magic_smoke
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- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
No you’re right. I’m the perpetrator. I asked my awful fucking government run by pedophiles I totally approve of to do that. I totally want that instead of healthcare and basic human rights.
Its almost like if you’re not part of a small club of old kiddie fuckers or their direct lackeys, you’re getting fucked over too.
What do you want? Me to uselessly martyr myself so they’ll be another “stupid dangerous tranny” on the news for a week people use against us before forgetting it happened?
What? What more is it you want me to fucking do? Wave my magic american wand that makes my government stop being run by garbage?
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
Yeal well seriously, tomorrow the nazis are marching in my city near me, and I will be there. They want to remigrate my family. I don’t need 5 VPNs, i need to leave my phone at home and physically go there.
Your medicine you need to live isn’t actively being made illegal. The FDA is already making lists of us. This isn’t something I need to protest its something Im going to need to live.
But quit thinking of yourself as the main victim when your country’s bombing people for breakfast.
Did I say I was?
So less voting and more doing, chopchop.
Read the comment and try again.
- Comment on The FCC decided that all foreign-made consumer-grade Internet routers are prohibited from receiving FCC authorization and are therefore prohibited from being imported for use or sale in the US. 2 weeks ago:
As someone who’s working on starting a diyhrt homebrew and joining the SRA: unless you’ve lived through the rise of fascism stfu, chances are if you lived here you’d be doin jack shit too.
Fascism/late stage capitalism is exhausting by design. If I didn’t spend the past decade removing corporate software from my computers I don’t even know how I’d be comfortable doing any of this safely.
Proper privacy in today’s day in age requires understanding of Linux systems administration/, basic network architecture, and virtualization.
If you’re not splitting your identities/footprint across several permanent and burner VM’s w/ different public IP’s you’re probably doing it wrong.
How is that reasonable to expect out of the average person?
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
When you make a new user using
adduserand you leave your full name, number, and room number?Blank is blank, epoch is functionally the same as leaving it blank.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 2 weeks ago:
Distros will push a dob of 1970-1-1, marks my fucking words.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m trying to leverage my homelab for my friends that can’t set one up just to make things even slightly better.
Ultimately there’s only so much you can do to fight fascism.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.
If someone is too lazy to put privacy over convenience that’s kind of their gig. It sucks but like I can’t fuckin’ change their minds.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
If you can’t open a windows computer, connect an android phone to it, and use a simple UI tool you’re probably not capable of actually privacy.
This isn’t me being elitist its just the fact that the resources needed to make this shit viable and easy are being tied up to corporations in order to make more corporate spyware.
Privacy under fascism takes time, effort, and education.
- Comment on Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID 3 weeks ago:
For webapp stuff for sure, but when you want to login as the same user with the same perms across all your VMS and baremetal servers at the os, it’s nice.
I use virtualization over containerization because i have the hardware resource so I might as well take advantage of improved isolation and security VMS provide. Plus I use Linux on my desktop/laptop, and have a separate dedicated storage host.
Its nice to have everything managed by one service with global accounts and permissions.
Looking at authentik it seems to provide some but not all of that. Def something to keep an eye on if freeipa decides to stop being so free.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 3 weeks ago:
Your router is an important security device that you should own and control your self if you want any semblence of ownership over your network.
Your modem is remotely controlled by the ISP even if you own it, and is mostly there to demodulate from the medium installed by your ISP (usually cable, or fiber but those are called ont’s not modems) to a standard cat. 6 Ethernet connection you can plug into most routers.
The main benefit of owning your own modem is not having one with a router built in and not having to pay an equipment fee.
- Comment on Single Sign in for Home Assistant now possible with OpenID 3 weeks ago:
Haven’t touched HA yet but I run FreeIPA, is there an LDAP option or will I have to get an open I’d solution go sit in front of it?
- Comment on SSL certificates for things inside the lab 3 weeks ago:
For inside the lan/lab, I have my pem chain looks like: cold storage root-ca -> offline vault qubes VM ca -> pfsense ca -> freeipa
I use letsencrypt for externally facing services.
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 weeks ago:
The XMPP ecosystem is a mess and matrix has a ton of security and metadata issues.
We shouldn’t be using discord-likes anymore, it was a bad idea the first time.
Personal IM/VoIP should be separate from game party chat should be separate from communitt IRC/forums
- Comment on Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative 3 weeks ago:
Matrix has lots of metadata issues and signal requires a phone number which is a non-starter.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Alternatively if you’re tired of manual DNS configuration:
FreeIPA
Configures users, sudoer group, ssh keys, and DNS in one go.
Also lotta services can be integrated using LDAP auth too.
So far I’ve got proxmox, jellyfin, zoneminder, mediawiki, and forgejo authing against freeipa in top of my samba shares.
- Comment on System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks 4 weeks ago:
Can I just type ‘roxorz boxorz’ and be done with it.
- Comment on TrueNAS build system going closed source 4 weeks ago:
Been running my own storage boxes off of rocky for years simply for the ease of integration of samba + freeipa.
Especially being able to use ipasam.so to allow password authentication for shares on machines that aren’t easy/reasonable to use kerberos keytabs from (think android clients, and off domain boxes)
- Comment on Teen boys are using ChatGPT as their wingman. What could go wrong? AI is teaching teenagers about love now. 4 weeks ago:
I mean I’ve faked one or two conversations because I always thought chatbots where cute toys as a dev.
Treating it like a humie is a no go.
- Comment on Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable 4 weeks ago:
Lemme know when fairphone has a re-lockable bootloader to allow for choice of OS.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 5 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m capable of telling my doctor I’m trans, and if I feel like my country isn’t safe enough that should be my decision, not my governments.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 5 weeks ago:
Yeah but if you make it an open format other hobbyists could make their own hardware/software about it.
Mostly a fantasy medium, but if people start using it they start using it.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 month ago:
No that’s the idea, it would be to make a piece of software which if thrown on a soc with a DVD drive becomes a player.
Which really isn’t too far off of DVD and most bluray players.
Though I wouldn’t be shocked if the super cheap DVD players have some sorta all-in-one integrated asic for most of the job.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 1 month ago:
Was thinking you know its bad when Linus thinks you’re too toxic…
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 month ago:
I’ve always kinda thought about implementing a software and standard for 1080p av1 on DVD. Would be neat as a project, obviously no commercial use would exist.
Either way you can get some really impressive encodes out of av1, really neat tech.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 1 month ago:
Do you guys just not have homelabs?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 month ago:
This is a comment chain in a post about the Epstein files in which the top comment is about a 30 year old fucking someone in their late teens.
Its entirely on topic, fuck off with your bad faith arguments.
- Comment on We live in the future! 1 month ago:
Fake money for criminals because that also means diy hrt, recreational drugs, and piracy.
Its not all money laundering y’know! Sometimes its the good criminals!
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 month ago:
Why should it matter to society what the difference between the two is, if the better of the two is still bad enough they should be hung by their toenails and beaten to death with a sack of hammers?
After a certain amount of bad, there’s not much you can do to punish it.
What reason do we have to discuss the difference, unless you think a 30 year old fucking a 17 year old is redeemable?
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 month ago:
I swear to god if fedi starts defending “ephebophilia” as if its meaningfully different enough to matter I’m going to start cutting dicks off lmao.
- Comment on Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick... 1 month ago:
Both deserve jail time, and the only people who really care that much are usually from the former group distancing themselves from the latter.
Both are fucking gross.