you click to download. Which gives him the right to access, download, and transfer those materials per the terms.
The issue JSTOR took was the means of access. The issue JSTOR had with him was the sheer magnitude because he scripted the download.
Everything else you typed out is based on your misunderstanding of what transpired.
I also never said “he did nothing wrong”. I said that the AG abused the definition of the Computer Fraud and Abuse act (which legal scholars agree, which you can find as published materials with a name attached, where they got their degree, which bar they passed, and their specialty, so have at it), and that the AG was doing this for politics. Which she was gunning for governor at the time, and others in the office publicly noted.
So no, without distribution there would be no copyright violation. Only a terms of use violation, which is why the AG abused the CF&A, stretching it to the limits of its definition.
So, my statement remains the same. Ive already said everything that addresses things, now I’m just repeating myself.
Enjoy your weekend.
- Comment on It'll happen to you! 1 month ago:
Nah, not only analog.
SDI - with 24G SDI being the latest standard, able carry up to 24gbps - is alive and well.
- Comment on Decentralised social media offers an alternative to big tech platforms like X and Meta. How does it work? Podcast 1 month ago:
but there are tons of times where I reload my feed and it errors or is empty.
Sounds like your server or your app is an issue.
A few years in and I haven’t seen that except for just straight up downtime (planned or otherwise).
- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 month ago:
The exact reason I have to deal with unity for a specific project.
And now its already built, so stuck with it for a while.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 month ago:
Copying a copyrighted material without proper approval or license is enough.
And he had legitimate access to the materials on JSTOR which was never in question. Copyright would not come into play without distribution as he had every right to download the materials.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 month ago:
but because the people in charge at the time wanted to show that they are in control.
That is your opinion, and you are welcome to it.
I would say his beliefs played a role in how prosecution handled it. I would say the AG was making a political play, she was on the lookout for something in the technology realm already.
But I can tell you if they were doing it just because of his beliefs they could’ve charged him for each and every copyrighted material he downloaded from the servers.
Regarding this bit, he had not distributed anything and was permitted access to JSTOR and those materials. They pushed intent and his own words. There would be no basis for a copyright claim without distribution as he had access to those materials.
What they were hinging this on was his use of scripts making the access “unauthorized” by not using their interface directly. I don’t see any way a copyright claim would be possible.
I’d say the only way he got such a harsh result was through the AGs abuse of the definitions of the computer fraud and abuse act, and the ignorance of the judiciary regarding most things technology.
In the end let’s agree to disagree. I wish you well and I hope that he is in peace.
Agreed, and I hope so as well.
- Comment on Laws only matter if you're not rich. 1 month ago:
I would rather firmly disagree with you, youre doing a greater injustice to him by ignoring how the articles being distributed were part of his long held beliefs and civic activism. Attributing this solely to “not knowing how to deal with internet crimes” doesn’t really fit either - the Paypal 14, a cyber bullying case, the Morris worm, etc were all prior cases using the same act as a basis to charge him.
Let’s be clear - he was a staunch and long term supporter of open access to information long before the incident at MIT. PACER is a good example of that, which had no charges brought against him.
In terms of the prosecution, yes, that was a decision by the Mass AG. That decision would not appear to have anything to do with “not knowing”, and more to do with seeking to continue an overly broad interpretation of the computer fraud and abuse act. An interpretation that had been challenged by legal experts for years.
Now into the specifics here - the Mass AG based the prosecution around Swartz having an intent to distribute the materials. This is the part that has to do with his beliefs. His previous public statements regarding open access to information were part of this intent to distribute alleged by the Mass AG. So yes, his beliefs absolutely played a role in his prosecution (see the Guerilla Open Access Manifesto by Swartz)
Why it was such a harsh approach was based around, as mentioned above, the Mass AG looking to use this as an example of how others could be prosecuted, to push the limits of how the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act could be applied, opening up more options for the AG to be “tough on crime” (Carmen Ortiz, an Obama appointee who resigned when Trump was coming in).
To note, Carmen Ortiz has been accused by judges of stretching evidence, providing gross exaggerations of events, having “unusual” prosecutions. She oversaw the arrest of someone who kinda sorta looked like a wanted suspect, she agreed in pleas to lesser sentences and leniency but would then seek harsh penalties, tried to take motel via civil forfeiture despite the owner not having been involved/identified as part of/charged with any crimes.
TL;DR:
His beliefs absolutely played a role, and the US AG in Mass, Carmen Ortiz, often went waaayyyy beyond to get the harshest punishments possible.
So, I firmly disagree with your statement.
- Comment on What is everyone using as a HTPC? 1 month ago:
I don’t do drm’d content, its all coming from JF so ive got random assortments in various parts of my home. An apple TV, a roku, a regular chromecast, a Chromecast with google TV dongle, and a lenovo m90q with a launcher running arch/KDE.
- Comment on Sounds like a fun place to work 1 month ago:
Her name. erikalust.com is her site.