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- Comment on Disney+ loses Dolby Vision, HDR10+ and 3D amid patent dispute 5 hours ago:
I’m confused about that too.
InterDigital seems to claim that the patent in question is about dynamically overlaying multiple video streams e.g. from ir.interdigital.com/news-events/…/default.aspx
The Munich Regional Court ruled that InterDigital is entitled to an injunction over Disney’s infringement of an InterDigital patent related to the streaming of video content using high dynamic range (HDR) technology. Disney can appeal the decision.
The judgment from the Munich court follows a separate decision from the same court to award InterDigital an injunction over Disney’s infringement of a patent which enables a method for dynamically overlaying a first video stream with a second video stream. It also follows a decision by a court in Brazil, to grant a preliminary injunction in InterDigital’s favor, after the court found that Disney infringed both of the InterDigital patents-in-suit.
What’s interesting is that HDR10 is still available on Disney supposedly. So it sort of sounds like the claim is that Disney is adding DV/HDR10+ dynamically during the video stream… and maybe regular HDR is pre-generated by Disney hence is not affected by the patent. The solution might be to always have multiple pre-generated copies of video before the stream even takes place…that would be a lot of extra storage space Disney would need!
I’m also curious how DV (Dolby Vision) factors into all of that. If I had to guess Disney is dynamically adding DV with HDR fallback as an extra stream in the video, so by removing that you end up with only SDR and HDR10 options… but again that’s just a guess.
- Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm 3 days ago:
Eh, SMS could be a burner phone or virtual number but I sort of agree that the site could recommend people do that rather than entering their own real phone number if they want to sign up for optional SMS alerts. It’s probably one of those convenience vs privacy issues - how to enable non-tech savvy people to receive optional alerts if they choose to.
- Comment on Activist platform StopICE denies breach after alleged hack raises alarm 3 days ago:
From the posted link
In a lengthy statement released over the weekend, the StopICE team rejected claims that any personal user data was exposed or handed over to authorities. According to them, the platform does not collect names, addresses, or precise GPS coordinates from its users. Instead, it uses anonymized polar coordinate calculations based on ZIP codes to trigger location-based alerts.
The statement also attributes the attempted breach to a personal server allegedly tied to a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent in Southern California. The attackers reportedly tried to inject false alerts into the system but were unsuccessful, the platform says, due to countermeasures and quick isolation of the attack vector. The operators claim the attackers fell for “bait” in the form of fake data and API keys, enabling StopICE to trace their networks and even publish associated IP addresses and phone numbers.
StopICE further downplayed the scale of the incident, claiming the only exposure involved temporary file names after a backend management tool update modified security headers, an issue they say was minor and resolved swiftly.
Keep in mind StopICE is a website, not an app, so some of the stuff the hackers claimed they got don’t seem to make sense. The only “personal” info I see the website could collect is a phone number if you sign up for text alerts when someone posts an alert at a zip code / city / state.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 5 days ago:
That’s weird, maybe an update broke something? What I would maybe do is uninstall Xrdp (and maybe remove/rename the old config files just in case), then re-install and configure it. From there if it’s still not working try to see what’s showing up in the log files maybe.
I did notice that Xrdp requires some extra configuration to work properly with Linux Mint Cinnamon, you apparently need to create a .xsession file in the home folder of whichever user you’re trying to remote into. I’m not on Linux Mint myself but maybe searching around will give you some tips e.g. this seems like a good rundown gist.github.com/…/2ab9b5d41bbaceca8471d591755a189…
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 5 days ago:
Yup, been using Xrdp in a Debian + GNOME Wayland setup without issue.
- Comment on PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting 5 days ago:
Not too different vs IPFS, essentially the IPFS network if it was using WebTorrent. Both rely on swarms of p2p users/servers to seed/pin data to keep it online.
Not too familiar with Veilid but that does seem different since it’s built for privacy so I doubt all the peers are public in that scenario. There is nothing private about IPFS or WebTorrent, all peer IP addresses are public in their respective swarms.
