excursion22

@excursion22@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta and YouTube found liable in social media addiction trial; Ordered to pay woman $3 million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems many didn’t even read the quoted part of the article. The $3 million payment is to one person. Yes, it’s pennies to the giant companies, but this could open the door to thousands of similar lawsuits, quickly turning that cost into not just pennies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like Quantic Dream’s games. A little bit of action sprinkled in to a narrative-driven walking sim where your choices can impact the game really gets you emotionally connected. Their use of facial mocap really takes the immersion to the next level too.

  I highly recommend all of Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, and Detroit: Become Human if that’s the sort of games you enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luck is not a Disaster Recovery Plan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those second and third backups can really come in handy if something on the host blows up.

  I’ve got my main PBS backups on an internal array on the host, secondary backups to an external HDD plugged into the host, then a third separate node (ThinkCentre mini-pc) backing up to a pair of HDDs I trade out monthly for an offsite copy.

  I think it’s important to consider not backing up media, etc that you can relatively easily re-obtain. Makes the storage requirements for redundant backups a fair bit more palatable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I unsmarted my TV and just threw Mint on an old laptop. FreeTube works great on there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senators Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or perhaps ban prediction markets altogether? The existence of them can preclude events, and is especially dangerous when such markets are in any way violent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I quite like my Razr. I’m sure if they’re aiming to be a true alternative to the mainstream OSs, they’ll be including many of the mainstream features

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called anti-circumvention law and is typically forced into trade agreements by America to allow corporations to enforce IP protection in foreign countries.

  Cory Doctorow’s recent talk on it was very informative and he notes how eliminating those laws can be a way for countries to eed dependance on US tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very unlikely there will be any meaningful form of tech regulation in the US without significant societal change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an Ollama integration that adds it as a conversation agent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer Tubular for Android. It’s a NewPipe fork to implement SponsorBlock and ReturnYoutubeDislike

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI safety leader says 'world is in peril' and quits to study poetry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not really the best place to go to be invisible. However, who knows if that’s actually where he’ll go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self hosting Sunday! What's up and how long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixing a Nvidia driver mismatch that was causing the newest kernel module to not build properly (that might not be the right terminology) and not boot was on my list, as discovered after a node reboot that wouldn’t start.

  It was fairly straightforward, though finding a way to fully remove some of the old DKMS stuff took a bit of digging (manually delete a couple files). The new driver installs went smoothly and the improved GPU passthrough in PVE 9 made the passthrough config tasks pretty quick.

  I also got go2rtc set up and piped my cameras through that instead of having individual connections for things like Home Assistant and Blue Iris NVR. I’m still struggling to get the motion notifications in Home Assistant to work though. Followed a tutorial on (that other site) and got the MQTT message coming in just fine, but the node-red flow isn’t working…an issue with entities, so still some tinkering left to do there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do share your Cloudflare notes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immich face recognition is peak⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mine ID’d a cursed shrek face from someone wearing a costume at a Mexican resort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What heat are you referring to? Refrigeration simply moves heat using electricity to pump refrigerant through a cycle of physical changes, aka heat pumps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mixarr – a music discovery companion for Lidarr/Plex⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks cool. Any chance you’ll add Qobuz to the integration list in the future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I replayed Subnautica in VR with the mentioned mod not too long ago. It’s an environment that’s perfect for VR and really puts the scale of things in perspective. I found some of the leviathans were a little janky in their movement sometimes, but they were still quite terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting how it varies across the country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to vent about plastic milk jugs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, I haven’t seen bagged milk for quite a while where I live in Canada. It’s typically cartons for 2L or less (though sometimes mini plastic jugs too) and plastic jugs as in OP for 4L.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. 404 Media Tracked Themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Benn Jordan did a recent video on his…explorations of Flock cameras. Essentially, they’re easily hackable and really should be an urgent matter of national security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “now you’re locked in, let the gouging begin”

  Essentially the definition of enshittification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inputs Of Interest: SafeType™ Vertical Keyboard With Mirrors Puts Pain In The Rear-View⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks terrible to use. /c/ergomechkeyboards are where the real ergonomic keyboards are at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁️ 👁️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt that Canadian PDs are drooling over any potential of using them in Canada.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨👁️ 👁️⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Relevant video I saw posted elsewhere on Lemmy today.

  Tl;dw: Flock cameras are alarmingly easily hackable and many of their security and efficacy claims on their website are outright false.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Price of a 'bot army' revealed across hundreds of online platforms worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not surprising in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the focus of the article is more on using services deliberately rather than pure privacy, and I think the all or nothing approach to thinking of online privacy as you mention detracts from any positive effects of the little things people just starting their journey may try.

  Those big companies don’t care about you. Every small step taken toward privacy is beneficial, even if it’s just eliminating one data point at a time. If you make it harder to find your info, they aren’t going to hire a PI to track you down, there are plenty of easier marks to chase.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The one near me got torn down this year…so not a whole lot I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a powered doorbell, the Reolink cams can be powered by that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gonna throw in another Reolink recommendation. I use Blue Iris as my NVR and have both that and the Reolink integrations in Home Assistant for motion notifications and lighting control. The cameras are durable (even in my very cold temps like -30C) and have really good image quality. If you don’t have an NVR or Home Assistant, the built-in motion detection and app is still pretty good and you can just pop an SD card in for recording.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the government’s favourite sport. What do you think all the tariff announcements and later withdrawals are doing?