swizzlestick
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- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
At that point I would expect control of it, or at least for it to respect the configuration it is given. If neither are true, then it just doesn’t go online at all. If that’s part of the main function, then I find an alternative or live without it.
Nothing on the inside should be sending anything to the outside that can’t be inspected before it leaves, with the exception of stuff that is directly driven by a human (guests browsing, etc).
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
This is the best way, really. Generally, you have much more control over what you plug into it.
A display shouldn’t have anything even approaching what can be called an ‘OS’ on it. Yet here we are.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 1 week ago:
Sometimes even that’s not enough. I’ve had some questionable kit before that would just ignore the DNS settings fed to it if it thought they were no good, and fall back to something else preconfigured.
pfSense is a wonderful tool for situations like that. Anything intended for local use only here just doesn’t get outside at all. Handy for stuff like a fire stick that only needs to be calling up a local media library.
It can also mangle any DNS requests going out to a different server and redirect them to itself instead. You could do this without it with iptables/nftables on a generic Linux box, but pfSense makes it much friendlier.
There are other packages that can do the same, but physically all you need is one piece of hardware as a bouncer that manages connections between inside/outside.
- Comment on I can't believe it 1 week ago:
Nah - I just can’t address a question to the right user, you’re all good haha
- Comment on I can't believe it 1 week ago:
Was about to say, £s not pence :) 50s will also out you as a tourist, if nothing else does. Whereabouts are you planning to visit? Just London for the touristy stuff or going for more of an explore?
As mentioned above, electronic payments are now the norm here and have been for ages. Shouldn’t have any problems using a phone or contactless card to pay in most places. Chip/PIN covers most everything else & when you get prompted to insert the card as a security check after trying contactless.
Swipe & sign is possible last time I checked, but pretty much defunct with chip/PIN being readily available. Cash only places are rare and usually associated with food or drugs.
.zip isn’t blocking UK access via apps/api, but it is for browsers. I like VPNs and supporting my home instance, so here I am :)
- Comment on I can't believe it 2 weeks ago:
If you’re bringing cash, bring it in 20s and below. 50s aren’t used much at all as they arouse suspicion - many smaller places will flat out not accept them.
Hope you enjoy the trip :)
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 2 weeks ago:
Also good, thanks.
Not that there’s much to maintain, it’s a one-and-done thing. This would resolve the unsigned extension though :)
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the hint on libredirect/redlib, that looks very serviceable.
- Comment on Is there still an effort to move technical help threads from Redshit to here? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve frankensteined a horrible unsigned extension that’s half bad human code and half AI garbage that autoredirects reddit links to their archive.org version.
Does the job, if a little slowly, without this little shit getting in the way:
- Comment on Site Updated to 0.19.11 2 weeks ago:
All happy my side.
Nice one :)
- Comment on Attempt 2 at Lemmy 0.19.11 upgrade! (April 12, 13:00 BST) 2 weeks ago:
Oh my, you are a glutton for punishment this week!
Wishing you much better luck this time :)
- Comment on Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong 2 weeks ago:
Trial by fire. At least it was interesting(!)
Praise be to the backup strategy 🙂
- Comment on Downtime - Apologies and what went wrong 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bittersweet honour to have. My personal fail was being too cocky updating a ‘handful’ of product descriptions.
(15398 rows(s) affected)
- Comment on Scheduled Maintenance Wednesday 9th April 18:00 UTC (19:00 BST, 14:00 EDT) 2 weeks ago:
But you, and .zip, are back!
I was worried.
- Comment on Back to basics: Microsoft tests overhauled Start menu in Windows 11 beta builds 2 weeks 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) 3 weeks ago:
Hope all goes well :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update April 2025 3 weeks ago:
Congratulations & thanks again for our monthly feed :)
- Comment on Encrypting data on local servers? 4 weeks 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 5 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? 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Welcome.
Wishing you well wherever you end up :)
- Comment on What is everyone's favoured domain name provider these days? 5 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? 5 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? 5 weeks ago:
Namecheap have served me well, for both personal and work.
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 month ago:
That is a wonderful chart.
Congratulations. Great to see growth :)
- Comment on Welcome, new users! 1 month 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? 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
