sugar_in_your_tea
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- Comment on Donkey Kong Bananza | Review Thread 54 minutes ago:
Microsoft?
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 1 hour ago:
Eh, I play everything through Heroic. I haven’t paid a dime to EGS, but I’ve claimed a fair number of games, so they just live alongside my GOG purchases.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 1 hour ago:
Only if you let it.
- Comment on Dedicated service user or not ? 8 hours ago:
Sure, but those will usually be pieces of an app on the same host, not whole apps. Like for an inventory management app, you might have the auth server and its database on one host, the CRUD app and its database on another, and the report server, its database, and a replica of the CRUD db on another. And I use the term “host” broadly enough to include VMs on the same physical hardware. And these hosts will have restricted communication between each other.
At least, that’s how I’ve seen it done.
Self-hosters will generally run multiple full apps on one host. It’s a different setup.
- Comment on Dedicated service user or not ? 21 hours ago:
You shouldn’t have any user home for your services, you shouldn’t even allow them to login at all. They should only have group access to resources they need, and containers should restrict what directories they have access to.
- Comment on Dedicated service user or not ? 21 hours ago:
Companies don’t typically host multiple containers on the same host. So having a different user for them is less important than securing the connection between machines, since a given biat isn’t particularly interesting. Attackers will still try to break out, so they have a backup.
As a self-hoster, you typically do the opposite. You run multiple services on the same host, and the internal network isn’t particularly secure. So you should be focusing more on mitigating issues, and having each service run as an unprivileged user is one fairly easy way to do that.
- Comment on Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics 22 hours ago:
¿Por que no los dos?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 23 hours ago:
I got banned as well, and I’m still not sure why. I’ve never sold anything, and I’ve only bought a handful of things and sent money for rent a few times.
I think someone hacked my account, because I hadn’t used it for ~10 years before noticing that I was banned when I tried logging in again.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 23 hours ago:
More role play I suppose?
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 23 hours ago:
Recommended Linux.
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 1 day ago:
Yup, my grass does best under my trampoline.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 2 days ago:
I kinda think it does. I use a gecko browser as my main, and I use a chromium browser as my backup. I don’t use most of the default features, I just need a handful of extensions, and those are available everywhere.
So to me they’re pretty much the same. Brave is a little different since it embeds an ad blocker, but besides that, the rest of the chromium browsers are equivalent for me.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 2 days ago:
Nah, in those days I picked Linux. In fact, I got a “win7 ready laptop” and still picked Linux over it. Windows 7 was better than Vista, but it didn’t fix the other issues I had w/ windows.
I honestly think Win10 was better than Win7.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Whether it convinces the cops isn’t nearly as important as whether it convinces a judge/jury. I highly doubt “suspect’s phone is too hard to break into” would sway a jury to believe they’re a drug dealer.
Cops need to do a proper investigation and prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. The type of phone someone has shouldn’t significantly impact any of that, though having a phone they can break into may make that investigation easier.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 2 days ago:
They’re the same in the ways I care about, which is rendering and javascript engines. I’m a developer, that’s what matters to me. I rarely interact with extra features, and I can get most of what’s unique about a given browser with extensions.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
OK. Owing an iPhone or Samsung also isn’t a sign of innocence, it’s just a phone, just like a Pixel. There may be a higher incidence of people owning Pixels being drug dealers/traffickers, but there’s also likely a lot of people who have them who aren’t drug dealers/traffickers, so that fact isn’t useful as evidence.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Sure, but it’s also not evidence of wrongdoing. What phone you choose or what OS you run on it isn’t evidence of anything.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Yup, whole process is something like 15 min. It’s really not an issue whatsoever.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
You absolutely can, just not from the manufacturer. But I agree that it’s dumb, installation is easy and doesn’t come with the added risk of the seller putting on some spyware or whatever.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Other countries can. But technically, the US government cannot deny a US citizen access.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Yeah, I have mine at 4 hours and it’s pretty good. It triggers while I’m at work sometimes, but other than that, it’s mostly just when I sleep.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Yup, install process takes a few minutes, it walks you through it on a pretty friendly web page.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
I paid $350 or so for my Pixel 8 refurb. New wasn’t that much more.
Pixels are way less than top phones, like iPhones or Samsungs.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
I paid $350 or so for my Pixel 8 refurb. New wasn’t that much more.
Pixels are way less than top phones, like iPhones or Samsungs.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Sure, but they’re also not especially likely to be a drug dealer. I’m a GrapheneOS user and bought the Pixel specifically for it, and I’ve never done drugs in my life, much less traffic in them.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Would be sick. If they also make it open enough to try out mobile Linux, I’d totally buy it and try to transition (esp. if it can dual boot).
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
Guess they’re gonna throw my kid into Gitmo then…
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 days ago:
That really depends on what they do with that information. If people get arrested for having a pixel, that’s a huge issue. If someone merely gets a closer investigation if they’re suspected of another crime, that’s fine.
The article is light on details.
- Comment on Home server advice 2 days ago:
Yup, my first NAS was my first desktop PC, and I’ve upgraded it as I upgraded my desktop. My current NAS is still running my original Linux install, and currently has a Ryzen 1700 and Nvidia 750 Ti… Y desktop has a Ryzen 5600 and an AMD 6650XT, and I’ll upgrade my NAS to that when I upgrade my desktop.
- Comment on Home server advice 2 days ago:
If you have old parts, use those, it’ll probably overkill. Most server stuff isn’t very resource intensive, so a little goes a long way.
If you’re buying something new, I’d recommend something small, like a Mini PC or an N100 rig. 16GB RAM is probably enough, and anything with more than 4 cores is probably overkill.