sunbeam60
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- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 21 hours ago:
After 20+ in software, my loyalty towards my current employer is as strong and unyielding as theirs is to me: Not at all.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 21 hours ago:
AN order I said.
- Comment on Google employees question execs over 'decline in morale' after blowout earnings 21 hours ago:
And that’s how Microsoft moved into irrelevance under Ballmer until Satya Nadella started focussing on innovation again. When sales lead technology businesses they always decline.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 days ago:
Most people I speak to about this assume that the “good VPN” provider can be trusted not to keep logs.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
Me neither as I haven’t done it.
But apparently it basically creates your own Netflix. You write a title you’d like to watch and within minutes you get a notification that it’s there, ready.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
It’s qbittorrent all the way down.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 week ago:
I don’t think it is but the headline clearly mimics a standard newspaper headline. I don’t think it’s trying to say something about genders, just saying something about how media communicates.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
I’ve been told some use an app called LunaSea to to manage their arr instances. Apparently it brings all the arrs under one simple interface.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
There are just so many distributions.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
I exclusively use qbittorrent to download Linux distros.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
I haven’t done this myself because it’s obviously very illegal, but I’ve been told you set up a server with docker and set up the following containers:
- gluetun for VPN (exit in Switzerland with a fallback to Spain) as these countries have the laxest regulation re downloading licensed media.
- radarr for film
- sonarr for tv
- other *arr instances for subtitles, music, ebooks etc
- qbittorrent piped through the Gluetun container
- jellyfish, plex or XBMC in front as a player.
But what do I know? I haven’t done it myself and only download large Linux distributions because I love distro-hopping.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 week ago:
I’ve cancelled Netflix. Just wasn’t using it enough for the price. Instead I will entertain myself by downloading Linux distributions on BitTorrent.
- Comment on The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich 1 week ago:
If you fund, you influence.
- Comment on The Immich core team goes full-time | Immich 1 week ago:
Scale. Look at a programming language like Zig … tiny, but managing to have three people full time.
- Comment on Post your Servernames! 1 week ago:
My self-hosted docker server is called Ark. My NAS is called NAS. The two remote servers are simply called the name of the country they reside in.
It’s not very colourful :)
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 1 week ago:
Banking security is so bloody awful it’s insane. I just want a passkey.
- Comment on No more 12345: devices with weak passwords to be banned in UK 1 week ago:
Yeah. I’m sure the Chinese manufacturers will get on to this right after faking the CE markings. Any second now…
- Comment on Independent auditors confirm top VPN doesn't log your data 1 week ago:
What’s wrong with PIA’s track record?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
The US is hugely protectionist. Started under Trump, continued under Biden.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
I mean in trade disputes it often does.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
But you do realise there’s a difference between a business owning some data about its users in a well regulated democracy and the Chinese state having free access to a tonne of personal data about a vast amount of people in the West?
Also, I presume you are aware that China prohibits the export of data on Chinese citizens to western servers.
While it’s not exactly important who started it, China started it.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 2 weeks ago:
Well, before you declare anti-China posturing, have you considered how China treats Western social media companies? They are completely banned.
- Comment on New Boston Dynamics Robot 2 weeks ago:
I actually fear the worst here.
There’s always been a natural “reset” point when the distance between the haves and the have nots got too large: Guilotines.
They usually got erected when even the soldiers could see they were getting screwed over and turned against the powers that be.
With a robot army that will never be questioned. I genuinely fear that a lot of the subconscious motivation behind the investors in this tech is a desire to protect themselves against rebellions from the slums.
- Comment on Netflix Doc ‘What Jennifer Did’ Uses AI Images to Create False Historical Record 3 weeks ago:
In the U.K. there’s a law (perhaps it’s an agreement between the broadcasters, no sure) to display a P in the corner of the screen when there’s product placements. So every time someone takes a phone out in a soap opera, the little P appears. Hilarious how ALL the characters in Hollyoaks chose Windows Mobile for a while.
- Comment on Adult transgender clinics in England face inquiry into patient care 4 weeks ago:
Why is it a show trial of a study? In the article it seems Mermaids is supportive of the study.
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 4 weeks ago:
Correct. But often that only happens if they make things better for you.
- Comment on Big Tech passkey implementations are a trap | Proton 4 weeks ago:
Well of course. It’s still right - the ecosystem lock-in is insane. There needs to be a standard for cloud to cloud transfer between providers.
Or you know, use Proton Pass or 1Password.
- Comment on Panama Papers: Money laundering trial of 27 defendants begins 4 weeks ago:
Well it’s (potential) consequences for some of the people involved in setting up the schemes and handling money in transit.
The people who own the money? They’re off in other schemes, better hidden (thanks Panama papers), shuffling their wealth around into other countries.
- Comment on Qbit + VPN in truenas? 4 weeks ago:
Could be the VPN provider or the NAS (cpu)
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 4 weeks ago:
- ChatGPT
- Midjourney
In addition I support a range of software through GitHub and Patreon:
- PhotoPrism
- Gluetun
- Little Navmap
- wg-easy
- DuckDNS
Finally I’ve got paid access to a couple of major and minor media sources:
- Washington Post
- Jyllands Posten (largest Danish newspaper)
- Olfi (specialised Danish defense news, named after a Danish frigate Olfert Fisher)
- Krigskunst (“The Art of War”, specialised Danish defense podcast)
- Det Hemmeligste at Det Hemmelige (podcast about spy craft and stay behind movements during the Cold War - just gone behind a pay wall but used to run on a public service channel)