MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database 9 hours ago:
It’s already to the point it’s too late.
Until they overreach, and the backlash cometh. The pendulum of history keeps swinging. Here’s hoping it’s a doozy.
- Comment on Trump Wants to Put You in a Massive, Secret Government Database 9 hours ago:
Marketers / advertisers are corrupt psychologists (the competent ones anyway), or to use oldspeak propogandists. Some timeless words for consideration
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.” – Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, 1933 to 1945
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 11 hours ago:
Well that’s confidence inspiring.
- Comment on Password manager woes. How have you solved syncing on Android? 3 days ago:
For say a keypass db you don’t need even that, Just sshd gets you rsync on your computer with cron or systemd timer / service… Personally I just use an old version of Syncthing-Fork though, security implications for local network are minimal.
- Comment on The Sound of Contamination: All Analysed Headphones on the Central European Market Found to Contain Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals 4 days ago:
Sure, you do what you can.
- Comment on The Sound of Contamination: All Analysed Headphones on the Central European Market Found to Contain Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals 4 days ago:
Biologically inert, used in surgical implants, I’m going with safe (certainly safer than the alternatives).
- Comment on Amid Crowded Skies, Federal Aviation Administration(FAA) Kills Rule Aimed at Regulating Space Junk 6 days ago:
Hello Kessler Syndrome
- Comment on Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them 6 days ago:
May I introduce you to the concept of ‘natural monopoly’.
Basically most natural monopolies (power, phone lines, roads etc) in most places were historically run by governments (because it’s bloody sensible) until the neoliberal movement in the 80s privatized them because ‘private enterprise is more efficient’ (at extracting tax dollars as it turned out) and to balance a few budgets.
Should definitely be ruled a failed experiment and rolled back.
- Comment on Advice on swapping from Synology to a ugreen 1 week ago:
Some things to think about.
Even ZFS now let’s you add a new drive to an array, and the sweet spot for $/TB is ~16-20TB at the moment, so maybe think about 3x16TB and add another later (also less power).
Consider manufacturer recertified (not refurbished) server drives from serverpartdeals.com or your local equivalent, after all RAID is there to let you survive a disk failure, it’s treated me well, and lets you avoid SMR drives.
You can mix drives of different sizes if you use Unraid or roll your own with mergerfs+snapraid (+OpenMediaVault perhaps). I do the latter, it’s a bit of a setup, but has the advantage that you can recover accidental deletions, which brings me to ‘RAID is not a backup’.
For true data safety you should have an offline backup (i.e. drives that mostly live outside your computer, safe from lightning, accidental deletion etc.) and eventually an offsite copy.
Personally I think the AI bought all our drives from WD is likely BS (seems lightly supported) to goose their product prices, so hopefully it’ll blow over, but prices seldom go down, inflation catches up. Sigh.
- Comment on Labor must stop juicing house prices and make buying a home the Australian dream – not negatively gearing one | Greg Jericho 1 week ago:
But GDP line must go up (even if it’s not production and actively hurts us).
Anything else is political suicide. /s sort of
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Zen (firefox (gecko) derivative, No AI, focus on decluttered interface) has bloody excellent tab management these days, workspaces, folders, horizontal tab lists (like sideberry), essentials (tab icons pinned to the top), auto unload, all built in, and everything disappears when reading a page.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You know, this is the sort of thing that users should really be made aware of…
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 1 week ago:
Yeah, I have “Analyze Video Files” on, doesn’t get me a list of substandard files though, just sends the arr after stuff it’s probably already not finding.
tdarr Hadn’t seen the Property search in here before, might get me most of the way there. Got it around somewhere, might have to spin it back up. Maybe I can raid it’s database as well. Thanks.
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 1 week ago:
So, unless I didn’t dive deep enough, Configarr / Trash guides is mostly about setting up quality profiles and media paths and so forth, something I long ago sorted out to my satisfaction.
What I guess I was after was something to find stuff that has fallen through the cracks, highlighting stuff that doesn’t meet my standards and seeing whether I care enough to go looking for upgrades.
