swizzlestick
@swizzlestick@lemmy.zip
- Comment on Back to basics: Microsoft tests overhauled Start menu in Windows 11 beta builds 13 hours ago:
And then it got worse
If you’ve got to have Windows, at least slap openshell on it for a normal, customisable start menu.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Wednesday 9th April 18:00 UTC (19:00 BST, 14:00 EDT) 22 hours ago:
Hope all goes well :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update April 2025 1 week ago:
Congratulations & thanks again for our monthly feed :)
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 1 week ago:
On Dell server hardware with the right cards/licensing, you can remove the need for physical access to the server to input an FDE password by leaning on iDRAC. This provides access to the console remotely during the boot process (and thereafter).
Alternatives exist that supposedly do the same thing, but I’ve never had to try them. Airconsole, pikvm, blikvm etc.
You can keep this interface unexposed by using wireguard to dial in when you’re away, as per your original thinking. Just make sure the endpoint isn’t on the server you’re rebooting…
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 weeks ago:
Half the shit I actually want I just run directly these days, rather than nosing through either.
- ncpa.cpl
- diskmgmt.msc
- devmgmt.msc
- control userpasswords2
- cmd
- mstsc
- regedit
- taskmgr
Just to name a few.
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like capitalism at work, pricing to suit demand :( Not a great idea to let a domain fall out of grace if there’s ever a chance you’ll want it again.
In work we still maintain domains for arms of the parent company that are long defunct. Less for us and more to prevent others registering.
I’ve had one personal domain go out of grace, but the reactivation price wasn’t too bad. Cheeky, yes - but not bad enough to get something new.
Could be worse, could end up at auction like hexbear did…
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 weeks ago:
Welcome.
Wishing you well wherever you end up :)
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 weeks ago:
The private domain registration service Withheld for Privacy is available for almost all domains Namecheap offers. Due to registry restrictions, It cannot be used with .ca, .ch, .cn, .co.in, .co.uk, .com.au, .com.es, .com.sg, .de, .es, .eu, .fr, .gg, .id, .in, .is, .li, .me.uk, .net.au, .nl, .nom.es, .nu, .nyc, .org.es, .org.au, .org.uk, .paris, .sg, .to, .uk, .us, .vote, .voto, .xn–3ds443g domains.
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully I don’t deal with enough domains to need to wrangle them with an API.
Appreciate the warning for if I ever I do though - what’s so bad about it?
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 2 weeks ago:
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 4 weeks ago:
That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 4 weeks ago:
As for why, it’s probably due to the censorship screws getting tighter at Reddit. Luigi is a bad word. Eating the rich is verboten. Just 2 examples. Interacting/upvoting such content is now also an offense even if you didn’t write it yourself.
For many, it’s their stop to get off the train. Mine was the API boogaloo.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 4 weeks ago:
With any luck, they’ll take some of the users bailing out of Reddit on the nostalgia factor, become mediocre, and die. Again.
- Comment on Potential upgrade 4 weeks ago:
I love those little Lenovo boxes, also recommend.
Proxmox has also been good for me - great for just quickly spinning something up to play with before committing.
- Comment on What's up, selfhosters? - The Sunday thread 5 weeks ago:
A third, and hopefully final attempt at getting an iredmail setup going. SPF, DKIM & DMARC all checking out fine. It’s actually working this time. Need to get the ISP to change our PTR record though, last bit of the puzzle.
Also picked up a used negate device, so we now have pfsense fronting everything. That’s allowed me to move the original router to a better location and put it in AP mode.
Emby media server moved off a Synology and into a proxmox container. Finally, we can stream high def with the hardware acceleration we weren’t getting before.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update 5 weeks ago:
Happy to be here, even if it requires certain ‘workarounds’ due to my location. If anyone asks, I’m Hungarian. Honest.
Glad to be supporting such a great instance.
Above all, congratulations on your incoming tiny human. You have your work cut out for you - wishing you the very best.
- Comment on New Terms for Firefox from Mozilla 5 weeks ago:
Used FF forever, even though the birth and rise of Chrome.
We’re done. The company I IT for therefore is also done. As are friends and family I sort computers for.
The shit now stinks and must be taken out.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 5 weeks ago:
Grab some keys out a bag in the office while the owner isn’t looking.
Grab a code (it’s out of vehicle range, being inside).
Go to the car park, replay the code and loot the car.
You’d be caught quickly, but it’s doable.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 5 weeks ago:
An SDR can be made to jam, even if that is not the normal purpose. Just like a kitchen knife can be used to murder people, instead of its normal culinary purpose.