- Comment on what is good remote desktop software? 5 days ago:
RDP (the same protocol Windows Remote Desktop uses) works fine on Linux. I’d suggest investigating why that suddenly stopped working for you.
For what it’s worth Xrdp seems to work well on Linux for enabling a RDP Remote Desktop server… I suspect you are / were(?) already using Xrdp but maybe haven’t investigated why it stopped working.
- Comment on PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting 6 days ago:
Not really, decentralized does not mean anonymous… and I doubt people sharing that type of content are doing it publicly with their public IP addresses.
Looks like PeerWeb uses WebTorrent - so that means every single IP address serving the website is easily found in the peer list of the torrent swarm. Nothing anonymous about this.
- Comment on Options for remote Wake-on-lan. Or I guess wake on WAN. 2 months ago:
Wake on LAN is a LAN feature, not WAN, so you’d need to issue that over the local LAN there at the house. You’re going to have a hard time trying to get that working over the WAN (if that’s even possible).
The other comments mentioning a scheduled boot would be a much easier/simple solution if it works for you.
But I’ll throw this in, the super basic least tech solution to this is to open a port forward to the house’s network router. Yes, I know you don’t want to do that, but it’s probably the only network device at that house that’s actually on 24/7 right? And by all means lock it down however you like. My simple method is to open the router login to a non-standard port number, with a IP whitelist, add my own home IP address to that IP whitelist, and bam you now have access to that remote home’s router for just your IP address. Log in remotely, issue a wake on LAN via the router’s own web ui, done.
It’s perfectly reasonable to make this a bit more secure if you wanted but it gets slightly more complicated - open a non-standard port for SSH access to the remote router’s SSH port that only allows SSH login with key. Generate a SSH key and share that key with yourself, then you can log in remotely to that remote house via non-standard SSH port using the SSH key (no user/passwords). From there you’d have to see if you can issue Wake on LAN on the SSH command line, or set up a SSH tunnel from that remote LAN to yours so you can proxy into the router login page and do your Wake on LAN from there. … yes I realize this got complicated :/ But you’ve got a few things to explore given your patience for tinkering with this stuff :)
Of course much of this relies on that house’s router having any of these features to enable and configure. The main takeaway here is that Wake on LAN requires something on 24/7 at that remote LAN for you to enable remote access into and issue a Wake on LAN command within that LAN. How to actually accomplish that is the tricky bit.
- Comment on 4 months ago:
My Sony Trinitron served me well back in the day - But no, I don’t miss the CRT era. Just too huge and heavy. And honestly I don’t remember the generic non-Trinitron CRTs being anything special, they were kind of shitty.
Anyways I thought the CRT thing is just collectors/old school gamers looking to display older SDR media on a proper CRT? This article seems a bit off.
- Comment on emergency remote access 4 months ago:
OP’s example use case in the post was with the internet still being up. Building off of that yes, I’d log into the power switch remotely via the internet where I can then power cycle anything plugged into it - for me it was just to restart unresponsive desktops or whatever was plugged into it.
But you wouldn’t need internet to power cycle the internet router itself by using scheduled tasks. e.g. the power switch can check that the internet router is responding to pings every x seconds/minutes and power cycle it if stops responding. (it has other checks/conditions it can use besides simple pings)
That said my own equipment rarely/never needs a reboot so in the case my network loses internet access it usually means the internet is actually down, nothing I can do about that aside from maintaining backup internet if I needed.
- Comment on emergency remote access 4 months ago:
if the primary internet router goes offline but the internet isn’t out (ie a router reboot would fix the problem)
Maybe you just need to give it a simple power cycle remotely? There are devices that do that sort of thing, I have a Digital Loggers Web Power Switch Pro that I’ve used on-and-off over the years for this purpose.
At one point I had to relocate for half a year while having a slightly unstable desktop that wouldn’t always reboot cleanly and get stuck at the BIOS, it sometimes needed a couple of power cycles to come back online. The Power Switch was perfect for that, I’d log into it remotely and power cycle anything that was plugged into it.