Strangely there doesn’t seem to be a simple app to run ffprobe over your library and populate a database for querying video quality, maybe I’ll get around to knocking one out one day, but today is not that day.
- Comment on 'We've reached a breaking point': Is it time to tax older Australians more? 1 week ago:
See also (often foreign) mining companies paying fuck all for resources. We really need to take a page out of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund book.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Yoda voice: Begun the AI Patent wars have.
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 1 week ago:
I don’t want to balloon the project
Fair cop, and no I haven’t really dived into Configarr and the trash guides (although I vaguely remember coming across them), oh joy, another rabbit hole. I do try to keep a simple stack, and what I have has served me well for years. But thanks, no need to reinvent the wheel if that handles my use case.
Having smaller projects with specific scope that do something well and can be plugged together is always preferable to some sprawling monstrosity. Used to be called the Unix way (pipe sed into awk etc.) and could stand to be revisited today. Best of luck.
- Comment on Fetcharr - a human-developed Huntarr replacement 1 week ago:
I had a quick look, I think I could find a use for it but what I’d most be interested in is a dry run spitting out a list of missing / low res / low bitrate / stereo (I much prefer 5.1+), perhaps old codec, etc. media. Like many I have my own standards for what needs to be how good and so forth.
Ideally I could edit said list and put it back in as an active search list (perhaps chunking and prioritizing as well and iterating the process). Seems like this is 90% of the way there, any chance of an enhancement ?
- Comment on AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. 1 week ago:
Same principle as “your spending will increase to match your income”.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 weeks ago:
“Don’t worry about that, you can just run it in the cloud for an eternal subscription” - Microslop.
- Comment on xkcd #3214: Electric Vehicles 2 weeks ago:
I mean, technically, an eBike is an Electric Vehicle, and not a fucking car. Otherwise, hard agree.
- Comment on Simple inexpensive cloud backup? 2 weeks ago:
And ideally the storage will be encrypted and have basic privacy assurances.
Why would you trust a company to encrypt for you when Cryptomator exists ?
Also, a couple of 4TB drives for cold backup (one offsite) avoids another subscription.
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
What you are describing maps quite well to the Quantum Memory Model (accessible explanation here) of Physics. Certainly considering information a fundamental quantity that can neither be created nor destroyed is becoming a popular concept.
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
I’m willing to accept Atheism, ‘I do not believe in God’, as somewhat dogmatic, but as others have said, it’s the null hypothesis and they have Occam’s razor going for them. Pragmatically it is a useful stance in light of the societal harm religion does.
I am however unwilling to conflate Agnosticism with ‘I can not believe’, always been “I’m waiting for evidence one way or the other” to me, so perhaps the more scientific point of view.
- Comment on Yet another mid-talks attack jeopardises chances of Iran taking Trump seriously 2 weeks ago:
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle…
- Comment on OpenAI strikes a deal with the Defense Department to deploy its AI models 2 weeks ago:
Strange timing, just as a new US war starts…
- Comment on Apple introduces age verification for apps in Utah, Louisiana and Australia 3 weeks ago:
This shit is getting way out of control.
Also, Linux / GrapheneOS Master Race
- Comment on Large-scale online deanonymization with LLMs 3 weeks ago:
So, pretty much what Meta/Facebook (and the three letter agencies / GovInt) has been doing with deterministic code (like they’re not scraping reddit et.al, including Lemmy) for ages but probabilistic with more errors and new improved hallucination.
Competition, filling in gaps or just looking to be bought out. Evil.
- Comment on Cubans fight blackouts with solar as US extends oil chokehold 3 weeks ago:
How’s their postal situation? Sure would be nice if people started mailing them solar panels.
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Do you not get ‘open on the internet’? All the three letter agencies hoover the data up, your countries equivalents do as well, other companies. It’s only a bit in one companies hands, because it’s ‘open on the internet’, just like xitter, facebook, tiktok, their walled gardens don’t stop state level actors, just us plebs (a bit). That just leaves control (in real time), some power, some money there, but long term it’s the data that counts.