dan
@dan@upvote.au
Aussie living in the USA. https://d.sb/
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 3 hours ago:
The colours make it look like he’s sitting on Stitch lol
- Comment on The Unfortunate Truth 3 days ago:
a lot of tubes
Not a big truck?
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 5 days ago:
They’re likely not intentionally crawling Lemmy. They’re probably just crawling all sites they can find.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 5 days ago:
Won’t the bots just switch to using that instead of the heavier JS challenge?
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 5 days ago:
tbh I kinda understand their viewpoint. Not saying I agree with it.
The Anubis JavaScript program’s calculations are the same kind of calculations done by crypto-currency mining programs. A program which does calculations that a user does not want done is a form of malware.
- Comment on Anubis is awesome! Stopping (AI)crawlbots 5 days ago:
The Anubis site thinks my phone is a bot :/
tbh I would have just configured a reasonable rate limit in Nginx and left it at that.
Won’t the bots just hammer the API instead now?
- Comment on What would you do in this scenario? 5 days ago:
Some jurisdictions don’t allow people to mess with bird nests if there’s birds using it, so check that first.
I’m surprised they allow power cables so close to a downspout. That wouldn’t be allowed where I live.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
List it on a Buy Nothing group in your area? I give away a lot of stuff that way.
- Comment on what 1 week ago:
As a buyer, I do this to annoy scalpers. Keep sending them offers far below what they’re asking. The more time they spend dealing with me, the less time they can spend scamming people.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
Working ones are getting harder to find (and thus more expensive) and are impractical for a lot of people.
At least CRT shaders have come a long way (in particular, RetroCrisis has some fantastic ones for RetroArch: github.com/RetroCrisis/Retro-Crisis-GDV-NTSC) so we can at least make retro games look more CRT-like.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
We had AOL in Australia for some reason, but my family could never use the trials because they required a credit or debit card. In the 90s and early 2000s, a lot of Aussie families had “bank cards” which worked at ATMs and in shops but not online. They used an Australian payment network (EFTPOS) rather than Visa or Mastercard.
In Australia, debit cards today are dual network - EFTPOS for local usage, and Visa or Mastercard for online and international usage.
- Comment on came across some family heirlooms today, hahaha! 1 week ago:
Depends on region. In Australia, local calls (within the same state) were a flat $0.20 or $0.25, while interstate and mobile calls were billed by the minute.
I’ve heard that some Americans were billed for incoming calls too?? Crazy.
- Comment on VMware’s rivals ramp efforts to create alternative stacks 1 week ago:
The mentioned products have had major releases recently. Has anything major happened with Proxmox recently?
- Comment on Trump’s Defiance of TikTok Ban Prompted Immunity Promises to 10 Tech Companies 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused as to why T-Mobile is on that list but neither AT&T nor Verizon are.
- Comment on Why are hotels in Australia so inexpensive compared to hotels in the USA and Canada? 2 weeks ago:
Accommodation in US capital cities is pretty expensive. Inflation has hit the US harder than Australia over the past few years.
- Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see an integration with PhotoStructure in addition to Immich.
- Comment on Linkwarden (v2.11.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀 3 weeks ago:
How’s it compare to Hoarder/Karakeep?
- Comment on Beaches 3 weeks ago:
TIL my gender is legs.
- Comment on Google killed Maps Timeline, so I self-hosted a better one [OnTracks] 3 weeks ago:
Because of various privacy legislation, and people not wanting Google to track them as much, they stopped syncing the data to Google servers. It’s entirely local now. You can enable encrypted backups and back up the data, however you can really only have the data on one device now, and the web version is gone.
- Comment on Moth go brrrr 3 weeks ago:
Why are there so many moth posts these days? Isn’t that an old meme?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 weeks ago:
(no taxes on charities).
What type of taxes are you talking about?
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 4 weeks ago:
If you pay for a device, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Apple having so much control over it means that you don’t fully own it.
- Comment on What the fuck 4 weeks ago:
Pregananant
- Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft 5 weeks ago:
They have their systems only they use, therefore they can easily make them on Linux or emulate.
Also, a lot of systems are web-based (and therefore automatically multi-platform) these days.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 5 weeks ago:
It’s usually fine if you stick to a good well-known brand, but there’s some cheaper cameras that are bootleg clones of other brands, that can’t run the latest upstream firmware so they’re stuck on a hacked/modified version of older firmware.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 5 weeks ago:
The good Chinese brands, if they do have a hard-coded password, usually make you change it on first login. I’m pretty sure newer Hikvision and Dahua models do this (plus their resellers/rebrands like Amcrest, Lorex, Annke, etc).
Of course, there’s all sorts of junk on Amazon that don’t follow any sort of standards.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 5 weeks ago:
Hard-coded default passwords have been illegal in California since 2020, so it shouldn’t be as much of an issue with newer devices. Companies aren’t going to make California-specific versions of their devices, so they’ll follow the standards everywhere.
To be legal in California, the device either needs to have a randomly-generated password unique to that device (can be listed on a sticker on the bottom of the device, or in the manual), or it needs to prompt to set a password the first time you use it.
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 5 weeks ago:
There’s a site that lists all the insecure cameras: www.insecam.org
- Comment on 40,000 Security Cameras Found Compromised Online. 5 weeks ago:
Any camera you expose to the internet with no protection is vulnerable.
Follow best practices by keeping your cameras on a separate VLAN that’s isolated from the internet, and you’ll be fine. Use a VPN like Tailscale to view your cameras while away.
- Comment on A Researcher Figured Out How to Reveal Any Phone Number Linked to a Google Account 5 weeks ago:
This doesn’t really work in real life since IPv6 rate limiting is done per /64 block, not per individual IP address. This is because /64 is the smallest subnet allowed by the IPv6 spec, especially if you want to use features like SLAAC and privacy extensions (which most home users would be using)