It should work for routers too e.g. it can automatically power cycle something plugged into it based on different conditions like maybe it stops responding to pings or whatever. Or I guess if you had multiple IPs / multiple internet connections the switch itself can stay online and accessed remotely without needing to schedule anything automatic.
Pretty sure there are more pro-level (and more expensive) types of devices to do this sort of thing if you look around
- Comment on Putting HDDs to sleep 5 months ago:
I have a bit of a dilemma with my DIY NAS rig.
Does your setup have any way to do noise insulation? I suspect the answer is no but figured I’d throw it out there, surprisingly noise insulation helps more than you’d think. I have a bunch of drives inside a desktop case with insulation panels built in and the drives themselves are in there with rubber anti vibration screws/mounts. Barely ever hear anything from the drives (granted my WD Reds are probably quieter than your current Seagates).
Just something to think on whether it’s an option for your current NAS rig or a future configuration.
- Comment on Buy HDD on sale now or wait for Black Friday? 5 months ago:
The WD sales are decent if you’re buying new so if you’re feeling like it’s time for a purchase this might be worth it for you.
I did the same earlier this year though in my case I tend to buy the current gen large capacity WD Reds & stick with them for a few years at least. When their 24 TB / 26 TB drives went on sale they actually were cheaper than what Newegg / Amazon had done with their own sales up to then so for me it was worth it.
The other thing to keep in mind, if you’re in the U.S., the whole tariff situation isn’t going to make this stuff any cheaper in the future.
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 8 months ago:
Eh, sure OP could do that. Does seem a bit over the top for OP to pursue the most complicated backup solution possible :D Maybe as a strange experiment to see how it goes, not as a trusted backup solution. (like you said not for critical data)
IPFS would also require more bandwidth vs just about any other solution since it has to constantly talk to other IPFS nodes. And more finicky, last I used IPFS the client would run into memory leaks and other weirdness requiring restarts every now and then (hopefully it’s more stable for long-term runs nowadays).
- Comment on Is there any good decentralized cloud storage for personal backups as a self-hoster? 8 months ago:
Wouldn’t be a good solution, you’re hoping that other users are going to volunteer to pin (aka store and seed) your personal backup data for you.
Using IPFS for personal backups is exactly the same as creating a torrent with your backup data - With both it would be unlikely that your personal backup data will actually exist anywhere beyond your own data storage, no one’s going to freely volunteer to store your backups for you.
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 8 months ago:
Agree with you, SO is great for finding info. There are solutions on there for niche problems that I haven’t been able to find elsewhere, the type of thing where someone actually took the time to type out a step-by-step answer and it’s now there and searchable on SO. It’s a bummer that so many people seem to hate on the site nowadays.
And lets not forget the whole reason SO came out in the first place, back then web results were littered with question/answer links to sites like Experts-Exchange. I hated trying to figure out if an answer was on there, most of the time you ended up with a link to a question that you think has an answer but oh no you need to subscribe to view an answer that may or may not exist.
- Comment on Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection 8 months ago:
Was going to comment the same, this issue has existed for some time. LibreTorrent ran into the same issue and now the F-droid version is their full-featured app while the Google Play version is restricted due to Google.
Interesting that Nextcloud managed to last this long on Google Play without running into the same limitations (until now that is).
- Comment on Jellyfin / Remote Access Help (windows) 9 months ago:
Agreed - I’ll also add that a lot of internet gateways/routers/firewalls also have a built-in feature to update a domain with your current public IP address. It definitely makes it easy, I haven’t thought about needing to update my dynamic IP in years since it just happens on the router.
Not everyone can do it but it’s definitely worth a look especially for those planning to do any real self hosting.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button 9 months ago:
To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren’t too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
- Comment on California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation 10 months ago:
FYI Dorsey left Bluesky
theverge.com/…/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board
Currently Jay Graber is the CEO and has the largest ownership in Bluesky
- Comment on Tesla is banned from Canada EV rebate program, gov freezes suspicous $43 million in rebates 10 months ago:
What’s going on in Quebec?
