dan

@dan@upvote.au

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Do those code snippets on the Stackoverflow post allow you to capture the entire screen regardless of which app is open, or do they only allow you to capture the app the code is running in?

  Capturing the app itself makes sense (for things like bug reports) but does Android really let any app capture whatever is on the screen?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The one time I do connect the TV to the internet is when there’s a firmware update that fixes an issue I’m encountering. That’s rare though. I still have it on my network so I can control it using Home Assistant (eg have a backlight come on and dim the main lights when the TV is turned on) but it’s on an isolated VLAN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why my TV is on a separate VLAN (with no internet access) and I use an Nvidia Shield for streaming. I haven’t seen any indication that the Shield does anything like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say “that article seems to just debunk the ‘my phone is always listening to me’ conspiracy theory” but then I got to the part about over 50% of analyzed Android apps having permission to take screenshots :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silicon Valley cities hit with request for residents' emails to train AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  is free

  What is their business model?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Business Insider is tracking employees’ ChatGPT usage as part of a new AI push: An enterprise version of ChatGPT is now available to all staff, with 70% using the tool “regularly.”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this why Business Insider articles are trash? They have so many clickbait headlines attached to articles that aren’t worth reading. Whenever I click one in Google News, I usually regret increasing their view count.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't ask for more pixels⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still call it Twitter because their emails are still branded as Twitter. I don’t actuslly use it any more but I do get so much spam through DMs that I’m considering deleting my account. I’m mostly holding it just so nobody squats on my name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure thing, website, my name is Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Websites don’t have an actual check for a legit email.

  Some do. You can connect to an SMTP server and pretend to send an email (send the EHLO, MAIL FROM, and RCPT TO commands, but dint actually send any content). A lot of servers will immediately reject as soon as you provide an invalid recipient email address

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thats right⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you mean in mixed language documents? Can’t you tell it that parts of the document are in a different language? You could do that in Microsoft Word 25 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I usually use HTTPS. A lot of web features only work over HTTPS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Tailscale has some methods for hole punching with double NAT (including CGNAT) and symmetric NAT, but it doesn’t work in 100% of cases. tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works

  IPv6 is definitely a good solution since then you don’t have to deal with NAT at all. IPv6 is pretty easily doable in the USA (at long as you’re not using Starlink) but can be harder in other countries that don’t have as robust IPv6 infrastructure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I run docker compose on Bazzite?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this means their permissions do not work like docker, and it is not in fact a drop-in replacement for docker

  It might a drop-in replacement for Docker if you’re running Docker in rootless mode? Not sure how common that is, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Unraid because it’s essentially “just Linux” but with a nice web UI. It’s got a great UI for Docker, VMs (KVM) and Linux containers (LXC).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Come to say thank you. Time to move from proprietary to Open Source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t. Use a VPN like Tailscale or Wireguard. Tailscale uses the Wireguard protocol but it’s very easy to configure, and will automatically set up a peer-to-peer mesh network for you (each node on the VPN can reach any other node, without needing a central server)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - gardner/LocalLanguageTool: Self-hosted LanguageTool private instance is an offline alternative to Grammarly⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  this community is literally built around hosting your own local infrastructure.

  That’s part of it, but using a dedicated server, colocated server, or VPS are also considered “self hosted” too. Generally, “self hosted” means any server, web service, etc where you maintain it yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ancient⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really do be like that. I work with some people who are nearly 15 years younger than me (I’m in my mid 30s and some newer employees have just graduated from university) so I feel this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3-2-1 Backups: How do you do the 1 offsite backup?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Borgbackup for backups, and Borgmatic to handle scheduling them. Borgbackup is a fantastic piece of software.

  For storing the backups, I use a storage VPS. I got one from HostHatch a few years ago during Black Friday sales, with 10TB space for $10/month. Hetzner have good deals with their storage boxes, too - they offer 5TB space for $13/month if you’re in the USA (you need to add VAT if you’re in Europe).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “The full source code of Lego Island? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your archives?” “Yes” “… Can I see it?” “No”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why I don't use AI in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Running ai locally is the same energy as playing a 3d AAA game for the same time

  I wonder if they’re factoring in the energy usage to train the model. That’s what consumes most of the power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crowdsec is much more efficient than fail2ban. Fail2ban is a lot of old Python code with inefficient log parsing routines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CrowdSec vs Fail2Ban - What to use?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Crowdsec blocks login attempts too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t mean to imply that every rental store in Australia did this, just that I lived in Australia and the rental stores I used included the manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whenever I rented an N64 game, the manual was in the box, and the store would check to ensure the manual was there when you return the game. That was in Australia though, so maybe it was different in your country?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There were rental places that didn’t include the manual?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Suggestion request: Self-hosted app for shared directories like google drive⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this have a way of sharing a directory publicly?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that goes well for them. It’s hard and expensive, which is why there’s so few good search engines and half of them just use Bing’s API.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have a source for that? I think it’s nowhere near 95% of sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Definitely true. I’ll have to try it out. Is Ecosia better than DuckDuckGo or Kagi?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Google was best in the 2000s, but things were different back then. SEO spam wasn’t really a thing yet, there were far fewer websites, and most online discussions were archived and searchable (compared to today where there’s platforms like Discord that aren’t indexable in search engines at all).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use it for document summarization and it works well. I use Paperless-ngx to manage documents, and have paperless-ai configured to instantly set the title and tags using Gemini as soon as a new document is added.

  I chose Gemini over OpenAI since Google’s privacy policy is better. I’m using the paid version, and Google says data from paid users will never be used to train the model. Unfortunately I don’t have good enough hardware to run a local model.