Of course an F0 can’t clone a rolling code as-is. I never said it could. But it can harvest and replay a single or multiple consecutive codes just fine, providing the original key is not used in the meantime. Only need physical access to the key while it is out of range of the vehicle.
This alone puts the F0 on dangerous ground as an “electronic device (such as a signal jammer) for use in theft of a vehicle or theft of anything in a vehicle”
People have locked out their original keys by messing with this before.
The point is that our laws are reactionary, vague, and open to too much interpretation.
If someone gets shit stolen out their car and I happen to be nearby, then I will become suspect merely through possession. Even without intent.
- Comment on Electronic devices or 'signal jammers' used in car thefts to be banned 5 weeks ago:
Typical BBC reporting of anything technical.
Keyless repeaters and signal amplifiers scramble the signal from remote key fobs inside people’s homes, enabling criminals to unlock cars.
No, they don’t. The situation described is a relay attack on keyless entry/start. Jamming is used in a two stage attack, where the device intercepts the first signal and stores it without allowing the car to ‘see’ it by jamming. The user then tries a second time.
This time the signal is intercepted the same way, and the first signal is played back to the car from the device. The second signal is stored and can be replayed later to bypass a rolling code setup.
It’s very niche and the stored signal quickly becomes obsolete anyway.
Sophisticated electronic devices used by criminals to steal cars are set to be banned
Making or selling a signal jammer could lead to up to five years
Jenny Simms said the possession, manufacture, sale and supply of signal jammers had provided an “easily accessible tool for criminals… for far too long”.
These devices have no legitimate purpose
Basically, fuck you if you happen to have or build a Software Defined Radio (SDR). Again with the UK ‘clamping down’ on something that does have plenty of legitimate use.
I use an F0 for toying with my own equipment, as an interface for my smart devices and as a general purpose keyfob. I may be arrested just for possessing it.
The crims will not care a jot and this only serves to restrict/annoy legitimate users.
The fault and solution lies with the manufacturers who implement insecure tech, and with the users who blindly sacrifice pounds of security for ounces of convenience.
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 1 month ago:
All looking good this end :)
- Comment on What Would a Fair and Community-Focused Monetization Model on the Fediverse Look Like? 1 month ago:
Monetizing is what ruins other places.
I like the way my home instance does financial backing through an open model, and that’s part of why I chose it.
An ideal is enough contributors to keep the lights on and to reimburse the admins for their time spent in keeping it afloat. Moderation should always be a volunteer position for those that want to support their individual communities.
Any excesses in finance I would hope go towards future running costs (to a point), feature development and then charitable donations in that order. Non-profit on paper and in practice.
This is viable for a small instance. Maybe even larger ones if the users are altruistic enough as a whole.
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 1 month ago:
Service is running fine otherwise, and the migration is still going. Take the win, it could be worse :)
A stalled progress bar will send you through all the stages of grief if it locks up for long enough 😬
- Comment on Important: Temporary Image Downtime Part 2 1 month ago:
6 hours laster it’s 41% done, so my maths is way out.
Epic game of watch the progress bar.
Somehow, I am sure we will manage :)
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 month ago:
As bad as they are in that way (and many others), I can only consider Dell or Lenovo for mainstream laptops. They are the only manufacturers, to my knowledge, that make service manuals readily available or at least easy to obtain.
If it’s not a terminal or expensive fault, I’d just rather fix it myself than deal with customer support anyway - even in warranty.
Where I am, it is the retailers problem to solve up to 2 years from purchase. This covers the terminal cases.
For desktops I’ll just build myself, and make a point to offer builds to fridnds & family in the market.
a customer support line that wasn’t outsourced to the other side of the planet
Onshore support is indeed a bloody rarity these days.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 1 month ago:
We have an LJ1010 that just refuses to die. All we feed it are cheap knock-off carts and it continues to churn out the pages.
Only thing I’ve had to do is force the driver into thinking everything is label stock. The fuser is weak, so the label setting gives it a little more oomph.
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Thursday 20th Feb 18:00 UTC 1 month ago:
Good luck :)
- Comment on USA | Trump administration tries to bring back fired nuclear weapons workers in DOGE reversal 1 month ago:
Spreadsheet jihad
Pinching this. What a phrase.
- Comment on A whole lot of people picked up a shovel for A Game About Digging A Hole 1 month ago:
Feels like the dirt is butter and the drill is a blowtorch.
- Comment on Important News - Geoblocking of the UK 1 month ago:
I’m not sure ofcom are going to download an app
Also a valid point 😂
