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- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 4 days ago:
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- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 days ago:
Maybe there were just testing if fail over was working correctly when I turn off this machine. Well, in that case fail over didn't work xd
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 4 days ago:
Nice.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 1 week ago:
I was very surprised that Linus (T) didn't knew about arch btw. And even didn't know about Linux ISO joke.. Come on.. Linus is really only looking at emails.
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 1 week ago:
Well.. Not really. I watch it to the end. It still feels a bit off.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
yeah. I just don't recommend Mozilla anymore. Do some searches online about the recent developments about Mozilla, "AI" and also bought an ad company: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/advertising/mozilla-anonym-raising-the-bar-for-privacy-preserving-digital-advertising/ (ps this is a marketing blog article of course.. read between the lines)
Look.. I will not use FF anymore. Hence I use a fork instead.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
That being said. Do we want to go back to 30 windows? I don't think so.
Floorp has additional features that keep you managed. Like Workspaces. And also you can group tabs. Or even use colored tabs.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
Try floorp and use workspaces or colored tabs
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 1 week ago:
They use to be new window (not like a pop up, but a new window). Today every new page or "new window" becomes a new tab.
And before you know it, you have dozens of tabs open. But no way you use to have 30 different windows open, since that would drive you crazy with alt+tab.
So the bar is low and it's easy to keep them open as well. So people will.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 weeks ago:
Well then we are all fked
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 weeks ago:
I understand the need for anti-bot or DDoS protection, but there are better and free options today. Like Anubis. So please, in the love of The Internet, move away from cloudflare. Ideally yesterday already.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 2 weeks ago:
I hope more websites will move away from cloudflare. I could not access 90% of the web anymore. This is insane if just 1 company goes down, the whole internet is dead. The internet is broken!
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 2 weeks ago:
Do you like the setting to be opt-out so "all" will be the default. Or should we make this combined frontpage a opt-in feature (default will stay "threads")?
- Comment on Looks like now Mbin, at least on mobile, mixes threads and microblog posts 2 weeks ago:
In my case I do also use "sub" feed. But I still want to see only threads by default. I do use microblogs as well, but if I want to see posts, I click on the Microblog menu.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 2 weeks ago:
You know. Never mind.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
Its HDMI forum issue. Because AMD want to implement in their Linux drivers (which are open-source). But HDMI forum do not want them to become open source, see related issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/amd/-/issues/1417
In fact, AMD already invested several months in fully testing and developing 4k 120Hz. Its possible, but the HDMI forum people are blocking this, because the HDMI forum has the latest saying.. Its all about money this world. And the HDMI forum is evil.
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
Nope. Not my TV. Only hdmi
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
The product description doesn't mention anything about active or passive. Which makes its very confusing for me now.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
ow so what I have is most likely an active adapter..? nobody knows. Then hopefully also my video card support DP++ and then I need to buy a passive adapter, I'm I correct?
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
I also don't get it.. Just 1 DP port is sufficient for me.. And before people are saying.. just use a DP to HDMI adapter.. Well, I tried.. And it doesn't work either for some reason.. I still can not get 4k 120Hz. (yes my TV supports that, yes.. I also tried "gaming mode" on my TV)
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
I tried.. it didn't work..
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
Blame the hdmi forum..
- Comment on Are you ready for a $1,000 Steam Machine? Some analysts think you should be. 3 weeks ago:
I'm ready, but Amd is not. I want 4k 120hz on my TV via Amd videocard. But this stupid hdmi forum is blocking this.
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
That isn't an option now with my htpc (home theater pc) connected to my TV.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 3 weeks ago:
Caddy is also fine.
I wrote a blog about server hardining and you might find it useful: https://blog.melroy.org/2023/server-hardening/
- Comment on While we eagerly await the second coming of Steam Machines, it's worth remembering what a gloriously awful mess Valve got itself in over a decade ago 3 weeks ago:
I want Amd to have 4k 120hz support on Linux please? Stupid hdmi forum.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I run many services and website on the public web at home. Harden your server first. Like disabling root ssh login.
Also enable auto updates on your server.
Use your router/server to block many some counties. You could also use block lists, there any many bad ip lists out there.Configure rate limits in Nginx.
You also mentioned fail2ban. You can define many rules and actions. Like blocking ips that might go over your previously defined rate limits. Or 4xx action for ips that request a lot of non existing pages (404 errors) .
Also captcha won't cut it anymore today. Try https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
Of course expose only what you want to expose, so only open ports in your firewall you really want to open. Ideally put everything behind a reverse proxy like Nginx.
Let's start with all of the things mentioned above. Ping me later if want to know more or have questions.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 3 weeks ago:
That is a problem for future Melroy.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 3 weeks ago:
I will move to Linux phone if chat control is enforced. Chat control violates all existing privacy regulations. It's insane.
- Comment on What budget friendly GPU for local AI workloads should I aim for? 4 weeks ago:
Under 10k