The federal government is following the same strategy as some provinces. British Columbia has recently banned Tesla products from its EV charger rebate. Nova Scotia just announced that it has excluded Tesla from its $2,000 rebate at the purchase of a new EV.
Quebec just relaunched its own EV incentive program today. It will come into effect next week, and so far, Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y vehicles are still included in the list of eligible vehicles.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 11 months ago:
Strange, are people really arguing that? Back in 2020 Alexis Ohanian resigned from the board of Reddit and asked for his seat to be replaced with a black candidate. Say what you want about the guy but he doesn’t seem that out of touch with America’s racial issues.
www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/…/index.html
I don’t have any issues with the guy but IMO the Digg thing may end up going nowhere if they’re really planning on relying on AI for moderation, just seems like like a bad idea overall
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 11 months ago:
Ah that’s interesting, all the banks around me stopped issuing ATM cards and only issue debit cards nowadays. I wish I wasn’t required to have a debit card with those banks - I purposely tell my banks to disable debit/POS features on the debit card so it is only functional at ATMs.
All that aside you should consider getting a credit card or a prepaid credit card for those types of transactions. It’s safer to separate your bank account from your day-to-day payments/shopping, not great when someone gets access to your debit card which then gives them direct access to your bank account balance. At least with a credit card those situations are just a dispute that never affect your actual money in the bank.
- Comment on PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well. 11 months ago:
Disagree, haven’t touched Paypal or anything related to Paypal in years without issue.
- Comment on Fired Employee Allegedly Hacked Disney World's Menu System to Alter Peanut Allergy Information. 1 year ago:
This was my first thought too. Interestingly that death occurred October 2023, while this particular fired employee is accused of accessing Disney’s menu systems around June-September 2024.
Almost like this ex-employee saw the news earlier and was then inspired to try to murder someone with bad allergen info.
- Comment on Looking for help/guidance on how to setup a server for a business 1 year ago:
they want to setup a server to host a simple “contact” website
Not sure what sort of uptime/reliability your friends are expecting out of a self hosted solution but for something like that you wouldn’t need much processing power, even a Raspberry Pi can host a simple website. Not sure what to recommend offhand but there are definitely vendors in that space that sell simple DIY “contact us” form software, or I guess if you wanted to roll your own that’s an option too. I’d be more concerned about keeping it locked down/secure.
Keep in mind for the internet your friends would likely need business class internet with multiple static IPs so you can give your little DIY box its own IP address. Many (most?) residential internet service providers do not allow self hosting websites on their network and they’d be dynamic IP anyway though you could work around that somewhat with dynamic DNS since you’re going to need to purchase a domain name and point it to somewhere anyway.
run an e-mail service (about 10 accounts for now but with possibilities of expanding it to support more)
Like others said you really don’t want to go that route unless you’re well versed in that area. I’d be annoying for a business use case especially a new one, your emails will likely keep going into other provider’s spam folders for a good period of time.
Seems easier to just go to Google Workspace / Microsoft 365 / whatever other provider you like to use, presumably the business has a business use case for reliable email among other things.
Bonus: Those cloud services can easily host simple contact forms for you so maybe that’s your all in one solution. Look into Google Forms and similar.
and to store and remote access documents.
That sounds like the above commercial cloud solutions again :)
But sure technically you could go through the extra step hosting that yourself. Depends on how the business wants to use/access this stuff, it’s really a question for them. Could be as simple as a Windows server with RDP (if they’re Windows people & just want to log into something “windows” to browse/open files) or maybe multi-user Linux with VNC (the geeks might like, maybe not so much the general Windows/Mac users). Or if you’re trying to do something web oriented maybe something like Nextcloud if you want to do all this in a web browser.
You should triple check what exactly they are expecting when it comes to remote access documents… you really don’t want to spend the time setting up something that they totally weren’t expecting and end up hating.