smeg

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK police blame Microsoft Copilot for intelligence mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Police have little intelligence of their own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Storage Solutions for Homelab?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they’re active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man’s mirror setup.

  Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brussels plots open source push to pry Europe off Big Tech⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave overhauls adblock engine, cutting its memory consumption by 75%⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative spyware is no better than Google spyware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.

  Capitalism can’t solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netherlands police face 'unprecedented' New Year's violence⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling it violence is weird and kind of stupid. A better word might be mayhem.

  It’s not violence against people. It’s morons engaging in the annual new year tradition of exploding a fuckton of fireworks by amateurs, in very dense cities. The Netherlands has banned them nationwide, so hopefully it will chill next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s such an obvious deflection, though. My last car was a GM vehicle, with built-in OnStar right there in the box behind the rearview mirror. Built into the price I paid was hardware I didn’t want, didn’t pay a subscription for, yet was collecting my driving data and selling it.

  Building a functionally useful infotainment system to replace Android Auto, with all of the bells and whistles needed to complete, is going to cost them the same or more. The difference is the rent seeking behavior, the demand for subscriptions, and getting more opportunities to spy on their customers for profit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Rent seeking behavior. They want subscription revenue instead of wanting to deliver what consumers want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notepad++ updater installed malware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  tl;dr A network operator can perform a MitM attack on the built-in updater, telling it a new version is available at <malware URL> and then downloading and running the malware

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.

  From his Kofi: ko-fi.com/flukejones

  I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.

  Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.

  Same on his Patreon

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gambling ads target Indonesian Meta users despite ban⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations have largely proven that laws don’t apply to them. Until a corporation is truly punished for wrongdoing (not just a fine), this will continue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Teams can record office presence from December⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a huge difference between a piece of data being recorded in a SIEM somewhere and the data being displayed up front all of the time for micro managers to pounce on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So admins, hows your instances looking today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My Mastodon instance is working just fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Readarr alternative suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  LazyLibrarian is fantastic for ebooks. Basically useless for audiobooks. I’ve found the entire *arr stack seems ill suited for audiobooks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KATHLEEN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is that in a real scientific measurement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some users report their Firefox browser is scoffing CPU power⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AI garbage strikes again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RETIRED: Readarr - Sonarr for Ebooks Book Manager and Automation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m generally pretty happy with LazyLibrarian. I know people get really excited about the *arr stack, but Readarr never worked well for ebooks. It was maybe a little better at finding audiobooks, but LL is getting better at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What webapps do you selfhost that aren't media/game servers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Besides a media server, I self host my email, a blog, an IRC bouncer, syncthing, SPFToolbox, and in my house I run ADS-B plane tracking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times can people keep making the same mistake without us concluding they’re stupid? Closed corporate social networks ALWAYS go to shit. Enshitification is inevitable. And you’ll have the sunk cost fallacy stopping them from leaving, until they all finally get fed up and switch again. Own your network - stop swapping.